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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“It’s funny because it’s true” ☠️

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Culture Night at Collins Barracks ✨ Join us for an evening of conversations, discoveries and the occasional moment that completely changes how you see Irish History. 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ Free admission www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... #CultureNight #CultureNight2026

Lavender promotional poster featuring the text “Culture Night at Collins Barracks, Friday 18 September.” Event advertisement for the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin 7, highlighting free admission and Culture Night activities celebrating Irish history, heritage, and museum collections.

Black-and-white historic photograph of Ellis Court in Dublin showing a red-brick tenement building with shopfronts and several children standing outside an archway entrance. Promotional graphic for “Echoes Through the Hallway: The Story of Ellis Court,” a Culture Night event at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, exploring 140 years of Dublin city life and social history.

Historic wooden suffrage sign reading “Votes for Women” displayed on a lavender background. Promotional graphic for “A Changing Ireland: People, Protest and Progress,” a Culture Night event at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, examining social movements, protest, and change in Ireland over the past century.

Promotional poster for an LGBTQIA+ tour at Collins Barracks during Culture Night. The poster features a modern upholstered chair with a chrome frame on a lavender background. Text invites visitors to explore hidden histories through museum objects on Friday 18 September, with tours from 17:30 to 18:30 and 19:00 to 20:00. Free admission, booking required. National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Now that’s a lotta trees!”

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As the representative of the United States gets a diplomatic welcome here in Ireland (as is right and proper), it’s disturbing to see that they sent a felon who might not get a visa into their own country. As some guy on the TV once said: “They don’t send their best people“.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)

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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did you know that we deny Deaf people in Ireland the opportunity to learn Irish in school? Because it’s deemed that they wouldn’t be able. Without any assessment. Without any comprehension that many Deaf people are learning ISL and English at the same time? And are therefore bilingual?

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Frank & I had a great laugh about my campaign to “Save The Temporary Bridge” that was erected while the Hapenny Bridge was being refurbished in 2001. Needless to say no one listened. Another great loss to Dublin & it’s heritage. (Frank… Not the Temporary Bridge!)

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My friend @shirleybar.bsky.social used to do this gag where she'd see you across a crowded noisy bar/club/whatever and look at you very menacingly while slowly dragging her finger across her throat and mouthing "I REALLY LIKE YOUR NECKLACE"

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She might be trying to emulate Dolly Parton but it’s giving local drug dealer “First one is free” energy.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

19rs ago when Dolly sent me a personal video message just cos a friend sent her a letter telling her about our annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser, The Alternative Miss Ireland, and how much I loved her And far away in Tennessee she sat down and shot an adorable engaged video for this nobody just to be nice

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Panti and Dolly Parton, AMI XIII, March 11, 2007

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People at the cinema. You have horrible shoes. And the recliner chairs are showing you all up.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 17/08/2026

My latest article — kindly shared and described here by Tom — exams a hitherto obscure bridging figure between the early 20th century Sapphic world and post 1968 queer activism in Ireland

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’d say Teresa Mannion has the retinas burnt out of her head at this stage!

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David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

People with Meta glasses can look directly at it. You’ll be totally fine. Have a good old gawk

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Cant wait to see American soldiers getting awarded the Presidential Bone Spurs & Catering Cart Medal for Bravery and Participation.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh no. He produced Ray of Light, my favourite Madonna album. And it’s probably her best. It’s certainly her most artistically and musically complex. His fingerprints are all over it.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/07/2026

We must normalize being extremely rude to people with surveillance cameras on their faces. It is the moral duty of every citizen to make them feel extremely unwelcome everywhere they go.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/07/2026

Two numbers are being dropped by the National Lottery as part of changes to the Lotto and Lotto Plus games.

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Lottery drops balls in first update for eight years

Two numbers are being dropped by the National Lottery as part of changes to the Lotto and Lotto Plus games.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I may have posted it before but in case you haven’t seen her here is my capybara pebble. She had fallen out of an old flint wall in Linton Cambridgeshire & was lying on the pavement 🤎

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Poor Morocco. 🇲🇦 Wanted them to win but I’m also awed by Mbappé and the French team. They look unbeatable.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Literally takes orders from a predator sex pest felon and he has the audacity to say this stuff. If his faith was real, he’d have to go to confession for lying.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Telling me an American senator is “brain dead” doesn’t really narrow it down for me, I’m afraid.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

During the 2001 Miss Gay Black America pageant, Tandi Iman Dupree made this iconic entrance leaping from the ceiling onto the stage to the tune of Bonnie Tyler’s "Holding Out For A Hero”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHQA...

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Tandi Iman Dupree - Holding Out For A Hero AKA The Best Drag Entrance Ever (2024 Remaster)

YouTube video by VDJ Vivacity

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

With that gravelly voice, those epic songs and the huge personality, Bonnie Tyler made an impression that has lingered on. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Bonnie Tyler: The gravel-voiced singer who eclipsed people's hearts

The Welsh star known for songs including Total Eclipse of the Heart has died aged 75.

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Scam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 03/07/2026

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Soccer was invented to trick Americans into learning where other countries are.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Sweden introducing literal Second Class Citizenship is a really gross misstep. It’s the road to seriously discriminatory treatment of specific classes of people and will most certainly be used by worst sorts of people to do the worst kinds of things. Shameful.

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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Wind turbines are such an eyesore.

A picture of an open mine pit with a couple of wind turbines in the corner.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life." They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Sticker

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

VoiceOver voice “Do You Know Where You’re Wheelie Bin Is?” PSA for the Dublin region #Speirgorm

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Please do come check out the amazing range of music we have on offer at this year’s always eclectic New Music Dublin, April 16-19 at NCH and other venues. I’ll start posting about some of these concerts to highlight these (sometimes crazy) delights www.newmusicdublin.ie

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Home | New Music Dublin | Ireland's Foremost Contemporary Music Festival

The festival aims to present contemporary music as vital, adventurous, and reflective of modern Ireland - highly inclusive, strongly collaborative and artistically ambitious - and it challenges percep...

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Watching Mastermind on the BBC and I’m struck by the slipping standards in production that have allowed people on the telly wearing clothing that strobes. My eyes! Have production standards slipped so far that contestants are not advised on what to wear? Or is it all done by AI robots these days?

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I see the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize has launched a preemptive peace attack to prevent peace breaking out from inside the Epstein files.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is another shot across the bow of the Irish economy as the tech industry starts to take the position that it doesn’t need employees. Our government needs to get ahead of these people in terms of regulation, energy costs and tax before they burn us to the ground. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

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Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year'

Dorsey delivered Block's layoff news with an ominous warning.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is why the fascists are afraid of arts and culture and want to control it. Because they know it’s ultimately more powerful and influential than the fear and hate that they peddle.

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

These dumb racist Americans who love to whinge about the erasure of Irish culture know NOTHING about Irish culture or who actually tried to erase it. And who says Scotch these days unless they’re ordering a whiskey?

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Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Now that Bluesky has drafts, I can finally unleash my inner troll by crafting savage and shady skeets about you all and you’ll never know until the inevitable data breach.

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