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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 16h

An annoying argument in favour of FPTP is the idea that any PR system breaks the connection between MP and constituency. This argument is exceptionally annoying given that the UK's closest neighbour, Ireland, has a PR system that is arguably too locally focused. www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/policy-h...

Statement that "FPTP ensures that there is just one MP per
constituency. Polling shows this constituency link
to be very popular with British voters."

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The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think that's kinda what men need to understand. If you let this stuff slide it will haunt you forever. If that happens BEST CASE is a life of shame. Worst case is you rationalize it away and become the monster you previously ignored as a coping mechanism. Either way, what a miserable life.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23h

I have an exceptionally early start, so obviously, I have irrevocably woken 90 minutes before my alarm for no good reason.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23h

"Should we shut down all college football teams too?" buddy, this is what's known as "threatening me with a good time"

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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 23h

This reminds me of that time in grade 4, when a few of us worked out how to print stuff on the library printer and we printed Licences to Fart for ourselves

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Yann Lebout @ylebout.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

They care about animal safety, so now the goat is down after a few hours. Though she is still married to a primary school girl of Killorglin. Maybe that's the real deal: each town in Ireland must marry each year one of their schoolgirl to a goat.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

And this is why we'll all be eating coddle. Compulsory coddle.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, this proposal- accurately denounced here as incompatible with the EU Chart of Fundemental Rights- is the product of our Government. One of our Ministers has proposed it. Amongst other changes, it proposes that the rights of AI companies to harvest data should stand above humans’ data rights.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m on page one and I’m already so mad

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

from the bottom of my heart fuck my life

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every village must have an annual matchmaking festival.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why, every year, the whole of Ireland is required to celebrate the Puck Fair. We can’t just say that hauling a goat into the air for days on end is something just for Kerry. We are a united country, which is why we have airborne goats everywhere.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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CAJ @cajni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The European Court of Human Rights has held that, in certain circumstances, the right to hold spontaneous protests in immediate response to events, where the protest would be pointless if delayed, may override notification requirements. More from our Director here: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

irishnews.com

Justice group says it’s ‘premature’ to claim Garvaghy Road protesters broke law

Thousands join protest to oppose Orange Order Drumcree march

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

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An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

20,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Macklemore already has the Mandate of Heaven, but this comment left under the "Thrift Shop" video last week is still nice to see. His decency isn't a recent development.

"I am of the background club dancers and the ones in the stores. I'm also the one in the green sweater riding a bike at the start of the video. I just thought it was silly fun project and forgot I did this until I got a royalty check for $2057 two days after the news broke out! We had so much fun filming this. We drank so many slurpees! The goodwill gave us all $100 vouchers and Mac like we called him was freaking hilarious! But he was a nice dude and he footed the bill for our lunches. On the last day of filming, he gave us all fur coats and took us to Taneda restaurant. Booked it all out and had a bang of a party!! Never thought this song would be the massive impact that it is today. Love him even more now!! ❤❤✌️✌️"

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fascism targets widening circles of people because , at heart, it is a mode of behaviour for people with an empty core who cannot bear to look inward.

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Brendan Palmer @bapalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In "Careless People" the chapter detailing how Enda Kenny gave F*ceb**k a direct line (physical mobile phone with a number to a senior official) to fix problems was quite the eye opener for me. Yes, it was Covid. Yes, we wanted to protect jobs and secure investment. But free passes aren't free.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To give them their due, the general people of England are not happy about their elite’s Brainworms notions.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Britain paying the price, in cash money, for indulging anti-immigration rhetoric and action.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quite the principle being laid down here.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Local data centres a particularly weird idea. God be with the days when the milk man would come around delivering you scoops of milk straight from the cow to your own pail and you’d walk to the corner data centre where everyone knew your name to generate pics of Garfield with the big boobies.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Duane Keiser Water and Lemon Oil on Canvas - 9 x 7.5 inches 2022

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can assure you that, no matter how big the hit you have experienced as ubiquitous is on your perception, I have missed it.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You encounter all sorts of words in sequence on this site and sometimes they are novel.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

83% of Irish young people want stronger regulations on AI and AI companies, but instead, our government wants to give these companies unprecedented access to our data, overriding our fundamental human rights. The minister responsible needs to be asked directly why they have proposed this.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has the making of an all-timer.

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Noreen Dalton 🌱🍉 @nordaltsee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How things start

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 26/09/2026

Lawyers on the criminal legal aid panel in dispute with the Department of Justice have sustained a cumulative €6.64 million hit to their income in criminal legal aid payments in July and August jrnl.ie/7174582

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Solicitors in criminal legal aid fee row sustain €6.64m hit to income over two months

A partial withdrawal of services by solicitors took effect from mid-June and escalated to a near-blanket withdrawal from 1 July.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First headline to my phone this morning

RTÉ news headline about a pedestrian killed after being struck by a van in a hit and run in Listowel, Co Kerry

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“If you’re evil you’re not bad, so you’re actually kind of good.” Do not leave very rich men alone with the little spirits in their pocket that constantly tell them they’re so right.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Take the €100,000 Govt-commissioned report provided by KPMG to justify continuing Ireland’s unrestricted data centre growth. (Recently described in a UN report as a “cautionary tale”)

Amongst innumerable absurdities, up at the front of the report it claimed that
"876,000 jobs (32% of national employment)" were "underpinned" by Ireland's 72 data centres.
But at the same time, down the back of the report, in a Appendix, it acknowledged that their ongoing employment contribution to the nation was 9,500 jobs.

2010
2020 (peak construction)
2030

Jobs
Capex
1,800
26,300

Opex
700
5,600
9,500

Total
2,500
31,900
9,500

Wages (€m)
Capex
76
1,118

Opex
37
295
504

Total
113
1,413
504

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Sylvia Leatham @sylvialeatham.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s finally here! Publication day! And not, as my phone keeps autocorrecting it, ‘pub location’ day. 😂 ‘Chaos Theory’ has been nurtured for 4.5 years, and now it’s finally out in the world, going on its own adventures. You can get it as paperback, e-book and audiobook. Linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham

Chocolates spelling out “Happy pub day to you!” Beside a book and a cuddly robot.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 26/09/2026

There is confusion in Debrecen as the FAI has delayed its the pre-match conference ahead of the Israel game in Hungary. The Ireland players are expected to make a statement on the game today. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-isra...

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Confusion as FAI postpone pre-match press conference ahead of expected players' statement

The Ireland players met on Friday to work on releasing a statement laying out their stance.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My point here is that the world is literally begging someone to run the Rylands & Fletcher strict liability case against “rogue AI” hackings.

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Spodomancy @spodomancy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rylands v. Fletcher. "The person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape."

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hmm. An interesting analogy would the the rule in Rylands v Fletcher regarding liability for the escape of noxious/toxic substances stored on your property which escapes containment and impacts on others through damage to property or person.

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