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midweshterner

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R Mumble-Mumble: a caffeinated Internet owl, a quaintrelle, a flaneuse. Big on mudita. A Friend. she/her/sí/í, Tipp & Dublin, IE

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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The widespread solidarity with those striking today would lift you 🥲
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Joe Twist @joetwist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A local building company renovating a house next to our picket opened up a tab for us at the local cafe
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Sad Crying
ALT: Sad Crying
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#uptheworkers
We are all in this together
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
wtaf @faberbooks.bsky.social ?! Faber is the most storied UK independent publisher. It publishes more high profile Irish fiction authors than any other publisher outside of Ireland If Faber's abandoning Sally Rooney, it is abandoning freedom of expression and losing the trust of ALL Irish writers.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"We can't just throw public money at nurses and teachers willy nilly," The Minister for Public Expenditure has said in a statement. "They're not data centres, race tracks, angry people with tractors, Mark Zuckerberg, the NFL..."
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Carol Mc Sherry (SNAsSpeakOut) @carolmcsherry.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've put a statue of James Connolly outside in the garden so that we'll have good weather for the picket. ✊🏼
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I, a member of the public, do not wish to see my fellow members of the public who teach my children, heal me if I am sick, who administer the state and so on left worse off due to inflation each year.
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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/10/2026
I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today
A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely
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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Give the picture editor a raise
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/10/2026
Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online. “The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people across former British colonial dependencies…” [theguardian.com]
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 12/10/2026
Bit of positive news to start the week: the online voter registration system voter.ie is now live nationwide (having previously worked only for Dubliners) - now anyone in the State can register or update their details on the electoral register in a couple of minutes using only their PPS number.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is a Reclaim the Night protest organised in Glasgow for Monday. There are many local grassroots organisations and unions all pitching in. There has been nothing but the chirping of crickets from any of the TERF orgs who have vast wealth behind them. I need cis folks to understand this.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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fionnulamac.bsky.social @fionnulamac.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Today’s Business Post front page. What on earth are our politicians doing?
Headline: Four tech giants use one-fifth of Ireland’s electricity
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unhinged gobshitery! You have the patience of feckin' Job.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
animals-crushing-pumpkins season is actually so important to me. spiritually www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyVBE2hL/
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I, and I cannot stress this enough, loves me county (AND this is more effective advertising than ten thousand AI generated flyers)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gyms. For. Our. Brains.
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually? www.dublininquirer.com/to-counter-a...
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To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter
Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You deserve a lovely start to your new decade, and a bit of a fuss. Please let me send cake or similar (THE VOID suggested leafy greens but I suspected this was a plot on her part?)
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And I would like to buy you a cake/dessert of your choosing for the day (no eggs, right?)
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jaysus. The bread-free shit sandwich carry on of them. I am so sorry and you deserve a whole lot better.
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Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social
A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision. 
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I needed this, V 😭
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will not Doomscroll Doomscrolling is the peace-killer Doomscrolling is the slow-death that brings gradual but inexorable depression I will face the Doomscrolling I will put my phone down and take a shower And when I am dressed I will turn the inner eye to see its path Only shitposts will remain
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I repeat and call for the use of the pagers we have distributed throughout Ireland.” - Israeli comedian.
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Israeli comedian calls to ‘activate the pagers we scattered in Ireland’ following Nations League defeat
Ivgeni Zarubinski made his comments in response to ‘incitement against Israel’ and ‘anti-semitism’
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(Just speaking as I find ❤️)
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midweshterner @watermemory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is my experience that the best and most thoughtful among us are the ones who struggle and question themselves most. It's a bastard of a thing and I'm sorry. You are a person of kindness, grit, integrity and great humour and you deserve to see yourself in that light.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed around two prehistoric standing stones. If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did, you might also see the smaller of the two being recharged with sacred energy by the sun.
An ancient standing stone replenishes itself with the moorland winter sun, in a the dining room of a pub where I found out, to my disappointment, non-cash payments of under £10 are not permitted.
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Keith Manuel @keithamanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A remarkable case was Mali (2016) www.npr.org/2016/04/23/4...
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Timbuktu's 'Badass Librarians': Checking Out Books Under Al-Qaida's Nose
Librarian Abdel Kader Haidara organized a smuggling operation to keep centuries-old manuscripts out of the hands of al-Qaida. Joshua Hammer wrote about it in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🥹 my heart so many things destroyed in all of these wars, genocides, regimes everything saved is precious
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Syrian man uncovers library hidden behind wall for 15 years
Abu Bilal built a secret wall in his home to protect his books from Syria’s former Assad regime.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New Gist: What if On the Irish Government’s incoherent and shameful plan to make it harder for brown and black people to get Irish passports. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
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And this is what we want to dissuade?
And all because of the tiny number of men (overwhelmingly) who are assembling crowds of baying shop dummies, screaming that they are The Master's Voice. All of them demanding hostility first and reasoning not at all when it comes to anyone, Irish born or not, who might have a complexion darker than that of a peeled potato.
In fact, for this army of mannequins and their dummy owners, to be Black and to be Irish is the greatest affront and standing refutation of their abject racism.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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