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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 41m

Did you and your Guardian colleagues care that, in relentlessly defaming Jeremy Corbyn and his movement, you brought this about?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 13h

The Smooch, from Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection — Michael K. Frith, 1984

A sculpture in white but probably not marble and imitation of Rodin sculpture the kiss we have miss Piggy and Kermit kissing. Kermit sits on Miss Piggy's knees, and she bends down to kiss him — reversing the position of the male and female figures in the original.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 23h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Fenster 🇵🇸 @fensterdj.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent photo

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 9h

damn that’s crazy I wonder why

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall

The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 2h

I love the radio at home, the Laois county final is on and the commentator said the two teams are so close they share the same priest

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 7h

They’re putting up stickers like this in my area

#IrelandForAll

STICKER OF AN IRISH FLAG

ATTENTION THIS FLAG IS FOR EVERYONE!
Do not let the small mumber of people with hateful and extreme views tell you that it is only meant for those wto are straight, white, and obediently nationalist.
This fag, as a whole, is intended to symbolise the inclusion and hoped-for union of the people of different traditions on the island of Ireland, which is expressed in the Constitution as the entitlement of every person to be oart of the independent Irish nation, regardless of eteric oriain, relicion, political conviction, gender, sex or sexual orientation.
WE WILL NOT FALL
FOR FASCIST PROPAGANDA.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3h

Let no man throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clan.

- James Connolly 1908. Recalled in Cork 2025.

Seagull approves.

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Harley - PomPomPastel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pompompastel.bsky.social · 2h

Catherine Connolly wanted to do the funniest thing when she wins, her very first public video should be

"I know a thing or two about smear campaigns. That's why I encourage everyone over the age of 25 to book theirs now!"

#speirgorm #Irishpolitics #Áras25 #Aras25

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Agree to disagree 🍊🍊🍊 @stefgotbooted.bsky.social · 2h

Invest in my new product: AI enabled tulips. Get in on the ground floor!

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1h

one of the most important political litmus tests for growing up in the US is whether or not you’ve realized this is the source of everything you were taught about China

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 9h

I love when someone cites a report of some org called like “World Humanity Freedom Foundation” in order to make a point about a country and you go to the Wikipedia for the org and it’s like founded by the US State Department and everyone on its board worked for BP or Raytheon

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 2h

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3h

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot sit alone with the fact that the inventor of the carabiner is an early 20th century German mountaineer who went by Rambo Herzog

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 5h

Was he a member of the GAA though?

Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 5h

The GAA suspended Douglas Hyde for attending a football match while he was president.

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 7h

The main thing I've learned from this is that Katy Perry has a remarkably tasteful yacht: a 1960s Feadship designed by Carlo Riva. Restored by Feadship themselves very elegantly about a decade ago with the addition of a fold down bathing platform and a smart if slightly bland interior.

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 7h

In instrument meteorological conditions.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 10h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 7h

UK safety PSA ads from the 1970s-80s were infamously scary and bleak, but I just learnt today THAT THIS WAS A REAL AD IN NEW ZEALAND.

youtu.be/u51OxZF1ltI?...

New Zealand ACC Ad | Fruit - E - Bars

YouTube video by ET TV

youtu.be

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 9h

EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 18h

Have just seen a post on X featuring a screenshot of a house share offer in Kerry, digitally altered to say “No Irish”. The actual ad can be found online easily and of course says no such thing, but the target audience hasn’t checked and is reacting predictably.

This will only get worse.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 9h

I love when someone cites a report of some org called like “World Humanity Freedom Foundation” in order to make a point about a country and you go to the Wikipedia for the org and it’s like founded by the US State Department and everyone on its board worked for BP or Raytheon

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Hannah Valerie @eckerusla.bsky.social · 19h

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

(James 1.27, NIV)

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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