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Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 4h

Humphreys: I’ll be a president for all, I can work with anyone

Also Humphreys: [egregiously defames an opposition TD]

#áras25

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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 3h

Sunday swim 🏖️

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6h

A great song from a great album from a great series in the FT. I’d forgotten all about the CWS band from Manchester 🤦‍♀️ on.ft.com/46Ojkcn I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — Americana with a dash of Englishness from Richard and Linda Thompson

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — Americana with a dash of Englishness from Richard and Linda Thompson

Heavily influenced by The Band, the 1974 track by the folk-rock duo also featured a Manchester horn ensemble

on.ft.com

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 1d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Sep 12

Uachtarán na hÉireann, @president.ie Michael D. Higgins, has marked the appointment of Vona Groarke as the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry at an event at Áras an Uachtaráin. @chairofpoetry.bsky.social

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Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 22h

We need to be honest on climate movement. We are failing.

- The temperature keeps rising.
- True problem is structural, NOT individual behavior!
- Industry has masterfully marketed individual's fault.
- Collective civic action to change policy
- Say pollution, not emissions
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14h

ICYMI: “Some still insist ‘downtowns will never attract kids & shouldn’t try.’ Then they design downtown to virtually repel kids, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Vancouver proves the opposite can be true...”

I’m quoted in this article by @johnlorinc.bsky.social for @calcities.bsky.social

People want to have kids and live downtown. Can they? - Western City Magazine

For decades, planners focused on attracting young singles to dense urban cores. That dynamic has shifted, in part because ...

www.westerncity.com

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Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 18h

Share a cartoon you will always love.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Mícheál de Brún @thriftonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly French kissed the Blarney Stone.
#SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey handsome. Why not come over to my place and eat the fried breadcrumbs I'm covered in?" she said, croquettishly.

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Philip Beattie @pbeattie.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly pronounces it ‘scone’.

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly only says "bye" once at the end of a phonecall.
#smearthebejaysis

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Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 1d

#SmearTheBejaysis

Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Catherine Connolly label a pan au chocolat as a plain croissant in the self checkout

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Dr Gerri O'Neill @gerrioneillhist.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly's granny made tea for the Tans. #SmearTheBejaysis

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Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly advised the FAI to go to Saipan. #SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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Brendan Halpin 🏳️‍🌈 @feadpool.bsky.social · 1d

I heard Catherine Connelly got up to make a cup of tea and didn't offer to make one for everyone else.
#speirgorm

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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly prefers King Cheese and Onion.

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Brendan Halpin 🏳️‍🌈 @feadpool.bsky.social · 1d

I was mopping the floor and Catherine Connelly had to walk over it and DIDN'T do a weird tippy tappy walk to show she didn't want to be doing it.
#Speirgorm

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Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly once put a traffic cone over Mr Screen's torch. #SmearTheBejaysus #SmearTheBejaysis

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly used to wrap little bits of turf in tinfoil and sell them as ten spots of hash in the campsite at Féile

#SmearTheBejaysis

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly did a moonie at the portal the night it opened

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Ian Mac Lochlainn @ianmaclochlainn.bsky.social · 1d

#smearthebejaysis

Catherine Connolly leaves the empty tube on the jacks roll holder

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