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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 7h

So, seriously, we need to start burning the servers.
#thiel

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 9h

Movie night: The Naked Gun.
Somehow, this film manages to carry a shed load of political commentary and an ersatzMusk villain.

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Alan @whataskeets.bsky.social · 12h

4 panel meme image in the style of Padme Anakin meme.

Jim Gavin says "I paid your fecking 3 grand back"
Niall Donald asks "with interest?
Jim Gavin glares
Niall Donald asks "With interest right?"

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 10h

What's Flicker's position on AI scraping?

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 10h

This seems perfectly normal

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 12h

Multiple people have died or are missing after a massive blast rocked a US explosives factory, sending emergency responders rushing to the site and prompting official warnings for the public to avoid the area, authorities said.

Multiple dead, missing as blast rocks US explosives plant

Multiple people have died or are missing after a massive blast rocked a US explosives factory, sending emergency responders rushing to the site and prompting official warnings for the public to avoid ...

www.rte.ie

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 10h

Own your works. One day Flickr too will disappear

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 12h

If nothing else, Portlanders have reclaimed frogs on the side of the angels after their image was debased by Pepe

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 16h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 12h

They're reduced to pepperbombing pastors and priests for the visuals of protestors dressed in black..

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 13h

Given American duplicity, it effectively exists now, what with Canada being granted honorary European status.

Though it will have to struggle on without Ireland for a while, I suspect.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 13h

Or makes sense that without America behind them, theyd suddenly feel a lot more vulnerable and in favour of joining a EuroNato

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 16h

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 13h

No joke, there will probably be something about the ESA and satellite tracking of drug gangs.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 13h

Nice of one of the candidates to signal their orientation by wearing a pearls in all the election posters.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 13h

The unintentional truth here is that many Americans don't mind the fascism.
They just don't want to see it in their newsfeed.

That way, after it's all over, they can claim they didn't know.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel

I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...

www.emptywheel.net

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 18h

This is the new Banksy..

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 18h

Circulation isn't where it was 20 years ago.
Circulation isn't even where it was five years ago.
I suspect we are approaching the point where keepy-uppy tiktok clips have a bigger impact than thundering broadshaeet editorials.

Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 1d

The rate at which the Irish Times and the Irish Independent are publishing smear material on Catherine Connolly is having two effects: I trust both papers EVEN LESS than I already did, and I'm very definitely voting for her.

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 1d

As someone who has lost all the writing I published on sites I didn't own, DO THIS 👇

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to remind Fine Gael politicians that arguably the most corrupt politician in the history of the state, possibly Europe, is currently a member of your coalition government

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 1d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

"The creatures outside looked from Gript to polcorr, and from polcorr to Gript, and from Gript to polcorr again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

The polcorrs really are excelling themselves at the moment.

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 12d

I’d say rather that they hold a narrow range of political views which they do not recognise as being political views. Political positions are those taken by other people. They see themselves as simply holding common-sense normal opinions.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

I regularly promise canvassers that I will think of their candidate when I cast my vote.

Some of them even realise this is not good news.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

The polcorrs really are excelling themselves at the moment.

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 12d

I’d say rather that they hold a narrow range of political views which they do not recognise as being political views. Political positions are those taken by other people. They see themselves as simply holding common-sense normal opinions.

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Robert Sweetnam @rgsweetnam.zq.ie · 1d

Oh FFS! For 30 years the icon for Microsoft Word was instantly identifiable with a W in it. Excel had an X. Easy to see. Now someone seriously lacking in talent has come up with this and someone actually approved it!

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