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Kevin Teljeur

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Dublin 15, Ireland. Nobody wants to read what I write once they’ve read what I’ve written. I assuredly will write it. I also post occasionally about coding, bird-feeding, photos of things, cycling, and drawing (once in a while). He/him

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · Nov 7

I never did this here:
I guess that I should introduce myself, tell everyone a bit about me. I live in Dublin 15 in Ireland out on the Western edge of Europe, in more privilege than I like to admit. [1/10]

Photo, landscape, exterior: A selfie, bald, bearded man wearing a green hoodie, parkland behind obscured by bokeh. He appears to be very happy, perhaps manically so, maybe his is thinking about all of the happy things.

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 9h

Arrgh! My partner told me that he’s apparently gone a bit edgelord, off in the deep end. I hope not, but…

Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 9h

As per Reginald D. Hunter, “Ireland is white people’s Africa”

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 12h

"If you're a European and you're not deeply concerned, then you aren't paying attention."

I agree.

#Áras25

TheSecretDiplomat @thesecretdiplomat.bsky.social · 1d

Governments across Europe are seizing their "fire at the Reichstag" moments.

The UK government plans to introduce legislation to ban peaceful protests when the government dislikes the topic of protest.

If you're a European and you're not deeply concerned, then you aren't paying attention.

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 17h

This is good because if they reopen the railway to Navan, he'll lie down in front of it (his stated aim), and then you wouldn't get that chance again

Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 17h

Like, people who own castles or what have you, but claim not to have money for stuff, and at some point you learn that they're the 14th Arch Garibaldi of Ballymutton. They walk among us but up close it's like a parallel reality.

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 17h

I've been adjacent to a particular group in Irish society that moves in these circles. Not friends of mine, but interacting enough to know that it's an odd world, the old money set. There are also people who want to buy in, and it's all very weird.

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 17h

It's like a drug. It doesn't suit everyone, but

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 20h

Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, the freed Palestinians include 250 people serving life sentences for convictions following attacks on Israelis, in addition to 1,700 hostages seized from Gaza and held without charge since October 2023.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 20h

Palestinians freed from Israeli captivity today have arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where they were greeted by large crowds of cheering people.
http://jrnl.ie/6842662

Freed Palestinians arrive in West Bank city of Ramallah to cheering crowds

Earlier this morning, Hamas released 20 living Israeli hostages, all of whom have since arrived in Israel.

jrnl.ie

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 21h

There is even an absent candidate who will still get a non-trivial percentage of the vote. This is a terrible election, with no good choices.

Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 21h

My point was that this is a very low bar. I’m not even getting into the disability green paper or what have we. I’m no fan of Connolly, but Fine Gael have been in power for how long? I can no longer buy a damn home, and the homelessness figures are at historical high.

Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 22h

I will vote no. 1 for Connolly, with strong reservations, because absolutely Humphreys and her party do not deserve to get into Áras an Uachtaráin. She couldn't even be arsed to learn Irish when that was her actual job. This is a very low bar for a Presidential election, but here we are.

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 22h

I made a wisecrack recently about even Alan Kelly being right twice a day or something similar, but it appears that he is not even that.

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Hey! It's Bubblenoma Linda @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 1d

A comedian did crowdwork on me the other night

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 1d

So you see, this was all good, actually

Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 1d

Not that this is what’s happening, no way at all

Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 1d

And because we have rules to protect us economically, they are incentivised to go ahead and risk flying those things even if that guy isn’t around, possibly especially if he isn’t around because he might say ‘Yeah, no, there’s no way that thing is safe until I’m done with it’

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve experienced a variation of this with Loganair, minus the bus, but with added ‘Wait, do their planes actually work? Do they even service these things?’

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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 1d

O’Brien: There must be rehabilitation and restorative justice
Us: What? Well, yes we agree, absolutely, wow

O’Brien: Great. So I have these religious orders here and a bunch of priests, who everyone said should-
Us: Oh no