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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 8h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 14h

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

The Skelligs was also given as a location by the Irish state to Disney at no cost, out of their belief that some nebulous 'good will' was more useful than a big bag of American cash. Disney was very quick to agree.

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

She facilitated two weeks of filming on Skellig Michael for the Star Wars movies, during the height of the breeding season for the resident seabirds, despite objections from An Taisce and other environmental groups. Chicks from vulnerable species were blown into the sea by helicopter #spéirgorm 5/n

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great overview of the issues. The question needs to be asked why member states find having surveillance capabilities enabled through law more important than child protection. They could’ve already agreed on a less problematic law a long time ago. #chatcontrol

www.dw.com/en/eu-delays...

EU delays child protection laws over privacy concerns – DW – 10/14/2025

The EU isn't gearing up to read your texts, but debate is raging in the bloc on how to keep kids safe from online sexual predators without busting privacy protections.

www.dw.com

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social · 1d

Far-right X users who like saying "Orwelian" and "kafkaesque" should be forced to read ALL the books by the two authors and pass an exam on them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking as a *current* Green Party member, the flaw in the “why don’t you stick to the environment” canard is, pace Greta Thunberg, you cannot honour the environment if you don’t see your neighbour as human. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 1d

It must take an extraordinarily high level of self-absorption to willingly offer oneself up as the bottom of the barrel currently being scraped.

Screenshot of an Irish Times headline which reads "Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly"

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.

He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.

He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 3d

Chris Morris as the newsreader on The Day Today

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 4d

People are always saying that the only thing of equivalent geopolitical and historical importance to a Fianna Fáil leadership heave is the century-long struggle between the Russian and British empires for power and influence in central Asia.

A screenshot of an Irish Times headline which reads "Jim O'Callaghan will bide his time but the great game is on"

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to the Irish government running a Your Country, Your Call v 2.0, asking the public to chip in ideas on what to do with all the deserted data centres.

Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 4d

BBC News - 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 4d

When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded by
poxes, poxes, poxes, poxes
coming in in all directions

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 4d

It often feels as if they're less interested in winning something than they are in signing up for anything where they'll be given opportunites to moan about how oppressed they are.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 4d

I figured that was why they'd started up their 'spoil your vote' campaign even before Gavin dropped out. Now they can add the number of spoiled votes to the number of votes for Boaty McBoatface Gavin and claim they're all *really* votes for Maria Steen, or something equally weird like that.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 5d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Dr Conor Reidy FRHistS @conorreidy.bsky.social · 5d

news.sky.com/story/nobel-...

Pentagon drawing up plans for a US 'special military operation' in Norway.

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

news.sky.com

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 6d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 5d

Great choice from the photo editor there, the living personification of the 😬 emoji

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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The Hand that Rocks the Jaydle @jaycoyle.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely but also in there: the minister was speaking at the launch of Ruhama's annual report. Let me just Google them real quick.

Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 6d

As I said when this came up first, if you're going to criticise this kinda of thing, you better have an alternative to the entire concept of prisoner rehabilitation lined up

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6d

The Minister for Health has described as "completely unacceptable", comments by presidential candidate Catherine Connolly that she "would have to think about" hiring a convicted rapist to work in the Áras

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 6d

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 7d

Probably best ignored but I do think it's notable how the Irish Times' politics desk has turned itself into a sort of Skinner box for a tiny minority of *very noisy* turbo-Catholic conservatives, rewarding them with attention whenever they so much as brush against any of the levers.

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