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Obstreperous G

@obstreperousg.bsky.social

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Cisinscneach Sí/í Uathach We're all either woke or wankers, which are you? Gruntled, whelmed, and gormful Blocks liberally Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

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Obstreperous G @obstreperousg.bsky.social · 2h

100% acceptable behaviour!

Obstreperous G @obstreperousg.bsky.social · 3h

Closely followed by MITHERED

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 3h

Appropos of nothing, just feeling a bit of weltschmerz:

- Trans/nb rights and support, or fuck off
- Free Palestine and every other culture under the boot
- Check how you're treating the women in your life
- If you're not acting with your values, they're not your values

#spéirghorm #ireland

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 13h

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 13h

The Catherine Connolly campaign has reignited my urge to learn Irish. I have the Now You're Talking book and tapes from 25 odd years ago, but of course no tape player. Someone has handily converted the tapes to audio files you can listen to here: www.tripswithkevin.com/irish-on-you... #speirgorm

Irish On Your Own - Trips With Kevin

The audio for the excellent book Irish On Your Own (also known as Now You're Talking).

www.tripswithkevin.com

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H e l e n 🇵🇸 ☘️ @helendublin.bsky.social · 15h

Not only are there no protests for the safety of women and children. The "protestors" are often the danger and/or disbelieve and victim blame when the perpetrator is white. Shamefully, victim blaming is more widespread than these guys imo

Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 8d

This bears repeating.

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 21h

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20h

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Five guys with the f and the E light off

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.bsky.social · 1d

Wow the IT actually printed my letter

#speirghorm

A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events.

Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the Tánaiste described migration numbers as “too high”? - Is mise

Wendy Lyon

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 2d

My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

"Everything is being judicial reviewed" (sic).

This is a bare-faced lie by the leader of our country, told to deflect attention away from his own government's abject lack of either a solution or plan to fix to a housing crisis of its own making.

Scandalous.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

Monday’s paper. @irishexaminer.bsky.social #housing #EU

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dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social · 1d

#speirgorm sadly relevant

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 2d

If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

'Member all the Irish wankers bemoaning "political violence" when Charlie Kirk was murdered - has anyone seen if they have anything to say about the attempted murder of women and children in the Drogheda IPAS centre?
No?
Funny, that.

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Obstreperous G @obstreperousg.bsky.social · 1d

I've lit the fire and ready to binge on Only Murders. #Cosy

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing I watch this Halloween can compare with these lines about midges I just read in Jane Powers's "An Irish Nature Year"

Another of the tiny biters, Serromyia femorata, resident in Ireland, is worth mentioning for its interesting behaviour. While mating, the female pierces the male's head, releases enzymes that liquefy his innards, and sucks them out. His useless corpse breaks off at his genitalia which then act as a plug to prevent her mating with another male.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.

It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.

That’s the only kind of fast that matters."

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Colin Sheridan opinion piece in Examiner, opening section.

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Obstreperous G @obstreperousg.bsky.social · 1d

New #HomeAssistant feature unlocked! Smart home creation ftw. Of course some day I'll move house and will have to rebuild my whole life.

two women sitting next to each other with the hashtag #schittscreek

ALT: two women sitting next to each other with the hashtag #schittscreek

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Obstreperous G @obstreperousg.bsky.social · 1d

Biab is a decent alternative if gel is too hard on your nails. They don't need to strip it back to the nail surface when reapplying so less damaging. I find it thicker than gel and dislike it for that reason. Tbh I gave up trying to get appointments, just do my own now from time to time.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 2d

Also, we can't let people away with this 'not us' stuff anymore. It absolutely is us.

(first is from an article by Tubridy)

You Don't Get To Be Racist And Irish - Imelda May's stunning poem

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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 2d

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

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Obstreperous G @obstreperousg.bsky.social · 2d

I hate that I can't lock down this account but I've found a way around it. Deleting old posts en masse.
bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup

Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)

bsky.jazco.dev

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 2d

Far more significant than the podcast is Ivan Yates working with a national broadcaster Newstalk as a pundit when he was working for FF as an advisor ...surely the regulator has something to say about this ? www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cal.... #Spéirghorm