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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé)

@patmch51.bsky.social

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Descendent of the Diaspóra na nGael. Queer and mad. Anti-fascist and active anti-racist in progress. 🏆 2025's Most Annoying Man On The Internet. Team Harris. "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards." Wilhelm Arondéus

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know how many times I have to say this.

A future that requires us to break bread with white supremacists doesn't deserve to be built. If the only way to save the US is by continuing to ignore the moral rot of white supremacy, it doesn't deserve to be saved.

Go pontificate elsewhere.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4h

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think militant antitheism and Marxism are doing, like, a great job of keeping young white men tethered to grounding principles like humility, community, or gratitude.

Individualism and materialism don't nourish you. Find higher values.

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 14h

oh.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 5h

a close up of a wrestler making a funny face .

Alt: A gif of an empty wrestling ring. That was a John Cena joke. Gif of John Cena looking confused and distressed before looking up toward someone off-camera with a look of dawning realization.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 8h

youtu.be/O515YeHQhYE?...

NICCOLO - Animation Short Film 2025 - GOBELINS

YouTube video by GOBELINS Paris

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Golden @go1den.com · 11h

The Epstein files are based on information. I hope they're right about the Epstein files. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of Epstein files out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on Epstein files.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 13h

Same energy open.spotify.com/track/1SXXrI...

My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 15h

Can confirm, men definitely are not okay.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 15h

They will say anything to keep conversations around systemic oppression in the realm of vibes and personal beliefs.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 19h

Today is a beautiful day for Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 15h

Free user story for your backlog.

As a Bluesky end user, I want to allow replies from Łink, specifically. Therefore, you should reverse your craven permaban on his account.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 15h

Perceived demand avoidance and passive ideation are a fun combo because, like, please actually, fight me about it. You're doing me a favor.

For legal reasons this is a joke and/or metaphorical.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 20h

Bluesky has happily leveraged these cultural points to their advantage too when trying to distinguish themselves from the other twitters.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 16h

Precisely. Toss back and forth with me, a white man, instead of bothering Black women. I'm more than happy to give you the verbal tête-a-tête you so clearly crave. You absolute fucking child.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 16h

I think my case was pretty fucking clear, actually. Let me restate it.

You, a soft white titty baby, don't get to tell Black women fucking anything.

Amazing to get the keyboard warrior critique from a "rational free thinker" who "tells it like it is." Fucking. Lmao.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, Mr. B, I notice you're responding to everyone but me. Awfully fragile behavior here.

a man in a plaid shirt says buddy you 're softer than a tootsie roll fruit cup .

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt says buddy you 're softer than a tootsie roll fruit cup .

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h

This.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 17h

Do I seem fragile to you? Do I seem like I'm shying away from confrontation?

You wouldn't know "like it is" if it spit in your face and fucked your dad. Leave Black women the fuck alone if you don't know how to behave.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 18h

Oh my fucking God my dude.

Imagine feeling so entitled to the emotional and mental energy of Black women that you do this to get around a clear communication boundary. It could never be me.

Stop being a pest to Black women you FUCKING weirdo.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 18h

Say something of value then. Otherwise I'm absolutely going to rhetorically beat you with a bag of hammers for bringing this energy to Black people in 2025.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 20h

Jeffries was duly elected by the people of his district and duly elected minority leader by his party. He has every remit to do exactly what he's doing, and I would like you to think long and hard about why you, as a white, think you get to order Black men around.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 20h

He isn't the Speaker of the House, Daniel. He's the minority leader. Because 74% of whites enabled the GOP and Project 2025 and refused to return majority control to the Democrats.

Don't speak to Black women in this tone again.

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna need white people to stop telling Hakeem Jeffries to do something when you all couldn't even confront your family and friends about not wanting to vote for MVP.

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