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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 2h

Showed the 10-year-old Harold Lloyd’s Girl Shy (1924).

Turned out to be a good way to chat about sketchy influencers, and the manosphere / incel content already targeting the little dudes her class.

Girl Shy - Wikipedia

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3h

Something very annoying about amphetamine based ADHD medication is they acts on both the CNS (brain) and PNS (body). So while mentally I feel calm and focused, physically I feel like I just took a heroic dose of crack. Interestingly, there is an inverse relationship between CNS and PNS potency. 1/3

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 3h

Robert Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter is not a great movie, but wow, it makes me hanker for all that it satirizes.

Powerful editors, journalists with time and budget, Björk, supermodels, star photographers, parties with no phones, fashion being deadly serious and ridiculous…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Bowers @eatbemary.bsky.social · 4h

Keeping adoptees from knowing their parents' names under the guise of "privacy" accomplishes exactly the opposite. To claim our humanity right to identity (UNCRC Article 8), we are forced to turn to the press, the police, and invasive DNA tests.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 8h

Post-surgery steroid pack: Take 1 at breakfast, 1 at lunch, 1 at supper, and 1 at bedtime.

Me: 1 at 7am, 2 at 9pm, 1 at 1am, got it.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t even know how I found this, but somehow this guy with a strong Lancashire(?) accent does great honor to Aretha Franklin in a two hour and 42 minute podcast about the song I Say A Little Prayer. Worth it.

Related: My house is clean now.

Episode 168: “I Say a Little Prayer” by Aretha Franklin

Podcast Episode · A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · 09/28/2023 · 1 sec

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 15h

Temperate rainforests 4eva 💚

Seamus Petrie @seamuspetrie.bsky.social · Aug 9

The secret best thing about living in the PNW is that very little of Nature is trying to kill you.

This side of the Cascades, the plants, snakes, & bugs are mostly not poisonous, and the poisonous ones are easy to ID/avoid.*

*Note: this does not apply to mushrooms. Do not trust the fungi.

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Weird (in an unsettling way) Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 13d

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties.

BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?

PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?

EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

me: fandom is so weird you get super invested in the doings of these other people who don't even care about your opinion most of the time and your entire day is based on whether they did good or feel bad and then you have to feel the same way

mom: This is just parenthood

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 16h

What I remember from the dotcom era was that Larry Ellison, Scott McNealy, and the Super Bowl ads walked off with all the money.

Server racks and sock puppets.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 16h

We don’t do metric. How many horses’ hooves is that.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 17h

Sticking with the Louvre because they’ve yet to have my 8-year-old evacuated from school three times because of bomb threats.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 18h

I could totally do this. Specifically cola bottles. 💆‍♀️

Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 18h

I don't know why, but this is, from start to finish, one of the funniest things I have read in ages. I hope this man is living his best life now.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.com

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 19h

This is how I learn the Pat McAfee people talk about on here is a) still alive and b) not John McAfee.

Things make more sense now. Chaos energy remains consistent.

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