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Nicola Horgan @nicolahorgan.bsky.social · 12h

Catherine Connolly is the one who breaks the necks on the Child of Prague statues

#speirgorm #SmearTheBejaysis

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 2d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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sighjinks @sighjinks.bsky.social · 12h

Tron: Ares is tanking at the box office so it’s only a matter of time until Disney says it means nobody wants any more Tron movies instead of realising that nobody wants any more Jared Leto movies

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Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 12h

Have just seen a post on X featuring a screenshot of a house share offer in Kerry, digitally altered to say “No Irish”. The actual ad can be found online easily and of course says no such thing, but the target audience hasn’t checked and is reacting predictably.

This will only get worse.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 13h

Catherine Connolly eats marmite and smooth peanut butter sandwiches. #Smearthebejaysus

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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 20h

Guy here in Galway told me that Catherine Connolly did this to his tin foil.

#Smearthebejaysus

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 18h

Mushroom bells!

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

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Marina @sand-badger.bsky.social · 17h

Use the link to email MCD & 3arena tinyurl.com/3s9w3kva

#FreePalestine #SaoirseDonPhalaistín #SpeirGorm

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

How Alan Moore imagined standing up to totalitarianism...

How the end of V for Vendetta would look if it were set in Portland.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 13h

Yup esp when it's not the first time around and there are no 'mysteries' and you have to still look after other kids and not rest as much as you did the first time.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 14h

RIP Diane Keaton, best known for directing one episode of Twin Peaks.

Close up image of a chess piece with the credit Directed by Diane Keaton superimposed over it

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician even attempt to know this much about my people’s history or art or culture or struggle, and I’ve certainly never seen someone advocate for protecting us so fiercely at this level, ever. God I truly hope he wins.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

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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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14h

You have to be able to legally drink to even have strong memories of seeing the last TRON movie in a theater. ARES was a movie made for my generation and we don't need third spaces the way Gen Alpha and Gen Z do.

I don't know when Hollywood forgot about making movies for teenagers, but come on guys

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14h

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 15h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

Climbing into the Irish top ten this week in October 1988: 'A Little Respect' by Erasure' www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34i...

Erasure - A Little Respect (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Erasure

www.youtube.com

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 15h

Fecking Ultras!

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 17h

But it Never gets Smokey Bacon Flavour right!

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 17h

It nice he has someone to keep him organised, just as long as she treats ye well.

Also happy biological independence day!

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 17h

Chips or Crisps @annoyedobrien.bsky.social ?

Annoyed O’Brien @annoyedobrien.bsky.social · 1d

THE REPLICATORS ARE HURLING VARIOUS AND ASSORTED FLAVORS OF CHIPS LIKE DISCUS ACROSS THE PROMENADE

MORN IS LEAPING LIKE A FROG AND CATCHING THEM

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 17h

Every accusation is a confession a out what they have done or want to do.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 17h

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 17h

If they gave a damn about kids the legal age to marry would 18 in all states, there would be mandatory reporting & comprehensive sex ed in all schools.

But they don't.

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 18h

She is grumpy with me, cos I have a stinking cold & keep sneezing, which she doesn't like, so she won't sit on my lap. #CatsOfDublin #tuxedocat #Caturday

A black and white tuxedo cat lying in a white cat bed, looking away from the person taking the photo.

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly takes out the wrong bin on purpose to throw her neighbours off then in the dead of night she puts out the right one
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SpéirGorm

Alannah Rooney AKA "The Beast of Craggy Island" ♾️ @alannahr.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly once left her bins out beside the kerb for a whole day.
#Spéirgorm

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly signs her emails "Best"

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 1d

Same!

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 1d

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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