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egg @explod.es · 12m

the Final Destination franchise is just the opposite of Baby's Day Out

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 24m

"Saying the quiet part out loud doesn’t make it brave; it makes it bleak. It teaches [...] campaigners that integrity is a liability and that reputational violence is a sign of savvy. It tells the public that truth is optional, empathy expendable, and that politics is just performance warfare."

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 9h

Colin Sheridan: Smear v journalism — One intends to wound, the other to inform

When Ivan Yates went on a widely shared podcast and said he would 'smear the bejaysus out of her', meaning presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, he was injecting the virus, writes Colin Sheridan

dlvr.it

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 3h

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 22h

Mary Kennedy (79) plans to vote for Catherine Connolly

“Whenever she has been questioned she told the truth and came out and said what was happening.
I was left under no illusion about something happening in the background. I liked that. She’s a straight talker."

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I think Micheál Martin was stupid’: women’s shed members on the presidential election

With two weeks to go until the presidential election, some members of Drimnagh Women’s Shed are already ‘fed up with it’

www.irishtimes.com

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 14h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 1h

For the season that's in it

Expanding brain meme:
panel 1 - that's
Frankenstein
panel 2-well actually,
Frankenstein
was the doctor's
name
Panel 3- it could be argued that
through his actions,
Dr Frankenstein
destroyed his own
humanity, thus
making *him* the
true monster of the story
Panel 4- that's a Frankenstein

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 1h

And on the day you stopped being shingle yourself. The irony!

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about how human cloning technology could be used to not only revive famous musical acts, but make them even better. Just imagine Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Stills, Stills, Nash, Young & Young

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 20h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23h

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 10h

I've lived in both Dublin and Cork, and I'm from neither, so I can say with no bias, Lyons is superior to Barry's.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 23h

They've got frogs, they're multiplying
ICE is looooosing control

Mx Ghoulie M Awesome @juliemawesome.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland frogs are multiplying. I’m watching the livestream at katu.com/watch

Three green froggies and a skeleton frog! These are inflatable costumes and some of the frogs have little capes. They’re protesting on the other side of the street from ICE.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 12h

User 1
I'm like pretty pro Palestine for a lefty Zionist lib
Jew but man do l ever have ms Rachel derangement syndrome and I hate myself for it
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User 1
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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User
also I get it the Palestinian side has seen the disproportionate majority of the bloodshed and suffering at this point but if you didn't shed the same tears for innocent Israeli civilians I think you at best have an agenda and at worst are an unrepentant antisemite but that's a whole can o worms
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User 2
Dude it's a fucking genocide

User 1
that's kind of a non sequitur

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18h

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 16h

I suppose they meant "more readily available". Or that most people get it?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 17h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 16h

Someone told me that sweet popcorn is the standard popcorn in England, is that true? Seems absolutely bizarre to me.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 17h

Anytime I've handed in notice I have like a parabola of workload, it peaks with training your replacement and then I switch to "well that's not gonna be *my* problem" mode lol

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 18h

Nice to see the humble frog being reclaimed as a symbol from the right 🐸

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 20h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 18h

Haha, fair. If you do decide to do it and have any questions lmk, I'd be happy to help 😊

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 18h

My e-bike was retrofit, cost 500 euro (plus the bike which I already had). It was like a days worth of work which I kind of enjoyed tbh.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 19h

I'm now primarily an analogue cyclist, but I wouldn't be if I hadn't gotten an e-bike. They're great and more should be done to get more people on them.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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