Brendan Halpin
@bthalpin.bsky.social
Refugee from ex-Twitter, mostly at @[email protected]
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This app is the Democratic Party of social media: embarrassed by their actual constituency and constantly alienating them in pursuit of a constituency that will never ever love them back...
What. The fuck.
This technically doesn't violate ToS. Okay. Fine.
Who. THE FUCK. Being the head of something called trust and safety. Does something. Like this.
We've got the best community I've ever seen come from a platform, and the most tone deaf arrogant bigot ghouls running it. Disgraceful.
This technically doesn't violate ToS. Okay. Fine.
Who. THE FUCK. Being the head of something called trust and safety. Does something. Like this.
We've got the best community I've ever seen come from a platform, and the most tone deaf arrogant bigot ghouls running it. Disgraceful.
Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This app is the Democratic Party of social media: embarrassed by their actual constituency and constantly alienating them in pursuit of a constituency that will never ever love them back...
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01.12.25
Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Kraus perform The Wexford Carol. This is a gorgeous version with a perfect pairing of cello and voice.
I've shared it many times in the past and people always comment on how lovely it is. A gentle way to ease us into December.
youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc?...
Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Kraus perform The Wexford Carol. This is a gorgeous version with a perfect pairing of cello and voice.
I've shared it many times in the past and people always comment on how lovely it is. A gentle way to ease us into December.
youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc?...
Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss - The Wexford Carol (Video)
YouTube video by YoYoMaVEVO
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
01.12.25
Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Kraus perform The Wexford Carol. This is a gorgeous version with a perfect pairing of cello and voice.
I've shared it many times in the past and people always comment on how lovely it is. A gentle way to ease us into December.
youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc?...
Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Kraus perform The Wexford Carol. This is a gorgeous version with a perfect pairing of cello and voice.
I've shared it many times in the past and people always comment on how lovely it is. A gentle way to ease us into December.
youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc?...
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"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
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how long until US joins Warsaw Pact?
"Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's new US National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New US Security Strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
how long until US joins Warsaw Pact?
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🇮🇸 Iceland’s most famous music artist, Björk calls for her home nation to join the boycott of Eurovision 2026.
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🇮🇸 Iceland’s most famous music artist, Björk calls for her home nation to join the boycott of Eurovision 2026.
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Been asking this same question since Musk went to the Dark Side. It's amazing the number of Irish government institutions, TV and radio stations, and businesses that are still clinging on to this rancid platform. You are the company you keep.
#Speirgorm
#Speirgorm
The real question this raises is: why are the EU institutions still active on X at all? www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Been asking this same question since Musk went to the Dark Side. It's amazing the number of Irish government institutions, TV and radio stations, and businesses that are still clinging on to this rancid platform. You are the company you keep.
#Speirgorm
#Speirgorm
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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
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Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
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Having gone through a citizenship ceremony in Ireland, it's hard to convey in words just how fantastic the mood is. It's just such a joyous occasion. I just can't fathom the depravity required to destroy peoples hard earned dreams at the finish line like this.
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Having gone through a citizenship ceremony in Ireland, it's hard to convey in words just how fantastic the mood is. It's just such a joyous occasion. I just can't fathom the depravity required to destroy peoples hard earned dreams at the finish line like this.
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This is funny, given how many of these low-effort, mean, and incompetent men are “free market warriors” and are now complaining about, well, a free market.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is funny, given how many of these low-effort, mean, and incompetent men are “free market warriors” and are now complaining about, well, a free market.
There is a new axis of evil that is actively pouring money, influence and energy into undermining European democracy: the USA, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Russia may collapse before long (but like a dying wasp, sting all the worse), but the other two have very deep pockets.
Russia may collapse before long (but like a dying wasp, sting all the worse), but the other two have very deep pockets.
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There is a new axis of evil that is actively pouring money, influence and energy into undermining European democracy: the USA, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Russia may collapse before long (but like a dying wasp, sting all the worse), but the other two have very deep pockets.
Russia may collapse before long (but like a dying wasp, sting all the worse), but the other two have very deep pockets.
FIFA has gone from being in serious trouble because people realised just how corrupt it was, targetting people like Blatter (and Platini) for real consequences, to flexing and showing off just how good it is at corruption, just how well corrupt FIFA fits into contemporary realities.
Donald Trump said it was 'one of the great honours' of his life to receive Fifa’s inaugural Peace Prize on Friday. on.ft.com/4piJZVf
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
FIFA has gone from being in serious trouble because people realised just how corrupt it was, targetting people like Blatter (and Platini) for real consequences, to flexing and showing off just how good it is at corruption, just how well corrupt FIFA fits into contemporary realities.
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Fuck FIFA, and fuck the world cup.
Thought this was an onion style joke for a full 5 seconds.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Fuck FIFA, and fuck the world cup.
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When I was 7-9ish, my family went on full day or multi-day cross-country ski trips.
My parents gave us "prizes" -- silly patches we could stick on our backpacks -- if we finished the trip without whining, bickering, or crying.
Thinking about my "first place for not eating yellow snow" prize today.
My parents gave us "prizes" -- silly patches we could stick on our backpacks -- if we finished the trip without whining, bickering, or crying.
Thinking about my "first place for not eating yellow snow" prize today.
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When I was 7-9ish, my family went on full day or multi-day cross-country ski trips.
My parents gave us "prizes" -- silly patches we could stick on our backpacks -- if we finished the trip without whining, bickering, or crying.
Thinking about my "first place for not eating yellow snow" prize today.
My parents gave us "prizes" -- silly patches we could stick on our backpacks -- if we finished the trip without whining, bickering, or crying.
Thinking about my "first place for not eating yellow snow" prize today.
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The Pipe Bomber Believed In 2020 Election Conspiracy Theories. It's Time For Democrats To Ask Why Americans Have So Little Trust In Their Election Successes.
Today in the @nytimes.com
Today in the @nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Pipe Bomber Believed In 2020 Election Conspiracy Theories. It's Time For Democrats To Ask Why Americans Have So Little Trust In Their Election Successes.
Today in the @nytimes.com
Today in the @nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.
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Have to admit it. "Alcoholic Fox News host uses US Navy to kill people at random on boats in the Caribbean because an extremist podcast producer asked him to, while Trump pardons drug dealer kingpins because a tech guy asked" is rather a lot darker than anything I imagined when he was reelected.
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Have to admit it. "Alcoholic Fox News host uses US Navy to kill people at random on boats in the Caribbean because an extremist podcast producer asked him to, while Trump pardons drug dealer kingpins because a tech guy asked" is rather a lot darker than anything I imagined when he was reelected.
Let's not pretend these are shocking revelations. Remember the letter his teacher wrote to the head when he was proposed for prefect? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
We've known about that for years
What's novel is some people who turned a blind eye no longer can (BBC Question Time fex)
We've known about that for years
What's novel is some people who turned a blind eye no longer can (BBC Question Time fex)
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Let's not pretend these are shocking revelations. Remember the letter his teacher wrote to the head when he was proposed for prefect? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
We've known about that for years
What's novel is some people who turned a blind eye no longer can (BBC Question Time fex)
We've known about that for years
What's novel is some people who turned a blind eye no longer can (BBC Question Time fex)
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zombie hands clawing at a zombie world.
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
zombie hands clawing at a zombie world.
Beyond parody, but so fucking effective. The guy simply wallows in it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Beyond parody, but so fucking effective. The guy simply wallows in it.
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2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years."
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years."
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
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"Young man
If you're black or your brown
Young man
You won't be safe in our town
Young man
We'll put you on a flight
Young man
We'll deport you at night"
#WorldCupDraw
If you're black or your brown
Young man
You won't be safe in our town
Young man
We'll put you on a flight
Young man
We'll deport you at night"
#WorldCupDraw
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Young man
If you're black or your brown
Young man
You won't be safe in our town
Young man
We'll put you on a flight
Young man
We'll deport you at night"
#WorldCupDraw
If you're black or your brown
Young man
You won't be safe in our town
Young man
We'll put you on a flight
Young man
We'll deport you at night"
#WorldCupDraw