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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 7h

It's just weird.

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 7h

Yates calling Connolly a Provo suggests he doesn’t understand her politics at all

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12h

Well, when someone asks me where the no go zone is with Sharia law, I can now point them to an actual spot.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 8h

What a weird SAT question that would be...

Inflatable frog suits : peaceful protestors :: tiki torches : ______

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jul 30

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. 1/28

a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.

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Hell Iween @derbren.bsky.social · 9h

the legend says that if you appoint Lecornu three times, you can summon a functioning government

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 7h

Reminds me of a joke I heard when I was about four: what do you call a donkey with three legs? A wonky.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 7h

Wait until I tell people that you actually like Beamish

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.bsky.social · 10h

Catherine Connolly prefers Lyons to Barry’s

Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 10h

I saw Catherine Connolly buy a bottle of coke a cola water, drink it and not recycle the bottle!

Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 11h

Driver pulled over to give way for Catherine Connolly on rural road and Connolly did *not* give awkward little wave of acknowledgement

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

The “Bush being informed about 9/11” meme has been defeated.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20h

“I met prime minister Keir Starmer and, over a pint, we were discussing among ourselves how have we landed ourselves in a situation where we tied ourselves up in knots so we can't get anything done?”

- Taoiseach Mícheál Martin.

Genuine quote.

#spéirghorm #nots

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Connolly Shared Netflix Account Password To Numerous Non Subscribers http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/10/exclusive-catherine-connolly-shared-netflix-account-password-to-numerous-non-subscribers/

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Connolly Shared Netflix Account Password To Numerous Non Subscribers

In more damning revelations about the queen of political controversy, left-wing Presidential hopeful Catherine Connolly was unavailable for comment today after her team was pressed about possible corruption charges relating to her Netflix streaming service. Information …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 13h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 13h

This is very funny.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 13h

My favourite is the US ESTA question "were you a member of the Nazi Party at any time between 1933 and 1945?"

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 17h

Does anyone expect the woman who came to fame by trying to silence Palestinian professors to even fake showing balance here?

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 15h

Except that the Dublin system doesn't say that. The first criterion to decide on which State is responsible for processing an application is whether you have family elsewhere in the EU.

CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 15h

A statement by NGOs adds to the mounting evidence that one reason for asylum seekers trying the UK is to escape the EU's 'Dublin' system and fingerprints database www.statewatch.org/news/2025/oc...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 15h

It's nice when a charity invites you to be their ambassador but they really should point out that you don't actually get diplomatic immunity.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Out of curiosity, are BBC going to be acting as the government's stenographer like this for the whole year the utterly pointless PR stunt "one in one out" policy is running, or could they try actually ensuring context and balance in all stories about migration?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 22h

SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS

HOW IS THIS NOT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER

Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 22h

Oh dear...

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sharkastic.bsky.social @sharkastic.bsky.social · 20h

And they may well ask, why climb the lowest hill? Why does Man United play Accrington Stanley? We choose not to go to the Moon. We choose not to go to the Moon in this decade and not do the other things, not because they are hard, but because they are easy

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21h

“I can’t stop the world burning and civilisation’s collapse, as it is hard.”

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h

It's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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