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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wait. Do I need an actual crocodile?

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 3d

If I don’t have any wellingtons, can I use crocs in a beef wellington?

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 7d

I have one successful houseplant. I think this is the peak.

Successful peace plant with lots of foliage

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 8d

Right? Now that we've learned we can have a rapid test for covid I want one for everything! Totally relate to your disappointment.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 9d

I once had a new colleague that was so forgettable. I kept telling her stuff and she'd say "Yeah. I told you that earlier." She was like Ann (who?) from Arrested Development.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 10d

"Pre-presidential"??? 🤨🤨🤨

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 12d

Feeling seen. I am column A

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 12d

No, "the world's taste for soya" isn't to blame: most people won't taste any soya, but the meat, dairy, eggs and fish produced very inefficiently with the soya as feed.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social often says: "If you want to eat less soya [to help save the Amazon], eat soya!" shorturl.at/bOvl1

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 12d

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 13d

What is the obsession with organising calendars? How messed up can a calendar get that you need a computer to fix it while you're asleep. And then what? Wake up to find out you're supposed to be on a flight 2 hours ago?

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 13d

Oh yeah! I went to vote for Michael D in 2011 and found out I'd been taken off the register by some dickhead with a clipboard who went house to house and mixed up our neighbours saying they didn't want to be registered (also WTF?!) with our house!

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13d

Q. Can you vote in the Presidential election next month?

A. Of course I can. I always vote.

Q. Are you on the Register?

A. Why wouldn't I be?

*Checks Register. Name absent*

Q. Who erased me?

*Applies to be registerred*

There are only a few days left to register.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 14d

Renovated and left the BER at D1. Drives me nuts! It should be criminal

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 14d

Tiny house Kinsale goes viral due to €350k price, and stunning shipshape interiors

Having spent years on board boats, compact Kinsale cottage's owner Tracy Keoghan took terraced No 7 on as a covid project: Instagram loves it

dlvr.it

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15d

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 15d

Dear most men, if a woman is putting on a voice to deter you, please be deterred.

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 17d

Interview is here

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 17d

"You have to stand up to bullies and you have to tell them straight, ‘you are stupid.'"

Former Irish president Mary Robinson tells Matt Frei
that Donald Trump's comments about climate change are "incredibly reckless".

Read and watch here:

‘Trump complicit in Gaza genocide’ – former UN human rights chief

We spoke to Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland, who now heads the group called the Elders - former global leaders who advocate on climate chang...

www.channel4.com

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 17d

Ditto Mary Robinson
bsky.app/profile/iris...

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 18d

Mary Robinson labels Donald Trump 'stupid' and a 'bully'

UN high commissioner condemns the US president's stance on climate change as 'reckless'

dlvr.it

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 18d

Mary Robinson continues to be a legend

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 18d

Mary Robinson labels Donald Trump 'stupid' and a 'bully'

UN high commissioner condemns the US president's stance on climate change as 'reckless'

dlvr.it

Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 18d

And that exlcudes domestic supply. I know a street of 10 houses that are getting theirs installed next month.

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Gray Frights! @clickgate.bsky.social · 21d

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 20d

Checking the news to see if there's a report on the crash that closed the road today... No, not the one on the M7... not the one on the M9... not the one near Nenagh... Jesus Christ, people! Chill out and take it easy out there #Speirgorm

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 25d

I just think that if you need your car to make vroom vroom noises, then you're not mature enough to have a licence 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 26d

With their disposable cutlery and plates. Infuriating!

Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 27d

I swear people used to know the difference between worse and worst...

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 28d

The chickens are my favourite

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Dr Captain McIntyre @cathmci.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you! The email asking me to confirm tonight's reservation was in there!

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