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Alan @whataskeets.bsky.social · 1h

4 panel meme image in the style of Padme Anakin meme.

Jim Gavin says "I paid your fecking 3 grand back"
Niall Donald asks "with interest?
Jim Gavin glares
Niall Donald asks "With interest right?"

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 4m

What's Flicker's position on AI scraping?

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 5m

This seems perfectly normal

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1h

Multiple people have died or are missing after a massive blast rocked a US explosives factory, sending emergency responders rushing to the site and prompting official warnings for the public to avoid the area, authorities said.

Multiple dead, missing as blast rocks US explosives plant

Multiple people have died or are missing after a massive blast rocked a US explosives factory, sending emergency responders rushing to the site and prompting official warnings for the public to avoid ...

www.rte.ie

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 13m

Own your works. One day Flickr too will disappear

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

If nothing else, Portlanders have reclaimed frogs on the side of the angels after their image was debased by Pepe

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 6h

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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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

They're reduced to pepperbombing pastors and priests for the visuals of protestors dressed in black..

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

Given American duplicity, it effectively exists now, what with Canada being granted honorary European status.

Though it will have to struggle on without Ireland for a while, I suspect.

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

Or makes sense that without America behind them, theyd suddenly feel a lot more vulnerable and in favour of joining a EuroNato

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 5h

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

No joke, there will probably be something about the ESA and satellite tracking of drug gangs.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

Nice of one of the candidates to signal their orientation by wearing a pearls in all the election posters.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2h

The unintentional truth here is that many Americans don't mind the fascism.
They just don't want to see it in their newsfeed.

That way, after it's all over, they can claim they didn't know.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel

I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...

www.emptywheel.net

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 7h

This is the new Banksy..

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 7h

Circulation isn't where it was 20 years ago.
Circulation isn't even where it was five years ago.
I suspect we are approaching the point where keepy-uppy tiktok clips have a bigger impact than thundering broadshaeet editorials.

Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 23h

The rate at which the Irish Times and the Irish Independent are publishing smear material on Catherine Connolly is having two effects: I trust both papers EVEN LESS than I already did, and I'm very definitely voting for her.

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 23h

As someone who has lost all the writing I published on sites I didn't own, DO THIS 👇

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to remind Fine Gael politicians that arguably the most corrupt politician in the history of the state, possibly Europe, is currently a member of your coalition government

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 1d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

"The creatures outside looked from Gript to polcorr, and from polcorr to Gript, and from Gript to polcorr again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

The polcorrs really are excelling themselves at the moment.

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 11d

I’d say rather that they hold a narrow range of political views which they do not recognise as being political views. Political positions are those taken by other people. They see themselves as simply holding common-sense normal opinions.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

I regularly promise canvassers that I will think of their candidate when I cast my vote.

Some of them even realise this is not good news.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

The polcorrs really are excelling themselves at the moment.

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 11d

I’d say rather that they hold a narrow range of political views which they do not recognise as being political views. Political positions are those taken by other people. They see themselves as simply holding common-sense normal opinions.

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Robert Sweetnam @rgsweetnam.zq.ie · 1d

Oh FFS! For 30 years the icon for Microsoft Word was instantly identifiable with a W in it. Excel had an X. Easy to see. Now someone seriously lacking in talent has come up with this and someone actually approved it!

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

The swivel-eyed determination of Irish government departments to resolutely ignore EU legislation they don't like is the one fixed constant in an ever shifting political landscape.

Aidan O'Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 1d

An Irish solution to the problem of hate speech legislation say “Surah lookit it’s grand”, and kick the can down the road because it’s politically inconvenient.

#Speirgorm
#Ireland

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Jim O'Callaghan tells the Dáil he has no plans for further laws on incitement to hatred/hate speech
- he has written to the European Commission arguing that Ireland has already transposed EU laws on the area. Brussels had signalled a possible legal case against Ireland in May

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

It would be a positive side-effect of this election cycle if this issue got some sympathetic attention.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Employers are being urged to keep an open mind about hiring convicted criminals after they have left prison

'Life changing' for former prisoner to secure employment

Employers are being urged to keep an open mind about hiring convicted criminals after they have left prison.

www.rte.ie

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure at least half the country is applauding that decision.

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like it’s been under-remarked-upon that we now have reason to believe the Indo sat on the Gavin sorry Gav*n story for months and made the revelation with Machiavellian timing. #aras2025

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Aidan O'Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 1d

An Irish solution to the problem of hate speech legislation say “Surah lookit it’s grand”, and kick the can down the road because it’s politically inconvenient.

#Speirgorm
#Ireland

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