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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking the unwritten rule here - once you wack one made man then the spell is broken and any made man can get wacked

Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 3d

What do you call picking a presidential candidate all on your own and spending a good chunk of the party's funds on it then

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 3d

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has defended his leadership of Fianna Fáil amid criticism from within the party over his handling of the presidential election.

"The idea that I'm some top-down person is just repugnant to me as a person. It's not my style," he said. jrnl.ie/6860148

Micheál Martin says suggestion that he is a 'top-down' leader is 'repugnant'

The Taoiseach was defending his leadership of Fianna Fáil amid backlash within the party over his handling of the presidential election.

jrnl.ie

Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 3d

Literal Seodra Sídhe

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 5d

I think any culture not completely bet into the concept of the nuclear family would refer to that person as auntie

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 5d

I think autocorrect got it right the first time

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 6d

Actually feel they did us a solid by making it a paid dlc rather than just making it part of a Britain rework (which was long mooted)

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 6d

FUCKING FINALLY

Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 6d

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is motoring off to Ireland with an expansion being worked on alongside a UK revamp

Euro Truck Simulator 2 devs SCS Software have announced an upcoming Ireland map expansion.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 6d

Edi Rama can further bolster his progressive credentials by ensuring she is facilitated a proper amount of mat leave

Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social · 7d

What in the ninth circle of reddit is going on in Albania??!

WORLD'S FIRST AI MINISTER IS "PREGNANT', WILL GIVE BIRTH TO 83 CHILDREN: ALBANIA'S
PM BIZARRE ANNOUNCEMENT

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 7d

Had a look at the comments on the FT piece and a lot of them skirt pretty close to plain ol' racial invective

Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 8d

Saw plenty of Connolly static canvasses around Phibsborough. No door-to-door or leaflet drops though

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 10d

My favourite Dracula fact is that Bram Stoker was originally going to call him COUNT VAMPIRE

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 10d

For the month that’s in it, here’s a short list of my favourite horror films:

Dracula
Interview with the Dracula
Buffy The Dracula Slayer
John Carpenter’s Draculas
The Texas Dracula Massacre
28 Draculas Later
Evil Dracula II
Young Dracula
An American Dracula in London
Bram Stoker’s Vampire

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 10d

A Few Good Draculas
Charlie Wilson's Dracula
The Social Dracula
Draculaball
The Trial of the Chicago Draculas

And a box set of the prestige TV sensation, The Dracula Wing

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, I'm no expert about this sort of thing, I was going by the knotwork

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 11d

It's Irish, if that's any comfort

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 11d

The absolute core of their worldview (and the same goes for their equivalents all around the world) is that they are extremely popular and also extremely oppressed. Everything else flows from that

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 13d

Those Fine Gael attack ads have worked on me. I now believe we need to abolish entirely our criminal justice system

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 14d

Arrived in Britain a good century after curry, too

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 16d

Keeping that leaded petrol dream from the mid twentieth century alive

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 16d

The level of pollution, environmental destruction and the dangerous conditions the workers operate in are off the charts. There's vast pans of radioactive, highly acidic sludge left over

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 16d

It's worth looking at pics/videos of the Bayan Obo mining district and the processing zones in Baotou in China to get a sense of what processing rare earth metals looks like

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 16d

Are you a left-winger running for office in 2025 if you don't have an unusual serif font created for your campaign

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 17d

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’

The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 19d

I doubt they have the money to mount even a cursory presidential campaign right now. Also unfortunately, "the environment" in and of itself has very little salience with voters.

Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 19d

I've explained to my kids that it's just a bizarre regional idiosyncrasy - charmingly exotic in a way - and to just gloss over it

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Kevin @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 19d

Dinosaurs routinely described as "Roar-some". Intolerable

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