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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 4d

Some independent Irish bookshops you can support rather than Amazon. And most offer free postage in 🇮🇪too.
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com
www.marrowbone.ie/shop
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
#Spéirghorm

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Henriflame @henriflame.bsky.social · 9d

HEYA FOLKS

Today is a sad day, as it is the day that the greatest Irish Feud in history is about to be settled.

Jimmytwoface has slandered me enough and it is time to find out who the better gamer is in a gauntlet of high skill Games.

LIVE NOW WITH WHO'S YOUR DADDY

www.twitch.tv/henriflame

Henriflame - Twitch

[IRISH]THE BIGGEST FEUD IN IRELAND COMES TO A HEAD !discord

www.twitch.tv

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18d

Researchers in Spain have developed a new intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that eliminates the virus in mice.

One dose gave 60% protection, but two intranasal doses achieved 100% protection with no detectable virus in nasal or lung tissue, suggesting sterilizing immunity.

www.csic.es/es/actualida...

Press Release

Madrid, Tuesday, 23 September 2025

An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice

Preclinical trials with rodents show 100% protection with the second dose.

This work advances the development of new-generation vaccines against COVID-19.

(Image caption: SARS-CoV-2 virus exiting infected cells / Team of Luis Enjuanes, PNAS)

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 18d

Funny how some senators & TDs think signing the nomination papers of a candidate who wants to deny women & lgbti people their rights & derides climate justice is ‘democracy’! That candidate also has the full throated support of the far right! Guess they have no idea what it means to be marginalised

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Ireland Simpsons Fans @iresimpsonsfans.bsky.social · Sep 11

My inner thoughts since watching Kpop: Demon Hunters

"You know together we're glowing
Gonna be, gonna be golden"

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FoxXFire @foxxfire.bsky.social · Sep 6

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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · Sep 1

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Laura @lauraobrn.bsky.social · Aug 31

Omg she took down Snorlax, he's down for the count

A calico cat lying atop a Snorlax teddy, victorious

A calico cat, lying atop a Snorlax teddy. She's resting her head on its neck. The horror.

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Henriflame @henriflame.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm genuinely so nervous of releasing this video I could burst

I spent 1 week(?) learning all about Death Stranding 2's "Social Strand Service" which is how players connect to each other in the game

youtu.be/FEsW0XdAy-0?...

#deathstranding2 #deathstranding #hideokojima

My Quest to Become a Social Superstar in Death Stranding 2

YouTube video by Henriflame

youtu.be

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Jul 28

"Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off 'Horizon' video games"

Well alright but surely it can't be that blata— lmao

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Henriflame @henriflame.bsky.social · Jul 25

Just saw that movie with pedro pascal at the cinema

#cinema #movies

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Laura @lauraobrn.bsky.social · Jul 23

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · Jul 20

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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cakejumper 🍰🦊 @cakejumper.bsky.social · Jul 19

Narita Brian sounds like a nickname some lad from Galway gets after going to teach english in Japan for a year

"oh here's Narita Brian now! are you home for long this time?"

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Henriflame @henriflame.bsky.social · Jul 9

I made a youtube video going over my latest obsession: Mario Kart World Speedrunnng.

To do this I had to stop speedrunning, write & edit a video and then post it.

Go have a watch and support me, it helps out so much!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9M...

The Mario Kart World Speedrunning Rabbit Hole

YouTube video by Henriflame

www.youtube.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · Jun 30

What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your soup-on-the-rocks

An old ad for Campbell's beef broth served on-the-rocks after sports

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Ireland Simpsons Fans @iresimpsonsfans.bsky.social · Jun 29

linkin_park_jayz_numb_encore.mp3

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Dublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is not the type of Milestone we want to be highlighting, but today marks 1,000 days that MetroLink has been stuck in the planning process

It’s time to start contacting your TD’s!!

Demand answers from them and what the solutions will be!

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Jun 5

When a new Mario Kart game comes out

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · Jun 2

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays