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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 10h

Same start as Xenoblade 3

Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 11h

Read that first line and knew it was a banger

Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 11h

Thread has me heated about Ruth Langmore again. Never have I been so pissed off about a TV character, they did her so dirty man.

NESbot Etc @nesbotetc.bsky.social · 15h

LTTP: Ozark (Open spoilers obviously)
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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 11h

Best thing about Tron Ares is that Jaime from Broad City has like the fourth most lines. Love that guy.

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 12h

Quite a day for football's soft power in Egypt. Trump shaking hands with Man City owner Sheikh Mansour as he talks about how his state has "limitless cash" and then Infantino appearing at the end of the photo of world leaders.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 5d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1668

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 17h

There's a lot more of these this year right? Where's the research on which defenses are good at them

Cody Alexander @matchquarters.bsky.social · 18h

Punch The Pocket!!!

👉 The Cowboys DE Ezeiruaku (41) with the Peanut Punch!
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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 18h

Disney paid through the nose for this, that's for sure. Clear play to get sub numbers up.

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 18h

🚨 Taylor Swift announces new six-part docuseries ‘Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era’ coming to Disney+ on December 12th.

Accompanied by a new concert film for her final Eras Tour show, titled ‘Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show.’

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 19h

Waiting for you bro

a cartoon cat is standing in a doorway holding a coin with chinese writing on it

ALT: a cartoon cat is standing in a doorway holding a coin with chinese writing on it

media.tenor.com

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 20h

Still the best summary of Irish political leaders. Ridiculously spot on.

J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thought I had posted it on here before but apparently not

CHILDREN YELLING: MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!

Where would the Taoisigh stand on this:

We have food at home:
Harris, Dev, the Cosgraves, Costello
Garret

*Pulls into the drive through as children cheer*
*Orders a single black coffee and leaves*
Varadkar, Bruton, Kenny

"MCDONALDS!
MCDONALDSI MCDONALDS!"
Lemass, Lynch, Bertie

“Fry”
Cowen

“Ortolan”
Haughey

Doesn’t make it to McDonalds
Reynolds

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 2d

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one • 8mo

it's so crazy how the real Al widespread use case seems to be "skimming an email and missing the important stuff" which is one of the things i'm best at

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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kevin @beirne.bsky.social · 1d

Using 20 litres of clean drinking water to get the computer give me increasingly generic messages to send to someone I am trying to make a personal human connection with

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 2d

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 2d

He's rocking this shit in The Faculty too

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Trump wants his name on their paychecks so when he wants them to come after us he can say "The Dems shut down the government but I made sure you were paid. Even Congress couldn't get it done! It's me and you vs them, soldiers"

Anyway, probably fine

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3d

Among the many possibilities for the next few years, the scenario of swapping one pair of dominant parties (Lab and Con) for another (Reform and LD) is intriguing, under-discussed and, in English elections, not entirely implausible either (several county councils made this leap in May)

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 3d

Aggregate Result of the 122 Council By-Elections (for 125 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:

RFM: 47 (+40)
LDM: 32 (+10)
CON: 13 (-15)
LAB: 12 (-30)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 3 (-3)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)

Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 2d

Goodbye to Diane Keaton, a real one

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Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Ultan O'Connell @mangoultz.bsky.social · 2d

HERE WE GO

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Anbernic RG DS coming soon (under $100 - dual screen handheld) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvlp...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

one or two more pitches and they had something cooking

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