My name is Declan
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My name is Declan
@mynameisdeclan.bsky.social
How’s it going?
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The Irish Nazi Party used to be run by a fella who lived with his mum in a cottage in Ringsend. In those days, no one said you lived in an "echo chamber" if you didn't go around to listen to him.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"

I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Whether Russia accepts or declines the deal with Ukraine doesn’t matter, it is still on the war path and will begin its 3rd invasion as late as 2029 according to European intelligence. A deal right now is not preventing war but putting it on pause as Russia regroups and rebuilds its invasion forces.
December 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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As a rainforest forms naturally all around this boulder, so do the more sheltered, humid conditions allow a rich bed of mosses and other plants to recolonise.

Continual nature loss is not inevitable: the reverse is equally possible.
#Rewilding 🌍
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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President Stubb: "Russia is the number one threat for Europe and actually the Western world."

🫳🎤
December 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Ten people killed, including one gunman, in shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach www.thejournal.ie/bondi-beach-...
Ten people killed, including one gunman, in shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach
It is reported that another 12 people have been injured.
www.thejournal.ie
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie
December 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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"European officials are concerned that a US-brokered peace deal in Ukraine could be exploited by Russia, paving the way for a re-invasion of territory in the eastern Donbas region...." - Bloomberg writes.

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE! THEY FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT. WOW. Okay, okay… it’s a good article
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The US abandoning Europe also means abandoning the silent deal where US war crimes and money laundering were overlooked so this works out.
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Ireland pop < 6,000,000

Irish diaspora pop > 60,000,000

Oh the irony.
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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NATO Chief Rutte: "We need to be ready. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Danish intelligence has declared the United States, alongside Russia and China, as a threat to national security for Denmark and Europe. It warns that the US may use military force against its own partners and allies.
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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The tragic deaths of 4-year-old Sofiya Popyk and her 35-year-old mother, Tetiana, have been confirmed following the Russian attack on Ternopil on November 19.

The girl was identified by her father, while her mother was formally identified through DNA analysis.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Adopt far-right policies to stop the far right gaining influence - continues to be the stupidest idea in European politics today.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow
In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on land within weeks, once committed - though 'much depends on the form of the conflict'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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After 10+ years of people fighting against it, this government is pushing through this dystopian CETA legislation.

Corporations can and will sue the state for interfering with their profits - for example increasing the minimum wage, against fracking bans, etc.

This is incredibly undemocratic.
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Goats and sheep eat all native vegetation, preventing it from regenerating, but don't touch rhododendron because the leaves are full of toxins.

Goats and sheep are the main reason why invasive rhododendron is taking over.

Goats and sheep are invasive species themselves.
Release the goats and sheep!

Srsly, just post "free grazing pasture!" And ranchers should come.

The USA gov doesn't budge unless a PAC greases a palm or three.

We gotta save this world ourselves
a person petting a sheep with the words " you just made a sheep really happy " below it
ALT: a person petting a sheep with the words " you just made a sheep really happy " below it
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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With the new U.S. national security strategy (“NSC-88”), I think it is high time to ban Twitter in the EU altogether. At the very least, what the ever loving hell are our politicians doing there anymore?

They provide material for a system that will be used to attack us.
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (War or Trek) LOTR or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Then they state that they're trying to solve the housing crisis. If it's a crisis for more than 5 years, it's not a crisis, it's policy.
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Health officials in Gaza report 366 Palestinians have been killed and 938 injured by Israeli forces since the October 10 ceasefire.
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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What evidence is there that uplands like this were once covered by temperate rainforest, and would return to such a state naturally but for sheep?

Loads... 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
“Have I Got News for You” made him and Boris Johnson out to be harmless clowns. I don’t watch it anymore.
The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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What the world does not see is that, day after day, the Israeli military expands its control inside Gaza. It advances slowly, swallowing a street, a neighborhood, an entire area — quietly redrawing the map while the world celebrates a fabricated “ceasefire.”
Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire”
For us here in Gaza, this “ceasefire” is a fiction. The bombing has continued as Israel expands its Yellow Line.
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM