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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 5h

If Alan Kelly's opinion meant anything, he'd still be Labour leader. It's easy to forget but he only *became* Labour leader 5 years ago, and it's only 3 years ago since he was Iain Duncan Smithed out of leadership. #aras25

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah this is a real fumble, none of it rings true at all. On a personal basis I hope she doesn't live to regret the bad advice because it's clearly not her.

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny, Heather is the one on the attack but she's also the one I'm feeling sorry for. #Aras25

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if Heather was better at this the powerhosing allegations about the place might be more effective. #aras25 #thisweek

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 2d

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

www.rte.ie

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 2d

Our best dual code politician since Jack Lynch #aras25

🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 3d

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

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Gareth O’Connor @garethoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

“No joy can enter a broken heart” - a harrowing quote from Gaza on BBC News.

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 3d

Always does amuse me that he managed to avoid making money running a bookies. Like that's an all-timer fumble

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 3d

No harm to Ivan but the only poll he could top is People I Wish Would Stop Talking. #Aras25

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 4d

I thought these kind of questions went out of style with Dukakis - that's where they should stay too.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 5d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Alan @apertum.ie · 4d

Cab rank rule should be taught in journalism schools. Along with a big module on units and dimensional analysis.

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 4d

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

www.irishtimes.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 5d

Just when you think the Jim Gavin story is done you discover his tenant was a prominent tabloid journalist! How do you not bring that up in vetting?! How do you not foresee this being an issue?! Have they never heard the phrase "Don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel"?!

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 6d

Hello Nobel Prize for Literature Committee? Look I know you're on a deadline but I think you should take a look at this...

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 7d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6d

Robin Williams was one of the most singular performers we’ve ever had. Endlessly vulnerable, speed-of-light humor, every set was his playground, he could be imitated but never recreated. The fact anyone would even try to taxidermy him into AI is truly obscene.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
20m
From Create Mode
••
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Paddy Duffy @paddyduffy.bsky.social · 6d

I tell ya something I'd love to know - how much would you have left of 3k when you engage Arthur Cox to get the 3k back

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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 6d

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.