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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé)

@patmch51.bsky.social

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Descendent of the Diaspóra na nGael. Queer and mad. Anti-fascist and active anti-racist in progress. 🏆 2025's Most Annoying Man On The Internet. Team Harris. "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards." Wilhelm Arondéus

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know how many times I have to say this.

A future that requires us to break bread with white supremacists doesn't deserve to be built. If the only way to save the US is by continuing to ignore the moral rot of white supremacy, it doesn't deserve to be saved.

Go pontificate elsewhere.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 1h

Jeffries was duly elected by the people of his district and duly elected minority leader by his party. He has every remit to do exactly what he's doing, and I would like you to think long and hard about why you, as a white, think you get to order Black men around.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 1h

He isn't the Speaker of the House, Daniel. He's the minority leader. Because 74% of whites enabled the GOP and Project 2025 and refused to return majority control to the Democrats.

Don't speak to Black women in this tone again.

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 13h

I'm gonna need white people to stop telling Hakeem Jeffries to do something when you all couldn't even confront your family and friends about not wanting to vote for MVP.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 15h

What a great tip for cinematography and other benign purposes!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16h

I saved enough for a YEAR off and retirement

It’s GONE

I’m not even special

And demographically ? Nobody gives a fuck and Republicans know it

And nothing is being done to stop it and it BROKE THE COUNTRY

why would they ever give this up when “libs” and “radicals” publicly aid them

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 20h

Interesting how the Indigenous woman kidnapped from the Conscious flotilla isn't getting a fraction of the attention as white participants. Even articles aren't naming her! Her name is Mskwaasin Agnew.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 20h

The United States is in her final hours.

It’s not “doomerism” to acknowledge Project 2025, nearly 1/2-implemented;

our Supreme Court is poised to outlaw same-sex marriage and multiple basic rights;

armed gov’t agents are ✨kidnapping✨ thousands daily.

Rule of Law is dead. Face facts. It’s over. 🇺🇸

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 16h

But if you're saying something is more prime than something else, it's PREHMER

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 16h

Brb printing t-shirts with just the "Drake is a pedophile" clipped out of this

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 18h

I want you to watch the way non-Black people signal their internalized or covert racism by the conditional way they “like” Black people only when said Black people are deferential to them, serving them, giving them grace and space for bullshit.

Notice that same energy is never reciprocal.

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 17h

a man says hey that 's me while pointing his finger

Alt: a man says hey that 's me while pointing his finger

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 19h

If white Canadians weren't such entitled, performative Resistance Libs, I'd stop criticizing them.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 19h

You're the one responding, brother. You fuck off if it means that much to you.

Whose words am I mindlessly parroting?

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 19h

Sure, okay.

4% of Canada's population is Black compared to 14% of the US population.

Am I doing it right?

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 19h

I just double checked cuz this stat was rubbing me the wrong way.

The US has an est. 40m Black people. Canada has 1.5m. This conversation isn't going to go the way you think it will.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 19h

Great talk from the Great White North as per usual. You sure showed me.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 19h

When people omit skin color, there's only ever one group they're really talking about.

I also have yet to see a Black or Indigenous Canadian agitating online about how mean the US is to Canada. But that could be a me thing.

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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 2d

If you don't support reparations, and you're a white American, you are benefiting from the wealth and infrastructure built on the backs of enslaved Black people. Today, you’re living off stolen labor. You don’t deserve to profit from, or even claim, the nation our ancestors were forced 👇🏾

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 23h

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Abbie R. 🎃✨ @alridpath.bsky.social · 1d

I need ppl to understand that it doesn’t matter if you were born with one or not; you WILL become disabled at some point in your lifetime. Be it age, accident, genetics, etc. Mental or physical. It WILL happen. We won’t be able-bodied forever.

Helping disabled folks helps EVERYONE!

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Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 21h

If you're going to inappropriately compare white Canadians who... don't get the respect they deserve, I guess? to Black people surviving in the face of pervasive systemic anti-Blackness, at least have the courtesy to capitalize the B.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 21h

This is a very weird energy to bring to Solomon's replies. That said, 74% of whites either voted for Project 2025 or abstained. Unfortunately, the data simply does not bear out that "most of us" hate white supremacists. There's much more work to do first.

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈🍀 (he/sé) @patmch51.bsky.social · 21h

Can't wait for the rebuttal from "what you fail to understand, Mr. Pope" guy on Twitter.