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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 15m

Grift posting Catherine Connollys takes on transgender people and it is fairly conservative honestly for a progressive candidate. Very considered responses and infinitely better than Humphreys however.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 24m

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Reuters @reuters.com · 26m

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations reut.rs/478nrij

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations

A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

He waiting for the payslip to clear ?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1h

French PM Lecornu: We must end French political crisis.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Lex Luther is an actual genius. People do Luther so dirty

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

Peter Thiel is the Lex Luthor of our universe.

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

They doing a Metroid ?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1h

Sigourney Weaver is interested in reprising her role as Ripley in a new #Alien project

• She's met with Disney about returning

• Producers wrote an 'extraordinary' 50 page document on where her character's at now

• She's thinking about working with them to figure out the rest of the story

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Please god no joker and it’s just a two hour coherent movie

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1h

Colin Farrell says ‘The Batman 2’ script is a work of 'contemporary genre brilliance' 🦇

"Matt Reeves just toils so hard and puts himself under such pressure ... he knows what this character means for so many people ... He's the man for the job ... it's very emotionally moving"

(via Variety)

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Mad how Putin has several puppets in the White House and one just announced it today and everyone is like “ah yeah, definitely nothing”

But defo the 2026 elections , definitely that’s a thing that will happen

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Would you go back in time and distract Mr and Mrs Thiel on that night.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1h

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Ciara Kelly stealing a living

David Chance @davidchance.bsky.social · 1h

It’s been one hoot after another.

Multimillionaire president mooted for Ireland

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

It is mad how Newstalk went from new every 15 minutes to gambling ad every 10.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Thought the cash machine station would pay more now given they have a gambling ad every ten minutes

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2h

The Irish Times view on RTÉ’s radio reshuffle: changing the guard

Audiences dislike change but it is essential for media survival

www.irishtimes.com

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

People who vote Sinn Fein attacking Humphreys over fox hunting

a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .

ALT: a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .

media.tenor.com

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Ah here, he didn’t adjust for inflation… much like the Fianna Fáil / Fine Gael budget

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

No one on the platform getting that reference I reckon

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1h

Eamon Ryan could be all these things but he’d have a wolf and walk bare foot around the place telling us about growing apples or something

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2h

Over his two presidential terms, Michael D. Higgins has become something of a folk hero – with his fluffy dogs, fluent Irish and poetry-writing all contributing to his distinctive charm.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 2h

What’s her total though ?

🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 7h

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 3h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 2h

Big FIFA vibes

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

Fine TV so it is.

The Verge @theverge.com · 3h

You can still snag LG’s C4 OLED TV at half the price

Deals on new and last-gen models.

buff.ly

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 3h

If only there were signs

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 3h

Former home of jailed businessman Nathan McDonnell on the market for €795k

The Kerry businessman was jailed over a €32m crystal meth trafficking plot

dlvr.it

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 4h

Martin needing the Cork air to regain his strength

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 4h

Speaking in Co Cork today, Micheál Martin was coy in relation to whether it would be his first time voting for a Fine Gael candidate in an election.

He said he had “made his point” and anything else involved the “privacy of the ballot paper”.

http://jrnl.ie/6841301

Taoiseach says he'll vote for Humphreys and remains coy about whether he's voted Fine Gael before

Martin denied that the presidential election was a referendum on the government.

jrnl.ie

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 4h

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 5h

Trump:

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 5h

Only last week poor pigeon at our door with its eyes gone by a hawk

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

It is not too late for Donald Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage.

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