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I am an emigrant who writes love letters. Ireland :: California

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · Mar 26

Went for coffee after school bike dropoff. Invited my neighbor D to sit at my table. D was was knocked off his bike 32 years ago, has a traumatic brain injury that wipes his short-term memory. “Have you seen Memento?” he always yells at me cheerfully. “I’m like that guy.”

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 35m

This is how I learn the Pat McAfee people talk about on here is a) still alive and b) not John McAfee.

Things make more sense now. Chaos energy remains consistent.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 8h

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 8h

link 😭

IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 8h

Link

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 8h

I went to a baseball game once 17 years ago and it was very hard and I’m glad it’s over.

Good luck Mariners.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations! Love my Tern HSD.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 8h

So much of 80s movies is just Judd Nelson / Christian Slater / John Cusack yelling in @dieworkwear.bsky.social overcoats.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15h

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

media.tenor.com

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 9h

I miss when the apocalypse seemed disinterested rather than malicious.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 9h

@clairewillett.bsky.social @whatashrinkthinks.com
I wish I could convey to you how much it rocked Catholic Ireland in 1985 when our national talk show brought on American! Lesbian! Nuns!

Lots of tweens and teens filed away dispatches from another planet.

#spéirghorm

'We talk things out straight': Lesbian ex-nuns on 'The Late Late Show' (1985) - Part 1

YouTube video by IrishCatholic86

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 10h

Random: This is the year I (immigrant) learned Teen Spirit is just an American body spray brand.

Honestly that deflates my college-era understanding of Nirvana quite a bit.

Which is a very Gen X reaction.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 10h

Oh my god, Erin.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 10h

This is happening in refugee camps for victims of the Rohingya genocide that Mark Zuckerberg knew Facebook was enabling, refused to stop, and has fought paying restitution for.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 10h

Give hyperinflation a few months.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 10h

I haven’t had to think this much about the Pope v. Antichrist since John Paul II visited Ireland the year I made my First Communion.

J, as they say, FC.
#spéirghorm

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 16h

Erin, thank you, and I’m sorry for bringing it up.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking of @gilduran.com and @kissane.myatproto.social ‘s work, as it dawns on me that the children starving today directly because of Elon’s DOGE cuts ***are in those Myanmar refugee camps because they’re victims of the Rohingya genocide that Facebook directly and knowingly enabled.***

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 21h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 19h

Hmm, that does make sense…

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 21h

Christ.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 21h

Vinny Thomas and the Galactic Federation ruined humans for me.

Vinny Thomas: Galactic Federation Interviews Earth

YouTube video by Twickenham Science

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 21h

Check out 16-year-old Roddy Ho covering Stevie Wonder in Australian Idol if insomnia hits you. He’s a delight.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 21h

“The goal is simple: I want to familiarize myself with you (…) to know that we are aligned on achieving a shared vision for CBS News.”

What in the Jack Donaghy is this?

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19d

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 22h

He was a fitness model as well as an actor all along, and wore a huge hoodie to the audition. They knew, and were happy to work it into the role.

Honestly, anyone who worked in tech remembers guys like Roddy, and being shredded made them worse.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I took away from today’s SLOW HORSES panel: Christopher Chung, who plays unappealing dork Roddy Ho, would be a completely workable (unironic) James Bond, and I mean that.

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr is a reincarnation of his repulsive, anti-Semitic grandfather.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember seeing that picture of William Hague at the Tory Party Conference when I was also 16.