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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 3h

If we argued for a hierarchy of violence from riots and broken windows to murder, we have already been on the far end of the scale for too long. This has yet to trigger any terrorism protocols, despite clearly fitting the criteria. Unclear if leadership is waiting for someone to inevitably die.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 19h

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris

Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”

Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris

*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 2d

So we're about to enter an extremely racist era in Irish politics, all because our leader fucked up a presidential campaign to never before seen levels, and now he has to get competitively racist to save his own skin.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 2d

Less than a week after getting hammered by the left in an election, the Taoiseach is on about offshore deportation hubs for asylum seekers.

And he can't back down on this, cause he can't be seen to be softer on migration than the man who wants to replace him, Jim O'Callaghan

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland could explore offshore deportation hubs for failed asylum seekers, says Taoiseach

Micheál Martin says Ireland should not rule out deportation hubs outside the EU, as Coalition tensions rise over migration policy

dlvr.it

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 4d

They can't be seen to be "giving handouts" to people who aren't their voters. Shur, their M. O. is free market (big businesses/landlords have to be able to profit) for "the people who get up in the morning" and make an example of everyone else who struggles with that.

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Eoghan @eoghanryan.bsky.social · 5d

Bizarre how FFG politicians and others can look at the aftermath of #Áras25 and instead of strategising to capture some of the voters who *won*, they seem intent on courting the weirdos who did *even worse* than they managed.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 5d

If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.

But it’d be cool if it talked, right?

🎃 Scare-by Ca-poltergeist 👻 [Feral Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 5d

"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search."

"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."

More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...

Researchers issue warning on harmful side effect of using ChatGPT: 'It's a concern'

Tech executives have been frustratingly opaque.

share.google

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 5d

It's quite brilliant really. Just a middleman operation with varying degrees of greed perhaps.

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 5d

Ye god's, yours is an enviably short explanation for what I was trying to say 😅

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 5d

Or... There are not four bookshops, there is one bookshop with multiple Web addresses. Or, there are four bookshops who all use some sort of book repository system and none of these shops actually have any real life stock at all?

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 6d

My children would agree with you, I think.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 6d

And people say the British press doesn't know anything about Ireland. They got this scoop, didn't they.

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing wrong with a hearty nettle and sorrel soup, although it does absolutely need the sorrel to stop it tasting like yesterday's cabbage water.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 7d

As I've poimted out numerous times recently, the Irish political establishment has no idea how to deal with the nascent threat of the far right, instinctively taking the wrong option every single time.
Connelly was an independent who did the work, got on the ballot, and won.
The far right did not.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 7d

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Oireachtas may have to look at changing the process by which a person gets on the ballot in presidential elections, which he described as "restrictive".
jrnl.ie/6856687

Taoiseach suggests referendum on changing 'restrictive' process for getting on presidential ballot

One in eighter people spoiled their votes.

jrnl.ie

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Gavin Elliott @sgelliott.net · 7d

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

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Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social · 9d

For overseas followers: in Ireland every seven years we vote for someone to tell the Government they are a bunch of evil clowns and every five years we vote in the evil clowns.

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 9d

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a microphone with the words " a bit desperate " below him

Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a microphone with the words "at this point, we're already a bit desperate " below him

media.tenor.com

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 9d

Ppl with disabilities [PWD] are excluded, not forgotten.

Ireland has a population of 5.4m Some 1.1m have a disability & 400,000 have a severe disability. Yet one presidential candidate is infamous for her anti-PWD actions. That Heather Humphreys was nominated says it all #Aras25 #SpeirGhorm

Disabled people and carers are excluded – not forgotten

And that's a common misconception.

www.ontheditch.com

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 9d

Some people on this island are voting to elect their head of state
Others are digesting the fact that their state deployed paratroopers as peacekeepers - an oxymoron in itself, who killed children in broad daylight & then frustrated justice to the point that it was impossible. Such a stark contrast

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know why anyone thinks this is a good day for the armed forces when the judge said this:

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 9d

Why are we still saying "Soldier F"? He was named under privilege as Lance Corporal David James Cleary, 1 Para.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 9d

It already has been.

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 9d

Taoiseach: Violent rioting 'will not be tolerated'

Micheál Martin said his thoughts were with the gardaí who were injured policing the riot near Citywest

dlvr.it

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Sadie @sadiemonks.bsky.social · 10d

RTÉ Radio? Me too.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 11d

Report: “The Irish government increasingly operates on a dual track — giving rhetorical support to popular causes like Palestinian rights while actively working against them behind closed doors.”

We have outsourced our morality.

- Colin Sheridan #Áras25

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Colin Sheridan: Ireland’s independence is rented, and the landlord lives in Washington

Ireland has become the world’s second-largest importer of Israeli goods, because we’ve become a middleman in the transfer-pricing maze of the tech sector, a new report shows

www.irishexaminer.com

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 11d

Strongly refute the accusations of a organised media smear campaign towards the smelly-stinky-poo-poo-heads involved with the Connolly presidential campaign.

These are lies made up by a cabal of Marxist, Wokist, Kim Jong Un-ist, paid by George Soros-ist lefty loons.

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