Temporary Bat
@saredra.bsky.social
Climate, international shitshow, human & environmental rights & whatever interests me. Irish, she/her. Mostly harmless but inclined to bite or at least relentlessly mock bigots. Irrational fear of harmonicas. Figuring out new place.
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@saredra.bsky.social
· Aug 21
Imperialist wars of aggression are bad. Ukraine is one. Palestine is another. If Russia/Israel win, Ukraine/Palestine are no more.
If you're fine with one and against the other, please unfollow/don't follow. You're pro-genocide or anti-genocide, there's no "but just one little genocide plz?" to it.
If you're fine with one and against the other, please unfollow/don't follow. You're pro-genocide or anti-genocide, there's no "but just one little genocide plz?" to it.
That...was unexpected.
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
That...was unexpected.
I wish they'd at least drop the Who's On First name.
Your Party members are currently debating options for what to be called. Result to be announced tomorrow as there's an online vote too. Your Party, Our Party, For the Many or Popular Alliance.
A straw poll board up during conference has Your Party ahead, with Popular Alliance doing well too.
A straw poll board up during conference has Your Party ahead, with Popular Alliance doing well too.
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I wish they'd at least drop the Who's On First name.
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Major Israeli offensive has also destroyed roads, water networks and private property.
Israeli forces injure hundreds of Palestinians in raids on Tubas, West Bank
Major Israeli offensive has also destroyed roads, water networks and private property.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Major Israeli offensive has also destroyed roads, water networks and private property.
Reality's writers are not taking this seriously.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Reality's writers are not taking this seriously.
All the loyalty of a cross piranha.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
All the loyalty of a cross piranha.
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It’s 64 years to the day since Harold Macmillan wrote in his diary that Charles de Gaulle’s blood was being stored in his fridge, and that a police dog had bitten a Daily Mail journalist’s bum
Odd this day
Ah, it’s 62 years to the day since Harold Macmillan wrote in his diary that Charles de Gaulle’s blood was being stored in his fridge.
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It’s 64 years to the day since Harold Macmillan wrote in his diary that Charles de Gaulle’s blood was being stored in his fridge, and that a police dog had bitten a Daily Mail journalist’s bum
Same reason as always, oil.
Why do we give a rats ass about Venezuela? Maduro?
Is this Vance being upset again because his “mee maw” sucked dick for fentanyl or some other not sad story about people addicted to shit?
It all feels like a pretext because they need a “real war” to get away with some domestic fuckery.
Is this Vance being upset again because his “mee maw” sucked dick for fentanyl or some other not sad story about people addicted to shit?
It all feels like a pretext because they need a “real war” to get away with some domestic fuckery.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Same reason as always, oil.
Disabling the responses to avoid a dozen "and why are US military in Shannon?" questions is craven, Journal.
Members of the Defence Forces protecting a US military aircraft at Shannon airport drew their weapons briefly in response to an alleged 'premeditated' airport incursion by three pro-Palestinian activists, a court has heard.
jrnl.ie/6883800
jrnl.ie/6883800
Three people charged with criminal damage after US military plane spray painted at Shannon Airport
It is alleged that one of the accused told gardaí that the ‘use of Shannon airport by the US military breaks Irish neutrality’.
jrnl.ie
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Disabling the responses to avoid a dozen "and why are US military in Shannon?" questions is craven, Journal.
This isn't going to end well, especially if she gets introduced to today's internet.
Slender Man attacker missing from group home after cutting off monitoring bracelet, police say #usnews
Slender Man attacker missing from group home after cutting off monitoring bracelet, police say
Authorities in Wisconsin are searching for a woman who was convicted in a Slender Man stabbing more than 10 years ago after she disappeared Saturday night.
www.live5news.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This isn't going to end well, especially if she gets introduced to today's internet.
When it turns out you were not ready. 😁
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
When it turns out you were not ready. 😁
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
Uhm. The takeaway from this conundrum should maybe be more focused on the "wall of dead children" rather than "this is making my argument awkward".
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Uhm. The takeaway from this conundrum should maybe be more focused on the "wall of dead children" rather than "this is making my argument awkward".
Every so often I think about how I enjoyed David Eddings books as a kid and then (relatively) recently found out what he and his wife were up to in RL and it rather breaks my brain again. Once again "WTF EDDINGS?"
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Every so often I think about how I enjoyed David Eddings books as a kid and then (relatively) recently found out what he and his wife were up to in RL and it rather breaks my brain again. Once again "WTF EDDINGS?"
All fkn 52 of them against a population of 12m.
Stupid little gobshites as well as evil.
Stupid little gobshites as well as evil.
them white men thought they were gonna go to haiti to enslave women
hahahahahahahahaha
bitch what
hahahahahahahahaha
bitch what
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
All fkn 52 of them against a population of 12m.
Stupid little gobshites as well as evil.
Stupid little gobshites as well as evil.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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I’m very fortunate to know people who are doing the work that matters. They’re helping rebuild education in Gaza even before a brick is rebuilt.
Help them if you can: www.patreon.com/posts/call-t...
(Pictures of children in tent/makeshift classrooms in Gaza)
Help them if you can: www.patreon.com/posts/call-t...
(Pictures of children in tent/makeshift classrooms in Gaza)
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I’m very fortunate to know people who are doing the work that matters. They’re helping rebuild education in Gaza even before a brick is rebuilt.
Help them if you can: www.patreon.com/posts/call-t...
(Pictures of children in tent/makeshift classrooms in Gaza)
Help them if you can: www.patreon.com/posts/call-t...
(Pictures of children in tent/makeshift classrooms in Gaza)
I'm sorry WHAT
No, child predators are not a bloody opportunity for children learning to communicate or whatever that inane excuse was.
No, child predators are not a bloody opportunity for children learning to communicate or whatever that inane excuse was.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm sorry WHAT
No, child predators are not a bloody opportunity for children learning to communicate or whatever that inane excuse was.
No, child predators are not a bloody opportunity for children learning to communicate or whatever that inane excuse was.
JFC. I'm reminded by the utter disregard for human life of the gross individuals that took part in "genocide tourism", paying to be taken to Serbia to snipe civilians. People can be utterly evil when they can convince themselves of the inhumanity of their victims.
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
JFC. I'm reminded by the utter disregard for human life of the gross individuals that took part in "genocide tourism", paying to be taken to Serbia to snipe civilians. People can be utterly evil when they can convince themselves of the inhumanity of their victims.
The last line IS the meme. The issue is not what colour the plane dropping the bombs is, the issue is the bombs.
You might hate the meme, but your own phrasing is exactly why it exists.
You might hate the meme, but your own phrasing is exactly why it exists.
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The last line IS the meme. The issue is not what colour the plane dropping the bombs is, the issue is the bombs.
You might hate the meme, but your own phrasing is exactly why it exists.
You might hate the meme, but your own phrasing is exactly why it exists.
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Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
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A critical week globally: The Russo-Ukrainian war escalates (Kyiv buys 100 Rafale jets 🇫🇷), the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is failing after 282 reported Israeli violations, and the UN condemns mass atrocities by the RSF in Sudan.
Full report: www.azorean.media/azm-news/wor...
Full report: www.azorean.media/azm-news/wor...
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A critical week globally: The Russo-Ukrainian war escalates (Kyiv buys 100 Rafale jets 🇫🇷), the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is failing after 282 reported Israeli violations, and the UN condemns mass atrocities by the RSF in Sudan.
Full report: www.azorean.media/azm-news/wor...
Full report: www.azorean.media/azm-news/wor...
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One very quick thing the government could do to fill vacant posts in the health care sector is to STOP GIVING PEOPLE A STAMP 3 INSTEAD OF STAMP 4. It's absurd at a time of full employment that we are giving people the right to live here but not work
#speirghorm
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
#speirghorm
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
HSE facing bill of more than €720m for agency workers as thousands of staff jobs remain unfilled
The HSE is on course to spend more than €720m hiring agency workers this year while not filling more than 3,700 staff jobs for which it has funding.
www.independent.ie
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
One very quick thing the government could do to fill vacant posts in the health care sector is to STOP GIVING PEOPLE A STAMP 3 INSTEAD OF STAMP 4. It's absurd at a time of full employment that we are giving people the right to live here but not work
#speirghorm
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
#speirghorm
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
Stolen. The word is stolen.
Refugees’ jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister
Refugees’ jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of refugees coming to UK
Refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases, a Home Office minister has said, in another detail of changes to migration policy likely to cause worries among Labour MPs.
Speaking to broadcasters before the formal announcement of sweeping changes to asylum policy on Monday, the Home Office minister Alex Norris said while this would not involve seizing wedding rings, jewellery without sentimental value could be taken. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Stolen. The word is stolen.
Limerick Junction in October.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Limerick Junction in October.
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🎩 Here have a little timeline cleanse.
He’s such a proud little Wookiee dog! 🫡
He’s such a proud little Wookiee dog! 🫡
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
🎩 Here have a little timeline cleanse.
He’s such a proud little Wookiee dog! 🫡
He’s such a proud little Wookiee dog! 🫡