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Artist Dog
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Today, I saw a driver overtake a stopped bus and plough through a pedestrian crossing. He beeped three times as he sped though. The beeping was to warn people because, as he had overtaken a bus, he had zero visibility of who was about to step out onto the crossing.

But sure, more hi-vis, everyone
👀 Can you see me now?

The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.

#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Omfucking god the cunts
The US State Department has announced it will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day with public messaging. This ends a decades-long tradition of raising awareness on 1 December.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/DIsl
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Sigh, wish i was in a Groundhog day kind of scenario where i just repeat last week over and over and over again....going to MBV Bob Dylan, Lisa O Neill and BC Camplight gigs foreverrrrrr
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Up the taxi drivers
Taxi drivers in Dublin are staging a protest against Uber's new fixed rates, which is expected to create major traffic delays in the city and at Dublin Airport.

The go-slow protest began at 4:30pm today and is set to last until 6:30pm.
jrnl.ie/6887246
Gridlock expected in Dublin as taxi 'go-slow' protest begins
Dublin Airport has told passengers to expect heavier traffic than usual and gardaí have warned of disruption in Dublin city.
jrnl.ie
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Another example of the extraordinary example of the generosity of spirit shown by Irish courts to motorists who commit homicide

www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Woman given suspended sentence over cyclist's death
A woman whose husband was killed whilst out for a Sunday cycle on the Malahide Road in Dublin last year, has said no words can ever change how brutal it has been since she lost him.
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Im sorry but what the fuck is going on. Too many crazy dangerous men out there....

‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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This is outrageously propagandistic
When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared.

An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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He's a liar and a racist.
And you know what? If his current endeavour wasn't an essentially racist one, people wouldn't be talking about it. But he's been remarkably consistent all his life.
Racist kid.
Racist teenager.
Racist adult.
Fella's a racist.
Another contemporary accused the Reform leader of being a “complete liar” in an interview on Tuesday afternoon. Andy Field, a GP who was two years below Farage at Dulwich, said he had directly witnessed racial abuse from the Reform leader.

www.thetimes.com/article/94cb...
Nigel Farage’s abuse was persistent, not banter, claims ex-schoolmate
Peter Ettedgui says he was targeted at Dulwich College. The Reform UK leader denies he racially abused anybody
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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When it cometh to Early Moderne War Irland doth be ue high-value targets lying on ye Western access to ye Kingedom of England wherein layth the Protestants who do tweak ye kinge of Spaine's nose.
Despite this. It remainuth of the Irishry and unconquerered.
When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared.

An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️

www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Bob finished his show with this last night in Killarney 😭❤️. Hope Paul Brady sees it. youtu.be/5B2Y8JoW9vU?...
Bob Dylan — The Lakes of Pontchartrain. Killarney, Ireland. November 23, 2025.
YouTube video by nightly moth
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A gig with a story arc... ....Wednesday's show in no way prepared me for how absolutely breathtaking Saturdays would be. It was actually perfect.

Big up MBV and the @foggynotions.bsky.social and Maria Somerville
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.

How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
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November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?

Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.

If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Holy fuck
ICCL invites members of the public to contact us if they have received wrong answers from the AI chatbots used by the Department of Justice, and have suffered adverse consequences as a result.

Learn more ➡️ www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...
Was the Department of Justice using experimental chatbots to give immigration advice? It has now retired its asylum chatbot Erin, but has infused Tara, the non-asylum immigration chatbot with AI. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/was-the-depa...
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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This is major, and therefore almost going unreported in the usual outlets.
For the first time, the European Parliament passed major legislation with a coordinated majority between the centre-right EPP and far-right groups, breaking the long-standing pro-EU coalition that installed von der Leyen.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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She should have drunk the holy water in front of them.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM