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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18h

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 5h

I've lived in both Dublin and Cork, and I'm from neither, so I can say with no bias, Lyons is superior to Barry's.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 18h

They've got frogs, they're multiplying
ICE is looooosing control

Mx Ghoulie M Awesome @juliemawesome.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland frogs are multiplying. I’m watching the livestream at katu.com/watch

Three green froggies and a skeleton frog! These are inflatable costumes and some of the frogs have little capes. They’re protesting on the other side of the street from ICE.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 7h

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I'm like pretty pro Palestine for a lefty Zionist lib
Jew but man do l ever have ms Rachel derangement syndrome and I hate myself for it
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User 1
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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User
also I get it the Palestinian side has seen the disproportionate majority of the bloodshed and suffering at this point but if you didn't shed the same tears for innocent Israeli civilians I think you at best have an agenda and at worst are an unrepentant antisemite but that's a whole can o worms
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User 2
Dude it's a fucking genocide

User 1
that's kind of a non sequitur

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13h

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 11h

I suppose they meant "more readily available". Or that most people get it?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 12h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Someone told me that sweet popcorn is the standard popcorn in England, is that true? Seems absolutely bizarre to me.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 12h

Anytime I've handed in notice I have like a parabola of workload, it peaks with training your replacement and then I switch to "well that's not gonna be *my* problem" mode lol

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 13h

Nice to see the humble frog being reclaimed as a symbol from the right 🐸

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 15h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 13h

Haha, fair. If you do decide to do it and have any questions lmk, I'd be happy to help 😊

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 13h

My e-bike was retrofit, cost 500 euro (plus the bike which I already had). It was like a days worth of work which I kind of enjoyed tbh.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 14h

I'm now primarily an analogue cyclist, but I wouldn't be if I hadn't gotten an e-bike. They're great and more should be done to get more people on them.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 19h

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 19h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 15h

Got my ears syringed today and not everything is Too Loud.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 15h

I love that we're unironically in a "me may have to give Donald Trump a Nobel peace prize because we're afraid of what he might do otherwise" situation. Great state of affairs.

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Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 16h

My favorite harmless conspiracy theory is that “Gillian Anderson” is actually a Parent Trap situation where there’s an American one and an English one and they take turns doing appearances

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 16h

weird insomnia is great, you get to be up at 1:36 am scribbling "Gillian Anderson: real British accent?" on a notepad because you don't keep your phone in the bedroom and refuse to get up because legally then the day has started

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just over two weeks out from polling day - this is when the undecideds will be making up their minds. We want to bring Catherine’s message of hope directly to them, and share why we think she will be a brilliant President for the people.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 16h

Just make sure you have Watership Down on hand to keep her in line.

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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 17h

10 homes rotting away for over 15 years on outskirts of Cork City but the real problem is developers need tax breaks
Welcome to #DerelictIreland
State enabled vandalism

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 17h

Happy birthday!

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 18h

Kind of interesting that we use a more katsu like sauce, I don't think we have a big Japanese population here afaik so I wonder where the influence came from

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 19h

Back in the days when making hundreds of millions was still considered a success. Now producers don't get out of bed for blockbusters that don't make profits that start with a "b".