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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11h

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

a black and gray long-haired yorkiepoo sits at a desk in a university classroom. a piece of paper lays on the desk in front of her, her paws propped up on the desk as if she's bracing herself. there are students in the background hunched over and working on paper in front of them. the pup looks at the camera with a concerned side eye. she's realizing she probably should have read some of the homework before eating it.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 15h

Whomst amongst us, etc etc 🤣

our shared future
our shared future
A still from the original video showing the Reichstag in Berlin, and the new video with Belfast City Hall.
Heather Humphreys removes campaign video mistaking Belfast for Berlin
A shot of the Reichstag in Berlin appeared to have been included in the video instead of Belfast City Hall.

HEATHER HUMPHREYS HAS taken down a campaign video after a shot of the Reichstag in Berlin appeared to have been included instead of Belfast City Hall.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 22h

Fax spam!! 😮

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely more efficient, I’m not *totally* convinced about the mess 😬

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

And most of the world doesn’t have them - I’ve lived in 3 countries and never had a credit score

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

I have some questions about the logistics of repeatedly throwing someone under a bus. Do you pick them up yourself so you can throw them the second time, or…?

The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “He was repeatedly thrown under the bus”

@fionnansheahan on how the Fianna Fáil leadership handled Jim Gavin’s withdrawal from the presidential race.

Watch the full debate here: https://f.mtr.cool/tqgzqhruyo
#TonightVMTV | @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 1d

Hearing reports of Jim Gavin canvassers in the Wicklow mountains who are refusing to surrender.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

The eternal feline fear of missing something.

Two cats on a windowsill peering out of the window, very nosily!

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

I once worked as a secretary for a big commercial law firm in Dublin and we’d have to fax 300 page contracts to the other side on closing day, sometimes at 2am. It would send 288 of them before just swallowing p289. And then you’d have to start again from scratch, murder in your heart

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

This is true up to a point, but those of us old enough to have had to use fax machines know what it is to encounter true malevolence

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

what's so odd is that the styling it out lasted maybe 36hrs and then Gavin took his ball and went home. It really does make me wonder if this tenant was the only one, and when MM heard that he pushed him to drop out.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually somehow WORSE for FF, cos apparently the paper contacted the party about it before he was the confirmed candidate and they ignored it! And more broadly, I'm no fan of the Sunday World, but its reporters are entitled to protection from rogue landlords too 😀

Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

From the Phoenix - x.com/ThePhoenixMa...

There was much detail in the Indo about the investigative efforts the paper made in uncovering Gavin’s behaviour. What the newspaper and its editorial staff did not say is that the scoop was handed on a plate to them by Gavin’s tenant who happens to be a fellow colleague in Mediahuis, owner of the Indo and various titles, including the Sunday World. That former tenant is the deputy editor of the World, Niall Donald.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

I still remember 25 years ago a distant acquaintance visiting Dublin who I met for lunch and once we’d eaten he *hid in the restaurant toilet* until after I’d paid. He’s a full professor in the US now, and I know that cos occasionally I remember the incident and Google him. We remember this shit

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I’ll look there too!

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

And I hope your dog is ok!

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

Clever people of Bluesky, if a person has a 2yr old gas boiler, would they be able to see this yoke somewhere in the boiler cupboard, looking more or less like it does in the picture? Cos I can’t see anything like that! #speirgorm

Which circulating pumps have been recalled and how do you know if your heating system has one?

It’s one of the largest ever product safety alerts issued by the CCPC, with more than 114,000 heating systems affected.

jrnl.ie

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

And if people use it for work emails, it’s going to lead to arguments, disciplinary action, firings and law suits. Fun!

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

This, this is the kind of rich international cultural exchange the internet was invented for!

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t get over a debt being ignored for SIXTEEN years. It makes me wonder whether it’s the only one, too?

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

Hilarious, but probably good for Humphreys? 😕

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

I just don’t watch or read any sci-fi, it’s v much a choice!

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

Never seen any Star Wars movies

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

But the Maynooth trains still need to run along the Glasnevin section of line? (We do so need a map!)

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

They definitely run the Maynooth trains thru that tunnel occasionally, if drumcondra is out of action - but maybe it rejoins the track too early to solve the issue?

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