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Abolish Frontex | FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA! 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪
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Abolish Frontex | FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA! 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪
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and because they couldn't or didn't want to get the rights to publish spider man on the digital client, they had to reskin everything so there's even green goblins that aren't green goblin
September 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
and because they couldn't or didn't want to get the rights to publish spider man on the digital client, they had to reskin everything so there's even green goblins that aren't green goblin
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![screenshot of exchange on Bluesky between user Sheryl Weikal @leftistlawyer.com, whose current display name is "Sheryl Weikal, wishing ill on JK Rowling", and user Maj @lif3asmaj.bsky.social.
Sheryl says; "I wish ill on JK Rowling. I <emphasis> also <end emphasis> with ill on the Bluesky mods who suspended Jessie Gender."
Maj replies; "Wait. Jessie got suspended??? For WHAT???"
Sheryl replies; "Saying <quote> "I wish ill on JK Rowling" <end quote> "
Sheryl's initial post had 10 comments, 105 reposts, and 431 likes when the screenshot was taken.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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shame, this was a lovely little channel
August 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
shame, this was a lovely little channel
an clip seo always bears reposting around 💖
(CW Philip Dwyer)
(CW Philip Dwyer)
July 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
an clip seo always bears reposting around 💖
(CW Philip Dwyer)
(CW Philip Dwyer)
![screenshot from Facebook of a post by user: Protestants Against Gaelic language. It's horribly formatted like all of these kinds of peoples' posts seem to be.
Post reads: "Irish people are <emphasis> SECRETLY PAID <end emphasis> by the state to speak Irish. This is proof that Irish people from a non-Gaelic background including protestants are discriminated against. Secret payments leak out occasionally; Garda Paul Wallace is suing the state. He spend a short time in the Gaeltacht where he had to speak Irish to TG4 and was paid and allowance for speaking Irish. When in Leterkenny he claims he should have got the payment because of this, he lost €8700+ from his retirement lump sum and is losing €249 in Irish language payments every month from his monthly pension. When Protestants Against Gaelic Language made these claims that people are being paid to speak Gaelic, all the Gaelic language fanatics called us liars. We hope they apologise for their false claims. Everyone pay attention; people are being paid by the state to speak Gaelic. This Court case is proof of the secret payments."
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the bill does not "single out" Israel; neither "Israel" nor "the West Bank" nor any other place name to do with Israel–Palestine appears in the document. Saying it does is a self-tell, bc it DOES single out "relevant occupied territory", "occupying power", "illegal settler", "settlement goods", etc.
![excerpt from the Irish Occupied Territories Bill of its definitions to illustrate my point how it defines its "targets" so-to-speak through qualifying criteria, not by a published name.
Quote Section 3 Paragraph 1:
In this Act, "relevant occupied territory" means a territory which is occupied within the meaning of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and which has been—
a. confirmed as such in a decision or advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice,
b. confirmed as such in a decision of the International Criminal Court,
d. confirmed as such in a decision of an international tribunal, or
d. designated as such for the purposes of this Act in a regulation made by the Minister pursuant to section 4.
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July 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
the bill does not "single out" Israel; neither "Israel" nor "the West Bank" nor any other place name to do with Israel–Palestine appears in the document. Saying it does is a self-tell, bc it DOES single out "relevant occupied territory", "occupying power", "illegal settler", "settlement goods", etc.
‧₊˚♪ 𝄞 ˚⊹ one breath 😱, awaay... 🫧
🫴 fromm mother o∙cean∙niiaaaa! 🌊 ‧₊˚ ♫⋆˚
🫴 fromm mother o∙cean∙niiaaaa! 🌊 ‧₊˚ ♫⋆˚
![screenshot of a news article thumbnail from Discover Magazine, published 4 days ago. Article is titled "Feeling Nostalgic for a Particular Place? You're Probably Longing for the Sea". Article is by-lined "Learn more about quote "place nostalgia" unquote, which tends to be stronger for the seaside than it is for fields, forests, and mountains."
The thumbnail includes an illustrative image of two hugging people silhouetted sitting on the beach, ocean in the background.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
‧₊˚♪ 𝄞 ˚⊹ one breath 😱, awaay... 🫧
🫴 fromm mother o∙cean∙niiaaaa! 🌊 ‧₊˚ ♫⋆˚
🫴 fromm mother o∙cean∙niiaaaa! 🌊 ‧₊˚ ♫⋆˚
esperantoid brainrot
![screenshot from Duolingo of a Spanish exercise, for which I must translate the sentence "A table for two people."
My answer is "una mesa para dos personoj" which is incorrect; the Spanish word should be personas: personoj is Esperanto.
(for screenreaders, personoj is pronounced personoy)
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July 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
esperantoid brainrot
new ick unlocked✨
... 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘵-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥
... 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘵-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥
![screenshot of a suggestion from Firefox; an article from the outlet The Week titled "Is Is Time the UK Introduced Mandatory ID?"
This has the byline of "BritCard could curb illegal immigration and welfare fraud but 'opens the door to the most extensive erosion of privacy'."
Thumbnail is a graphic of a slightly glitched-looking amalgamation of the UK flag with a QR code and a row of numerals as from a barcode.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
new ick unlocked✨
... 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘵-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥
... 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘵-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥
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![screenshot of post by Mark Malone @soundmigration
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Post reads "letting nazis take part in your 'pro life' rally makes it a pro nazi rally. Pass it on."
Malone's post has attached image of chuds with flags and a banner marching. Multiple fags are black and white striped and feature a celtic knot design. The banner, which also has the knot design, reads "They want our emphasis 'unborn' erased and our emphasis 'race' replaced". Below that "our emphasis 'revenge' will be the emphasis 'laughter' of our emphasis 'children'."
The chuds wear grey caps and sun glasses, and one especially smarmy chap wears a remarkably brownshirty get-up with an olive shirt, black tie, combat boots, and a somewhat armband-looking celtic knot design on the sleeve.
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July 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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lots if not all of the island isn't even in the same orange slice of the planet as the island of great britain
July 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
lots if not all of the island isn't even in the same orange slice of the planet as the island of great britain
we would like to thank our sponsors 🤝
![image macro of a goggle-eyed cat staring straight at you over a pride flag background, saying "We would like to thank our 2025 Pride sponsors — *bricks*" and lo there is a copious pile of bricks at the base of the image. The image is watermarked with a badge of a cat and a possum that says Antifascist Action, and seems to give credit to a "Catmin".
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June 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
we would like to thank our sponsors 🤝
(article link: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...)
maybe there is context and data I'm missing but it all sounds very "of course, we must be tough, these are thugs!" They even play the "they could have a knife" card, even though one of the people wrestled to the ground was a teenager with a vape.
maybe there is context and data I'm missing but it all sounds very "of course, we must be tough, these are thugs!" They even play the "they could have a knife" card, even though one of the people wrestled to the ground was a teenager with a vape.
![screenshot from the article, quoting Superintendent John Loveless of the British Transport Police:
"There's always a sense of fear or concern that you just don't know who you're dealing with, what they've got on their persons, whether that be a knife or something else, or just how they're going to behave and react to you," he adds.
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June 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
(article link: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...)
maybe there is context and data I'm missing but it all sounds very "of course, we must be tough, these are thugs!" They even play the "they could have a knife" card, even though one of the people wrestled to the ground was a teenager with a vape.
maybe there is context and data I'm missing but it all sounds very "of course, we must be tough, these are thugs!" They even play the "they could have a knife" card, even though one of the people wrestled to the ground was a teenager with a vape.
what the hell is this trying to link not paying fares with violence. Much of the direct violence described in the article is cop violence, and fare-dodgers sounded mstly to get violent after someone made a move to punish them for🫴 *using public transport* albeit w/o paying. just make it free already
![Article from The Independent titled:
"Inside the Crackdown on London's Brazen Tube Fare Dodgers".
The by-line reads: "Knives, drugs and drunks: Rebecca Whittaker joins the British Transport Police on the front line".
The article thumbnail shows two British Transport Police officers sporting what seems to be a telescopic truncheon each, walking up some steps at a station.
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June 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
what the hell is this trying to link not paying fares with violence. Much of the direct violence described in the article is cop violence, and fare-dodgers sounded mstly to get violent after someone made a move to punish them for🫴 *using public transport* albeit w/o paying. just make it free already
Graeber's Vindication
May 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Graeber's Vindication
the clip I have in mind is this one, of course
Video description: a person playing a veritable doohickey, some kind of oddball Electronic Wind Instrument, producing bizarre squelchy sounds. They are looking quizzicaly throughout down at their instrument and up at the ceiling in alternation.
Video description: a person playing a veritable doohickey, some kind of oddball Electronic Wind Instrument, producing bizarre squelchy sounds. They are looking quizzicaly throughout down at their instrument and up at the ceiling in alternation.
May 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
the clip I have in mind is this one, of course
Video description: a person playing a veritable doohickey, some kind of oddball Electronic Wind Instrument, producing bizarre squelchy sounds. They are looking quizzicaly throughout down at their instrument and up at the ceiling in alternation.
Video description: a person playing a veritable doohickey, some kind of oddball Electronic Wind Instrument, producing bizarre squelchy sounds. They are looking quizzicaly throughout down at their instrument and up at the ceiling in alternation.
it has come to my attention that Bella Ramsey explored genderweirdery at an early stage upon the chilly utopian Isle of Club Penguin and my adoration for them can only grow greater
May 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
it has come to my attention that Bella Ramsey explored genderweirdery at an early stage upon the chilly utopian Isle of Club Penguin and my adoration for them can only grow greater
![screenshot from the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund website, with text highlighted by Original Poster:
<header:> About the fund.
The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support <highlight> to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women's sex-based rights <un-highlight> in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces. It provides 2omen with the means and confidence <highlight again> to bring to justice cases that make legal precedents, force policy change, and make positive contributions to women's lives in the future. <un-highlight>
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![Twitter blue-check user Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias replying to blue-check user caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro:
Caroline McCarthy herself replying to @benryanwriter links the Wikipedia article for the Variability Hypothesis, writing:
"Basically, that men are more likely than women to have either extremely high or extremely low intelligence. The way I like to describe it is that a man is more likely than a woman to be Mozart, but he's also more likely to be Florida Man.'
to which Matt Yglesias says:
The vast majority of CEOs are men and so are the vast majority of prisoners.
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May 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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in my head I am enlisting @neiltheleftistcook.bsky.social and @saribo.bsky.social to help me remember the esperanto word for "to cook" because in the present tense it's basically "queer-ass" and if that's not beauteous linguistic happenstance I don't know what is
![screenshot from the dictionary website Glosbe, demonstrating that the esperanto verb "kuiri" translates back to cook, boil, prepare, make, brew. Also shown is a list of grammatical forms, of which the present tense is "kuiras", past is "kuiris", future is "kuiros", conditional is "kuirus" and volitive is "kuiru". I emphasise the present tense form which is "kuiras", pronounced more like "KWEErass" for if english screenreaders don't work with the actual spelling.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
in my head I am enlisting @neiltheleftistcook.bsky.social and @saribo.bsky.social to help me remember the esperanto word for "to cook" because in the present tense it's basically "queer-ass" and if that's not beauteous linguistic happenstance I don't know what is
![screenshot of a reply on Bluesky by user She Guevara, the OP, to the UK party account LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ at pluslibdems.bsky.social
Lib-Dems say: (quote)
STATEMENT ON PRIDE: While we understand #Pride organisers' frustrations with the Labour and the Conservatives' swithering on LGBT+ and especially trans+ rights of late, we are sickened to our core to be lumped together with them in a blanket suspension on parties attending major Prides this year. (post 1 out of 4) (end-quote)
She Guevara says: (quote)
You're gonna get ratioed to shit for this. Watch. (end-quote)
The lib-dems post has 178 replies, 109 reposts, and 49 likes. She Guevara's has 1 repost, 1 quote, and 67 likes.
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AIgen-ass poster too. thanks for the tip
AIgen-ass poster too. thanks for the tip
May 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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AIgen-ass poster too. thanks for the tip
AIgen-ass poster too. thanks for the tip
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decrim all the way
decrim all the way
![screenshot of a headline from 404media that reads: New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.
The byline reads: Reublican Senator Mile Lee introduced Interstate Obscenity Definition Act <in-brackets> (again) <close-brackets> last week, which would criminalize porn at the federal level.
Article by Samantha Cole, published May 12th 2025.
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May 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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decrim all the way
decrim all the way
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The reposted skeets concern the fact that the question of allowing players of the gals-only sport camogie the freedom to play in shorts (rather than skorts only) is a vote postponed by the Gaelic Athletics Association until at least 2027, despite 83% of players wanting it
The reposted skeets concern the fact that the question of allowing players of the gals-only sport camogie the freedom to play in shorts (rather than skorts only) is a vote postponed by the Gaelic Athletics Association until at least 2027, despite 83% of players wanting it
May 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The reposted skeets concern the fact that the question of allowing players of the gals-only sport camogie the freedom to play in shorts (rather than skorts only) is a vote postponed by the Gaelic Athletics Association until at least 2027, despite 83% of players wanting it
The reposted skeets concern the fact that the question of allowing players of the gals-only sport camogie the freedom to play in shorts (rather than skorts only) is a vote postponed by the Gaelic Athletics Association until at least 2027, despite 83% of players wanting it
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cuirigí iad ina n-áit, a chomrádaithe!
Saturday 26th 1:30 PM, outside the GPO
cuirigí iad ina n-áit, a chomrádaithe!
Saturday 26th 1:30 PM, outside the GPO
![Graphic announcing counter-demo on April 26th at 1:30 PM at the GPO. The primary text is "Blame the government, not immigrants", and is by-lined with "Stand with us against the government! Unity over division!" The graphics displays the United Against Racism logo and is accompanied with striking black and white photos of Simon Harris and Micheál Martin making chummy politicianly faces, as well as Michael Lowry from his infamous giving-the-two-fingers photo. The background is of Leinster House. [alt text concluded]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zy7x7mhqab33ilagzc2hdjas/bafkreic6qtmhshvqubnqso3okhugpfebpexvbz6apadgu6f6kpludxdqau@jpeg)
April 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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cuirigí iad ina n-áit, a chomrádaithe!
Saturday 26th 1:30 PM, outside the GPO
cuirigí iad ina n-áit, a chomrádaithe!
Saturday 26th 1:30 PM, outside the GPO