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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 3h

Emma Burns calls for presidential election to be moved forward to this Friday so that complete nobody Maria Steen will get the hint and be shoved off the fecking stage.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 7h

I hope that book ends up mouldering away to a soggy mess on pallets in a damp Louth warehouse, never to cross the threshold of a single bookshop or online store.

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 7h

Fkn hell that account is a cesspit.

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 16h

I am actually a decent cook with some professional training and on my dinner nights we eat really well, but leave me on my own and within 2 hours I revert to cave goblin fodder.

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 17h

Easi-singles, white bread & butter microwaved until goopy served with a cup of bovril.

Anchovies straight from the can like they are some weird alien worm & I'm some weird alien bird.

Not food but if there is a tin of Andrew's in your house I will dip my licked finger & enjoy the fizz on my tongue

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18h

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 1d

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 18h

Nenagh Scouts big and small are sleeping out against homelessness to raise funds for Focus Ireland’s #ShineALight. Great cause to throw a few quid to if you can spare it.
#SpéirGhorm #Speirgorm

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Damien Garrigan

Homelessness is one of the most pressing societal issues of our time. Every one of us has a right to a place we can call home. Yet, in Ireland today, more and more people are becoming homeless. Th...

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 23h

By 1922, the British had infested about a quarter of the world's land mass and forced its rule over 1 in 4 people globally. Bit late to be expecting white faces to dominate the emptying husk of your empire. The best part left is the richness of your people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

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aodhán @aodhan.bsky.social · 1d

heather humphreys green paper on disability reform from the end of 2023 proposed to reduce disability allowance payments based on opaque criteria. this dragged on for months, causing upset and stress to one of the most marginalised groups in the country. should have ended her career tbh.

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Shenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone On Here have experience getting diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder (EDS, hEDS, Marfan, etc)? If so, where did you start and when were you diagnosed? Were you referred to genetics/rheumatology/cardiology/physical therapy?

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Follow this account please. This shop is owned by 4 Paddystinians. All you have to do is retweet...so the right crowd will discover us...

vintagehabibi.bsky.social @vintagehabibi.bsky.social · 2d

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 1d

Yet these are the people who attack (cis and trans) women in bathrooms, claiming "they can always tell", no different to the puritan witchfinder generals, and equally as malicious and as wrong.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

This website would genuinely be so much better if there was a special Discover tab for Americans that only show them posts by other Americans so the rest of us stop getting aggro from their most brain fried centrists who seem genuinely bewildered by context and angry that other places exist

Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Natasha from America's Next Top Model telling someone offscreen "I just wanna tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 1d

You can welcome home the Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla from tonight 10.45pm, Terminal 1, Dublin Airport and over the next two days. #FreePalestine

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 2d

The first flotilla’s Irish participants have just been released from Israeli prison; they’re on their way home now. Meanwhile, we on the second flotilla are nearing Gaza. Keep speaking up for Palestine. We’re sailing not only for aid but for self-determination & we won’t stop until Palestine is free

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 2d

All Irish citizens illegally abducted by Israel from the #GlobalSamudFlotilla have been released.

www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Irish citizens released from detention at Israeli prison

All Irish citizens who were detained last week after the flotilla they were on was intercepted by Israeli forces have been released and are on their way home to Ireland, the Department of Foreign Affa...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 2d

@sarahmaintains.bsky.social is on her way home. So much relief, but also so much admiration for her bravery and the bravery of all those on the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 2d

5️⃣ days to go 🚨

FRIDAY will see us perform from a secret location in Ireland in the wee hours, delivering a revolutionary set to the USA & Canada at 9PM EST | 6PM PST

📺 Tickets live stream: kneecap.bandcamp.com/merch/kneeca...

🎟️Tickets Kings Theatre: www.kingstheatre.com/events/kneec...

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 2d

Also, Lego, Pokémon cards, bath bombs, fleecy pyjamas, a sherpa-style blanket (boys LOVE soft snuggly things and are rarely gifted them), sporty stuff.

Excellent cape pattern: threadridinghood.com/free-cape-tu...

Free Cape Pattern (sizes 18m – Adult) |Thread Riding Hood

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 2d

Minecraft cake!
www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25420...

Minecraft Cake

This moist, two-layer Minecraft chocolate cake covered in buttercream frosting and marzipan is easy to decorate for your favorite Minecraft fan.

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 2d

And @nialljournal.bsky.social has now blocked me. How telling.

Please don't let this die - there IS a story here and @thejournal.ie and the Gardai both have questions to answer on how this information reached the media.

Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 3d

Re-sharing this because ex-Garda @nialljournal.bsky.social seems to have gone very quiet on the topic.

So many of us have shared confidential personal info with the Garda Vetting Bureau in order to volunteer in our communities. That data does not appear to be safe.

Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 6d

There is a real story here Niall if you'd care to write about it, someone is leaking Garda vetting information for political gain. Breaching confidentiality and GDPR requirements. Every underage coach, every volunteers data is not secure. Confidence in vetting undermined. That's the story. #Aras25

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 2d

I am always reluctant to narrow participation in politics in any way, but this whole election is a good argument for minimum qualifications for candidates and a pre-nomination public scrutiny process. So many of them have been an utter waste of time and airspace. #Áras25 #Aras25

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Text from article in Irish Independent with a photograph of former presidential candidate Jim Gavin. Text below, full story linked in post.

Jim Gavin was sent solicitors’ letters by tenant seeking €3,300 rent refund, but they went unanswered.

This article was written for publication this morning before Jim Gavin dropped out of the presidential race

Fianna Fáil presidential election candidate shifts story from not having ‘any recollection or records of any such dispute’

Former Dubs boss now says he is ‘gathering the data’, ‘looking into it’ and that he will ‘deal with it with urgency’

Letters delivered to Casement Aerodrome where Defence Forces pilot worked and his parents’ house in Clondalkin

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