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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 6h

Got blocked by two Tory MPs on Twitter, which means they (or whichever family member was part of the grift) read what I said to them.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 19h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 7h

Journalists doing the “the barrister represented a bad guy shock horror!” routine are some shitheads.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 9h

Thatcher boasted about preventing sanctions against apartheid South Africa (and her husband had investments in it), she angrily opposed sporting boycotts, she called the ANC a terrorist organisation, and after Mandela was released, said she shouldn't have bothered pressing de Klerk to release him.

Jesusofthebog @jesuskelly.bsky.social · 11h

How long ago does he think apartheid ended and weren’t South Africa one of the first countries to try and bring Isreal to court?

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 13h

I flicked on to this the other night and when I saw the 'lab' lit in teal blue I just burst out laughing.

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 14h

Food fear is the most toxic ingredient of all, and the new breed of supermarket scarers are making a living from it

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

No, Joe Wicks, reading lists of ingredients will not solve our health problems

Food fear is the most toxic ingredient of all, and the new breed of supermarket scarers are making a living from it

www.irishexaminer.com

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Hey! Lots more fun here now.

Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.

open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

open.substack.com

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

If you’d like to run any other statements from random members of the public, then I can help you out 👍

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

“Do you like October? Would you like it to be October forever? Well you’ve come to the right place!”

rubot @rubot.ie · 1d

There are two things which make someone Irish. It's not about race or anything like that.
1. ) you want to live on this god forsaken wet miserable rock
2.) you have a mad head on you

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rubot @rubot.ie · 1d

There are two things which make someone Irish. It's not about race or anything like that.
1. ) you want to live on this god forsaken wet miserable rock
2.) you have a mad head on you

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

This stuff is insane. Right wing governments, who can only offer austerity and performance cruelty, and wield the police like their personal weapons, are in charge everywhere and yet people *still* won’t laugh this reds-under-the-bed nonsense off the stage.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Exhibit C

Bob Ozemprick has stolen the NF and Britain First taglines

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

The Jim Gavin thing gladdens the heart in a way. Normal-ish politics where actions have consequences and hypocrisy is embarrassing. Where the argument is still about housing and state supports, and not who should be on the receiving end of performance cruelty and how many civilians it’s ok to murder

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

When adverts reflected the reality of British life

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

If they didn’t blink at the IDF deliberately splattering three British ex-squaddies who were guarding an aid group convoy from a charity that has Barack Obama as a patron, then I’d guess they won’t give a fuck about activists they despise and are probably glad are far away.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

Point 1 on any serious manifesto

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing as The Men Who Saved Football pod is not on BlueSky, I might need @rubot.ie to tell Ken that a handball by an attacker that leads to a goal is always a foul - accidental or not. Thems de laws.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

A 'civil war' in the States would require someone to want to stand up to Trump's goon squads with reciprocal violence. And given they couldn't even organise a general strike or any more than one summer's day of a mass protest, I think the goons will be fine to carry on as is as long as they want.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

Every time they do it I’m waiting for the story to include a car accident.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

1. People who send their kids to private schools are trying to buy socioeconomic advantage. End of.
2. People who show no interest in Irish who send their kids to Gaelscoil are separating their kids from immigrants.
3. Kids who go to grinds schools should have their paper labelled and marked harder.

Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 3d

The most telling argument I have against private school is that I’ve met several people over the years who’ve been to private school who somehow never heard arguments against private school.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

There is one secondary school in Crosshaven, Cork where I live. It is walking distance for most, co-ed and not full, and gets very good exam results. I have several neighbours sending sons into the city to Pres and Christians an hour on a bus each way. They are not ‘prioritising education’.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

Furthermore no one really believes they’re ‘prioritising education’. It’s the same curriculum taught by teachers from the same training colleges. They’re ‘sacrificing’ to buy their child socio-economic advantage. They should just be honest about it.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll let you work out the difference to parents between a toddler being in a crèche versus being at home, and a teenager going to a no fee school versus a fee paying school.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

The narrow band of privileged people who have the means and desire to buy their kids the social advantage of having attended a private school. And rugby dads.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from terminally online weirdos, no one outside North America could pick Gavin Newsom out of a line up of middle aged men modelling comfortable shoes.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

The lad who said we should accept more deaths to have a ‘meaningful Christmas’ (for businesses) during Covid has thoughts.

Leahy is a prick.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d

Pat Leahy: Ireland faces a stark choice in the face of the threat from Russia

Catherine Connolly’s horror at the remilitarisation of Europe is understandable, but she has taken the wrong lesson from the history of the 1930s

www.irishtimes.com

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

Like seemingly everything else, social media started off great for football fans and quickly went to shit because of attention seeking wankers.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 4d

If anyone in the west protested against any of those things, would the government smear the protesters as racist, use the police to stomp them, get them sacked or expelled from college, shutdown criticism and get music acts banned from festivals? No. Only ONE rogue nation gets that special treatment

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