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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 15m

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

The British Pathe title card for this film of the 1920 burning of Cork describes it as a “mystery fire” 🤔

Ireland’s Agony

The Burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of December 11th and 12th 1920 during the Irish War of Independence. It followed

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2h

After two years of war and numerous false dawns on the prospect of a ceasefire, last night marked a major breakthrough as Israel and Hamas finally signed off on the first phase of a Gaza peace plan

Peace deal shows rare hope after brutal two years of war

After two years of war and numerous false dawns on the prospect of a ceasefire, last night marked a major breakthrough as Israel and Hamas finally signed off on the first phase of a Gaza peace plan.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.

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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social · 14h

As the media lionises Hickey for his few days in detention, remember most ordinary political prisoners in Iran don't come out of jail to glory and Patreon subs, they come out to a ruined future, if they are lucky enough to come out in one piece.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 16h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 16h

He’s gonna get prob a higher vote than just before he dropped out - gonna get the core FFers who would only vote FF and some doing it to spoil the vote

Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 16h

When you go to viewings of places to rent in Dublin

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I find the idea of going to the Gulf states on holiday so instinctively repulsive that I forget how many people do. There are so much nicer and cheaper and less morally appalling places in the world!

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

Unless you move in those circles, or study the tourist patterns, it's quite surprising how many people go there for holidays - and how much the demographics match some particular slices of the Thatcher coalition.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most heartwarming things at the beginning of 2022 was actually seeing reports of North American indigenous peoples fundraising for Ukraine and when they were asked why they're doing this they basically said "because we know what it's like to be invaded by people who just want your land"

Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

these things aren't antithetical, they are /linked/ - to truly express solidarity with ukraine you need to understand imperialism and why it, to use a technical term, blows

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 1d

What’s he done? haven’t heard that name in a long time

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 1d

Man has been a raving transphobe for a long time

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 1d

Norman Finkelstein is a horrible little racist?

Wow. I did not know that. You're telling me now for the first time

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 2d

The banter outcome is for Gavin to win now

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

Talks are continuing tonight between senior Department of Local Government officials and Attorney General Rossa Fanning over whether Jim Gavin can be officially removed from the presidential ballot or not

Talks taking place over removal of Gavin from ballot

Talks are continuing tonight between senior Department of Local Government officials and Attorney General Rossa Fanning over whether Jim Gavin can be officially removed from the presidential ballot or...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 2d

You can't say "Gavin" on bluesky because of woke

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 3d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

have we started messing with them by throwing the word 'republican' into the mix yet?

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 2d

Not one normal reply there - rank antisemitism all the way through

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper loves Trump and wants him to rule us like a king

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 2d

Our own little westboro Baptist church

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3d

“The White privilege so many of my fellow black-square-posters promised to exercise has vanished. Apparently speaking out for people of color was only applicable through the 2020 election, didn’t you get the memo?”

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You guys seein' this sh*t?

Shocking border patrol raid in Chicago: Agents descend on apartments with helicopters, zip-tie children, sparking outrage and revealing extreme tactics in controversial immigration crackdown.

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