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Giles na Magaleen
@gilesnamagaleen.bsky.social
Bard (from The Gurriers' Arms), gentleman scholar, Midleton drinker, pheasant plucker https://ballymagaleen.com/
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Independent Scholar, Philologist & Financial Flâneur
Self-employed, Ballymagaleen & Various Jurisdictions, 1987–present
Conducts original research into language, liturgy, and ledger-books
Occasional lecturer on “The Poetry of Double-Entry Bookkeeping”. ballymagaleen.com/about-giles
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Ballymagaleen: Ireland’s Least Reasonable Village
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“Virtue not descent is the characteristic of nobility” Jacob Hoefnagel, 1634 (British Museum)
January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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That FIFA peace prize 🏆 is not aging very well!
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Will Maduro get Epstein's old cell?
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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People often ask why the Wehrmacht, among the most powerful and competent militaries ever, willingly followed Hitler.

People in the future will ask that same question about the US military and Trump. /3
January 3, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Everything Is Russiagate truly lol
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 4, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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He buys a pardon and a Golden Ticket, joins the GOP, runs for Governor of Texas. Another bad man serving as the Lord's Hammer.
If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now?

Just checking what the standards are these days.
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I also dispute with Hobbes; it's in my nature.
3 Jan 1663: John Bramhall Archbishop of #Armagh , former bishop of #Derry makes his will #otd d. 23 June of stroke. Left £5200 & estates in #Meath, #Tyrone, #Dublin (SidneySussex) Among much else he disputed with Hobbes in the 1650s.
January 3, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset.
Quamquam ab omnibus mendax, stuprator et fur notus erat.
At least nobody VOTED for Putin, but you had a choice.
How strange.
January 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES!

PROTECT THE CHILDREN!

JUSTICE FOR THE SURVIVORS!!!!

Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein, Trump-Epstein
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Coming soon to your country
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.

I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.

It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I've been waiting for aegis and aegis.
I will never apologize for a post
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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Full update video here:
youtu.be/k8o3cFsSeSA
2026 is Already HELL for the Russians in Ukraine
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Understanding humour through language next...
Now in its second edition, this book is a thoroughly entertaining, but serious and comprehensive, introduction to linguistics.

Understanding Language through Humor 2nd edition by Stanley Dubinsky, Coming Soon

https://cup.org/4pK8NG8

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
Understanding Language through Humor
Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Understanding Language through Humor
www.cambridge.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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And once again, this runs through all the physics of the Middle Ages, all these attempts to make a science of intensive quantities. We had a kind of mixture that we must take in a very muddled way and that revolved around a kind of thought of degrees of power, of the assemblages
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Who agrees? ✋
December 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"Behind this façade, a gigantic principle of incredulity is growing up, a principle of secret disaffection and the denial of any social bond."
- The Perfect Crime
December 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Ukraine has successfully knocked out the power in Moscow, giving residents of Russia's capital the experience that Ukrainians have endured for 4 years. Russia claims that Ukraine attempted to assassinate Putin by attacking his residence with 91 drones.
Ukraine Knocked Out the Power in Moscow
YouTube video by Jake Broe
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
In Ireland they were known as the Feggers.
30 Dec 1525: Jakob Fugger, merchant & wildly rich & influential banker.

(Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister, Augsburg)
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"Positive, but only the negative gives it the force of reality."
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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And we're arguing about windmill cancer with ghoulish Pedos. But everything is going swimmingly. @mara-hell-no.bsky.social
Even on a cold winter night Denmark has 100% coverage of electricity by wind energy.
4GW of offshore wind projects are in the making in the coming few years.
1GW in a year.
Denmark plans to be a net exporter of green energy in the form of electricity, hydrogen and electro fuels in 2030
December 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Something I think is worth pointing out is that right now over 10 million Ukrainian citizens live in the European Union. Many of them have by now finished university, apprenticeships, or even married. The idea that we can somehow reject a Ukrainian E.U membership as part of a ceasefire is a fantasy.
December 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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👇🤣
December 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM