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Meryl O'Rourke

@merylorourke.bsky.social

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Comediatrix. Words on New World Order, BAFTA win Farewell 2 The Monarchy. My play- Thrown By Giants- artsdepot residency '24. Too many opinions to possibly be all mine. Jewish/Irish ish

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 16m

Reader. The bus terminated early

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 34m

I'm on the bus to an appointment.
A lot of buses are getting terminated early.
Every single time this bus stops someone asks him "is this bus being terminated early?"
And God help me I'm ready to terminate early the next person who asks.

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 11h

THEY HAVE AN ACCOUNT

Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 14h

Huge shoutout to George Soros for funding our supporters with suits and pee bottles.

Here’s to a successful False Frog Operation In Portland, Chicago, and any city that oppressors invade.

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 13h

Your grandfathers fought in two world wars for your right to wear an inflatable penguin/chicken/frog/unicorn/dino suit.

Don’t let some dweebs who grew up on Call of Duty and Fox Late night intimidate you.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 11h

So Bluesky is algorithmic too? Are there any social medias now which just show the people I follow in chronological order of their posts or do we have zero independence now?

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 11h

The rockstarification of @zackpolanski.bsky.social is quite something.
I get very excited that I met him once.

I met him once, did I say?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

Meiselas: Trump says he’s focusing right now on laying off the Democratic agencies and government employees, whatever that means. Again, completely pathetic behavior, and in normal times, this would be impeachable and/or 25th Amendment territory.

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 11h

TONIGHT

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 14h

I almost don't like them being humanised as it hurts so badly.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah I felt bad naming him in this post, but the awful thing is I've already forgotten Polly's second name...his will always be more known

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 14h

Or possibly it's because autism is thought genetic and circumcision tends to run in families...?

For instance my son isn't cut, but is autistic... but as his grandparents are Turkish, Jewish and born in the 20s when it was fashionable... his is the first foreskin in the family for 100 years.

VegasJake @vegasjake1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh great, I guess now I have autism. Fucking brain damaged idiot.

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 14h

She also takes us beyond the murders to how they affected the families. Heartbreaking

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 14h

I'd never understood what "Creative non fiction" meant and this is a great example. A roll call of facts written like a novel.

I also discovered that the hospital I was born in hadn't just been the workhouse of Charlie Chaplin but also of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Polly.

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 14h

My audiobook at the moment is The Five by Hallie Rubenhold.

It's so interesting, striking and sad. The amount of research is stupefying.
And as we get to the end of each chapter we know what's coming and you just want to shout no, just want to stop it and change its course.

Highly recommended.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h

🚨 READ: Israeli media is reporting a "secret clause" in the Gaza ceasefire that would allow Israel to restart the war if Hamas can't locate all captives within 72 hours. This could be Netanyahu's exit strategy to sabotage peace. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about

Hebrew-language Israeli media reports say there is a “secret clause” buried in the Gaza ceasefire agreement that would allow Israel to resume the war. Palestinians worry this is the pretext Netanyahu ...

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 15h

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 22h

Yep, my son is very into him and it took a while for him to accept my knowledge wasn't due to me trying to be down wiv da kids

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 23h

Crack the orange segment off and bring it tonight please

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 23h

X is very depressing but still pleased I popped on to see the joy as well. My other socials are barely discussing it (the algo hasn't twigged I'm Jewish yet...)

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 1d

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 1d

*actually. But yeah, that works

Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 1d

It's acutely freaking me out

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 1d

I quite often just use "sharp and dark" then people can use me as a comic or an eyeliner

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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 1d

It's a review from my dead mum show.
But yeah, one of them no doubt will show me a picture of a cat.

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