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Pat O'Leary
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Engineer. Curmudgeon. Lover of lousy puns. Fighting a weakness for redheads. Fair weather sailor and proud of it
Feeling down so looking back 5 months when I had a silly smile on my face as I glided down a silent River Boyne, near the site of the famous Battle.
21:09 12/7/2025
(Apologies if I posted this before.)
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#IWAI #BoyneCanal #photography #photographersonbluesky #ireland #river #sunset
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Not Marge? How disappointing!
#pipebomb #jan6 #trumppardon
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.

You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Felon of 34 can’t speak truth about 1 single thing!! He truly is sick seriously unwell emotionally and mentally!! This laundry list from today’s cabinet meeting is JUST EFFING BANANAS!!! www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/p...
Fact check: Trump delivers long list of false claims at Cabinet meeting | CNN Politics
As usual, President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. And, as usual, most of them had previously been debunked.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
How could you!
This remains the cruelest picture on the internet.
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Excuse you - Pupperoni, thank you very much.
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Pete Hagueseth!
(Disclaimer - somebody else came up with that one!)

Pete Hegseth Wakes Up At 3 P.M. With Dozen Missed Calls From The Hague — theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
Pete Hegseth Wakes Up At 3 P.M. With Dozen Missed Calls From The Hague
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Hegseth fits right in with Trump and everybody he's ever appointed - takes no responsibility for anything that went wrong. "A big boy did it and ran away". He expects the military to fall on their swords so he can come up smelling of roses. "The buck stops here" - yeah, right!
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
In the first of four Reith Lectures, a series of talks organized annually by the BBC, Bregman called Trump “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” That sentence turned out to be missing from the version of the lecture that was ultimately broadcast.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Are they going to stop that sneaky dodge where the new ATM operators are charging people for cash, by giving a button marked "cash and balance" which doesn't charge for the cash but DOES charge for giving you the balance? To avoid a fee press Other then "cash". #accesscash www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
'Access to cash' law to come into force this week
A new law that requires financial institutions to ensure that an ATM is located within 10km of the vast majority of homes and businesses is set to come into force this week.
www.rte.ie
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Innovative!
This is my kind of good trouble.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
They should link up with the Librarians who have been quietly (shhhh!) subversive for ages now.
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Better than being yanked off-stage by Lauren Boebert...
One of these days you're going to be yanked off-stage by a shepherd's crook
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I thought there already was an Orange Bowl?
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Seems like Mount Leinster has tiptoed across the width of County Carlow to become "Kilkenny's highest mountain" according to #dng's @elladunphy

Never noticed a thing! @www.Independent.ie #mosse www.independent.ie/life/home-ga...
Flour power raises a farmhouse restoration in Kilkenny
Crowbally, Dungarvan, Co Kilkenny
www.independent.ie
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
An idle thought - wonder if Chaney regretted getting the heart transplant back in 2012? If he had kept the pump, would he still be alive? #chaney
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
For no reason here's an unedited shot I took from my wee dinghy on the River Boyne July 12th, just before sunset at 21:15. I was looking for a spot to camp, just upriver from the site of the Battle in 1690. Luckily there was no King William, King James, or even the Andrew formerly known as Prince!
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Say it ain't so, @teenvogue.com! Brown-nosing the Old King in the White House (what's left of it) and dumping the politics team? Are you going to run articles like kids not speaking until they are spoken to and other delightful 1950's ideas? Looks like it's left to Rolling Stone to support Democracy
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Good Lord! Saying that a lot these days. But is everything connected to Andrew the Commoner, and ex-wife/housemate Sarah, bent? I am painfully aware that rogues, scoundrels, and charlatans hide behind decent people, but how often can you be unaware, to put it politely? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Andrew fixed palace visit for firm with £1.4m deal with ex-wife
A company paying Sarah Ferguson was given a private tour of Buckingham Palace while the late Queen was in residence, BBC can reveal.
www.bbc.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This guy analyses the present "added protein" tsunami. He blames demand side and influencers who stoke it. I suspect blame may lie with the dairy industry who were unable to dump whey in rivers as usual so decided to push it to idiotic body-builders and it exploded from there youtu.be/19ZjMXZYq_Y
Why Protein is in Everything Now
YouTube video by Levi Hildebrand
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Excellent!
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Now THAT is how you do a season finale.
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM