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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 2h

It's over disappointingly quick but being a video game you can just reload it as often as you like! High art tbh

Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 2h

One of the best setpieces in a game in the last decade was the bit in Mafia 3 where you shoot up a klan rally tbh

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 2h

Refusing to help is not improved by making a sympathetic face as you put me back in the torture box.

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 2h

"I just need to live somewhere else"

"I understand, but have you considered letting us electrocute your brain because that's cheaper"

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 2h

I'd mention it to a doctor but their response would inevitably be "you should take this drug that'll almost certainly fail to help but will probably give you constant diarrhoea"

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 3h

I was watching a video earlier about Antarctica and what 9 months of unending night trapped in a tiny building with the same handful of people does to researchers there and I think I've figured out why I'm losing my fucking mind trapped in the arse end of galway for the last 5 years

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4h

My single Red Hood issue was the 15th best-selling comic of September, like out of all serialized comics in America. Incredibly funny.

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 3h

Nobody who shifted Tubridy should be allowed forget it tbh

Natalie @noflashingneon.bsky.social · 5h

I've a friend who shifted Ryan Tubridy in the 90s and I texted her "your boyfriend is on the telly again" everytime I saw the Late Late for years. Years!

Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 10h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 9h

I think if we have reached the stage where people are pretending not to understand what a "lawyer" is in order to attack Catherine Connolly, that they really do have very little on her

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 10h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 6h

It was absolutely deliberate. Remember when RTE just wiped that story about the lad who snuck unflattering paintings of Brian Cowen into the National Gallery? It's just that again. Spineless media complying in advance.

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like it’s been under-remarked-upon that we now have reason to believe the Indo sat on the Gavin sorry Gav*n story for months and made the revelation with Machiavellian timing. #aras2025

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 12h

“Mr Donald said his work with the Sunday World involves him working alongside colleagues from the Irish Independent and that he regularly told the story in the newsroom of how he was owed money by Mr Gavin.”

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 6h

Terfs do not deserve votes, ever.

Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 1d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 19h

Catherine Connolly for #aras25, we're not putting a TERF in the park please and thank you.

Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 1d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING | Spain’s parliament has officially enshrined its arms embargo on Israel into law — a landmark move amid global outrage over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 7h

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 14h

tothechaos on tumblr: "going into a bougie supermarket makes me feel like that one painting of the bolshevik standing in the russian palace"

self-replies with the soldier shopped into the produce section of a very bougie supermarket: "$12.95 for 8.50z of Jelly are You Fucking Kidding Me"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

The reason you have a display name like "The Ass is the father of the legs" is when you make a good point and someone reposts it, they're also helping to spread an important message, which is that the ass is the father of the legs

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 17h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 12h

Well that sucks for you. I guess your party is going to keep losing then

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 13h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15h

according to this actual real policy document, you can't even begin the application until the staff member is already working at the Oireachtas

so many questions need to be asked not only of TDs who lied about this, but journalists who fell for it

The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 16h

Heather Humphreys is spreading misinformation that Oireachtas political staff need so-called garda clearance – they don’t, according to documents obtained by The Ditch

Alan Shatter joined in – posting a fake document on X purporting to be official policy

www.ontheditch.com/heather-hump...

Humphreys spreading misinformation about Oireachtas vetting

Humphreys’s former party colleague and ex-justice minister Alan Shatter has also joined in.

www.ontheditch.com

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Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 12h

Time to move on, I guess. Very glad today that I've kept a digital collection of every album or digital soundtrack I ever purchased on a private server.

Ciaránavirus @sarklor.bsky.social · 12h

If I weren't already going to vote for Connolly, I'd be doing it purely out of spite after reading this shit. Fucking blueshirt scum

The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 16h

Heather Humphreys is spreading misinformation that Oireachtas political staff need so-called garda clearance – they don’t, according to documents obtained by The Ditch

Alan Shatter joined in – posting a fake document on X purporting to be official policy

www.ontheditch.com/heather-hump...

Humphreys spreading misinformation about Oireachtas vetting

Humphreys’s former party colleague and ex-justice minister Alan Shatter has also joined in.

www.ontheditch.com

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