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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4h

Consider these British paintings:

Henry Jones Thaddeus' "The Wounded Poacher"
William Kidd's "The Poacher"
Edward Bird's "The Poacher's Return"

These make it pretty clear whose side you're supposed to be on.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4h

Apropos of nothing: One of the most clean-cut divides between layperson British and American perspectives I've noticed is the general opinion of poachers.

in the UK, poachers are romanticized rebels, risking it all to feed their families.

In the US, they're assholes. Massive, massive assholes.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 4h

5. And remember, if you believe that Covid is 'gone', you will, by definition, never, ever consider that you may have Long Covid.

/end

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 4h

4. This utterly mistaken but seemingly widespread belief that Covid-19 has somehow gone away is precisely the inevitable result of declaring the pandemic to be over and tacitly allowing people to take that declaration to mean that SARS-CoV-2 has magically disappeared.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 4h

3. ... my feeling is that their illness *genuinely is a mystery to them*.

This is precisely what happens when a concerted effort is made by governments, public health, and the media to downplay or erase Covid-19.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 4h

2. All of these conversations were perfectly pleasant. The theme that ran through all of them was a genuine belief that Covid-19 was 'gone'. Not endemic, or 'just a cold', but 'gone'. When you see videos on social media featuring young people bemoaning their 'mystery illness'...

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 4h

1. I've had a surprising number of conversations about Covid-19 over the past week or so, all sparked by the fact that I was, as always, wearing an FFP2 respirator. People in healthcare facilities, taxi drivers, people on trains and buses.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 12h

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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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 11h

Tomatoes are an intresting one, it heard it was due to them being new and odd, so when boxes of then arrived damaged they were given away and ended up in coddle in a few houses in Irishtown.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 12h

Carrots are grand, but celery?!

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 19h

what was health insurance

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 12h

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

Trump’s Oval Office redesign includes $58 Home Depot item: report

Internet sleuths say the gold trimming recently added to the Oval Office is actually from Home Depot.

www.independent.co.uk

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 12h

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

Trump’s Oval Office redesign includes $58 Home Depot item: report

Internet sleuths say the gold trimming recently added to the Oval Office is actually from Home Depot.

www.independent.co.uk

Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 14h

It absolutely didn't.

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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy" @thedovetailor.bsky.social · 26d

Hello folks, I am in need of non-fiction recommendations for:

+ Indigenous histories (esp from Canada & the Philippines)
+ Black history
+ Black Studies
+ Queer histories (esp from Canada and the Philippines)
+ Radicalization
+ Critical Race Theory

Signal boost pls.

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 16h

Nenagh Scouts big and small are sleeping out against homelessness to raise funds for Focus Ireland’s #ShineALight. Great cause to throw a few quid to if you can spare it.
#SpéirGhorm #Speirgorm

joinus.focusireland.ie/s/8223/9165/t

Damien Garrigan

Homelessness is one of the most pressing societal issues of our time. Every one of us has a right to a place we can call home. Yet, in Ireland today, more and more people are becoming homeless. Th...

joinus.focusireland.ie

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 15h

Aw, YEAH!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 19h

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 15h

It's far from new and the timing always show their biases.

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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 22h

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 20h

Book post is the best post! My very first published books, released all the way back in 2003, now finally available in Irish!

#SpeirGorm #BookSky #KidsBooks

A photo of two young children's books in the 'Deaideo Craiceáilte' (Mad Grandad) series. Sásar Eitilte (Flying Saucer) and Gairdín na Róbat (Robot Garden. The first book is light blue, with Mad Grandad and Lenny in a retro flying saucer, while the second is light green, with Lenny, a blond kid in a red t-shirt and khaki combats, beign chased by an orange robot gardener with a green flat cap.

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 17h

Curiouser and curiouser ....
#Aras25 #Speirgorm

Réics Carló @reicscarlo.bsky.social · 1d

The Phoenix Magazine claims the Connolly/Éirigí story was conveniently leaked just before the Indo was going to lead with the Gavin rental scandal. Interesting. #Áras25 #aras25

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 16h

In other words, if the nature of the corruption is not extrinsic, but is intrinsic to the rotten morals of the incumbent judges.

In such a case, are those perverse decisions still legal?

Are grotesque interpretations to stand as legitimate until a later court of less malign make-up overturns them?

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22h

Source link:

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

“Corruption in the judiciary threatens the rule of law and protection for human rights,” warns UN expert

NEW YORK (24 October 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, warned today that the existence of corruption in the judiciary remains a d...

www.ohchr.org

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22h

In 2012, the UN High Commissioner on Human rights warned against the dangers of judicial corruption.

But corruption was imagined and presumed to be the result of external forces.

The suggested solution was strengthening judicial independence.

But this doesn’t solve judges choosing to go bad.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22h

Is the law what courts say it is?

This seems like an easy question at first glance.

Politicians pass laws, courts interpret them.

But what if the courts go bad?

What if they start producing perverse interpretations of laws?

Are these perverse interpretations still legal?

And if not, what is?

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