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Amish Super Model @amishsupermodel.bsky.social · 15h

Well, at least the price of eggs is down.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 4h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSmTegc/

Stay out of TX

Texas cops used 83,000 cameras to hunt a woman for a legal abortion. She broke no laws. They broke all of them. #WomensRights #abortionrights #TexasPolice #handmaidstale #PoliticalSatire

TikTok video by Linsay Rousseau

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 3h

His newest recruit?

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 6h

The news I long to wake up to each day.

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Eric @astroeric12.bsky.social · 1d

They're shooting clergy in the face with pepper balls in this holy Christian nation

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 1d

7 years ago with Tom Waits on the set of The Old Man and the Gun. I'm on the lower level with an Obama inspired khaki suit, near Robert Redford & director, David Lowery.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

The next few days of my trip to Ireland were spent in Dingle & then taking in the famous Cliffs of Moher & the Burren, which is basically a range of limestone terrain that's the result of glacial activity.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 1d

If 2025 takes Dolly Parton from us it can yeet itself straight to the fucking sun.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, it's also been used by Rad Bradbury as the title of a story & Disney film, & in the lyrics of a song by Sting (among other things), but they think Taylor Swift (who also once had the nerve to copyright "party like it's 1989") invented language.

Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

Status of American literacy in 2025: People are accusing Taylor Swift of stealing the line "something wicked this way comes" from a Harry Potter film, with zero awareness that it originated in Shakespeare's MacBeth.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

This visit was around the time the new Star Wars films were shooting at Skellig Michael, another small island, but I didn't get the chance to visit there - just saw it from the distance on a foggy afternoon.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of wildlife, ancient tombs & other things. Dingle was among my favorite little towns & that included time spent on the tiny Great Blasket Island, where Irish is still the common language, a crystal making demonstration, & a live music session in a little music shop.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

The next few days of my trip to Ireland were spent in Dingle & then taking in the famous Cliffs of Moher & the Burren, which is basically a range of limestone terrain that's the result of glacial activity.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

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THE LINE of BEST FIT @thelineofbestfit.com · 2d

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos announces her eighteenth studio album In Times of Dragons, due in spring 2026 alongside her largest UK/EU tour in ten years. buff.ly/QBgLMxs

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 3d

Touring Ireland, 10 years ago this week, with stops in Kenmare, Kerry, Killarney & the colorful town of Kinsale, including the Kissane Sheep Farm, Muckross House, & Leenane.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 2d

How long before Donald Trump carpet bombs an American city, with Jared salivating over the potential new real estate deals, to further distract from the release of the Epstein files?

Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 3d

Who knew Keith Urban was so eager to out himself as such a colossal dope? An extraordinarily successful, beautiful woman, who wants him & enjoys physical intimacy? What a burden he must have felt.

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 3d

When you can't define communism, Marxism, or socialism individually, you just go with the trifecta like Kristi Noem, & hope enough dopes are afraid of the boogeyman.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 3d

Over the weekend, I learned of the death of a fellow employee. The first response to the news- over Teams- was a list of university-owned devices that needed to be returned to IT.

Work does not love you back. Act accordingly.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Shawn Patrick Farrell @shawnfarrell.bsky.social · 3d

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