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jamesmcshane.bsky.social
Wannabe Writer from Dublin, Ireland. Lover of books, movies, all things pop culture, a bit of politics, equality in all things, Manchester United (for my sins), and, of course, my beautiful wife. Kidney transplant recipient, July 2023.
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Another amazing (very detailed) review of Transmentation | Transience from @locusmag.bsky.social!

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The Palestine sunbird is a symbol of freedom, resilience and hope. These prints are back in my shop, with 100% of proceeds going towards supporting UNICEF in bringing resources and aid into the Gaza Strip

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If you allow yourselves to be used as a prop you don't get to go coy when called upon. You knew what he was and you could've said no. You didn't. So this is who you are, Juventus. We see you.

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Fuck this disgusting example of a human being. And who the hell with Juventus thought it was a good idea for the team to be there?

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Funny how Hermann ‘anti choice’ Kelly is all ‘my body, my choice’ when it comes to organ donation and his ‘giblets’, and entirety the opposite when it’s comes to women’s rights over our bodies! Misogyny in so central to far right ideology #speirgorm

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How to be a writer, n. 284758: In sunlight, write In winter, write In summer, write In springtime, write In good times, write In tough times, write When all you want to do is curl up in a blanket and cry, write Repeat until the world ends Tea

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That Irish Euro millions winner having days to spend it before nuclear Armageddon like a Brewster's Millions remake.

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As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.” Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.

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This my favourite long read of the year so far. @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social, you have a new fan. Greetings from Dublin, Ireland. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Qantas withholding an Australian's phone for an entire 15 hour flight because a foreign government told them to should be a huge scandal. Make this news.

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Fuck transphobes.

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Centrists being more irked by Paul Murphy marching towards Rafah than fascists matching in Ireland shows you exactly the direction they always break

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#NoKings #SpeirGorm

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The Rapture: But it’s Republicans and MAGA who go in the opposite direction—straight to Hell.

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yep! unpaywalled:

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Look at Trump’s Truth Social post. Consider his call with Newsom. He is incoherent, insane. Failure of corporate press to say that every day as he is taking us down the road to a police state is the gravest journalistic malpractice in American history. They will never redeem themselves.

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I sat beside Leslie Grantham (Eastenders’ Dirty Den) on a flight from Faro to Heathrow in the early ‘90s. We were both reading. I asked him for his book, and then I autographed it.

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This is the kind of investigative reporting and journalism we need right now. Thank you.

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

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We know what the hell went on

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Senator Alex Padilla of California was removed by force from Kristi Noem’s presser and handcuffed for his free speech. This is what a fascist regime does that rejects the laws of the US. It should horrify every American. Let’s stop pretending we are approaching authoritarian rule. We are there.

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Alex Padilla is an American citizen of Mexican descent. The video of a Mexican-American being manhandled by thugs will play extremely well with the sort of trash who support Trump. Decent people are outraged. Shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture are thrilled.

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No one is safe.

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If you're thinking of coming here for the World Cup, please be careful or, better yet, go anywhere in the world but the US. We're not a safe place right now.

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Morning Bluesky. The first time this has happened in 20 years. This only raises tensions higher.

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There's a desperation racist folk have to not be called racist, so they're constantly on the defensive, insisting their concerns are legitimate, lying to us & themselves You don't have that issue with anti-racists cause we've nothing to justify. Of course we're not racist, that would be stupid.

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This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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You know it’s date night when I have to trim my nose hairs.

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"Neutrality" in journalism is a fetishistic commitment to never admitting or allowing your journalists to admit what's happening right in front of them.

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"Brendan here, and I'm absolutely buzzin' to take you on a journey through my home town"

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Irish Government Minister crowing, in Trumpian fashion, about deporting people, including children, while their classmates in D8 are traumatised to lose their friends so suddenly.What a nasty man he is! #speirgorm school 'devastated' to lose children who were deported, principal says jrnl.ie/6724513

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Deport them to El Salvador.

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There is not enough popcorn in the world for Trump vs Musk...

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NEWS! Laurence Fox’s annual burning of the Pride flag a handy reminder for Brits they can start mowing the lawn again

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