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Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, born 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Reader/writer/editor/translator. Writing in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, The Cormorant, The Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire, and more
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Sounds like a job opening for @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Irresponsible journalism. Before legislation - next of kin decided if your organs could be harvested. After legislation - next of kin decides if your organs can be harvested. The only real difference is now you can opt out. + Not everyone's organs are suitable. www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/new-...

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- We need investment in things that improve people's health and makes their lives better. We also need to protect our planet. - Sorry wokeboy. No money. - We need money to buy weapons to kill people and cause massive suffering. And kill nature. - Sounds good. I'm Venmo-ing you a gazillion right now.

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This is almost 10 years old, but even then the signs were clear www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbM6...

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“Write about what you don't know about what you know” — Eudora Welty

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A big thank you to @minorliteratures.bsky.social for choosing to publish this piece. www.marcdefaoite.com/2025/06/hey-...

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I've never met an Iranian I didn't like. Maybe I'm just lucky. It's the same with Canadians. Anyway, Iranian history in the 20th century was very strongly influenced by the actions of US and the UK, who destroyed a democracy to maintain a grasp over fossil fuels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir....

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Like dentists, barbers and hairdressers have their own professional agendas that rarely correspond with our own aspirations.

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Phil Lynott, because why not. And some street scenes of an early 80's Dublin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXOr...

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Snakes on Everest. This is also climate change. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trend...

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I wrote something. www.facebook.com/share/p/19DM...

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Somebody's breakfast. It could be yours. Maybe it is.

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Unbiased opinion - what does that even mean? How can it be both? Sounds oxymoronic to me.

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Wow just loved this. Thank you @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/3e4c...

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"I found a clip of the novelist Martin Amis promoting his book Money. Dripping with disdain, he says the working class have been seduced by the vulgar allure of money. They are, he said, stupid." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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"Some jokes are not sentences. This is completely logical and did not frustrate me to learn. An example of a joke that is not a sentence is when a man slips on a banana peel. This contains comedy because humans’ arrogance will lead to their ultimate downfall." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-l...

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@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu a MEP is currently being held in solitary confinement in Israel. This is unacceptable. YOU need to act.

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USA was built on slavery and it is still being built on slavery, with seized immigrants being forced to work for 1$ a day. 1$!

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Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

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I like the rational approach taken here, how he uses historically established facts to argue against OP's position and judging by the comments, so do many other people. Unfortunately logic, reason, and facts are pretty much powerless against racism. As the saying goes - haters gonna hate.

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This is not an ad for a coffee shop chain

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I move a finger. Half a metre away a tiny arrow hovers and shifts, connected to me by wires and light. Now it's an arrow. Now it's a hand, not my hand, yet it moves at my will. I click, set a wheel spinning, a coded symbol that tells me to wait, something is happening, something new is on the way.

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