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Marketing myself as a potential Irish Summer Girlfriend (only shows up for about three days in August, colder than expected, accompanied by large swarms of insects)

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Hey #speirgorm folks Anyone heard from Tara ? @slated.bsky.social

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It takes a massive brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed in a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.

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Watching the sunset at a c.5,800 year old monument, listening to two cuckoos having a row. I wonder how many generations that Poulnabrone has had to listen to?

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President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina today paid their respects to His Holiness Pope Francis in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican

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Look !! Pretty kitty 😍

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Grim. Across Scotland, children were given the belt and humiliated for speaking Scots, Gàidhlig, Orcadian, Shetlandic... Up into the 1970s. And people wonder why our mither tongue languages are in decline - the wirds hae bin beaten oot o wir maws for decades.

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All welcome to the Dublin launch of After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change! 🗓️ Wednesday 30 April 2025 6.30pm at Chapters Bookstore (@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social) With guest speaker Margaret Ward (@marg50.bsky.social) 🔗 Preorder After the Train at bit.ly/after-the-train

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Wednesday at 6.30 - After The Train: Irishwomen and a Network of Change - I am going to have two nights out in Dublin next week as I absolutely NOT missing this! Please join us! Also, please say ‘hello’ to me so I can put faces to avis! @ucdpress.bsky.social

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New research led by Prof Tomás Ryan from @tcddublin.bsky.social shows that the brain forms memories of cold experiences and uses them to control our metabolism. Read more: www.tcd.ie/news_events/... @trinityresearch.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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Runs in breathless They got mad about nuns wearing head coverings

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From my new interview with Kelly Hayes, this is for everyone who felt abandoned over the last few months and years. And a plea not to abandon each other or consider anyone's humanity negotiable! organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...

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The TITE film festival arrives to @lighthousecinema.bsky.social in April. Check out our programme preview: filmindublin.ie/2025/03/19/a...

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I love this quote from Pope Francis. May he rest in peace. 💓

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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

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SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this incredible news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

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Begging the Cardinals to do the right thing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...

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New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

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They taught us to fear the witches, not the men who burned them. open.substack.com/pub/garygann...

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WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”

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Supreme Court ruling on “woman” is at odds with the UK Equality Act, says ex senior civil servant. “Clear premise” of the act was to give transgender and biological women the same sex discrimination rights, says the official who drafted the act. @severincarrell.bsky.social @libbybrooks.bsky.social

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Breithlá sona duit @president.ie Michael D Higgins. Share your favourite Miggeldy moments. #speirgorm #spéirghorm #birthday #Ireland #president

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Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

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New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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Rosalind Franklin helped discover the structure of DNA, but most people only know the men who got the credit. She was a trailblazer whose work changed science forever, yet history sidelined her. #WomenInScience #DNA

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Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

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Finally, I'm back painting again.

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Gorgeous retro designs from Seasca (seascadonegal..com). I bought this cushion cover based on 70s Irish stamp design. Other area designs on their website.

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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Tuesday morning sounds. #birds #sunrise

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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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