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clarniugin.bsky.social
From Co. Antrim, Ireland. Madly interested in politics, sport. Irish republican, feminist, disability activist. Celtic FC & Antrim GAA fan, daft about quizzes. Aspiring Gaeilgoir... Only here for the cheer (because sure I sound an absolute hoot)
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Does anyone know what time the German general election results start being announced?

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Bik's dead, I can't believe it. What a hero.

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Irish woman here, who is deeply interested in US politics; what norms-shattering, huge heavy lifting work that is building a movement has Jill Stein been doing since your general election? Because, you know, if she was actually serious about it she wouldn't be a feckin political Brigadoon.

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After 2 years of work, I've finally taken delivery of an actual printed copy of my second book 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey'. I've done my best to capture the essence of these priceless, but mostly dying, ecosystems, and am over the moon with the results. 🌎

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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At first glance, a quintessentially beautiful Irish landscape. But in reality, it's a deadzone. The graveyard of a once species-rich Atlantic rainforest wonderland, smothered under sheep and, in the distance, sitka. We are, however, waking to just how much has been stolen from us.

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John where did you go? You were telling me all about the stability these monarchies provided remember?

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1/2Random Thursday night rant- Why do so many Irish & British people use the US artificial categories of generations?? There was only a baby boom effect in the US, Britain would be more accurate to call that the welfare state generation. Equally, I have hardly anything in common with a US gen X'er

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Ancient remains discovered in Co Derry bog ‘likely to belong to young woman’ who died violently

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Here’s a glimpse of life growing up during the Troubles, courtesy of @nornirongirl1981.bsky.social and her childhood diaries.

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Excellent. Would have been good to mention that Christianity, and especially Protestant Christianity, has been a pretty important vector of this idea. Settler Protestantism is a genuinely radical thing (familiarity really is all).

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Absolute dreich day, as the Scots would say. Pouring rain, gusting wind & a sky the colour of gunmetal. We are all beyond blessed if we are snug indoors.

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Trump signed a new executive order that would allow the White House to control independent agencies that have long operated outside its influence, like the FEC, FCC, FTC and SEC. It’s designed to test a once-fringe legal theory which says the president solely controls the entire executive branch.

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally charged with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge.

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Knowledge is power…

submitted 6 days ago • 1042 comments

71 years old and finally achieving his dream of killing children. Not just some children here or there, like he's been doing, but thousands of children annually, systematically, by destroying one of the pillars of public health, one of the greatest achievements of humanity.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

From 5 months ago:

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"Art can change your life but entertainment will never save you." Josh Johnson

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Celtic played magnificently tonight, that is what I am holding onto My God, we made Bayern look ordinary or went toe to toe to their level

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Blow the feckin whistle!! #CELvMUN

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MATA- Make Americans Tasty Again

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So the most 'benign' suggestion from Trump's regime is that Putin keeps all the Ukrainian territory Russia currently occupies but Ukraine can retain the right to claim it? This sounds like what happened here with the Irish border and that worked out brilliantly...

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This has been a very effective Right playbook for decades eg Tories (& Blue Labour) in Britain have run the NHS and other very popular public services into the ground so people will accept profiteering privatisation.

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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Trump has the amoral, rapacious capitalist beliefs of the East India Co. combined with the might of the British Empire.

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Paywalled article about ending Irish neutrality in a British paper. Absolute freak shit. Fuck off.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments