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The more you know. #JointSession

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It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

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Can the doomsday clock be moved closer to midnight based on a press conference? Cos it certainly feels like we’ve inched a good bit closer tonight.

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““Housing is a top priority” is now the Irish equivalent to when Republican senators offer “thoughts and prayers” after a preventable mass shooting. So lacking in genuineness and substance it gives Keir Starmer a run for his money.” ~Aoife Moore The Irish News ☕️🥐

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One year today since that willy wonka experience

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'None of the above'

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Every second opinion piece these days is "Young people miss the camaraderie and social life of working in an office." and it's written by Europe'e biggest manufacturer of cubicle walls, water coolers and fluorescent lights.

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This article made me laugh: "You don’t get that kind of physique by standing on one leg while you brush your teeth." #DadBod www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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💥 Mind, the leading mental health charity, has quit X. It's here as @mindcharity.bsky.social. It had over 500,000 followers on the other place.

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

In 2020, a writer from England named Nate White wrote a fascinating text as a response to the question: "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump". Almost 5 years later, I think the words by White still make perfectly sense: thenewgeneration.blog/2025/01/25/w...

submitted 40 days ago • 27 comments

best president France never had 💔

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Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

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To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

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It is not free speech when Trump aligned oligarchs have their thumbs on the algorithms of all the social media apps.

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Where is #TheTraitors really filmed? I can’t believe it’s Scotland, it’s way too sunny too often.

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🧵 I live in Los Angeles. We have not had to evacuate and are safe, but like many people here, I have friends who have lost everything. I realize I can't combat the firehose (see what I did there?) of bullshit spewing about this disaster from internet and media sources, but I'll say this:

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Yep, the problem definitely is that we don’t have enough men in charge. 🫠🤬 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 54 days ago • 268 comments

Molly Russell's dad warns UK 'going backwards' on online safety and urges PM to act www.bbc.com/news/article...

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"We’re stuck in an age", she says,"where knowledge is not power. Attention is power, and people have monetised other people’s attention – and nothing gets higher levels of attention than fear." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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First new #book started in 2025. 50 pages in and am struggling to put it down. 📚 #BooksOfBluesky

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What is Amnesty International doing about innocent family members being forced to sit through Mrs. Brown's Boys Christmas Specials

submitted 70 days ago • 14 comments

I feel seen. #BreadIsEverything

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Has half the legislation planned for NI this year failed to appear? Leader of the Opposition and SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole claimed that the Executive will not deliver on the legislative programme for 2024 that was presented to the Assembly and that barely half of the 18 Bills scheduled will appear

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Thought provoking article www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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It’s Christmas Finn, in his “let’s chill in a cafe” mode🎅🏻 #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky

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Annual chocolate gift and note with this week’s coffee order from Belfast Coffee Roasters. Ye wouldn’t get the personal touch from Am*zon! #shoplocal

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The culchie children are the best part of the #LateLateToyShow, by a country mile (pun very much intended)

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The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam. There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality. It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

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So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda. For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

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