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Big shout-out to everyone who has ever claimed this was just about protecting women's rights. Look at what you've helped put into motion. Hope you're fucking proud. PS: they're coming for you next.

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New Decal album out today and it’s incredible #electro #techno #newmusic frontendsynthetics.bandcamp.com/album/the-ec...

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#edchatie Well said, Eoghan Kenny. New Minister for Education Helen McEntee quoting the Norma Foley playbook however👇🏼🙄 “students should be equipped with the necessary new skills in a world "which has changed completely" in terms of work. It is important that our State exams reflect all of this.”

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“The bill would establish a state-run registry to track pregnancies, identify and monitor pregnant people “at risk for seeking an abortion,” and set up a state-run adoption marketplace to push as many people as possible to relinquish the babies they were coerced into birthing.”

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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The system is designed to pass public money to private companies. It's working as intended. Whether or not improved public infrastructre is an outcome is irrelevant to FFFG. FG allowed GP fund the arts because it flooded the sector with admin staff who would pay money to landlords and mortgages...

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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Irish Twitter was a real community and it could, acting together when it managed to catch its members' attention, do good work. Smashing Twitter and poisoning its wells didn't completely destroy those threads and I see them being very gradually rebound on both Mastodon and Bluesky. Good work.

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I gotta admit, seeing this level of open corruption goes a long way towards explaining why the Imperial stormtroopers' gear in Star Wars turned out to be completely useless the first time some stone-age teddy bears started throwing hands.

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Did this idiot just call ethnic cleansing "majestic"?

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Accenture is headquartered in Dublin. Their website is all about Change: "Let there be change", "Grow your career at the heart of change", "Every day, we embrace change". Hypocritical cowards.

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Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes. There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU. Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

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So today I started taking some photos with my new telescope. Moon, moon, moon, Jupiter and its moons. Still getting the hang of it but it’s very very cool.

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WE FULLY UNDERSTAND

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That's Aldi on the list. And boycott Aldi in the EU too. So cowardly to do it this way.

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Here is a well written AMS blog post from 2020 "in honor of Black History Month": blogs.ams.org/blogonmathbl... The blog was discontinued in 2021, but its archived content includes useful resources.

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I will always remember Marianne Faithful’s greatest moment - when she walked beside me for a few minutes on Suffolk St in the late 90s. She always treasured that memory.

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I’ve just signed too, will you? We are who we are, and no-one should be trying to “convert” us.

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Something of 2025 is looking up!

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Are we doing this every Monday from now? I'm happy to clear space in the schedule, if we are.

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Be such a shame I'd Eric Trump's words got reposted.

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

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Get #swasticar trending - it's the reich thing to do.

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Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂

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Reminder that Teen Vogue is an incredible follow.

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So yeh, the Great Famine of 1876-1878, under British rule, due to the exporting of grain and crops from the country whose crops failed and its people starved. In Madras. TIL. #justempirethings

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youtu.be/q-w9OclUnns?... #partyongarth

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I’m not gonna pay attention. I’m not gonna pay attention. I’m not gonna pay att- holy fuck. A sieg heil during the ceremony. Holy fuck.

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Still think it's okay to be on facebook/instagram/WhatsApp? Can you still justify it to your "community"? 👇

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Moon!

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The reverse bed time procrastination is strong.

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So I - somehow - am still going on #adventofcode. I am missing 3 gold stars but otherwise I’m up to date (I even got today’s gold!). Very happy with myself.

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My favourite part in Die Hard is the redemption arc for the LA cop who overcomes his trauma and - in a Christmas miracle - learns how to shoot people dead, again. Never fails to bring a tear to my eye.

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So today is where I fall away in #adventofcode. Only managed one star for the last two days but I haven’t got any for today. I absolutely loved the puzzle, though. Such a clever idea behind it, which I didn’t see until I submitted my first answer. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

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If we make progressives think they're being racist by not condemning Luigi Mangione, maybe they'll stop being anti-Capitalist!

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Parts 1 and 2 for day 16 done. Used dijkstra for 1 and networkx for 2 (had to ask ChatGPT what library I could use for 2). That was a lot. Not catching up on 15-2 today. #adventofcode

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I’ve got part 1 of day 15 (even though it took me way too long cos I was making a mess of my ranges). I think I know how to implement part 2 but it’ll take me more time than I have today. Hopefully tomorrow will be kind and give me time to get back to it. #adventofcode

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Monday evening, 8.30pm-9.30pm. The second #edchatie in its revival as a place for fruitful discussions about issues in Irish education.

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The lanternfish are back… #adventofcode

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