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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 15h

😉

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 20h

obviously

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 16h

Went to watch the Katie Hannon interview back on RTÉ Player. What product featured in the first of the 75 ads?
Yep. Thierry Mugler: Angel

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

Can you guess who gives which answer?

Q. What is your favourite smell?

A. I really love the smell of Angel perfume.

A. Atlantic air after the rain.

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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 16h

Barry White doesn’t care about speling

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20h

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18h

This is great

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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 16h

Annie.. I think you misunderstood the brief…

Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 17h

Boyne is overrated

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 1d

"while Labour talks about change, people can see in their weekly shop, their utility bills and crumbling services, Labour are offering more of the same."

Zack Polanski tells it like it is. Under Starmer, Labour is nothing but lie after lie after lie. #StarmerOut
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 18h

Barn Door - Horse - Bolted

Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 1d

head the ball is such a great phrase, one of my mams favs and absolutely appropriate for this muppet. 😆

Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 1d

Its not just that he is voting for her, but he is being vocal about it. I dunno, but a party whip is a party whip. He seems to be taking a personal approach to this. This is also only one of the reasons I don't vote Labour any more. There are others I'm afraid.

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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 1d

And this is one of the reasons why I will never vote for Labour again. When the nominal party of the left votes for right wing candidates, then the Blairification of Irish Labour is clearly well underway.

You can get in the sea Mr Kelly.

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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 1d

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1d

lol and, furthermore, lmao

A screenshot of the replies, reposts, quotes and likes on Sally Jenkins’ garbage post asking people to ratio her, showing her getting ratio’d as requested

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 2d

Attack? I didn't see anything, neither did any of the lads in Cell Block B.

Must've tripped and landed on a knife nine times.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

news.sky.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 2d

www.politico.eu/article/if-e...

If ever there were a moment to defend the ICC, this is it

Without more robust assistance from its allies, financial and political pressure from the U.S. will make the court a weaker institution — if it survives at all.

www.politico.eu

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Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 2d

And they’d be fucking right.

Leo O’Shaughnessy @leoie.bsky.social · 2d

For WHOMSOEVER NEEDS TO HEAR IT FINE GAEL

Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 2d

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wanton fuckery here. I'm looking forward to the inevitable "there's nothing anyone can do" response from Coillte, the gardaí, and anyone else who ought to be hunting these pricks down and reducing them to penury.

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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