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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 8h

got mine on Monday. Still time! Looks like they are getting through them

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 8h

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 9h

I will give you an alibi if you need it

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 9h

that's an apt meme. About 3 months after my French ex moved out of the apartment, I pulled the sofa out to hoover behind it. Nail clippings, everywhere. He'd clearly been sitting on the sofa, biting his nails and spitting them over his shoulder.
Je Téléphone á la Police indeed.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 14h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 16h

Its twitter but tv. The stuff they call 'debate' but is just arguments and a way for the far right and the far right adjacent to get their views on tv. Its gross

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 17h

Arrived off a ferry in holyhead years ago. Same deal. I saw the percolating coffee, ready to go. So I asked for one. She said 'we don't open until 9am' it was 2 mins to 9am. No word of a lie, we just kinda stared at each other for about 90 seconds.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 17h

When they do the Spotify wrapped each year, im always in the top 1% of listeners worldwide. Not a brag. I literally DO need to be endlessly entertained.

Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 17h

Everyone involved in that Eating With The Enemy / Dinner with the Enemy should actually be ashamed. You are making the world worse. Well done.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 19h

Oh God, the actual story above your post

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 19h

I mean. Of course. Is all tech actually just about this?

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

How is this STILL going on!!!

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, it's quite nice to be proved right. On the other hand, that's 6000 companies due to report who now I have to catalogue or else the data is lost forever because the govt., once again, have failed to deliver on a promise...

paygap.ie/blog/news/no...

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Government gender pay gap portal to fall short of promises made on International Women’s Day

The portal will roll out to less than a sixth of the expected 6,000 companies as part of a ‘pilot scheme’

www.irishtimes.com

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite thing about Catherine is how insanely mad she has made all the biggest losers in Irish politics

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh...yikes

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

I hate that the premise is not just she could have died. But they had to make her life matter by possibly being pregnant in the future. HER PURPOSE ON THIS EARTH.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

You know that Volvo ad where the car almost hits a woman, but doesn't, cos the brakes are aces or something. And the premise is that the woman is about to find out she is pregnant, so if she had been hit by the car, the baby wouldn't be born. Well. I hate it. Thanx.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely love this weird 30-second wicker man thing on E4 at the moment. It goes from setting up in the day to the celebration of night but is surely leaving out the goat sacrifice in the middle.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, I demand to see the all the nominations

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 1d

(and yes, I used one with stars on purpose 😊)

a black background with the words happy birthday in white letters

ALT: a black background with the words happy birthday in white letters

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 2d

That took me far too long to realise how to rhyme them. No. Your reaction was correct.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

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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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 2d

When's the birthday???

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 2d

I stopped listening because it became too crazy. Turns out the woman giving commentary was an 'ex government press secretary', so now it makes sense. She also said (in a blatant scare tactic) that 'NO ONE' who is in business can believe how popular CC is, and they are all worried.

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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 2d

oh god, lets get this OVER with!

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