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Boo-rendan Harkin
@brendanjharkin.bsky.social
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Belfast-based Photographer. Do good, die great. https://brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 20d
Full album from the trip is up now, broken down into sections by city.

Churches, crypts, ceilings and statues galore.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 4h
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1h
The war is over; international law has been shot dead and the body buried at sea.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h
Speaking aboard Air Force One en-route to Israel, US President Donald Trump said “the war is over,” crediting Qatar for its “tremendous help” in brokering the deal.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13h
Is life often terrible? Yes.
Are there still always people out there going “Let’s make a cool ass thing for other people to see?” Also yes.
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 19h
"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 1d
End Deportations Belfast are quoted in this @belfasttelegraph.co.uk article by @ismiseliam.bsky.social on Larne House immigration detention centre. 6000+ people have been detained here since opening in 2011. This Spanish woman suffered under the 'lock up first, ask questions later' sytem.[1/2]
Woman suffered suicidal thoughts after unlawful detention for five days at NI immigration centre
A Spanish woman who was detained unlawfully in a Northern Ireland immigration centre suffered suicidal thoughts and had to be constantly watched, an inspection report into the centre has revealed.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 14h
LOGIC - Sometimes a kebab is just a kebab.
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 14h
Who needs to get Luigi'd for this shit to stop
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h
bitch what
Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23h
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d
Desperately needed aid is in position on the Egypt-Gaza border, ready to be delivered to millions of Palestinians. The UN says it has received approval from Israel to begin deliveries on Sunday.
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 14h
Two of them
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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 14h
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 14h
Stuck sharing onwards simply cause I feel like 99% of my photography is anything but tranquil!
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CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social · 16h
NI photographers help a young art student/ photographer (my daughter) doing a course in Tech if you can please and thank you ⬇️

Her contact: VisualsByLeah on Insta

Tried to tag more if you but tags are being weird

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 2d
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
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Ronzo @ronronzo.bsky.social · 19h
God bless the French. They do everything in the funniest way possible.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 22h
Juxtapose will just be the thing used for animating the two images.
I suspect the source image being relied on is from the Sentinel 2 satellite imagery that is regularly updated.
Below is an image of Gaza from 08/10/2025 and on the right is an image from 20/10/2020.
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Taraaaaaaaaghhhhh! Zombies!!! @theblueststar.bsky.social · 23h
A leaflet from the Simpsons that reads "so you cast Jared Leto"
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 23h
Hi Laura, I've fired you a DM on Instagram!
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d
Hearing reports from HMP Wakefield prisoners that it was "mega lolz"
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d
Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring
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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d
discovering insane edits recently
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Gray Frights! @clickgate.bsky.social · 1d
Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time
Martin Leahy tweets: “There was a bus going through Béal na Bláth once and the bus driver announced to the passengers, 'This is where Michael Collins died' and someone on the bus said 'Tis a bad bend alright'.”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d
What happened to anyone who seriously threatened to reverse any part of the Thatcherite revolution? Who was it that enforced those penalties. There’s your answer, and there’s who is to blame.
The Guardian Y @theguardian.com Follow Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle
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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 2d
I have called every radio station in this godforsaken country to play my favourite Spooky Season song and they refuse. Put @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social on the airwaves you cowards

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The Monster Mash but it's an Irish Ballad
YouTube video by Michael Fry (BigDirtyFry)
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d
Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.
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