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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1d

That one time Russia Today accidentally broadcast something truthful.

Farage getting eviscerated by a six-year-old.

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TheSecretDiplomat @thesecretdiplomat.bsky.social · 9h

German police assaulting members of the Bundestag as they peacefully protest.

There is a dangerous lurch to the extreme right taking place in many of Europe's largest states.

Turning a blind eye or actively supporting injustice and extremism beyond Europe's borders simply brings the cancer within.

ultras-antifa @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 1d

#Germany - At the pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin, Die Linke Party MP Lea Reisner was punched by the police.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 11h

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law irishcycle.com/2025/10/11/r...

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law

A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O’Brien. The changes range from giving l…

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 12h

There's useful idiots (or bots) on Facebook suggesting if the trees were 100 years old, it's ok because they would be nearly dead anyway.

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 12h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, the only punishment many of them would understand is forfeiture of the lands to be replanted and re-headged or similar restoration.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 13h

This is such a funny attempt at a gotcha.

"Do you stand by the actions of a man who was COMPLETELY CLEARED IN A COURT OF LAW?"

The former minister brought up a former court case where one of Connolly’s supporters, TD Paul Murphy, was accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton and her advisor in her car in 2014 during a protest against water charges. Murphy was found not guilty by a jury.

Humphreys brought up the case and asked Connolly if she supported such alleged action, despite Murphy being cleared of any allegation of wrongdoing in court.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 18h

Coillte insisted on using access arrangements that are poor for cycling and disability access to some points of our local woods which are not at risk yet they didn't know when large machines were using their lands to cause mass destruction to adjoining lands.. you couldn't make this up...

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 21h

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

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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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 21h

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

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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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 19h

These days anybody left of Trump is a communist... But great reply...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 19h

This is really an unhealthy attitude for amateurs generally but especially at younger ages:

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20h

I tried to arrange a French exchange last year with the daughter of my French exchange from the 1990s with a teenage kid of friends and colleagues here. The amount of them who said they'd be dropped from their GAA team if they went to France for three weeks was genuinely shocking.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 1d

It's madness what's happening in the US right now -- there's a larger number of videos like this, including ICE making up fake claims about a journalist to arrest her. Is it just me, or is there a distinct lack of reporting on it in the Irish media?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 1d

No, lead.

My use of the lead word is purposeful and the correct choice. Your correction is incorrect.

See: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

'Lead' vs. ‘lede': Roy Peter Clark has the definitive answer, at last - Poynter

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

www.poynter.org

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 1d

I'd agree to the extent that most people most of the time are focused on what affects them daily or weekly but most people also strongly support climate action.

The data confirms it over and over again, FF are just listening to a loud minority. People need leadership.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

War is hell, Portland style

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Entering the Anne Frank stage of the administration I see

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 1d

That man and his leadership seems to have evaporated. I think most in FF knows it -- everybody only has some much in fuel in the tank. He's been a very long time in politics and longer than most at ministerial level or higher.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 1d

I did not think this would make waves but the leader of the county basically just said climate action is pointless and it's only featured in one newspaper with the lead buried.

Is he seen as such a lame duck after last week? Or does no TD and noone else in the media think it's worth highlighting?

Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister), has just shockingly said: “I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change" but it somehow didn't even make the headline: www.independent.ie/business/tec... @michaelemann.bsky.social

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

“I'm Jewish.. All Jewish people are not k!llers. This is just a section of the Israeli people that are like that.. What happened in Gaza was utterly wrong, wicked and terrifying. The Hamas attack was terrible.. but it came from 70 years of oppression..”

—Miriam margolyes

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

Jim O'Callaghan must be loving that Micheál Martin is relating strongly to one of the UK's weakest PMs in years:

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's wider than that. Marten always seemed cold on the idea of climate action in any substantive way.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

The data doesn't support the claims he's making about a lack of public support. It's a lack of leadership we have and parties chasing after populism... bsky.app/profile/saoi...

Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

In addition to being totally pathetic, he's also completely wrong.
EPA polls consistently show that the vast majority, across all ages, incomes , urban or rural, all want the government to take action.
So by polarising, he must mean that Micheal o Leary,Amazon, and Tirlan don't want it

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 3d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister), has just shockingly said: “I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change" but it somehow didn't even make the headline: www.independent.ie/business/tec... @michaelemann.bsky.social

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 3d

100% durable is a very strange claim to make and clearly not really possible 100%.

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