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Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social · 7h

The lads at The Tortoise Shack constantly produce quality convos about topics of the day. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...?

The Irish Presidential Election Podcast

Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 12/10/2025 · 50m

podcasts.apple.com

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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 11h

Constantine.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 11h

Without saying The Matrix, Fav Keanu Reeves Film?

Keanu Reeves in a black suit and grey scarf short messy black hair trimmed grey beard smiling in front of a pink background. hot.

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone."

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 12h

Exactly. If we're afraid of the consequences of a United Ireland, we don't deserve one.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 13h

... and ?

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h

United Ireland could result in unionists holding Dáil’s balance of power, UUP leader says

Mike Nesbitt warns ‘biggest threat’ to NI remaining part of UK is English nationalism

www.irishtimes.com

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 19h

If I understand it correctly, "picking up the tab" is when you finally pay for what you've been taking all this time.

I don't see the problem.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

I'm going to offer the prediction that neither will happen.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

As he seems these days not to be able to to tell the difference between speaking out loud and inner thoughts, we may get a glimpse in the coming days.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

#MícheálMustGo

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

His current ambition is to neuter the Courts. He has a Constitutional problem with that though.

Thread. bsky.app/profile/joen...

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

Those pesky Courts are in the way says Taoiseach.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

His framing it as it needing someone "with vast resources" for it to qualify as a SLAPP is telling.

He knows the purpose of the suit, and (at least in those tweets) he doesn't claim otherwise.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

This, by the way, is mostly why the #AI bubble has grown so large and why when it bursts it's going to cause such great havoc.

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

It's amazing the number of people who work in IT and who don't have even the slightest hint of curiosity regarding how, y'know, IT things work.

- "I'm too busy. I don't have time to learn how that works!"

- "And, yet you're going around telling everyone you're the expert?"

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

Of course, he has also been told many many many times, no doubt, that the growing divisions in society are being brought about in no small part by Climate Change.

#MícheálNeedsToGo

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 2d

It's amazing the number of people who work in IT and who don't have even the slightest hint of curiosity regarding how, y'know, IT things work.

- "I'm too busy. I don't have time to learn how that works!"

- "And, yet you're going around telling everyone you're the expert?"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

This is why mandatory online age verification is bullshit.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

2. The Australian report, titled “Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people,” is the latest in a swelling body of literature debunking some of the most harmful myths propagated by the project—one laced with politically-charged and frankly shoddy pseudoscience.

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3d

Looking to the not-immediate future -- next month, or next year, or 2029, etc. -- I just cannot see Miller being permitted to retire peacefully into obscurity[1]. I can only see an ignominious end to his influence in public life.

[1] ... and then, of course, I remember Henry Kissenger.

Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3d

With great power comes ... a great opportunity for some serious fun!

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3d

The best of the original 3. Hands down.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3d

So ... from the comfort of my couch, I can shut Dublin down with one click?!?!?

#SpéirGorm

A screen shot of the irishrail.ie live trains screen with a big button labeled "Pause Live Trains" and an arrow drawn pointing at it where I have added "!!!?"

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3d

Well, of course it has to be Cellar Door.
bsky.app/profile/eibh...

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d

Name your Fav Non-American Film.

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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 3d

Today is 2025-10-09, the sun sets at 17:41:56 (18:41:56 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 36 mins and 13 secs. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 4d

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 3d

Clear proof that Starmer's Labour is progressive.

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