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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 11h

It's before the halfway point of the month, but spooky season names are go.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 17h

It's the "Who?"-dad-comment-under-story-on-a-popstar of journalism.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 17h

Bluesky never stops never stopping.

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 19h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 19h

My hatred for their hair-conforming space helmets and my desire for a bike helmet that doesn't smoosh any attempts at a good hair day is a hypocrisy tinted with jealously, and I am okay with that.

Picture of The Shi'ar from XMen showing both their stupid helmets and their pine tree hairstyles.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 20h

I hate the Shi'ar. Every time they appear my interest craters.

I especially hate their silly metal hoods.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 20h

Obviously the whole Phoenix concept was just created and I'm sure was not expected to be the big thing that it's become since, so there was no required reverence to treat it with or anything, it's just funny in hindsight.

Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 20h

I think it's just that I'd built up my expectation of finally actually starting to read the phoenix saga, only to be immediately landed six pages later into a couple of issues of odd 70s paddywhackery featuring the Juggernaut fighting leprechauns inside a castle basement in Mayo.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 20h

As an Irish person who has recently tried to catch up on all things XMen, this was very jarring to me mainly knowing about the classic storyline through the 90's cartoon:

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · May 12

I'm working my way through the XMen comics and I was very caught off guard that as soon as Jean becomes the Phoenix, the whole team is packed off for a mandatory holiday in Ballina, Co. Mayo.

A page of XMen 102 showing the team arriving in Ireland on an Aer Lingus plane before travelling by convertable car to Mayo.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 21h

Nuapurista kuulu se polokan tahti
Jalakani pohjii kutkutti
Ievan äiti se tyttöösä vahti
Vaan kyllähän Ieva sen jutkutti
Sillä ei meitä silloin kiellot haittaa
Kun myö tanssimme laiasta laitaan
Haia haia haia haia
Haia haia ha haia

a girl in a purple shirt is smiling and holding a green object

Alt: an animated girl in a purple shirt is smiling and spinning a leek

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 21h

a bunch of hamsters and bears are lined up in a row on a white background

Alt: The Hamster Dance webpage

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 22h

Wonder where the freemason thing came from, as I've not heard from that contingent in a while.

Is there a source* for the accusation or is it just cross-pollination of bogeymen?

(* Relative to what they normally come up with in these regards, obviously not asking for a legitimate, grounded reason)

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 22h

A group of people have turned up to Catherine Connolly’s canvass in Naas asking about Enoch and Elijah Burke.

They have asked Connolly if she’s a Freemason…

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 22h

He's the build up that's gotten to me. As you said it's been a short campaign but it feels like it's been going on forever since before the candidates finalised.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 22h

Remember when Flatley was being floated as a candidate. Feels like years ago.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 22h

I have to say I'm looking forward for #aras25 to be over and done with at this point.

I do enjoy my politics but it's late in the year now and I'm rather tired of reading headlines.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 1d

Never judge an image by its caption.

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 1d

Bad things are only relevant while the very worst incidents of it are ongoing.

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 1d

Vote on Israel's participation in Eurovision postponed in wake of ceasefire

The EBU was due to hold an extraordinary general meeting of its members in November to enable a vote on Israel’s participation amid deepening divisions among its members.

dlvr.it

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 1d

Just filled my brown bin up again with the very last of the 8ft tall bramble patch that I've been hacking away at periodically over the past month. The cats can finally sit on the garden walls and survey their realm again.

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Seánted 👻 @fiercemilder.com · 1d

It's very important to understand just how much geopolitical power is currently held by a guy who is going around loudly announcing how he's seeing the Antichrist around every corner.

(He has also recently claimed to see the Antichrist in Greta Thunberg)

Grandpa Abe Simpson screaming at Maggie thinking she is Death

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 3d

Very refreshing to see a left wing politician not treat this question like some kind of minefield that needs to be carefully negotiated

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions