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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 12h

Anne Bronte defense squad assemble

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 1d

Asian hornets in Northern Ireland? No

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 2d

I was so excited when I got it!

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 2d

Confirmed that my great granny was born out of wedlock in a Catholic family and was adopted by a protestant Scottish woman and her husband in Derry.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 2d

Solved the family mystery, didn't I? Feel like Davina

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 3d

Beside myself seeing the tractor rides

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 3d

Don't know who's more excited up here, the parents or the kids

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 5d

Got my ancestral regions on Ancestry and apparently someone in my family made it to Munster

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 5d

When did landlords become a protected class?? We did this when my partner sold his house. Nothing wrong with it.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 5d

Jim Allister is a (v good ) Barrister & has said multiple times that he would have no qualms taking the case of an IRA person if he was approached because the cab rank rule is fundamentally part of the legal system here.
JIM ALLISTER.
So quit with this angle about Catherine Connolly, it’s a smear

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 5d

Fairly sure the group involved here also protest outside the homes of migrants and were outside the home of a family friend. MLAs outside Alliance who talked about legitimate concerns when protests happened aren't mentioning that today.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 5d

I do freelance writing and commentary as a side hustle because of Twitter. Also made lots of great friends.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

The older generation lived through it. For some young people it's a vibe, which is incredibly depressing

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

You tie yourself in awful knots trying to justify the history of this place and justifying one set of murders over the other. It makes the moral grandstanding that follows stick in your throat.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

These perspectives exist within ni and have more support than ppl think. I think we have to learn to live with each other, understand why believe this and understand why violence happened. Still difficult tho.Ppl who supported violence need to get why people vehemently disagree.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 6d

Opportunity for Greggs to give these a specific name in NI and we can all turn it into an Atlas Obscura "weird things to do in NI" tourism bit

Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

Joining the TUV if the Protocol bans Greggs vegan sausage rolls

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

Boom!

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 6d

Joining the TUV if the Protocol bans Greggs vegan sausage rolls

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA