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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 11h

I am in a mood I cannot easily identify. But it is making me neurotic and I am not enjoying it.

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 12h

Royal Mail is owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský, who could give less of a flying fuck what happens to the post in the UK.

NATIONALIZE WITHOUT COMPENSATION.

Royal Mail fined £21m for missing delivery targets
Story by Sarah Taaffe-Maguire, business and economics reporter • 4h

Royal Mail has been fined £21m for failing to meet delivery targets for the third year in a row and warned fines are likely to continue unless there's an improvement.

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 13h

Every crank complaint I've ever had about a green issue has turned out to be correct. I stay winning much to my own annoyance.

Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 1d

Why has some of the greenery in city planters been left to wither? The council hasn’t been able to find a contractor willing to take on the job of looking after these plants, a council official says.

Why has some of the greenery in city planters been left to wither?

The council hasn’t been able to find a contractor willing to take on the job of looking after these plants, a council official says.

www.dublininquirer.com

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Cuba has free trans healthcare, including surgeries, for 17 years now.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Doctor Hurdy Gurdy @notarealdoctor.bsky.social · 2d

Capitalism has taken everything from my generation.

Headline reading "Daddy Drought Hits Gay Community as Aging Millennials Grapple With Rising Cost of Sugar Babies." Subtitle reads, "Would-Be Daddy's Lack Means to Penetrate Gay Sugar Baby Market"

The headlines are superimposed over a young looking Twink with an older daddy

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm here to see a man about a herniated yoke" I'll have to say as I walk in.

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

I'll have to ask yer want in the shop for the "hernia special"

He'll get it!

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually amazing the kind of nonsense FF/FG (as well as the myriad losers & cranks associated with them) are coming out with to attack Catherine Connolly when Heather Humphries is objectively one of the most feckless & useless politicians the country has ever seen.

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprisingly, wildfire incidents skyrocketed under her watch, including a 700% increase in Kerry in the first quarter of 2015 relative to the same period in 14. These fires also occurred in Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas www.thejournal.ie/gorse-fires-... #Spéirgorm 3/n

Minister accused of being 'clueless' over wildfires

The Irish Wildlife Trust is not impressed with Heather Humphreys.

www.thejournal.ie

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, I've walked past his newer place, he's only a wee bit further up the road I think, may show him the photo see what he can do.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 1d

What great wrong has Ireland committed that Brian Leddin is getting to write an opinion piece on any female candidate for any position?

#spéirghorm #speirgorm

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

The Skelligs was also given as a location by the Irish state to Disney at no cost, out of their belief that some nebulous 'good will' was more useful than a big bag of American cash. Disney was very quick to agree.

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

She facilitated two weeks of filming on Skellig Michael for the Star Wars movies, during the height of the breeding season for the resident seabirds, despite objections from An Taisce and other environmental groups. Chicks from vulnerable species were blown into the sea by helicopter #spéirgorm 5/n

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

To anyone who knows anything about violins:

Is it worth repairing a cheap bastard violin where the sound post has broken through the front of the instrument? Or is that going to cost the same as just getting another cheap bastard violin?

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

Made the mistake of gently stretching while sat at my desk and I think I've managed to sprain or pull something in my chest.

I shouldn't, but will, let this get to me.

Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

The title of my first album or an exciting new hobby to be released unto the world.

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

Explaining to people that my violin has a hernia and that's why I have to treat it gently, before playing the screechiest sound known to man.

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

Horny but in a thoughtful and melancholy way today.

Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 1d

To anyone who knows anything about violins:

Is it worth repairing a cheap bastard violin where the sound post has broken through the front of the instrument? Or is that going to cost the same as just getting another cheap bastard violin?

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 2d

The EU wasn't a bystander. It was an active perpetrator by virtue of its members supplyimg Israel with arms to commit genocide.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

Perception of EU as bystander in Gaza war has badly damaged its reputation

Internal divisions stopped EU from putting any real pressure on Israel

www.irishtimes.com

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 2d

The whitewashing begins, I actually think a big driver for this ‘peace’ deal was to protect Israel from total ostracisation on the global stage, they should still be punished and made to account for their genocide

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

www.rte.ie

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 2d

Not only are these data centres devouring energy & water – and feeding the AI bubble that'll blow up our economy when it bursts – they're also wasting vast construction resources (human, materials & admin) that could instead be building homes, solar farms, wind farms etc.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns

Access to electricity and gas restricts because of risk of blackouts due to power-hungry sector

www.irishtimes.com

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 3d

The history of very right wing people holding secretive meetings in German castles to discuss "Restoring The Natural Order" in Europe isn't great.

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 3d

The Iona Institute isn't based on Iona, and isn't an institute. It doesn't pay tax as the authorities accept the claim that it isn't political😶. It has 3 columnists in the Irish press. Its foreign donors include weird organisations with Latin names and a pro Russia donor who served time for bribery.

Wikipedia screenshot.

Iona is closely linked with Agenda Europe; a secretive network of European ultra-conservative organisations which oppose LGBT rights, abortion, contraception, assisted reproduction technologies, surrogacy, euthanasia and divorce.[78][79]

The activity of the group was exposed in a leak to the television channel Arte in 2017; a cache of documents revealed that Agenda Europe was founded in a "strictly confidential" meeting in London in January 2013; that it held annual "summits" and that it has a common manifesto called Restoring the Natural Order: an Agenda for Europe.

The first summit was held in Fürstenried Castle, outside Munich in 2014. David Quinn attended and gave a talk on opposition to same-sex marriage.

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 3d

You're a star in the lefty boozer

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Bligeard the Satyr @tofusatyr.bsky.social · 3d

Spotted @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social in the wild

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 3d

A close up of kier Starmer, his mouth slightly open in erotic anticipation

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