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Reggie Perrin
@reggieperrin.bsky.social
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Belfast resident and native, decrying the world’s worst foibles from beyond a shingle beach. Old-school community artist, ceo, protest poet and song-maker, disabled flaneur & anti-fascist, https://conorcommunity.blogspot.com/?m=0 #communityarts #cev #L4
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After this most recent IOS 26.1 update, I will not be buying another apple iPhone! Even the most basic functions like searching online is now utterly perplexing. #byebyeApple #IOS26
December 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Carry on regardless says minister. But he might need some legal advice …
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NI education: Schools told to continue providing RE based on 'holy scriptures'
Paul Givan's letter follows a court judgement that the Christian focused RE taught in Northern Ireland was unlawful.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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@iloveliverpool.bsky.social what a start. VVD thinking he was playing volleyball on holiday!!
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The 'Independent' swallows #EDF #nuclear lobby line.
Fail to mention, Hartlepool Nuclear Power station supposed to close in 2009. It's 2025.
It has the worst graphite core cracking and mass loss of any of UK's reactors.
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Two UK nuclear power stations given further one-year extensions
Heysham 1 in Lancashire and Hartlepool in County Durham are now expected to generate electricity until March 2028.
www.independent.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Radio 4 conducting its own inquiry into the Covid inquiry this morning on Today - mauling Hallett’s findings and allowing now knowing Tories to take swipes. Their utter incompetence killed thousands and enriched their cronies with millions of tax payers money. It’s now in black and white! #bbcr4
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Dianne Dodds shamelessly thumbing her nose at the dead and grieving from Covid and the rest of us. Doubling down hubristically and underlining exactly what Hallet report indicated - our government couldn’t make the big decisions together for our community. #covid #hallett
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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TROY PARROT - Don’t stop believing!!
#FAI #FIFA #Ireland
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just when licence payers are threatened by Trump, the chippy, begrudging Tina Stowell, Baroness of BBC Bashing, lays into corporation with damning verdict on Charter bid, complaining of lack of diversity. Bit rich as it has improved immeasurably since she was in charge!
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Great night. Delighted to boss Real. Effort, unity, resolve. #YNWA @Lfc #UCL
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Start of a new series of blogs on community arts in Belfast and beyond #communityarts #sociallyengagedarts

conorcommunity.blogspot.com/2025/10/
CAPtain's Blog
This is a space where I can advocate for change. As a leader of an arts organisation and a campaign convenor, who has worked in the arts for 4 decades since being a young guitar player in a punk band,...
conorcommunity.blogspot.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Halloween on Falls Road, Belfast 1971.
Photographer Alen MacWeeney.
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Macca citing serious problems with the team , but on Wednesday he accused fans of being ridiculous in raising the same concerns. Slot doesn’t know his best team. And it’s definitely not the one he starts or finishes with!!
@tntsportsus.bsky.social @lfcr.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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So Steve Macmanaman slags off the opinion of fans whilst parroting much of their concerns. Nice one Stevie. #LFC #UCL #TNTSports1
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The Albanese Government has just approved its most polluting fossil fuel project yet - the North West Shelf gas expansion.

Share this video far and wide and hold this government to account.

And please Prime Minister, support communities - not corporations.

#AusPol

youtube.com/shorts/qi8ZE...
Communities Speak out - North West Shelf Approval
YouTube video by Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action
youtube.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo Awoniyi placed in coma after surgery.
He collided with the post in desperate bid to score Assistant ref didn’t flag for offside earlier in buildup w/with out . This delayed flag has now seriously affected his wellbeing. a##pgmol
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo Awoniyi placed in induced coma after surgery
Nottingham Forest forward Taiwo Awoniyi’s condition is not thought to be life-threatening after he was placed in an induced coma following urgent abdominal surgery
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Trump out-fascists an out and out fascist - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Giorgia Meloni whispers soothing words to Trump on ‘western nationalism’
The president and Italy’s prime minister spoke a common language – but for a discordant moment over Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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You need a licence and insurance to ride an e-scooter … who knew? #belfast www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
E-scooter rider banned for drink-driving in Londonderry
Dylan Kineton who admitted driving the scooter while drunk has been given a 12 month ban.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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#BOTD 1943. Remembering Canadian Singer, Songwriter, and Musician Richard Manual. (d.1986) #TheBand
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Cattle farmers would rather cop Trump’s tariffs than diseases from American beef #auspol www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Cattle farmers would rather cop Trump’s tariffs than diseases from American beef
Farmers have reacted defiantly as the US president singled out Australia’s beef in his trade crackdown as Albanese and Dutton say they would never compromise biosecurity.
www.theage.com.au
April 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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So the Orange 💩 decided to slap 10% on Ukraine but nothing on Russia.
Nothing …
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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British Labour government are taking the “swords to ploughshares” adage, and corrupting it to become “mobility scooters to tanks!”
A bitterly sad day for all true leftists @labouruk.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Solidarity with at least 11 journalists who have been detained in dawn raids in different cities by Turkish police on 24 March 2025 for doing their jobs.
www.ifj.org/media-centre...
Türkiye: Police detained at least 11 journalists in dawn raids as crackdown escalates / IFJ
Upated 25.03.25 At least 11 journalists have been detained in dawn raids in different cities by Turkish police on 24 March 2025. The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) join...
www.ifj.org
March 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows. The Doge in Chief (DIC) covers his Starlink tracks with usual subtlety.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows
Officials have begun large-scale destruction of classified documents, including using shredders and ‘burn bags’
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Well. What a fantastic performance from @lfcr.bsky.social. Phenomenal performance from Alisson. Phenomenal belief from the whole squad. #YNWA
March 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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cairenntairisu.bsky.social
Trump personally took over the Kennedy Center, claiming their shows were "terrible". When asked if he had ever gone and seen any shows there, he admitted that he never had.

This is the reaction of celebrities scheduled to play at the Kennedy Center - mass rejection of Trump.

Fuck Donald Trump.
BREAKING: Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center implodes in humiliating fashion as droves of talented celebrities abandon the legendary performing arts center in protest. Trump is radioactive with the people he wants to impress most... Actress Issa Rae announced on Instagram in a brief statement that she is cancelling her "An Evening With Issa Rae" event slated for next month. Tickets will be refunded. "Unfortunately, due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums, I’ve decided to cancel my appearance at this venue," she wrote. Trump made himself chairman of the center on Wednesday. Earlier this week he removed Biden appointees from the board and rammed in unqualified cronies including Second Lady Usha Vance and White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles. Mega-successful television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes — the woman behind hit shows like Grey's Anatomy, Bridgerton, and Scandal among others — resigned as treasurer of the center's board yesterday. She posted a quote from JFK on her Instagram: "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." Legendary soprano Renée Fleming resigned as artistic advisor to the center and while she avoided naming Trump, she praised David M. Rubenstein — the center's former chairman who was ousted. Singer and songwriter Ben Folds stepped down from his role as advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra, which the Kennedy Center oversees. "Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic adviser to the N.S.O. Mostly, and above all, I will miss the musicians of our nation’s symphony orchestra — just the best!" Folds wrote on Instagram. Adam Weiner of the band Low Cut Connie has also canceled an appearance at the center next month. "Upon learning that this institution that has run nonpartisan for 54 years is now chaired by Trump himself and his regime, I decided I will not perform there," he wrote on social media, adding that friends and fans were going to be "directly negatively affected by this administration’s policies and messaging." This is the kind of rejection that infuriates Trump more than anything. He has long wanted to be accepted by America's cultural elites. Instead, they see him for the cruel, fascist, ignorant, incompetent failure he truly is.
February 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM