Shaney Mac
@shane1mcc.bsky.social
Darker, gayer, different according to some. Scummy Irish according to others. Not a Murphy. Yes a Heathen.
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@shane1mcc.bsky.social
· Nov 24
President-elect Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.
www.nbcnews.com
Just to be clear, every single person with the right to vote who hasn’t voted for Harris/Walz did this.
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The government has spent billions on beach replenishment over the last four decades. But with worsening climate change, experts say more dramatic change is in order.
Floods and Storms Are Ravaging the Jersey Shore. Why Do We Keep Building It Back?
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The government has spent billions on beach replenishment over the last four decades. But with worsening climate change, experts say more dramatic change is in order.
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Visit Skåne launched its Stay Quiet campaign as a response to noise pollution.
Why Sweden is offering free stays in a silent forest cabin
Visit Skåne launched its Stay Quiet campaign as a response to noise pollution.
l.euronews.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Visit Skåne launched its Stay Quiet campaign as a response to noise pollution.
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McLaren driver Lando Norris wins first Formula One World Championship
McLaren driver Lando Norris wins first Formula One World Championship
Lando Norris has won his first Formula 1 World Championship after tight three-way contest with Red Bull’s Verstappen and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. Norris is now the first British driver to win the world title since Lewis Hamilton in 2020.
l.euronews.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
McLaren driver Lando Norris wins first Formula One World Championship
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I did it my way, says emotional champion Norris reut.rs/48VhbfH
I did it my way, says emotional champion Norris
In the end, Lando Norris won the Formula One championship his way.
reut.rs
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I did it my way, says emotional champion Norris reut.rs/48VhbfH
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Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base's waterfront.
Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing
Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base's waterfront.
We are at this point in humans are idiots history 🙄
Fckn chill, learn a language, learn a skill if you’re stupid enough to be bored. This is valuable time.
Fckn chill, learn a language, learn a skill if you’re stupid enough to be bored. This is valuable time.
The Nordic countries are no strangers to the long, dark winter. Despite little to no daylight, people who live in parts of northern Europe have learned how to cope mentally and physically with the annual onset of the winter blues.
Nordic people know how to beat the winter blues. Here's how to find light in the darkest months
The Nordic countries are no strangers to the long, dark winter. Despite little to no daylight, people who live in parts of northern Europe have learned how to cope mentally and physically with the annual onset of the winter blues.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We are at this point in humans are idiots history 🙄
Fckn chill, learn a language, learn a skill if you’re stupid enough to be bored. This is valuable time.
Fckn chill, learn a language, learn a skill if you’re stupid enough to be bored. This is valuable time.
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@moderation.bsky.app
Bluesky, why hide this post and label it intolerant. It is specifically criticizing trump for his failure to release the Epstein files, files that may implicate him in the sexual assault and trafficking of multiple underage girls. This is not intolerance, it’s public interest.
Bluesky, why hide this post and label it intolerant. It is specifically criticizing trump for his failure to release the Epstein files, files that may implicate him in the sexual assault and trafficking of multiple underage girls. This is not intolerance, it’s public interest.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@moderation.bsky.app
Bluesky, why hide this post and label it intolerant. It is specifically criticizing trump for his failure to release the Epstein files, files that may implicate him in the sexual assault and trafficking of multiple underage girls. This is not intolerance, it’s public interest.
Bluesky, why hide this post and label it intolerant. It is specifically criticizing trump for his failure to release the Epstein files, files that may implicate him in the sexual assault and trafficking of multiple underage girls. This is not intolerance, it’s public interest.
That’s strange cos NYT and WaPo are total arselickers, and Fox, well…
What did they do, whistle in church? Pissed in trolland dump’s slippers?
What did they do, whistle in church? Pissed in trolland dump’s slippers?
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
That’s strange cos NYT and WaPo are total arselickers, and Fox, well…
What did they do, whistle in church? Pissed in trolland dump’s slippers?
What did they do, whistle in church? Pissed in trolland dump’s slippers?
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We've got a jam-packed Eco-Update this week. A community coalition fighting data centers in Arizona, the impacts of climate warming on boreal tree species, and an eco-fiction review. All free to read at the link 👇🌎🧪🌐🏡
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www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-...
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www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-...
No Desert Data Centers, climate impacts on boreal forests, and the quiet eco-horror of Rebecca Campbell's The Other Shore
The Eco-Update #22
www.briefecology.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We've got a jam-packed Eco-Update this week. A community coalition fighting data centers in Arizona, the impacts of climate warming on boreal tree species, and an eco-fiction review. All free to read at the link 👇🌎🧪🌐🏡
🧵 (1/4)
www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-...
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www.briefecology.com/p/no-desert-...
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Help!
Book almost finished. Going on Kindle any day.
How can I have a launch without any budget, get it in front of the right people? .
#writing #speirgorm 🌱🦋🌎
Book almost finished. Going on Kindle any day.
How can I have a launch without any budget, get it in front of the right people? .
#writing #speirgorm 🌱🦋🌎
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Help!
Book almost finished. Going on Kindle any day.
How can I have a launch without any budget, get it in front of the right people? .
#writing #speirgorm 🌱🦋🌎
Book almost finished. Going on Kindle any day.
How can I have a launch without any budget, get it in front of the right people? .
#writing #speirgorm 🌱🦋🌎
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This latest entanglement - and partial disentanglement - makes the news. Interesting piece by Mary Landers.
From the photos this juvenile whale is in poor condition
🐳🌍🦑
From the photos this juvenile whale is in poor condition
🐳🌍🦑
In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast - The Current
A team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources disentangled a four-year-old male North Atlantic right whale, nicknamed Division, from commercial fishing gear after two days of exhausting and ...
thecurrentga.org
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This latest entanglement - and partial disentanglement - makes the news. Interesting piece by Mary Landers.
From the photos this juvenile whale is in poor condition
🐳🌍🦑
From the photos this juvenile whale is in poor condition
🐳🌍🦑
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How do you have that much money and still look like shit?
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
How do you have that much money and still look like shit?
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"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
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Even if you don’t care about sex workers losing one of the few voices in public life that spoke for instead of over them, you should 100% care that they were refused funding for not toeing the line of the parties in government.
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding. Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an…
sexworkersallianceireland.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Even if you don’t care about sex workers losing one of the few voices in public life that spoke for instead of over them, you should 100% care that they were refused funding for not toeing the line of the parties in government.
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
Imagine if IFPA were unfunded until FFG changed their minds on abortion
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I'd forgotten I made this, gets funnier every time
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'd forgotten I made this, gets funnier every time
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I don't understand why so many powerful people hate & harm us so much every day in so many facets of life. Even in Ireland which has escaped much of the bs going on in the UK&US nearly 40% of trans people have attempted suicide. The ambivalence, malaise & inaction hurts most. We don't deserve this!
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don't understand why so many powerful people hate & harm us so much every day in so many facets of life. Even in Ireland which has escaped much of the bs going on in the UK&US nearly 40% of trans people have attempted suicide. The ambivalence, malaise & inaction hurts most. We don't deserve this!
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Pharrell Williams confirmed as another world famous multi-millionaire who chose to live in a house that looks like it should be called the North Strabane Esat-Digifone Retail Hub & Business Park.
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pharrell Williams confirmed as another world famous multi-millionaire who chose to live in a house that looks like it should be called the North Strabane Esat-Digifone Retail Hub & Business Park.
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Opinion: AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.
The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin
AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.
www.technologyreview.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Opinion: AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.
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the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV alone triggered a massive layoff wave of more than 50,000 (!) people.
But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed.
Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?
But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed.
Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?
After 50,000 Layoffs And Absolute Chaos, AT&T Ends Its Bungled Media Experiment
You might recall that AT&T spent nearly $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV, believing this would turn the dodgy old phone company into an innovative new media juggernaut. But desp…
www.techdirt.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV alone triggered a massive layoff wave of more than 50,000 (!) people.
But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed.
Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?
But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed.
Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?
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Remember DOOM in Space? Recently CrunchLabs had a thing where you could upload a photo and they would take a "selfie" of that photo in space.
So of course I had to use a DOOM in Space photo.
Now it's DOOM in Space ... in Space.
So of course I had to use a DOOM in Space photo.
Now it's DOOM in Space ... in Space.
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Remember DOOM in Space? Recently CrunchLabs had a thing where you could upload a photo and they would take a "selfie" of that photo in space.
So of course I had to use a DOOM in Space photo.
Now it's DOOM in Space ... in Space.
So of course I had to use a DOOM in Space photo.
Now it's DOOM in Space ... in Space.
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EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US
US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
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!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban.
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban.
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.
#speirgorm
Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...