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Artist 🏳️‍🌈 / Lil guy enthusiast 🪲🦇
Iconically fatigued, chronically intrigued ♿️🌻

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heyoitsmeridian.bsky.social
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#pigeons #mixedmedia
mixed media art of a pigeon with words that reads "i am glad birds do not understand fascism" continuation of mixed media art of pigeons drinking from water fountains, receiving medals but history later saying they did not, looking at bird proofing on buildings, and being called "filthy, diseased, useless, and in the way" with "..." for words on this one continuation of mixed media art that reads "i think birds understand fascism"
January 25, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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iccl.bsky.social
Reporting by @thejournal.ie has consistently highlighted this issue.

Trans and non-binary people should be in a position to access general health care and gender-affirming services with no differential treatment.

www.thejournal.ie/free-hrt-sch...
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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iccl.bsky.social
ICCL Senior Policy Officer, Olga Cronin, appeared on RTÉ today to discuss our very serious concerns with the Justice Minister's proposal to give Gardaí profoundly intrusive surveillance powers, which include the use of covert software to intercept digital communications ➡️ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Powers for Gardaí to spy on phones
Olga Cronin, Surveillance and Human Rights Senior Policy Officer with The Irish Council of Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Christy Galligan, retired Garda Sergeant.
www.rte.ie
January 21, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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taryndevere.bsky.social
Let me get this right, our Government thinks the reason we have a housing crisis is because landlords can't charge enough rent?
Higher rents is their solution. Remind me again how many of them are landlords?
news.rte.ie RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d
The Government has defended the new rent rules due to come into force on 1 March, saying that a balance must be struck between strengthening tenants' rights while also increasing investment.
Govt defends rent rules due to come into force in March
The Government has defended the new rent rules due to come into force on 1 March, saying that a balance must be struck between strengthening tenants' rights while also increasing investment.
www.rte.ie
January 25, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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yayforbicycles.bsky.social
Nothing innovative is needed. It's all been suggested but ignored. The problem is too many cars. Give buses priority bus lanes. You can't have taxis & cars in bus lanes & expect buses to be on time. Contactless payments speed up entry. Put more buses on routes. Make the bus journey faster than car.
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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foodandwater.bsky.social
The data center boom is giving Big Tech oligarchs even more control of our society – and making them richer while our climate, water and utility bills suffer. We can’t let these reckless corporations erode our people power!
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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covid19disease.bsky.social
⚠️ BREAKING:

Airports Across Asia Reinstate COVID-Style Health Checks After Deadly Nipah Virus Outbreak in India; Thailand, Nepal & Taiwan Step Up Screening to Prevent Spread
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
The evidence is crystal clear: killing off nature helps kill off rural communities.

Bringing back nature through rewilding helps bring back life to rural communities.
share.google/7JNi3kdpUvsE...
Population collapse threatens future of GAA clubs across Iveragh and rural Kerry
Council members warn planning restrictions and infrastructure gaps are hollowing out rural Kerry communities and threatening schools and GAA clubs
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January 26, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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pantibliss.bsky.social
"When cars come first, everyone loses"
Ireland's dangerous roads: When cars come first, everyone loses
Sadhbh O’ Neill says that the reduction of road deaths in Ireland is being strangled by a lack of political courage.
jrnl.ie
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM
elmsoup.bsky.social
I just want to add to the helmets vs drivers discourse to say that in my head to toe high visibility gear, helmet, reflective gloves, and ample bike lighting, I have not had even one safe journey to work where a motorist did not try to run my over - in fact it's usually MULTIPLE TIMES per commute
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d
“The notion that ever more garish clothing will compensate for distracted driving is a convenient fiction. No amount of fluorescent fabric can counteract the motorist scrolling on their phone or the driver travelling too fast.”

Sophie McDermott
#cycling #driving #danger #roadsafety
Letter to Irish Times The notion that ever more garish clothing will compensate for distracted driving is a convenient fiction. No amount of fluorescent fabric can counteract the motorist scrolling on their phone or the driver travelling too fast.
January 25, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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lleyksie.bsky.social
let’s be primitive horses with mama
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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snastablasta.bsky.social
I think if they came up with a decent design to replace it..but what was suggested was a bland office-type building. Character > blandness?
January 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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samimarkart.bsky.social
preorders of this sticker design are up, 100% of profits donated to Midwest Immigration Bond Fund ❤️

www.microbiomearts.com/product/preo...

#bsnm
illustration of two pink dahlias, a passion flower, and a monarch butterfly flying above text that reads “SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS”
January 24, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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kameronhurley.com
Oh look, another book nook! Phenomenal way to channel stress into creative work.
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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queershedsdlr.bsky.social
Us posting this at 4 am
Squinty cat in the dark illuminated by a flash light.
January 22, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I've been saying to get rid of your ring for years, but SERIOUSLY. Get rid of your ring!!!
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
All those who wrongly believe that nature collapse might be 'sad', but won't really affect them in any way, badly need to wake up.

Nature isn't just 'nice to have'.

Planet Earth is only liveable – for *us* too – due to the regulating effects of natural ecosystems.
share.google/NoVLRatfUoH5...
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
share.google
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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pantibliss.bsky.social
Here's something most of you don't know:

You all know intersex people

I used to think I didn't know any too, but when (by accident or design or circumstance) you become the kind of person people feel comfortable talking to about these things, some of them will tell you. And your world gets bigger
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5d
"A story of sex and identity to make you gasp" [Times]
A story of sex and identity to make you gasp TV review James Jackson The film follows Jim, who was christened Kristi and raised as a female Next image › The Secret of Me Channel 4 ★★★★☆ The most remarkable moment of the documentary The Secret of Me came right at the end when a middle-aged man named Jim finally came face-to-face with Dr Carter, who had surgically made him a girl shortly after birth in 1976. Why? Because the baby’s phallus size “was nowhere near the size of a penis you’d expect on an infant” (so said the doctor). This was a well-intentioned decision, green-lit by the parents, but the fact that “Kristi”, as Jim was christened, then spent years as a very confused girl because the truth was kept secret from her (under medical advice) now looks little less than cruel. Yet the confrontation between Jim and Carter was notable for its tentative civility. The doctor, while explaining why the decision was taken in the baby’s best interests, admitted that “in retrospect it was wrong”. Jim’s intensely personal story, told directly into the camera, was the upshot of what happens when science all too readily accepts a single wonderful theory — one, as it would turn out, based on bogus research. In the 1960s the academic Dr John Money’s idea that an individual’s core gender identity is shaped in their early years, and isn’t something innate, essentially resulted in countless intersex babies undergoing these operations — ones described in this film as “genital mutilation”. Surgery at birth for babies with ambiguous genitalia isn’t banned in most countries (including the UK). Jim, now in his fifties and hirsutely male, clarified right at the start: “I know what you’re thinking — this is a transgender story. But it’s not.” He wasn’t born into the wrong body, but the right one. It was the doctors who decided he should be female.
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 AM
elmsoup.bsky.social
I'm too autistic for this community, this whole time I thought it was pinge like "ping-gEH" even AFTER all the comments comparing it to cringe compilations :(
January 17, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
there’s a very simple solution to avoid fines: do not violate rules set to protect the rights and safety people
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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news-flows-ir.bsky.social
Row over scope of George Nkencho inquest as coroner to deliver list of witnesses

Post-mortem results revealed George Nkencho died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso
Row over scope of George Nkencho inquest as coroner to deliver list of witnesses
Post-mortem results revealed George Nkencho died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso
www.irishmirror.ie
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
elmsoup.bsky.social
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing & sharing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same?
I've signed this petition calling for the government to stop X allowing their chatbot Grok to ‘digitally undress’ women and share sexualised and illegal photos of children. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM