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Aislinn
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27 ⚢ 🇮🇪 citizen & 🇺🇸 expat. Aspiring archer & swordswoman. Apprentice barista. Writer of unfinished tales and sometime poet. Swiftie. Mark Hamill & AOC stan. Social Democrat. Tá cúpla focal agam.

https://linktr.ee/imnotmerida
Pinned
Nollaig shona daoibh ó Eirinn! Go raibh do lá lán le lúcháir agus síocháin. ☺️
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December 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🥳 Still aiming to get my score to 20 by the one year mark! (just under a week remaining!)
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Now I want to be a penguin
🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them.

🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
December 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Jeff is a national treasure
"BIG STRONG" MAGA MORONS WITH "TEARS IN THEIR EYES" PULLED SO MUCH DUMBFUCKERY THIS YEAR THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE ME THREE ENTIRE POSTS JUST TO DOCUMENT IT ALL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO PART ONE OF MY VERY POWERFUL SERIES "THIS YEAR IN STUPID." LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/49vqL9w
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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If you want our politics to change, it is IMPERATIVE that you become a different kind of voter:

1) become an OBSESSIVE primary, local & off-cycle voter

2) research every candidate and don’t rely on what commercials tell you about them

3) show up at events where candidates speak & debate
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It's time for those end of the year lists, so I will be posting essentially random lists from now till the end of 2025!

Aislinn's favorite apps of 2025:

Vivaldi
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve
Notion
Photoshop
Adobe Express
Duolingo
Fastmail

#BestOf2025
December 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Why is my feed suddenly filled with bible quotes and other religious posts? This has been happening over the past week or so, and the vast majority are not Christmas-related.
December 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials.

No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
December 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This is called “confabulation.” His broken brain is convinced that everything he is saying is true. (It’s not the same as lying, which he also does on a regular basis.)

What a horrific situation the US is in with this damaged person as its ruler.
Trump: "It's funny, I settled 8 wars. Some were going on for 35 years. And we got them settled in a couple of days. Some of them -- one was going on for 37 years. I settled it in one day. But this is a very complex one."
December 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
So beautiful! I do miss snow …
A walk through the woods on a snowy day
December 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This is what I’ve been talking about for months now:

GOP lawmakers are trying to figure out how to reclaim their power after ceding it all to the White House.

The problem? They’re cowards, and most of them are just going to resign instead.

thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Congress looks to reclaim relevance after ceding power to White House
Frustrated lawmakers are looking to 2026 in the hopes that they can reclaim some of the power many fear they’ve ceded to the White House under President Trump. Over the course of 2025, the Trump ad…
thehill.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3
CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."
shorturl.at
December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Trump's black hand is painted up today

(Joe Raedle/Getty)
December 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Love her
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."
December 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
7 days should be enough time for people who don’t know how ugly she was on the inside to get it out of their system
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
For those posting memorials to Brigitte Bardot: you may want to learn something about her views on race, homosexuality, Islam, and the far right 🤨
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Achievement unlocked
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Describe your BlueSky account in a single image
December 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What exactly is "leftover cheese"?
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I am a very big fan of SM that's not controlled by malevolent billionaires. The Fediverse is very different to places like Bsky, FB, IG, and certainly ex-Twitter — it might suit you if you're looking for places to explore and a quieter experience.

social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11...
Fedi.Tips 🎄 (@FediTips@social.growyourown.services)
Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse? Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about using this place! There's no such thing as a silly question, it's fine to ask abou...
social.growyourown.services
December 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The box says “Welcome to Cork” in Ukrainian and “Welcome to Kyiv Park” in Irish ☺️

www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
December 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
December 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Actually, it's exactly the duty of an artist. To take a stand through their art.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Everyone should be following Robert Reich
I’m receiving an increasing number of messages from some of you who are concerned about me. Please don’t be. I’m not going to stop speaking out. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/please-dont-worry-about-me
Please don’t worry about me
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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If there was any justice left in our "Justice" system, Kilmar Abrego Garcia would get awarded enough money that he could buy and rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Department of Defense, the Kennedy Center, and bulldoze Trump's bullshit ballroom.

apnews.com/article/kilm...
Federal judge to hold hearing on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being vindictively prosecuted
A federal judge has canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in its human smuggling case...
apnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM