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mpunch.bsky.social
@mpunch.bsky.social
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Irish Astrophysicist in Paris (and sometimes Florence).
Worried about lots of things, currently: Climate change, wars on Ukraine / Gaza / Rationality...
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teslatakedownuk.bsky.social
Any friends across the Irish Sea want to take up the TeslaTakedownEire handle?

#Ireland
#TeslaTakedown

www.irishtimes.com/motors/2026/...
Tesla to open new north Dublin showroom as Model 3 price drops to €32,984
New Charlestown hub opens this autumn as EV pricing battle intensifies
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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moranstephen1000.bsky.social
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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wereontheditch.bsky.social
To call Chaim Herzog a hero is less about the past than the kind of politics our leaders wish to obstruct in the present – a politics of solidarity that sees continuity between the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and ongoing genocide in Gaza today.

www.ontheditch.com/comment-in-t...
Comment: In this house, Chaim Herzog is a hero
It is the likes of Martin, not the council nor its representatives, who are engaged in a “denial of our history".
www.ontheditch.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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pantibliss.bsky.social
I had the real pleasure of having lunch with Miriam Margolyes today, and as we left the restaurant, an old man started playing Hava Nagila loudly on his phone and calling Miriam a “self hating Jew!” - presumably for her stance on Palestine. It was upsetting but she brushed it off, undeterred
October 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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berlinnaeus.bsky.social
Irish Examiner...
#Aras25 #FeckOffIona
Maria Steen tells us that she knows her decision to put herself forward to run in the presidential election will affect her children. It might also affect mine. I don't want a President who believes my daughter has too many rights. Bernie Linnane Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.

New York Times tomorrow
September 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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lydiamulvey.bsky.social
a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event

*turns slowly to look at camera*

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
JP McManus to seek an extra €30m in taxpayer funds for 2027 Ryder Cup
Billionaire businessman has already received €58m in public money towards Adare Manor event
www.irishtimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)
September 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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maryannechisholm.bsky.social
Reminder:

Article Il Section 4: If the president is impeached for treason, the vice president and all civil officers shall be removed.
September 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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mbonsma.bsky.social
This one has LAYERS
“I was driving down the road when all of a sudden I looked up from my phone and saw this guy walking in the lane right in front of me, when there was a perfectly good sidewalk right next to him,” said one eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous because his driver’s licence is currently suspended for a DUI. “Right as I was about to lay on my horn and scream at him and threaten to kill him and his entire family, I noticed that the sidewalk was actually full of cyclists riding on it and the bike lane was blocked by a parked car. Well, I say car but does a cybertruck count as a car?” The pedestrian said that having to walk in the road was an added insult to injury, as they were only walking because their bus never showed up. The pedestrian also did not want to be identified for fear of being accused of vandalizing the parked cybertruck. “I wasn’t trying to, I just had to lean on it for support as I stepped over a garbage bag and then the whole back panel fell off. I would have tried to put it back on but the exposed wires immediately started sparking up.”
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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mattsteinglass.bsky.social
Probably the most horrifying of the possibilities I’ve read so far is that the people in the boat were migrants being smuggled out of Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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shreyascodes.tech
gluing batteries in phones should be illegal

I have a perfectly functioning phone, all it needs is a new battery but now I'm scared it will blow up because someone decided it's okay to glue it

and the same companies don't give chargers in the box because "eco friendly"
September 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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molliekatzen.bsky.social
Today marks 10 years since we lost the great, dear Oliver Sacks.
His words, his life, his spirit...his love...live on.

May you rest in music, good doctor.
August 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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radlein.bsky.social
Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services
August 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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lucagalletti.bsky.social
Crankin’ it up on a 3-string shovel guitar.

YT: Justin Johnson
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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gspeng.bsky.social
It's not just a few organizers. Everyone who has ever studied map projections knows this fact. It's a fact, not an opinion.
August 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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titimetz.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=3hGp...
Bonjour
Klaus Nomi
C était un contre ténor qui a décidé de mélanger classique et variétés.
Ca a choqué
La c est plutôt classique
Il est mort a 39 ans du sida
Ce morceau est de l opera de Purcell King Arthur.
Klaus Nomi_The Cold Song (live)
YouTube video by mickmarks
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August 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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turnleftmedia.co.uk
EXCLUSIVE 🚨 | Our very own Ben Mclaine sat down with @sangitamyska.bsky.social for her first interview since leaving LBC.

Premieres tonight at 7pm, do not miss 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlrH...
August 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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hmcevansoneya.bsky.social
Dermot Desmond doesn't know anything about public transport or AI, I understand the financial pressures that lead to papers printing press releases but this is, like, utterly worthless
August 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM