Phil
@phlytecase.bsky.social
Enginerd, rock god, lefty rugby dad
Ice cold headline from the BBC
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'Scotland spurn chance of immortality in loss to New Zealand'
Tom English reflects on Scotland's
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November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ice cold headline from the BBC
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Ireland 10 debate is back on so
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ireland 10 debate is back on so
Lookit, we were well beaten. But this fucking farce happening 3 minutes in didn't help
Detail on the decision to rescind the Beirne red card
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Lookit, we were well beaten. But this fucking farce happening 3 minutes in didn't help
A lot of disappointment doing the rounds after last night, and understandably so. I had hoped Farrell would have started succession planning far earlier, but I do think it's worth noting how well Tommy O'Brien and Paddy McCarthy played for their second and first caps
#IrevNZ
#IrevNZ
November 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A lot of disappointment doing the rounds after last night, and understandably so. I had hoped Farrell would have started succession planning far earlier, but I do think it's worth noting how well Tommy O'Brien and Paddy McCarthy played for their second and first caps
#IrevNZ
#IrevNZ
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I'll start by saying I thought he was grand.
But if Sam misses a kickable pen, puts on out on the full under no pressure, misses touch from a penalty in his 22, kicks a free kick up in the air deep into the 22 for a mark, and gives away a pen trying to beat a player with no support - CRUCIFIED
But if Sam misses a kickable pen, puts on out on the full under no pressure, misses touch from a penalty in his 22, kicks a free kick up in the air deep into the 22 for a mark, and gives away a pen trying to beat a player with no support - CRUCIFIED
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I'll start by saying I thought he was grand.
But if Sam misses a kickable pen, puts on out on the full under no pressure, misses touch from a penalty in his 22, kicks a free kick up in the air deep into the 22 for a mark, and gives away a pen trying to beat a player with no support - CRUCIFIED
But if Sam misses a kickable pen, puts on out on the full under no pressure, misses touch from a penalty in his 22, kicks a free kick up in the air deep into the 22 for a mark, and gives away a pen trying to beat a player with no support - CRUCIFIED
Oh, so it's the throat slitting haka, is it?
Cool.
Cool.
a man wearing headphones is saying i would love it if we beat them
ALT: a man wearing headphones is saying i would love it if we beat them
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November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Oh, so it's the throat slitting haka, is it?
Cool.
Cool.
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
FIA clearly trying to manufacture a dramatic climax to the season by looking they other way so that Max stays in the hunt. Basically the opposite of last year when they penalised him for everything in the hope Norris would catch up
#notasport anymore, sadly
#notasport anymore, sadly
Lewis Hamilton felt aggrieved at his 10-second penalty in Mexico City, while others were not punished for taking to the grass.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
FIA clearly trying to manufacture a dramatic climax to the season by looking they other way so that Max stays in the hunt. Basically the opposite of last year when they penalised him for everything in the hope Norris would catch up
#notasport anymore, sadly
#notasport anymore, sadly
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Less than a quarter of the electorate voted for the parties of our Taoiseach/Tánaiste combi, but I haven't seen endless attempts to analyze the deepest desires of the other 75% of the electorate and how the system could be improved to better represent them.
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Less than a quarter of the electorate voted for the parties of our Taoiseach/Tánaiste combi, but I haven't seen endless attempts to analyze the deepest desires of the other 75% of the electorate and how the system could be improved to better represent them.
When the talking heads talk about the movement around spoiled votes, they need to be questioned, explicitly, about the racism on the spoiled ballots, asked if they condone it, and if that's who they are claiming to represent
A lot of the spoiled ballots I saw while tallying were very explicitly and forcibly racist. When the talking heads from Iona and Aontú say that FF and FG need to court their votes, that is who they are talking about.
The girls at the count centre were laughing at all your pathetic spoiled ballots, btw.
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
When the talking heads talk about the movement around spoiled votes, they need to be questioned, explicitly, about the racism on the spoiled ballots, asked if they condone it, and if that's who they are claiming to represent
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How many times do they have to tell us who they are before we believe them?
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Aontú fires youth leader and five others over secret racist WhatsApp chat group
Aontú has sacked the leader of its youth wing and dismissed five other members after it learnt of the existence of secret WhatsApp groups where some Ógra Aontú members posted racist and antisemitic c...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
How many times do they have to tell us who they are before we believe them?
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You know, if I was Taoiseach while more than 5,000 children are homeless, I might put my energy into something other than having a tantrum about the presidential election.
I might also consider the expense of a fix-my-tantrum-referendum and where that money might be better spent.
I might also consider the expense of a fix-my-tantrum-referendum and where that money might be better spent.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Oireachtas may have to look at changing the process by which a person gets on the ballot in presidential elections, which he described as "restrictive".
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Taoiseach suggests referendum on changing 'restrictive' process for getting on presidential ballot
One in eighter people spoiled their votes.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
You know, if I was Taoiseach while more than 5,000 children are homeless, I might put my energy into something other than having a tantrum about the presidential election.
I might also consider the expense of a fix-my-tantrum-referendum and where that money might be better spent.
I might also consider the expense of a fix-my-tantrum-referendum and where that money might be better spent.
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By failing to even get nominated for the Presidency while another independent candidate scored a record victory, I have of course been proven right
October 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
By failing to even get nominated for the Presidency while another independent candidate scored a record victory, I have of course been proven right
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This was unique circumstances for spoiled vote: no anti-gov candidate anywhere on the right, loud online campaign, week of riots. It’s still going to end up with less than half the vote Peter Casey got as a similar protest. The “political earthquake” here is the thumping victory for the united left
October 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This was unique circumstances for spoiled vote: no anti-gov candidate anywhere on the right, loud online campaign, week of riots. It’s still going to end up with less than half the vote Peter Casey got as a similar protest. The “political earthquake” here is the thumping victory for the united left
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John Collison is a businessman who’s good at making money for himself. If you’re a businessman interested in making money for John Collison then you should listen to him. If you’re not a businessman interested in making money for John Collison then his opinion is no more important than anyone else’s
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
John Collison is a businessman who’s good at making money for himself. If you’re a businessman interested in making money for John Collison then you should listen to him. If you’re not a businessman interested in making money for John Collison then his opinion is no more important than anyone else’s
@dublincitycouncil.bsky.social
Is this appropriate behaviour for a sitting councillor?
Is this appropriate behaviour for a sitting councillor?
Phil Sutcliffe, Dublin county councillor, and former boxer should have been hit in the head less (or more)
October 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Is this appropriate behaviour for a sitting councillor?
Is this appropriate behaviour for a sitting councillor?
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Any last minute takers ? #LEIvMUN ill even throw in one ticket for free, get four pay for three and save me an absolute ball ache of day worrying about a car pissing coolant, a removal, one child not going and another who perptually says no to everything anyway 🥴#Leinster #Munster
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Is it even a rivalry when only one team ever wins?
I can't even say it's not a good graphic... the league's marketing has been annoyingly on point this season...
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Is it even a rivalry when only one team ever wins?
You don't even need to #smearthebejaysus out of Ivan Yates. The true stuff about him is all awful. Get this feckin fraud off our airwaves
Yates praises Thatcher/Reagan for slashing welfare and promoting self-reliance. He's been taking public pension since he was 43. He'd taken €250,000 by 50. He still gets €75,000 pa, and will for life. Funded by citizens who work for fractions of that.
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Yates nets €240,000 from pension before age of 50
FORMER Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates earned more than €240,000 in pension payments before the age of 50, the Irish Independent can reveal.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You don't even need to #smearthebejaysus out of Ivan Yates. The true stuff about him is all awful. Get this feckin fraud off our airwaves
Catherine Connolly doesn't indicate on roundabouts
#smearthebejaysus
#smearthebejaysus
October 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Catherine Connolly doesn't indicate on roundabouts
#smearthebejaysus
#smearthebejaysus
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#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...
October 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...
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The Bar Council have been put in the position of having issue a statement correcting the false claims in both the IT and the Indo that Connolly took cases by choice when in fact she was meeting her professional and legal obligations as all barristers do.
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Statement from the Council of The Bar of Ireland: The fundamental importance of an independent referral Bar - Law Library
It is the duty of barristers to be independent and free from any influence, especially such as may arise from their personal interests or external pressure, in the discharge of their professional duti...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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