Sophia Grene
@sophiagrene.bsky.social
Too tired to do much, but interested in so many things.
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Wow. This twist would give you compo worthy whiplash.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wow. This twist would give you compo worthy whiplash.
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Wondered what the UK government would try next to curb asylum seeker arrivals? Read my story about what Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood looks set to announce on Monday: on.ft.com/3LHQLoI
UK poised to reduce settlement rights for many asylum seekers
Home secretary’s proposal would limit permanent residence to those refugees who could prove they had been personally targeted
on.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wondered what the UK government would try next to curb asylum seeker arrivals? Read my story about what Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood looks set to announce on Monday: on.ft.com/3LHQLoI
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"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Irish government's conception of being "good Europeans" and "pulling our weight" on the International scene apparently precludes military neutrality but apparently does not preclude ending support for refugees of the war in Ukraine
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Irish government's conception of being "good Europeans" and "pulling our weight" on the International scene apparently precludes military neutrality but apparently does not preclude ending support for refugees of the war in Ukraine
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We’ll see. There is a lot involved in running the world. Good luck to them developing the range of sandwiches we have. Or even getting up to the top bunk to sleep.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We’ll see. There is a lot involved in running the world. Good luck to them developing the range of sandwiches we have. Or even getting up to the top bunk to sleep.
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Biggest news for the place since it lost its amateur status ...
Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral as the official Catholic Cathedral Church of Dublin - making it the first in the capital in over 500 years.
jrnl.ie/6874736
jrnl.ie/6874736
Pro-Cathederal designated as cathederal by pope
It is the first Catholic cathedral in the capital in over 500 years.
jrnl.ie
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Biggest news for the place since it lost its amateur status ...
The evil they are doing in so many directions is incalculable.
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s governor and senators.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The evil they are doing in so many directions is incalculable.
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What Americans don't understand is 'crassly forgetting Northern Ireland' is a core part of British culture, like cueing and only being able to communicate via laconic understatement.
No. No. It's absurd enough to think this for Americans, but fucking Brits!? Do you not know your own history!? Part of the country was in a civil war!
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
What Americans don't understand is 'crassly forgetting Northern Ireland' is a core part of British culture, like cueing and only being able to communicate via laconic understatement.
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Might be of help today.. #speirgorm
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Might be of help today.. #speirgorm
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Come work with me
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Come work with me
This goes for Ireland too.
Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This goes for Ireland too.
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Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
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It's not a war, it's a systematic slaughter of a captive civilian population.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It's not a war, it's a systematic slaughter of a captive civilian population.
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
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STOP THE BOATS!!!
Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union
Post-Brexit record in Irish passport applications from UK
Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
STOP THE BOATS!!!
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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What the actual fuck have I just read
If you don’t know, an Italian journalist has revealed he has evidence that wealthy people from multiple countries paid money to Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s so these people could shoot Bosnians during the siege of Sarajevo.
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What the actual fuck have I just read
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Get the Catholic church out of everywhere but their own chirches - schools, hospitals, the lot.
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers. n.pr/4hTblhM
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers.
n.pr
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Get the Catholic church out of everywhere but their own chirches - schools, hospitals, the lot.
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They hit Pomona hard today. Across the Southland they are kidnapping 60+ people every week from bus stops, grocery stores, or just off the street. They took a flower seller today.
The disappearances in Los Angeles continue. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood in East L.A., not far from the part I grew up in. It is a majority Mexican/Central American heritage community.
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
Worker at Boyle Heights auto shop taken by immigration agents
A manager at an auto mechanic shop was taken by federal immigration agents Thursday morning in Boyle Heights, according to rapid response teams.
boyleheightsbeat.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
They hit Pomona hard today. Across the Southland they are kidnapping 60+ people every week from bus stops, grocery stores, or just off the street. They took a flower seller today.
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I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
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"Men have it so hard."
Lol what? I often feel like I'm living on Easy Mode.
"We're not allowed to show emotions."
I cried in front of my family and friends when I got overwhelmed and no one thinks lesser of me b/c I surround myself w/ good ppl.
"Can't get a gf."
Skill issue. Married for 15y.
Lol what? I often feel like I'm living on Easy Mode.
"We're not allowed to show emotions."
I cried in front of my family and friends when I got overwhelmed and no one thinks lesser of me b/c I surround myself w/ good ppl.
"Can't get a gf."
Skill issue. Married for 15y.
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Men have it so hard."
Lol what? I often feel like I'm living on Easy Mode.
"We're not allowed to show emotions."
I cried in front of my family and friends when I got overwhelmed and no one thinks lesser of me b/c I surround myself w/ good ppl.
"Can't get a gf."
Skill issue. Married for 15y.
Lol what? I often feel like I'm living on Easy Mode.
"We're not allowed to show emotions."
I cried in front of my family and friends when I got overwhelmed and no one thinks lesser of me b/c I surround myself w/ good ppl.
"Can't get a gf."
Skill issue. Married for 15y.