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beebsymca.bsky.social
Happy Easter.
Here's the time my dog met the Easter Bunny aka a very disgruntled teenager who may or may not have put the trouser part of his costume on back to front.
Saw him after, with his head off, having a smoke out the back. 😂
Good job this was only for dogs.
Charlie the dog and a person dressed as the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny costume is badly fitted and the rabbit tail is at the front rather than the back so it looks like a tiny willie.
April 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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sheena-mck.bsky.social
Today is also the day of the much forgotten St Gertrude of Nivelles - Patron Saint of cats 😻
#StPatricksDay #cats
March 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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soozuk.bsky.social
Here is a DM I received on Twitter after posting the thread. ER NINETEEN-NINETY-NOPE M8!
November 19, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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soozuk.bsky.social
🧵This is the story of THE WORST GIG I've EVER done.

NYE 2018. I posted on Facebook about what a fab year I’d had, donned my best lashes and set off for my last gig of the year: singing pop to 80 people at a pub in Essex. Easy, easiest of gigs and paying sweeeet dollar.
November 19, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
Insane to read this in The Times in October 2024. 14 years after the Bloody Sunday inquiry. Qualifying it with a single reference to the Savile Report - which debunks and refutes every single word of this account - as being "far more critical" does not cut it. This is outrageous.
From an obituary for Mike Jackson, head of the first parachute regiment: During a disturbance in Londonderry after a civil rights march, shots were fired by 1 Para. Thirteen people were killed and another 13 wounded, one of whom subsequently died. Edward Heath, the prime minister at the time, set up a public inquiry under the lord chief justice, Lord Widgery. The inquiry promptly concluded that shots had been fired at the soldiers before they started the firing that led to the casualties and that, for the most part, the soldiers acted as they did because they thought their standing orders justified it, and that although there was no proof that any of the deceased had been shot while handling a firearm or bomb, there was a strong suspicion that some had been firing weapons or handling bombs in the course of the afternoon. Blair went on to say that new material had since come to light, including ballistic and medical evidence. In his autobiography, Jackson wrote of “a confused situation” that day, and that in the early evening, back in the disused factory that was their base for the operation, “it was becoming clear that there had been a large number of fatalities”. Jackson had been with the commanding officer, Derek Wilford (obituary, November 27, 2023), on the streets and had heard shots fired at the Paras before they themselves opened fire. Nevertheless he “was left with some very mixed and worrying feelings. I imagine that others in the battalion felt the same. I hated the thought, as some commentators would state straight away, that our soldiers might have lost control. It would be very unprofessional to have done that … I knew these men, and I knew their quality. So far as I was concerned the Paras were tough, but they were disciplined. I found it difficult to accept that there could have been any mass breach of discipline … The question remains whether the response of some of our soldiers was proportionate or not, considering the nature of the threat.”
October 17, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
A colloquial (and sadly outdated) German version of “let’s go” or “let’s get this show on the road” is Satteln wir die Hühner. It means “Let’s saddle the chickens!”

* Read on for more international phrases for World Chicken Day (warning: contains fowl language)…
October 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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ianfraser.bsky.social
Why has the freeport evangelist Shanker Singham been having so many meetings with UK government ministers? Even by the standards of the out-going Tory government, this is an extraordinary tale of below-the-radar lobbying or skulduggery. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Revealed: Freeport lobbyist met Government ministers 50+ times
On election eve, government tries to bury a slew of ‘extraordinary’ disclosures… Early last year I was reading transparency releases of ministerial meetings - yes, I do that for fun - and something ca...
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July 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
This made my day.
My post: Back in 2011 I was commissioning [sic] to create a drawing for the stage winner in Exmouth in the Tour of Britain. The favourite was Mark Cavendish and I was excited I might get to shake his hand. In the end he generously ceded the stage to his mate Mark Renshaw. Still exciting. Mark Renshaw’s reply (I didn’t @ him): It's hanging in my gym! A special victory and an amazing gift. Thank you.
July 7, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
May 22, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops.

It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…

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May 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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“Before you croque” was right there
A Food & Wine feature titled “8 French Sandwiches to Eat Before You Die”
April 16, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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fensterdj.bsky.social
March 31, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
I made y'all a Good Friday cake.
Cake with the European style depiction of Jesus in a corner and puff frosting reading "BRB"
March 30, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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anonopin.bsky.social
People who think Jerusalem should be our National Anthem haven't realised the first verse is just a bunch of questions, all of which have the answer "No"
March 20, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
gardai should shop around, there's no way that's worth that much
March 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
This is exactly what she meant.
March 13, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I'm scared of 12.5%. It's just one innate fear I have.
February 26, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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paulduane.bsky.social
Just when I think I've heard the worst of what Catholic Ireland perpetrated on kids, a friend's dad who went to a religious boarding school comes out with some genuinely upsetting stories he's never told anyone. The generational trauma inflicted on this country by religion is beyond belief.
February 26, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
I wrote this on the deadening grind of fake accounts, bots, scams and fraud that the internet - and, increasingly, the offline world - has now become. The future is here and it's a boring hellscape.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: If it feels like scams are thick on the ground - it's because they are
When I began writing this piece, I realised I hadn’t had a spam call in a while, and promptly received one five minutes before I sat down to write this very sentence.
www.irishexaminer.com
February 10, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter.

Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".
February 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
Reminder to new users here:

The fax machine was patented in 1843, the Samurai were formally abolished in 1867 and Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. All of which means there was a 22 year window where a Samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
February 7, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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lamhfada.bsky.social
"Previously most famous for staging a hunger strike so short-lived it amounted to little more than a late lunch, Bryson had managed to outdo even his own sterling reputation for self-administered humiliation."

Lulz.
seamas.bsky.social The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Feb 3
I've often said the one good thing about being from Northern Ireland is that you're not instinctively scared of Northern Irish people. So, this week I try to explain what's happening with Stormont, what went on before, and what might come next. With jokes.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: A working Assembly is better than nothing - I won't hold my breath
"Any hopes I had about Northern Irish politics being reliably normal died around that time, even if blips of competence and — whisper it — progress appeared on the radar here and there."
www.irishexaminer.com
February 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
I've often said the one good thing about being from Northern Ireland is that you're not instinctively scared of Northern Irish people. So, this week I try to explain what's happening with Stormont, what went on before, and what might come next. With jokes.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: A working Assembly is better than nothing - I won't hold my breath
"Any hopes I had about Northern Irish politics being reliably normal died around that time, even if blips of competence and — whisper it — progress appeared on the radar here and there."
www.irishexaminer.com
February 3, 2024 at 9:29 AM