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Ben Walsh
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One of Dublin's great pintmen
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The occupied West Bank is undergoing a sharp escalation, with Israeli forces expanding their offensive in and around Jenin while continuing the ethnic-cleansing operation in Tubas that began yesterday. Al Araby TV’s Jenin correspondent said Israeli troops surrounded a home in the Jabal Abu Dhahir...
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Our neighbours are doing their Hillaire Belloc thing at the worst possible moment. Folks, there is nothing worse than nurse. Starmer is not the good cop. You can't threaten me with someone who isn't Starmer.
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Every time I listen to "Heartworm" I get punched in the chest for the first time again @pagep195.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Cover Reveal!

“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.

How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.

Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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As always, the West will dismantle itself for Israel's genocide. Now the UK is openly replacing impartial judges days before important Palestine cases wrap up, without any explanation or clarification. Any pretense of fairness in the legal system is gone.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable
I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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RIP Margaretta D'Arcy, pictured outside the Dáil, June 2025, aged 91. [pic: Rose Comiskey]
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Loved him as Roger de Carnac in "Robin of Sherwood"
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
William Reville retiring from the Irish Times to spend more time with his phlogiston and humours
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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However low your expectations are of VdL, she never fails to disappoint. A disaster for the EU, on every level.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Governments and administrations plan in years; states plan in decades. And the obvious planned model for the UK, Europe, USA and others is 'Israel Everywhere': fortress states secured by militarised borders where 'intruders at the gates' can be murderously laid waste because not-people, not-life.
On both sides of the Altantic, within and without bodies like the UN, EU and NATO, developed countries are eager to return to Hobbes's State of Nature as pretext for their response to climate crisis, and Israel is useful for establishing the worst of what states can get away with in that paradigm.
This is only a failure if you assume the purpose was to prevent genocide and uphold the international legal framework. If instead the purpose all along was to give America whatever it demands with a minimum of domestic political damage, then I’d say it’s been at least a partial success.
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Hugo Chávez - "They are cowards! They bomb innocent people...How COWARDLY is the army of Israel!"
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"BusConnects" dwindled into a half-assed bus-stop redesign project so predictably. Stop traffic turning onto Whitworth Road from St Patrick's Road so the F Spine can function? Lol no. Any updates after that triumphant launch in October? Fuck off.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This guy asked this question in 2016 and was literally never heard from again.
February 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Keir Starmer's Israeli handler, genocidal terrorist Shimon Tubul, deputy mayor of Beer-Sheba, said last night on Israeli Channel 14: ״We had a golden opportunity to erase this thing called Gaza! Every day to kill 100–150 thousand of them״
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM