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@corrigab.bsky.social
Have an interest in politics. Like being informed on global events.
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We have to protect and support this woman
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to protect and support this woman
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I did a very fun live event with the brilliant @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social YEARS ago just post lock down when everything felt very weird and we both forgot about it - and when he saw my novel being announced he remembered - it's out now shows.acast.com/9d5c107b-68d...
Patrick Freyne | The Blindboy Podcast
I chat with the hilarious and kind Patrick Freyne, who is an author,musician and journalist
shows.acast.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I did a very fun live event with the brilliant @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social YEARS ago just post lock down when everything felt very weird and we both forgot about it - and when he saw my novel being announced he remembered - it's out now shows.acast.com/9d5c107b-68d...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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The time he saw a big fly
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The time he saw a big fly
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This really deserves *much* more media attention! Cannot remotely be squared with carbon budget commitments: it is *planning* to fail!
Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This really deserves *much* more media attention! Cannot remotely be squared with carbon budget commitments: it is *planning* to fail!
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YOU FUCKING WHAT
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
YOU FUCKING WHAT
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
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There's an opportunity for some company board to be truly revolutionary and ditch their high paid CEO and replace them with ChatGPT. Y'all think AI is so good... go do it! Think of the stock bump! The Street will love it! Goooooo ooonnn!
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
There's an opportunity for some company board to be truly revolutionary and ditch their high paid CEO and replace them with ChatGPT. Y'all think AI is so good... go do it! Think of the stock bump! The Street will love it! Goooooo ooonnn!
A very good summary of the current state of American politics.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A very good summary of the current state of American politics.
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This is real life now I guess
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is real life now I guess
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There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.
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Speaking of the Pro-Cathedral, my favourite funny story about my Dublin granny.
Before he died leaving her a widow with five young children in England during the war, Granpa had given her a fur coat which was her prized possession. Nobody in the family had ever had a fur coat before...
After the
Before he died leaving her a widow with five young children in England during the war, Granpa had given her a fur coat which was her prized possession. Nobody in the family had ever had a fur coat before...
After the
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Speaking of the Pro-Cathedral, my favourite funny story about my Dublin granny.
Before he died leaving her a widow with five young children in England during the war, Granpa had given her a fur coat which was her prized possession. Nobody in the family had ever had a fur coat before...
After the
Before he died leaving her a widow with five young children in England during the war, Granpa had given her a fur coat which was her prized possession. Nobody in the family had ever had a fur coat before...
After the
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My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy.
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy.
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
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All four Fine Gael MEPs voted with the far-right: Nina Carberry, Regina Doherty, Seán Kelly, Maria Walsh
Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly also sided with the far-right
The centre-right abandoned talks with the greens, centre-left and liberals on an alternative deal
Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly also sided with the far-right
The centre-right abandoned talks with the greens, centre-left and liberals on an alternative deal
EU conservatives vote with far right to approve cuts to green rules
The outcome highlights the EPP’s willingness to abandon its traditional centrist coalition allies.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
All four Fine Gael MEPs voted with the far-right: Nina Carberry, Regina Doherty, Seán Kelly, Maria Walsh
Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly also sided with the far-right
The centre-right abandoned talks with the greens, centre-left and liberals on an alternative deal
Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly also sided with the far-right
The centre-right abandoned talks with the greens, centre-left and liberals on an alternative deal
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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*Shivers down spine*
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
*Shivers down spine*
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Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
While agreeing in the round,
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
The History of Europe: Every Year
YouTube video by Cottereau
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Astonishing video, worth watching in full.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Immigration is NOT the cause of all our problems, and allowing that argument to become the focus of political debate means that racists are creating an imaginary enemy that you’re agreeing to fight.
How do you fight someone else’s imaginary enemy?
#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm
How do you fight someone else’s imaginary enemy?
#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm
Immigration is not a metric you can use to win over racists.
There is no number that is right for them. That’s not the point.
The point is to have someone to blame for problems they don’t intend to fix.
Fascists win votes by promising to solve problems caused by an enemy only they can defeat.
There is no number that is right for them. That’s not the point.
The point is to have someone to blame for problems they don’t intend to fix.
Fascists win votes by promising to solve problems caused by an enemy only they can defeat.
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 5:04 PM
Immigration is NOT the cause of all our problems, and allowing that argument to become the focus of political debate means that racists are creating an imaginary enemy that you’re agreeing to fight.
How do you fight someone else’s imaginary enemy?
#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm
How do you fight someone else’s imaginary enemy?
#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm
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I am going to lose my fucking mind!
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
A total of 213,738 people spoiled their vote in the recent Presidential Election, and questions remain as to why so many people chose to do so, writes Juliette Gash.
Size of spoiled vote the elephant in the room of election
A total of 213,738 people spoiled their vote in the recent Presidential Election, and questions remain as to why so many people chose to do so.
www.rte.ie
November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I am going to lose my fucking mind!
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
One more time:
THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…
(YOU GUESSED IT!)
SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES
It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick
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I'll call it here and now - those in the IPAS centre will face more "serious consequences" than those who attacked it.
The recent rhetoric of O'Callaghan, Harris et al has paved the way for this attack, but no-one in media or politics will call them out.
The recent rhetoric of O'Callaghan, Harris et al has paved the way for this attack, but no-one in media or politics will call them out.
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan has promised there will be "serious consequences" for those found responsible for the attack
'Terrifying' fire at IPAS centre caused by fireworks thrown into building
www.dublinlive.ie
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I'll call it here and now - those in the IPAS centre will face more "serious consequences" than those who attacked it.
The recent rhetoric of O'Callaghan, Harris et al has paved the way for this attack, but no-one in media or politics will call them out.
The recent rhetoric of O'Callaghan, Harris et al has paved the way for this attack, but no-one in media or politics will call them out.
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My other idea is so far from formed it’s only a question.
Why- when we have example after example of it being political suicide, including Starmer’s Labour just next door- do centre right parties all keep doing the same Chase The Far Right move?
Why- when we have example after example of it being political suicide, including Starmer’s Labour just next door- do centre right parties all keep doing the same Chase The Far Right move?
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My other idea is so far from formed it’s only a question.
Why- when we have example after example of it being political suicide, including Starmer’s Labour just next door- do centre right parties all keep doing the same Chase The Far Right move?
Why- when we have example after example of it being political suicide, including Starmer’s Labour just next door- do centre right parties all keep doing the same Chase The Far Right move?