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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Like the elves, as his light fades, he must travel west, to Undying Lands in Valinor . . . or, y'know, Galway.
virginmedianews.bsky.social Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · Nov 10
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.

Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.

#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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sarklor.bsky.social
Once again delighted that the Irish people went with the option that was cool af
Michael D Higgins in front of a ramp on a stunt bike Catherine Connolly doing keepy uppies with a football
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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niamhroisin.bsky.social
This might be my favourite historical ad
Ad in a magazine comparing the efficacy of mowers to Napoleon’s campaigns across Europe, with the mowers coming out on top
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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rvbdrm.com
Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.
A man in a suit walks across a stadium floor carrying a large wooden cross on wheels. The stands are full of people, a big screen shows musicians performing, and a banner overhead reads “Building a Legacy, Remembering Charlie Kirk.” Fox News logo is in the corner.
September 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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lizdye.bsky.social
BREAKING: Judge Stephen Merryday strikes Trump's complaint against the NYT for being hot garbage — that is, for making a mockery of the rules for concise and precise pleading in federal court.

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Even under the most generous and lenient application of Rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible. The pleader initially alleges an electoral victory by President Trump “in historic fashion” — by “trouncing” the opponent — and alludes to “persistent election interference from the legacy media, led most notoriously by the New York Times.” The pleader alludes to “the halcyon days” of the newspaper but complains that the newspaper has become a “fullthroated mouthpiece of the Democrat party,” which allegedly resulted in the “deranged endorsement” of President Trump’s principal opponent in the most recent presidential election. The reader of the complaint must labor through allegations, such as “a new journalistic low for the hopelessly compromised and tarnished ‘Gray Lady.’” The reader must endure an allegation of “the desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass” and an allegation that “the false narrative about ‘The Apprentice’ was just the tip of Defendants’ melting iceberg of falsehoods.” Similarly, in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, “‘The
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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reuters.com
Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.
September 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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mjhaugen.bsky.social
This is amazing, but it also shows why parrots should not be kept as pets
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 12
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A new #painting sold last month. "Clew Bay Boat" came out of a day cycling by the County Mayo bay when I was arrested by the yellow presence of Girl Catriona somewhere near Murrisk. As I have a soft spot for Nephin I stood so the boat lined up with the mountain, then said, yes. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Bottom half of the painting is the bay with the little yellow fishing boat just right of centre. It is facing left and has a wheelhouse at the back, its top half white and bottom the yellow-orange of the hull. Tied to its rear it has two dark little shapes like boats floating behind it. Orange seaweed is floating in clumps in the foreground, thicker closer to the bottom right corner. The bay is rendered in millions of short horizontal strokes of pale blue, aqua, lilac and mid blue, causing a rippling effect - except in the foreground around the seaweed where it is a brighter flatter pale teal, and also on the far side of the bay where narrow bands of pale blues stretch horizontally the full width of the painting. The land on the far side of the water is a horizontal band of green of flat drumlins basically, some of which are peninsulas and some of which are islands in the bay. The main piece has fields of bright green sloping down to the water to the right slightly, and they are separated by parallel hedgerows of a darker green. Behind that hill is a sliver of paler green undulating hills and behind than on the left edge are a couple of purple rounded hills but further back dominating the upper third of the painting is the mountain of Nephin, a blue pyramidal stand alone mountain with a rounded peak. It is slightly off centre to the right, ultimately directly in line with the boat. The sky is a watery sunny sky of pale blue and white mixed into a smokey cloudy effect, generally more blue higher up and paler closer to the mountains. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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julianhoffman.bsky.social
An extraordinary evening at the Triethnés Music Festival in the old quarry of Mikrolimni above Lesser Prespa Lake the other night, including the remarkable polyphonic songs of ΧΑΟΝΙA. Their voices carried us across this borderland region in several languages. So powerful, so beautiful.
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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nihilamacabre.bsky.social
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House

wtaf
September 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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bcdreyer.social
The fun thing about hanging up the phone is that it's not merely a remnant of the pre-cellphone era, it's a remnant of this:
a wall-mounted crank phone
September 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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clodaghtait.bsky.social
Did someone in Cork order an 'Assumption into heaven'?
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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nathantankus.bsky.social
My new Politico Op Ed is live! Will send it out to my email list after I pick up lunch.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | Why Markets Aren’t Freaking Out Over Trump’s Attack on the Fed
And why that’s a big mistake.
www.politico.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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adrianweckler.bsky.social
ChatGPT’s estimation of the amount of energy / data centre power used for a single generative video AI prompt from your phone
August 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
It’s only in the video for a second but one of the cats being the conductor is really amusing me
A cat in the front of the tiny subway
August 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Today we took our five borough tour to Staten Island, which too often has been caricatured or ignored.

The truth is that the story of Staten Island is the story of New York — a city built by generations of immigrants, where everyone wants to be able to afford a dignified life.
August 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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lataco.bsky.social
DAILY MEMO: ICE Brutalizes and Sends High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids to Hospital

@eltragon.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
So within 2 weeks Musk is already digging the hole for his Teslas-only tunnel in Nashville even as his executives show they have no understanding of the geology?

Cool, cool. Not shady at all, @GovBillLee!

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August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Have yourself a #painting. "Renvyle Coast" came out of a summer day cycling in the west of Ireland, specifically in north connemara where I was entranced by the view from the Renvyle peninsula over past the mouth of Killary and on to County Mayo. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze
Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. Turquoise sky with white stylized cloud mass with pale lilac-grey shadow on underparts. A bright teal bay comes in from the left. Foreground in bottom right has single-storey pink cottage with slate roof of purple-grey beside small green fields with maroon & dark blue bushes and hedges. Behind the cottage lower down a small crescent of a warm orange strand close to right edge of the painting receives the bay. Behind it is a small headland with a clay cliff of ochres with purple shadows angled downwards, and topped with lime coloured grass. The strand at its base is a cream colour. Beyond the headland is a large sloping violet mountain running from the top right corner to where the horizon meets the left edge half way up the picture. Behind it are mountains receding, a rounded purple-pink one, behind it a conical grey one, and behind it an undulating pale blue mass. Signed bottom left in dark blue on teal ocean, Liam Daly
July 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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ernekid.bsky.social
He’s so good at this.
August 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
NYTimes tomorrow: Trump Unveils Unique White House Update During Spirited Diplomatic Visit, Some Constitutional Scholars Claim Concern
August 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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niedermeyer.online
On "Full Self-Driving," BWS unloads: "These names are beyond misleading... giving wrong directions is misleading, but telling someone up is down is... just gaslighting." It "obliterates" the line in J3016.

Tesla tries to strike, and is overruled again. Devastating stuff here, and they know it.
July 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.
July 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM