Safie Maken Finlay
@safiemf.bsky.social
Author of The Frozen Man // Screenwriter // Autistic // Doesn't Feed the Trolls
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
I've never encountered an Irish election so limited in scope.
Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues.
Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues.
This must be how a 2-party system feels
#speirgorm
Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues.
Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues.
This must be how a 2-party system feels
#speirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I've never encountered an Irish election so limited in scope.
Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues.
Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues.
This must be how a 2-party system feels
#speirgorm
Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues.
Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues.
This must be how a 2-party system feels
#speirgorm
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"It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage."
Robert Frost
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage."
Robert Frost
October 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage."
Robert Frost
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage."
Robert Frost
I return to Twitter occasionally, out of hopeless nostalgia.
It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.
It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I return to Twitter occasionally, out of hopeless nostalgia.
It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.
It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.
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Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.
October 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.
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I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
Is our problem social media itself or the fact that social media has been weaponized to polarize and disrupt?
September 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Is our problem social media itself or the fact that social media has been weaponized to polarize and disrupt?
If Trump could pass a law stating that it was illegal to do anything that upset the dear leader, he would. And a big portion of the MAGA crowd would most likely go along with it.
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If Trump could pass a law stating that it was illegal to do anything that upset the dear leader, he would. And a big portion of the MAGA crowd would most likely go along with it.
US publications, can I suggest that you temporarily replace paywalls with donation requests when it comes to articles of political significance?
Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.
Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
US publications, can I suggest that you temporarily replace paywalls with donation requests when it comes to articles of political significance?
Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.
Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.
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I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…
The late-night show has been pulled 'indefinitely' over comments its host made about the man accused of killing the conservative activist on.ft.com/4mpJxSN
September 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…
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Never thought the name “Jimmy Kimmel” would be accompanied by a physical chill passing through my bones.
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Never thought the name “Jimmy Kimmel” would be accompanied by a physical chill passing through my bones.
RIP #RobertRedford
Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, Sundance Film Festival founder and environmental activist, died on Tuesday. He was 89. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
September 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
RIP #RobertRedford
Can I ask, if you follow 40,000 people or more, why are you doing that? Doesn't it make your social media feeds a pile of messy sludge.
September 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Can I ask, if you follow 40,000 people or more, why are you doing that? Doesn't it make your social media feeds a pile of messy sludge.
Very informative. The parade of far right lunatics lining up to embarrass Ireland on a global scale should know that their power would be restricted to throwing tea parties and causing the occasional legislative delay.
With the Irish presidential election coming up, I've recorded a short video explaining the role of the president. I do hope Conor McGregor sees this and learns a thing or two.
#Áras25 #IrishPresident #IrishPresidentialElection
youtu.be/pqNw1y-DaU4?...
#Áras25 #IrishPresident #IrishPresidentialElection
youtu.be/pqNw1y-DaU4?...
The Irish Presidency Explained
YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Very informative. The parade of far right lunatics lining up to embarrass Ireland on a global scale should know that their power would be restricted to throwing tea parties and causing the occasional legislative delay.
Is there a browser that does what Google used to do before it sabotaged itself? A browser that just searches the Internet and provides the most relevant results? I'm so sick of wading through AI bullshit and advertising.
August 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Is there a browser that does what Google used to do before it sabotaged itself? A browser that just searches the Internet and provides the most relevant results? I'm so sick of wading through AI bullshit and advertising.
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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
The weirdest thing about this US administration is that everything that happens is, at the same time, completely predictable and utterly astounding.
June 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The weirdest thing about this US administration is that everything that happens is, at the same time, completely predictable and utterly astounding.
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I'm Not A Robot | Award-Winning Short Film | Comedy, Sci-Fi
YouTube video by HYST
youtu.be
May 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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After an absence, a reply I made to a post was randomly liked by a series of strangely over-obvious bot accounts that only post pictures of kittens and sunsets.
Are they the only people still here.
Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?
Are they the only people still here.
Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?
May 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
After an absence, a reply I made to a post was randomly liked by a series of strangely over-obvious bot accounts that only post pictures of kittens and sunsets.
Are they the only people still here.
Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?
Are they the only people still here.
Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?
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I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
forward.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
Is Trump manipulating the stock markets on purpose to make money out of them?
April 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Is Trump manipulating the stock markets on purpose to make money out of them?
Glass raised 🥂
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
April 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Glass raised 🥂