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Caitríona Shanahan

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She/her//sí/í. Done working around the world, happy to be back home in the gorgeous Kingdom of Kerry, ensconced in Munster, the true home of northern hemisphere rugby. Lucky to have such wonderful niblings who keep me in touch with this 21st Century stuff.


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Jess Whitecroft's avatar Jess Whitecroft @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage says he's politically revolting, which might be the only true thing he's ever said.

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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The Grand Drawing In's avatar The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social
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Today is 2024-07-05, the sun sets at 20:53:23 (21:53:23 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 47 mins and 40 secs. #GrandStretch #SummerSthretch

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Patrick Monahan's avatar Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com
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VANILLA: uninspired, plebeian FRENCH VANILLA: avant-garde, sophisticated… maybe even a little dangerous??

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Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
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Too few ordinary state-funded schools invest in the game, despite the character-building, socialising and networking advantages that exposure to rugby gives boys who go far. Some form of state subsidy is called for to spread rugby down into the middling middle class.

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merritt k's avatar merritt k @merrittk.com
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digital music: yeah. that makes sense. you turned it into zeros and ones. i can Understand that vinyl records: youre telling me that you have imprisoned the soul of sound in this piece of plastic and can summon it on demand by striking it with a diamond. sure buddy

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Sergio 📷🔭🌲's avatar Sergio 📷🔭🌲 @sergiospototo.bsky.social
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Finally had a few days with clear skies, so while i'm getting on it again, leave this photo i made of Altaír, the brightest star of Aquila, the eagle constellation. A very young star, "only" 16yl far from us. Wish you an stellar weekend ahead!!✨📸🔭
#astrophotography #photography #nature

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Jen Donohue's avatar Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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Pretty Good Mike's avatar Pretty Good Mike @prettygoodmike.bsky.social
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i like bsky because it’s a diverse melting pot of numerous psychiatric disorders

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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪'s avatar ✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social
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The bartender says "sorry, we don't serve faster than light particles here." Two tachyons walk into a bar. The punchline comes before the joke You know what the worst thing about time travel jokes is?

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✨ 🌙 Ƥαηɗα 🎀🧟‍♀️🍓🧚🏼‍♀️'s avatar ✨ 🌙 Ƥαηɗα 🎀🧟‍♀️🍓🧚🏼‍♀️ @pandathecelestial.bsky.social
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If the earth was actually flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now 🙄

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FK's avatar FK @funkelly.bsky.social
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can we have a cat president? If we can have dog mayors surely we can have a cat president

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Emmaeli's avatar Emmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social
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Portrait of Langston Hughes by Gordon Parks Chicago, 1941

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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Richard 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #ClimateAction #RejoinEU's avatar Richard 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #ClimateAction #RejoinEU @richardfbpe.bsky.social
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The Green Party now has 4 seats, the same number as Reform. I wonder who will get more TV coverage.

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Frances Meh's avatar Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews
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ok but hear me out: sleep

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 's avatar Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Bringing lynx home to Ireland wouldn't just help revive ailing ecosystems.

Sharing the land again with this exquisite cat would add a spark of frisson to our own lives, expanding our imaginative universe into new realms.

Let's do this. #Rewilding 🌍

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Andrew's avatar Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social
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Fucking hell - the BBC still giving prominence to Farage in its coverage when the Greens have won the same number of seats.

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Andrew's avatar Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social
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From a Portillo perspective, Labour has rendered itself safe enough for the voters of both Chelsea and Kensington.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)'s avatar Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

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Ali Garfinkel's avatar Ali Garfinkel @aligarchy.bsky.social
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so disappointed after seeing this photo & realizing that's a third llama in the back & not the arm of the right llama ringing a little bell

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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Thursday Purrsday art show! If you are a working artist on bluesky, reply to this post between now and 9 pm EST with your (non-porn, non-violent, non-AI generated) cat art and I will repost it! 🐈‍⬛

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Sophie Bee's avatar Sophie Bee @pogform.bsky.social
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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid

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Unofficial AP News (World) Bot's avatar Unofficial AP News (World) Bot @apnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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Larry the cat poised to welcome Britain's next prime minister

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Natalie Haynes's avatar Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
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🧵 It’s election day here in the UK, so here is a coin from the first century BCE, depicting an election during the Roman Republic. On the back of the coin you can see a really clear image of a man dropping his voting tablet into a cista, or basket. Numismatists have identified

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Tobin Elliott 's avatar Tobin Elliott @tobinelliott.bsky.social
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This may or may not have been right after I said something about "rolling up the window" and "dialing" a phone number, then "hanging up" the phone... Don't judge me. Be kind. Rewind.

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Dr Brooke Magnanti's avatar Dr Brooke Magnanti @belledejour.bsky.social
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"Is Bridgerton normalising mixed weight relationships" Meanwhile every man in a sitcom ever

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Don Curren 🇺🇦's avatar Don Curren 🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social
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“There’s less noise in the data when you look at the changes than if you were trying to estimate the shares themselves,” he said in a telephone interview. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/w...

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Irish Literary Times's avatar Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social
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James Joyce and Nora Barnacle were married in London #OTD in 1931 - in order to keep it as secret as possible, married in the registrar’s office Kensington, London. But they were followed by paparazzi.

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Stan Carey's avatar Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social
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Years since I read Penelope Fitzgerald. Enjoying this one.

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Doug!'s avatar Doug! @itsdoug.ca
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Alt text isn’t just for non-sighted people with screen readers Good alt text can also provide context for an image to those that might not fully understand what they’re seeing Using Alt Text in images (like most disability accommodations) are a net positive for everyone

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Just had to buy toilet paper for the first time since March 2020.

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Sorrowscopes's avatar Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social
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Pisces: You wouldn’t happen to have some garlic, a crucifix, and a wooden stake by any chance?

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Medusa’s Wink😉 's avatar Medusa’s Wink😉 @medusaswink.bsky.social
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You need this today. For morale.

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Muffin Top Momma's avatar Muffin Top Momma @muffintopmomma.bsky.social
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People meant to be in your life will be in your life Apparently am meant to have no one

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RainDro's avatar RainDro @raindro369.bsky.social
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friends are not food? What kinda bullshit is that?

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T's avatar T @mamafirefly.bsky.social
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‘Yes, chef’ I mutter while refilling the cat bowl.

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Muffin Top Momma's avatar Muffin Top Momma @muffintopmomma.bsky.social
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That moment when You think to yourself Did I leave my phone in the dishwasher?!?!?!? 😱

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An obvious GIF, but ...

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Conrad J. Barrington's avatar Conrad J. Barrington @conradbarrington.bsky.social
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Donald Sutherland and Clint Eastwood in a publicity photo for Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

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