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Eóin Cunningham@eoinmcunningham.bsky.social |
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Account focused on Ireland, New York, Politics, & Comics. No longer on Twitter.
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Steve Silberman
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Margaret Sullivan, the much-missed former public editor of @nytimes.com, on the bizarre collapse of our major media in the face of a fascist, rapist traitor who has been granted full immunity by a thoroughly corrupted SCOTUS stacked with GOP hacks. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Eóin Cunningham
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Like, do even the oligarchs not realize that Russian Defenestritis is a disease that will spread to the US if Trump wins?
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Eóin Cunningham
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“As a bazillionaire, nothing bad will happen to me even if we go full-dictatorship, so I support whoever makes me 1% richer.”
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Eóin Cunningham
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Ha, so much of my feed is US-based that I read it that way.
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Eóin Cunningham
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US political parties are ridiculously unrepresentative of the views of their average voter. (In both cases, leaning right or far-right of the people they “represent”.)
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Eóin Cunningham
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How dare you contradict their f̶a̶c̶t̶s̶ l̶i̶v̶e̶d̶ e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ vibes!
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Eóin Cunningham
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The Squad are very good at this. And not in new ways, like being good at social media, but in *old* ways, like basic political instincts. Skills that a lot of Democratic leadership may have had at one point, but have let atrophy due to being out of touch and deferring to “norms”.
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Jason Hickel
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BREAKING: The Lancet has published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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Nicholas Grossman
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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.
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Eóin Cunningham
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Eoin, I genuinely don’t understand. Why is this your only story right now? Nothing about Trump’s obvious decline, the Supreme Court, Project 2025, etc. is worth talking about?
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Eóin Cunningham
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There’s always enough money for hurting others.
Probably a good time to remind people where the name Tory comes from.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory
A "robber that is noted for outrages and cruelty". It’s who they’ve always been.
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Eóin Cunningham
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*coughing*30 years*coughing*
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Eóin Cunningham
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Why is “Biden Is Old” the *only* aspect of American politics you’re posting about? NOTHING else is worth discussing?
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Eóin Cunningham
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Other-Eoin, since the Supreme Court declared presidential immunity, you’ve returned to posting here with one, single focus: Biden is old, Biden is old, Biden is old. Why is this your *only* story right now?
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Eóin Cunningham
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Ireland. (Dunnes > Whole Foods)
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Eóin Cunningham
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Carla Speed McNeil (Finder)
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Eóin Cunningham
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NYC’s library system is a gem, and this is great news
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Eóin Cunningham
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I know they *love* themselves, but having a lad up in court for badmouthing Cork is a bit much.
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Eóin Cunningham
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I read it to my kids tonight. I’m mostly burned out on multiverse stuff, but this was fun.
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Eóin Cunningham
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I remember the image, but I can’t remember the explanation. Was the “imp” a metaphor for the darker parts of Magneto’s personality? Or was it more literal and silly?
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Eóin Cunningham
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OH LOOK. Once again somebody is planning to do exactly what his owner wants.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
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A lot of things that Biden wants to do are things I think are good things we should do. A lot of things Trump wants to do are things I think are bad things we shouldn't do. Therefore I will be supporting Biden even though I don't agree with him on everything. This is not complicated.
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Maggie Astor
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Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:
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Eóin Cunningham
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Sorry, people over here *love* to talk to American visitors about American politics. No joke: tell people you're Canadian. We don't know the difference in accents, and we don't follow their politics at all.
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Eóin Cunningham
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The people who give artists pennies vs the people who give artists nothing. Go team pennies!
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Eóin Cunningham
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When I lived in NY, each family member mentioned the honking on their first visit. Also, about once a day we saw an example of absolute looney-tunes driving that would have been a tell-your-friends story if we’d seen it back home.
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Eóin Cunningham
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1,000,000% a tunes person. The singer’s voice is mostly just another instrument for me, and the lyrics just determine the sounds it makes.
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Eóin Cunningham
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Good news, everyone!
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Eóin Cunningham
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Oh man, recently read a comic with a British character and… some of that dialogue were not words any human has ever said. And don’t get me started on Irish characters! Incredibly twee. (At least we’re past the time when every Irish character was in the IRA, though.)
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Eóin Cunningham
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ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
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Eóin Cunningham
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A certain type of religious person wields their faith only as a tool to control others, never as a reminder of their responsibility to others.
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Eóin Cunningham
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This joke would be funnier if it was about a real movie.
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Eóin Cunningham
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I put years of time, work, and money doing things the right way, to be a legal immgrant and then a US citizen. And I completely support this. Why should other people who didn’t have the right piece of paper be treated as less human than me?
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Eóin Cunningham
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Seasons 1 & 2 are *shaky*. The step-up in quality for Season 3 is a great argument for letting a show run longer to find its voice.
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Eóin Cunningham
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It’s also a story in a House Of Mystery comic from 1970.
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Eóin Cunningham
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Reading the Chronicles of Narnia to my son (who’s loving them). Skipping the lines where C.S. Lewis repeatedly takes shots, in multiple books (!), at a distorted version of “modern” schools that were probably similar to the one my kids go to. Give it a rest, Clive.
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Eóin Cunningham
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The various Irish Tourism boards get quoted in the paper predicting disaster and calamity every other week.
I 100% disagree with them here. People in rural areas CAN NOT FIND homes to rent, and this new law is the right thing to do to keep these communities alive.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Eóin Cunningham
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The @irishtimes.bsky.social feed is so anemic. Would it kill ye to cross-post stuff here each day?
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Eóin Cunningham
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My daughter played me Taylor Swift’s most popular song, and I told her honestly that I’d never heard it in my life. No, I don’t know what it was called.
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John TImmer
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This is an excellent description of the editorial failure behind The NY Times' decision to run Alina Chan's lab leak article. What's the value proposition to the readership of presenting a one-sided argument that most scientists find lacking? Did no editor bother to ask that question?
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Eóin Cunningham
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Throwing up a smokescreen about “hate crimes”, when it’s really just the police union which want them gone for any reason. To hell with anybody who wears them for health reasons.
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Cooper Lund
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This is both a correct and obvious strategy. Let’s go for the throat.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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The political press we need: hounding trump & republicans endlessly about his felony convictions, his history of sexual violence, and his attempts to overthrow the government The political press we have:
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Eóin Cunningham
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Get rid of every last one of them. They all deserve to feel what it’s like to be unemployed in Britain after a decade of Tory rule.
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Eóin Cunningham
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Non-Americans may be unaware that bagels are not just an American or New York thing, but specifically a Jewish thing.
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Eóin Cunningham
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Seconding the comment about the Beano. Impossible to discuss the British comics market without it.
Good resource here: michaelowencarroll.wordpress.com/2018/08/25/d...
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Eóin Cunningham
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Their customers Do. Not. Want. This.
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Eóin Cunningham
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the best of them all!
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