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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’

“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

What does it do? Normalization and compression? Windowed or uniform across a file?

You should care about the wellbeing of people outside of your immediate family, and make decisions and take actions accordingly.

This has been obvious to everyone who’s thought about it for more than 5 minutes since about 1825

Nationalize Ryanair (for €1), leave him on a fancy island where he can live out his days and where we can never hear from him again.

Can you imagine if Congress was alive to see this?

Protesting won’t solve this, but it’s step one.

I get the instinct to “focus on the good things”, but that’s 2010s shit. If now is not the time to find your nearest protest, bring your friends and family, and build a movement, then all hope for the future is gone. Scroll cat videos on TikTok until you burn in a global thermonuclear war I guess.

A story in two parts.
Gript is the propaganda wing of violent right wing politics. They exist to try and push politics rightwards and pull back hard-won rights.

They target and try to redirect people's righteous anger at government policy onto migrants, asylum seekers, and LGBTQ people.
#Gript

What sharing art on Bluesky feels like sometimes

And this is exactly why I subscribe to your high tier in Patreon! :)

And for good measure nationalize Tim McMahon (into jail)

Is someone already backing up #LitCovid and the papers it points to or are we in serious trouble?

They say the UK ONS "did perhaps the most thorough tracking of long-COVID rates through late 2022, the risk of long-term complications had been going down with reinfection" - it's self reported data from a survey, labelled "experimental statistics" and says "We advise caution when using the data."

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Much to my dismay!

Your work!! YWA, MP and IBBK. Usually people are talking about a specific culture war issue, and a lot of the time you have covered it somewhere or other. Then if they don’t pull a stupid boomer “I don’t like how their voice sounds and they swear too much”, they get hooked on your thorough analysis.

I get to bluesky by typing "bs" in my url bar and then hitting enter, this is appropriate

Yep. Living in Berlin I was constantly struck by the ability of Germans to acknowledge the horrors of the Holocaust and in the next breath declare genocidal racism against Muslims.

@coverville.com wanted to check with you before giving you an impossible cover request - have you ever come across music that mixes bluegrass and ska? There are some synergies there I think

As opposed to seasons of (Star Trek) Discovery which were …not

You might've missed that Europe is largely electing republican style far right parties these days, including the Netherlands, which has the additional problem of not having any available housing because the farmers have a monopoly on land and nitrogen emission budget.

YouTube video by James Bruton Building a Ball-Balancing Robot Creature | Shackled Shadow

@scottjohnson.zip I think you might find this cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Vd...

The brain rot has set in on bluesky. Mastodon continues to be better!

quicktms.li/recommentals... you did indeed - and I am listening to them right now :)

@coverville.com heads up, october 30th reccomentals aren't showing in the quicktms.li recommentals listing page

Everything's gong to be a-ok!

Today is the first day I can properly campaign—had to give 2 weeks notice for time off

I got leeway to attend some events during the day but a short election campaign on the government's chosen dste excludes workers and benefits the status quo

There's a reason the Dáil of full of landlords

#GE24

If you'd like to help out in this effort to make candidate data accessible, please let me know, I'd be very happy to get you set up with a task relevant to your skills and interests, or to hear your input. I believe DMs are open to the extent that they can be on BlueSky. #irishpolitics #ge24