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Dave McGinn

@davemcginn.bsky.social

Nás Na Riogh, Co. Cill Dara. Ag foghlaim Gaeilge. Music, politics, news, books, history, poetry. Views my own.

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So after all that, we end up with a perfectly tolerable deal which has almost no connection to the vindictive bullshit Trump was saying about it.

26.02.2025 13:39 — 👍 465    🔁 103    💬 55    📌 4
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The full text of the “Minerals Deal”, agreed by Ukraine and the United States European Pravda publishes the final text of the “Minerals Deal,” an intergovernmental arrangement that Ukraine and the United States are set to sign this week...

Full text of the Ukraine-US Minerals Deal.

1. Seems fine (an investment and reconstruction fund);

2. Has no resemblance to what the Trump administration has been saying about it;

3. Can't tell if Ukraine is good at diplomacy, or Trump bad at it.

www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles...

26.02.2025 13:28 — 👍 1065    🔁 385    💬 101    📌 56
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Ní raibh a fhios agam go bhfuil fotheidil Gaeilge ar fáil ar YouTube😅 Iontach ar fad!

26.02.2025 10:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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Tá leabhar nua faighte agam 🤗

14.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is a good setup here. I have about 5 minutes left before I am disturbed by a child.

11.02.2025 06:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sam Harris on the Culture Wars, DEI, and Political Polarization with Helen Lewis
YouTube video by Sam Harris Sam Harris on the Culture Wars, DEI, and Political Polarization with Helen Lewis

Sam Harris on the Culture Wars, DEI, and Political Polarization with Helen Lewis youtu.be/0oUMofqWUR4?... via @YouTube

09.02.2025 23:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remote controls should have a discreet on/off button - for the remote - so that they can be given to a toddler without them changing your audio track to español or something

03.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dán iontach ar fad sa Leinster Leader inniu ♥️

28.01.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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YouTube

26.01.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m somehow following this Facebook page that churns out fake celebrity stories.

My Twitter feed meanwhile is about 30% posts about what Simon Harris has done that you won’t believe.

Are there any platforms left that aren’t just scams/disinformation/crypto/owner’s political agenda?

Fucking nuts

24.01.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The other place is fucking ridiculous.

16.01.2025 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Europe needs to do more for defence, Finnish President tells Euronews "It is in our vested self-interest to promote and spend more on defence," Finnish president Alexander Stubb tells Euronews. #EuropeNews

Via Euronews: Europe’s ‘holiday from history is now over’, Finnish President Stubb tells Euronews www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

15.01.2025 05:23 — 👍 32    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1

Go díreach

14.01.2025 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tá alt beag scríofa agam sa Leinster Leader inniu 😁

14.01.2025 18:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Found my grandad’s work bag today with his overalls in it. 50-odd years old.

28.12.2024 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The duality of man 🎄

25.12.2024 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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13.12.2024 17:53 — 👍 897    🔁 71    💬 1344    📌 1747
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List of pubs to boycott who wouldn't serve women. From a 1976 edition of 'Banshee' , magazine of Irish Women United

13.12.2024 16:15 — 👍 89    🔁 37    💬 7    📌 6
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We have a bit of a situation here 🐱🎄

13.12.2024 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Poetic Voices Audio and video readings of ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas

www.poetic-voices.com/poets/dylan-...

11.12.2024 22:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is coddle allowed on this platform?

09.12.2024 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The tension between two dads at the playground, their kids playing together, studiously avoiding having to speak to each other, can best be understood as a kind of elaborate dance or haka

08.12.2024 11:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I see you’re a conspiracy-addled lunatic, so yeah let’s leave it there ✌🏻

08.12.2024 08:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He provides much-needed nuanced critique of controversial medical practices that are being rolled back in many countries. He is paid to write articles about same because he is knowledgeable about the topic. He has no control over who uses the articles he produces & for what purposes.

08.12.2024 08:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

He probably gets money from Bari Weiss when he writes for the Free Press🤷🏻‍♂️

07.12.2024 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Subscribers fund his podcast. I suspect everything that doesn’t uncritically endorse an affirmation model of gender care is transphobic to you.

07.12.2024 22:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He has a very popular podcast which provides him with a steady income which allows him the freedom to write for renowned transphobic publications like the Economist and the New York Times

07.12.2024 09:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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Already hate this little bastard

05.12.2024 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hurtful

05.12.2024 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That has been the case for decades in America.

05.12.2024 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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