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Dad. Doctor (GP). Dónal. Dope. Dublin. G'wan Arsenal!

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exwife-of-frankenstein on tumblr: Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call. #IM GOING INSANE #NOTHING WORKS NOTHING

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

19.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 5605    🔁 2147    💬 87    📌 210

So far Israeli politicians have not stepped in to overrule the police cancelling the Tel Aviv derby on security grounds.

19.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 31    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

18.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 8441    🔁 1189    💬 71    📌 27

There is little to no tension between the human rights of different groups, if your starting point is that everybody should have EQUAL rights - no more & no less!

18.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 94    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

18.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 19851    🔁 4920    💬 201    📌 90
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Brash Investor in Global Soccer Clubs Is Charged With Fraud

Please allow @josimarfootball.bsky.social, @pbsportswriter.bsky.social and myself a minute of self-congratulation. We wrote a total of 39 articles on 777 Partners' house of cards. It was time well spent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

16.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 235    🔁 38    💬 11    📌 5

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

14.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 2986    🔁 418    💬 34    📌 20

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

13.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 6634    🔁 1655    💬 141    📌 64

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

13.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 2758    🔁 700    💬 56    📌 13
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

12.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 9557    🔁 3111    💬 173    📌 226
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Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

12.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 29597    🔁 9016    💬 563    📌 277

Very refreshing to see a left wing politician not treat this question like some kind of minefield that needs to be carefully negotiated

11.10.2025 21:24 — 👍 73    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0

This is one of a million different things that Western governments should be demanding action on. He is a doctor abducted and tortured for refusing to stop treating patients.

11.10.2025 05:21 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...

Straight title doesn’t indicate the wicked comedy in this piece (Stewart Lee among the righteous!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

10.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 115    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 0

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

11.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 6591    🔁 2402    💬 279    📌 89

So bloody useless

10.10.2025 07:26 — 👍 162    🔁 39    💬 9    📌 2
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The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

08.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 5741    🔁 1673    💬 114    📌 103

A must read 👏👏

07.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

"With power comes responsibility" - the footballer who cycles to work - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

06.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 59    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

06.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 3783    🔁 1357    💬 17    📌 98

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

05.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 1601    🔁 347    💬 53    📌 4

If this is not reflected in the actions of our governments, then we can no longer say that we live in democracies.

05.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 101    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 2
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

05.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 11352    🔁 4310    💬 251    📌 331
Measles cases have soared by 20% worldwide in the past year, with 742 cases in the UK alone. In August, shortly after a 10-year-old girl in Liverpool died from the disease, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health stated that the UK’s child vaccination rates have not met the World Health Organisation’s target of 95% since 2021. This rather undersells the situation. Sky News reports that “the England-wide rate for the final quarter of 2024/25 for MMR was 88.8%, down from 92.7% 10 years ago” and that “uptake in some local authorities is as low as 60%”.

Far be it from me to weigh in on an issue that has become so politicised, as merely a parent who wants my children and those of others to stay alive, but I have a sinking feeling. A feeling exacerbated by a single red box on a perfunctory form and the idle chatter of concerned parents who no longer get their vaccine sceptic news from insane websites and specialist cults, but from prime-time appearances by the country’s most prominent politicians and journalists. A feeling that our children might wonder how we all lived through a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime global virus that killed millions, was effectively cured by the single most rapid and successful vaccination programme in history and which, immediately afterwards, gave way to anti-science posturing that drove vaccination rates to historic lows.

Measles cases have soared by 20% worldwide in the past year, with 742 cases in the UK alone. In August, shortly after a 10-year-old girl in Liverpool died from the disease, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health stated that the UK’s child vaccination rates have not met the World Health Organisation’s target of 95% since 2021. This rather undersells the situation. Sky News reports that “the England-wide rate for the final quarter of 2024/25 for MMR was 88.8%, down from 92.7% 10 years ago” and that “uptake in some local authorities is as low as 60%”. Far be it from me to weigh in on an issue that has become so politicised, as merely a parent who wants my children and those of others to stay alive, but I have a sinking feeling. A feeling exacerbated by a single red box on a perfunctory form and the idle chatter of concerned parents who no longer get their vaccine sceptic news from insane websites and specialist cults, but from prime-time appearances by the country’s most prominent politicians and journalists. A feeling that our children might wonder how we all lived through a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime global virus that killed millions, was effectively cured by the single most rapid and successful vaccination programme in history and which, immediately afterwards, gave way to anti-science posturing that drove vaccination rates to historic lows.

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05.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 194    🔁 65    💬 4    📌 5

A better world is possible

05.10.2025 05:43 — 👍 1045    🔁 216    💬 6    📌 1
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

04.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 23686    🔁 7935    💬 448    📌 232

As good an illustration as any of how the involvement of nation states in sport makes a mockery of sustainability and fair competition; and, in this case, to promote the brand of a brutal regime as well.

03.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 61    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0
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"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."

– George Monbiot

03.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 617    🔁 295    💬 15    📌 9
"Gyokeres did more right than wrong" - Arsenal 2-0 Olympiacos | On the Whistle
YouTube video by gunnerblog "Gyokeres did more right than wrong" - Arsenal 2-0 Olympiacos | On the Whistle

📽️ "Gyokeres did more right than wrong" - Arsenal 2-0 Olympiacos | On the Whistle

Thoughts on the Swedish striker, a dazzling display from Martin Odegaard, and another clean sheet

youtu.be/5MY8_J06r6U

01.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 107    🔁 6    💬 8    📌 0
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Last laugh Hahah. Hahhaa. Hhahaha

A tale of two managers, two Brazilians, one colosseum, and one sound: hahahahahaha

29.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 81    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 2

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