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Philip O'Connor

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"Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night." Irish journalist based in Stockholm, covering the world.

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Well now

05.08.2025 22:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#DublinLGFA #DublinGAA #UptheDubs

05.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Nothing crosses his mind until it's right in front of him, he's like a toddler.
I was watching a clip of him being presented with Olympic medals from 1984 earlier and it struck me that he looks like a man who not alone doesn't have a friend in the world, but never has had one. A human vacuum.

05.08.2025 21:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The whole world is gone bonkers at this stage. One of these days I'm gonna head out in the forest and just stay there.

05.08.2025 21:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I interpret this as Trump saying they're going to try to humiliate Imane Khelif.
Worth remembering that he was president when LA was awarded the Games in 2017, a decision which looks poorer with every passing second.

05.08.2025 21:20 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Another Listeria food safety recall

The recall affects nine potted coriander products provided by O'Hanlon Herbs to a range of major supermarkets including Aldi, Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Marks & Spencer and Supervalu. #speirgorm

05.08.2025 19:45 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy

www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...

05.08.2025 10:26 — 👍 62    🔁 58    💬 2    📌 5

Lol. 99,9% of those who "didn't vote for ChatGPT", didn't vote for Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson either.

05.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Israel is pushing forward a plan to fully occupy Gaza, paving the way for illegal settlements and foreign capital to profit from the displacement and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

We need real action. We need sanctions.

05.08.2025 15:53 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

I've commentated on races where the penalty for doing so was disqualification (and rightly so ... )

05.08.2025 14:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lol, you reckon?

05.08.2025 13:17 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now watch as, once again, the Irish government bends over backwards to accommodate the Israeli war machine, while saying the exact opposite.

05.08.2025 13:17 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Short-term sugar gains ...

05.08.2025 12:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fler som har barn i "aktivklubbar" kanske?

05.08.2025 08:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brazil's former extremist president and his deranged son have been placed under house arrest for their far-right activities.

04.08.2025 22:17 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Reminscent of when comedian Bill Hicks wanted us to donate our elderly relatives to be used as real-live stunt people that could be killed by the likes of Chuck Norris.
Not sure why that idea didn't get a fair hearing.

04.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just in case you were wondering what was happening in American "democracy" today ...

04.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I keep making the mistake of thinking this administration and its appointees with absolutely no background or skillsets in their new roles can't get any more ridiculously stupid and I get proven wrong on a weekly if not daily basis

04.08.2025 21:33 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 0

Served my time in that business too, and by far the worst people were those with more money than manners.

04.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just ... no.

04.08.2025 19:23 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Exodus from the Washington Post Is the storied paper dying?

The Exodus from the Washington Post: Is the storied paper dying? Read @jonallsop.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

04.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 4
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Alex Voronov: Tio år sedan flyktingkrisen – det här kan vi lära oss När ukrainarna flydde hit efter Rysslands invasion talades det inte om systemkollaps.

“Nu har det gått tio år sedan flyktingkrisen 2015. Det är värt att komma ihåg att EU tog emot mer än dubbelt så många ukrainska flyktingar 2022. Ändå gick det inte till historien som systemkollapsernas år, för att politikerna lät bli att skapa en kris av det.”

04.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 143    🔁 61    💬 3    📌 2
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Day one of the edit done and dusted. Like, what else would you be at over a bank holiday weekend? 😏
#ForTheRecord series #3 on @rtegold.bsky.social for 10 weeks from Sunday September 7th at 6pm.
HT @cnam-ie.bsky.social. 💿🎶
#music #radio #records #vinyl #CDs #albums #singles #recordcollections

03.08.2025 19:29 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Den äckliga farbrorn har alltså redan vapen, rätt att använda det (+ en mantel av kåranda) och hela statens våldsmonopol i ryggen. Nu tycker våra styrande att 17-åringen skall dömas om han svarar emot med samma mynt. Sjuka, jävla ”opposition” som röstade med fascisterna.

04.08.2025 15:43 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0
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Skateboarding-Nyjah Huston targets Los Angeles 2028 Olympics Nyjah Huston, widely regarded as the greatest street skateboarder of all time, has set his sights on Olympic gold when the sport returns to its roots at the Los Angeles Games in 2028.

Skateboarding-Nyjah Huston targets Los Angeles 2028 Olympics reut.rs/4flbABd

04.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

How the fuck do we live in a world where men forced women into difficult and thankless child-bearing and child-rearing for centuries yet now many women have collectively refused this fate THEY are the ones responsible for both the “male loneliness epidemic” and collapsing birth rate?

#NewsCorpse

04.08.2025 06:04 — 👍 136    🔁 23    💬 7    📌 0

The opposite of loneliness’s isn’t company, it’s connection. The basis for connection is mutual trust. Cis het culture teaches men and boys to see sex with women as a resource. Bad influencers amplify what is already there.

It’s really difficult to connect with someone you don’t quite see as human.

04.08.2025 05:57 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Something something tyrannical government ...

04.08.2025 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No.

04.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification.

This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.

04.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 128    🔁 71    💬 0    📌 2

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