Catherine McManamon Monaghan

@katiem111.bsky.social

Weegie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 exiled in westest Mayo 🇮🇪, reluctant civil servant. 1 loving husband, 2 fabulous children, 1 amazing granddaughter, sister of a sister, orphan. Starter of projects, finisher of none, dreamer of dreams & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 passport. No time for right wingers.

Larry and David Ellison who own Tiktok, Paramount, Oracle and many Media establishments have called Mark Ruffalo antisemitic because he called out their support for evil and murder. Antisemitism is what they have when they have nothing.

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The amazing Emma Monk 👏 Are we happy that citizen journalists like her (or me during Tories), acting with no resources, working in our own time, untrained and unpaid, can so easily expose so much that the BBC, Telegraph and Times *somehow* manage to miss? It's almost like they're not trying.

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 4d ago

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.

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Whatever outrage upsets you, all that matters in the next few months is making sure everyone votes blue & votes aren't cooked. If we win, after the election we work together to make things better. If they win, it's game over The only absolute is defeating fascism. Then we move on, issue by issue

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This is remarkable. Marco Rubio stated, "Iranians are thieves. They cannot impose tolls on the Strait of Hormuz." In response, Abbas Araghchi remarked, "Consider the speaker. Approximately half of Venezuela's oil production is now directed to the United States. Who is truly the thief?"

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Rosie O’Donnell: “Donny Boy": "Oh Donny Boy, it's Rosie, Rosie calling From Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show Drop that Big Mac that we all know you're holding Because, my dear, I worry for you so Poor Donny Boy, your polls, your polls are falling Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew

And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.

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Dr. Kathy Wilkes (d. #OTD in 2003) was an Oxford philosopher of mind who led an extraordinary second & clandestine life smuggling books & knowledge behind the Iron Curtain. She spent her vacations operating in secret across Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe to help keep free thought alive. #History

A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes (1946–2003), the eminent Oxford philosopher of mind who secretly smuggled books and knowledge behind the Iron Curtain to support dissident intellectuals. Dr. Wilkes is posed looking down toward the lower left, seemingly focused on paperwork or a book just out of frame. She has short, dark hair with wispy bangs brushing her forehead and wears rectangular wire-rimmed reading glasses with a prominent black strap hanging down the side of her neck. Her clothing consists of a dark, structured blazer over a crisp, white collared shirt, with a simple long necklace visible. Her right hand rests near the bottom edge of the frame, showing a wide band ring on her middle finger. The background is simple and muted, featuring a light-colored wall with an electrical outlet to the left and the fronds of a potted palm plant softening the space behind her. The mood is quiet, contemplative, and intellectual.

The Navy may change the name of a warship to honor a brave black man who served honorably in the Pearl Harbor attack to the name of a cowardly draft dodger who is so ignorant he didn’t even know what happened at Pearl Harbor, according to his then Chief of Staff accompanying him on the visit

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