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Nathan Stone

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5 years

St Cross College, Oxford, managing to pull off the most epic of fails by flying the flag of Mauritius instead of the LGBT pride flag this evening... 🙈😂

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"Stop bringing up SF's past! It's no longer relevant!" they plead, before launching into a tirade about the glory of the H-Block campaign and the "ra".

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5 years

"Vote for change"

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6 years

Telling that the Dutch PM has a far better understanding of NI politics and history than most UK politicians.

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6 years

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says #brexit backstop is needed because of Britain’s red lines.

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If this isn't the World Press Photo of the Year, I give up.

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5 years

@josefoshea @darrengrimes_ Imagine posing as a serious political commentator and confessing you're unable to understand an electoral system that simply requires a voter to understand the concept of numbers representing different values.

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3 years

@ElunedAnderson This is surely some kind of legally-prohibited discrimination, no?

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2 years

@jkass99 Him and Edward Snowden in the same unit, ideally.

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5 years

@JoeSmyth10 @AodhanDonnelly @EmmyMaher And by the same token, the ladybird, or báin dé, is "God's little cow" 😊

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@vodk_anon Nixon calling a zombie a "god damned hippie" while blowing its head off will never not live rent free in my head.

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1 year

Legendary stuff from @threeredkings and the Secret Club sorting myself and the father with tickets for the URC final. Time to paint Cape Town red.

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3 years

Just received my final marks for my MSc dissertation and delighted to announce that I'll be graduating "cum laude" 😍🥳

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5 years

No messing in Dublin airport - I see the Union Jack has already been removed from the lineup of European flags...

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@SophieWarnes The fact they've deliberately cropped out the Polish signs in the original photo makes it all the more tragic.

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4 years

Rather charming eco-friendly alternative to the traditional campaign poster by the @PartijvdDieren !

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5 years

@ Every hot take merchant in UK media

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@alexandrabulat @GoodwinMJ @Survation The 2% of BXP voters for remain must similarly be playing some five dimensional chess

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5 years

Ah yes, the Irish people, aghast at the rabid nationalism of Leo Varadkar, turned in their droves to the renowned Anglophiles *checks notes* Sinn Féin. What an utter spoofer.

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Varadkar’ s FG, campaigning on anti-British “small Country” ticket down 7 points.

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5 years

Irish neutrality is both morally wrong and strategically incoherent.

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5 years

@garrettdonnelly @bbclaurak You have to chuckle at "colonial" being put in inverted commas as though it's some kind of niche or controversial interpretation of history.

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5 years

@EmmaVardyTV No, his official title in English is Taoiseach. Please take the time to peruse our constitution before making such comments in future.

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6 years

@sturdyAlex @scook2003 It's perhaps an irrational bugbear of mine, but calling Lamy a "remainer" is such a nonsense, considering the man is French.

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5 years

@AlynSmith Irish people watching the momentum for Scottish independence grow like...

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5 years

@davidmcw "Could the defendant state his name for the record?"

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6 years

We know exactly where our place is. The beating heart of Europe.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

6 years

Senior Tories are frustrated by how much power Ireland has had in the Brexit negotiations, especially over the backstop, says our political editor Nick Watt. "The Irish really should know their place," one said #newsnight | @nicholaswatt

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5 years

@JulienHoez @JimMFelton Reminds me of a Wales fan in Dublin a few years ago who loudly accused a barman of trying to scam him by insisting that he had to pay in euros, not pounds.

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6 years

An excellent piece in today's Irish Times. Voting is not simply a right, but a basic duty of citizenship, all the more so in these times - the Europe we're building together is too precious to allow apathy to destroy it.

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2 years

@unnamedleftist "The ethnic Russians in (inevitably misspelled variant of) Donbas" is usually their go-to.

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1 year

@rugby_ap Irish pundits from a very particular provincial background...

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5 years

@DaveyDonn Even without the songs, I'd have hoped Irish people didn't "really want" a convicted bomb maker anyway. Sad.

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5 years

@TulsiGabbard Cool. Why are you a fan of someone who gasses children?

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5 years

@SteveBarclay @simoncoveney Ireland doesn't have a "Deputy PM". Have the respect to use his proper title, and while you're at it, reveal those secret Alternate Arrangements.

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2 years

@WarMonitor3 Can't tell you how many times I've refreshed this channel over the past few days waiting for news of Lyman's liberation. Thank you for all you do.

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Nathan Stone

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5 years

"Vote for change"

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6 months

@RugbyKino If the Heineken Cup had continued, that final was due to be played in Milan, I seem to remember? Such a missed opportunity.

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5 years

@horse_4 @glove931 Players shouldn't feel the need to endanger other players, ever, regardless of tactical considerations.

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6 years

@eoinyk I'm using British Dáil and Taoiseach May constantly from now on, thanks Eoin for yet another way to annoy them 👍😎

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5 years

@Aaron_Rankin87 @JP_Biz Not sure why Ireland would sign up to this, though? Seems to trade a full place in the single market for a lesser one, with very little in exchange

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7 months

@LegoRacers2 @AChillGhost Once in a while you get people insisting that in their parallel universe Ukraine or Kazakhstan didn’t exist and it turns out they just remember looking at a map of the USSR.

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2 years

@yarotrof Given the capital and eponymous city of Zaporizhzhia Oblast is in Ukrainian hands, the "referendum" there will be particularly pathetic.

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5 years

@fergalreid @SteveBarclay @simoncoveney They manage to refer to the German Chancellor, I don't see why we shouldn't expect a similar courtesy.

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5 years

Ah yes, we all remember the many British martyrs who died trying to escape EU tyranny 😐. Fairly disgraceful comments.

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5 years

Who could forget Barnier's Lancaster House speech where he set out contradictory red-lines destined to end in failure?

James Crisp

@JamesCrisp6

5 years

Should Michel Barnier get the blame for a damaging no deal Brexit? via @Telegraph

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5 years

Well, this seems a more than fair reward for the legendary Saudi valour on the beaches of Normandy.

POLITICO

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5 years

The Pentagon is sending about 2,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia, including squadrons of fighter jets and air defense missile batteries

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6 years

@oviosu @ConStelz @lionelbarber Do other continental groups have sole authority to negotiate and sign trade agreements on behalf of all their member states?

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4 years

Ah yes, papal infallibility, that well known point of consensus in Northern Ireland.

Georg von Harrach

@georgvh

4 years

EU justifies #article16 Northern Ireland "mistake" saying, "only the Pope is infallible". #brexit #coronavirus #vaccine

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5 years

@mjc0ughl4n @OxfordDiplomat Impossible not to think of Fintan O'Toole's comments about Brexit being "imaginary freedom from imaginary oppression." What a shower of irredeemable eejits.

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5 years

I for one am shocked and appalled the Irish government isn't engaging in formal negotiations with some random English think tank... 😂😂

James Crisp

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5 years

Shanker Singham confirms that the Prosperity UK Alternative Arrangements Commission has held no talks with the Irish government over solutions to the backstop at EU parl event. Unless they do start to talk to us, he claims, then that is the path to no deal.

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5 years

Oh. Oh my god. Oh my sweet baby Jesus.

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5 years

@vanillatary Yugoslavia 1999-2000 is literally the textbook case for humanitarian intervention being good, why are they so obsessed with stanning murderous ethnonationalists and acting like they are woke

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3 years

@J_Bloodworth I am once again begging tankies to learn the difference between "blockade" and "embargo"

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5 years

@paul_gavan Gee. On a day like this. What an embarrassment.

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2 years

@RugbyKino For a lad who doesn't care about rugby, he sure tweets about rugby a lot...

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5 years

Jaysus, I must have been asleep when my country was renamed "The Southern State" 👀

Michelle O’Neill

@moneillsf

5 years

I welcome the Irish cabinet decision to hold the long-awaited referendum on extending presidential voting rights for Irish citizens resident outside the southern State later this year. All Irish citizens should have a right to vote for Uachtarán na hÉireann

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5 years

United Europe Now!

New York Post

@nypost

6 years

These three little words are a big turn-on

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5 years

@SquidgeRugby Outrageous of Folau to level this accusation at Alun Wyn Jones!

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3 years

@vanillatary What is the alleged "lie" about Yugoslavia? Is this just Kosovo genocide denial?

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Nathan Stone

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4 years

When you read of the Suez Canal Crisis for the first time

Irish Independent

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4 years

Britain is past the peak and on downward slope: Johnson

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5 years

Why do they always, relentlessly, get this wrong?

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

5 years

100 years ago today, the first female MP, Nancy Astor, was elected to Parlt. The female @Conservatives candidates standing in this election are exceptional & I look forward to working with them in Parlt to achieve further progress on gender equality across our society.

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5 years

@ljubofil "Kosovo is Serbia" - yes, this protest movement is clearly about nothing more than earnest concern for religious liberty in Montenegro... 🙄

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6 months

@UkraineIreland Lovely story, but disappointed to see the article persistently referring to "the Ukraine". More than two years into the war, Irish media really should be doing better than this.

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5 years

@PeterKGeoghegan The idea that Britain was only ever governing NI in order to protect its people from evil papist theocrats is... a historical take.

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1 year

@eoinyk We must be one of the only countries where national defence is seen as some sort of niche, quixotic concern as opposed to a fundamental function of the state.

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2 years

@Ltm67 @Murray_Kinsella Clear mitigation; he was wearing a black jersey.

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5 years

@Chicken_Caoimh Johnson is the Tanseach

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6 years

@United_Bosnia We need to obstruct Serbia's accession to the EU at almost all costs. Having a government that's openly pro-Putin and unrepentant about their recent genocides within the EU would be a disaster.

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5 years

One can't help but wonder what Gladstone would say if he knew they would still be having a meltdown in the Commons over Ireland in 2019.

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1 year

@ellegist The French and Belgian obsession with UHT "milk" is 100x more challenging to get to grips with as a foreigner than any other linguistic or cultural barrier.

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3 years

@mjc0ughl4n With, as ever, a UK soccer team as his profile picture.

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2 years

@jasonomahony "It's just off the mainland of China" as his reasoning; interesting implications for Ireland.

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3 years

@andrewfrugby As a Munster man, I have to say I am quite enjoying my 24 hours as a temporary Cardiff ultra.

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4 years

@eoinyk @Thatyellowfever Suspect this acquaintance hasn't quite grasped the body count inherent in "playing by their rules".

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2 years

@BadBalticTakes Things tankies say that would be really awesome if true.

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6 years

@nealerichmond Quibbling about this sum is just pure meanness , given that we spent 40-odd years as net beneficiaries. Happy and proud to have the chance to pay back into the system, having benefited so richly for so long 🙂🇮🇪🇪🇺

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5 years

Imagine being an adult and seriously positing this question.

The Guardian

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5 years

Can Yanis Varoufakis save Europe?

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5 years

He's done it, he's convinced me. How can anyone argue with such a scientific graph!?

James Cleverly🇬🇧

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5 years

Why “more time” doesn’t actually help “get a deal”. We want a new deal, will leave with no deal if we have to, but no more delays. #GetBrexitDone .

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6 years

@davidschneider The UK's not an island. That's rather where the whole issue with the backstop comes from...

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11 months

@threeredkings For a horrible moment when I first saw the tweet I thought he was retiring and nearly keeled over.

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3 years

@un_a_valeable @Sharon_Kuruvila Indeed. NATO Article 5 places an obligation for a MS to "take such action as it deems necessary" to defend an ally under attack, whereas 42(7) in Lisbon obliges states to provide aid "by all means in their power".

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5 years

@GoodwinMJ Cadwalladr is Welsh.

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3 years

@RuairiLuke It seems that for a sizable number of people in Ireland, "neutrality" just means general "edgy" anti-western and particularly anti-US sentiment.

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4 years

@collumbo @sinnfeinireland @PearseDoherty But Richard, that sounds difficult! Hurling from the ditch is much better craic.

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5 years

Latest mad Brexit twist as Simon Hoare announces his defection to Sinn Féin.

Simon Hoare MP

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5 years

Don’t forget we were first party with a female MP

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3 years

@S0larMax @ortegachili @bilbius @vanillatary Because the people of those countries freely and democratically chose to apply for membership?

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6 years

@nealerichmond @nicholaswatt @andrealeadsom @BBCNewsnight Imagine, in April 2019, thinking that Merkel could do this even if she wanted to...

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5 years

When I decline to pay Ryanair €7 to select my seat but end up allocated the aisle anyway.

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4 years

@PopulismUpdates Well, now the silence of the Scottish Jacobites is truly deafening...

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2 years

@rugby_ap If he wins us our third Heineken Cup I will buy a springbok jersey myself.

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5 years

Never been a huge fan of Ming's, but wouldn't politics be a much better profession and spectacle if more people could speak about their opponents in this tone?

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan

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5 years

Whatever the result, a gem has been discovered. You've given many people hope that it doesn't have be the same old same old over and over again. I salute you. You should sit back and purr with pride tonight.

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4 years

Even in the Netherlands, reminders of the US election are unavoidable...

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4 years

So fascinated by the 1% of DUP voters who are republicans, and the 4% of SF voters who are unionists.

Ireland Votes

@Ireland_Votes

4 years

🚨POLL🚨 @LucidTalk Q. If there was a Border Poll, what way would you vote? % for United Ireland SF: 96% SDLP: 75% GP: 63% AP: 40% UUP: 3% DUP: 1% 15-18th Jan 2021 Sample: 2,390

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5 years

@markc0ughlan @BillyM_92 It's so edgy and progressive to actively agitate for the extinction of an ancient and beautiful language 😐

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4 years

WT Cosgrave, whose role in establishing the state (and its democratic character) during the 1920s has been painfully ignored. Even De Valera, his great rival, would concede that his government did a "magnificent job."

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2 years

@NadiaDobryanska @Eomurchu So sorry to see that that odious fool is harassing you. A disgrace to our country. Reported.

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4 months

@jim_demps Like Schmidt before him: any criticism, however valid, is treated as blasphemy.

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4 years

Interesting, and surprising, to note that non-NATO Ireland is the most pro-American country west of the Oder.

Alexander Lanoszka

@ALanoszka

4 years

A visualisation of European approval for U.S. leadership according to recent Gallup polls. Kosovo, Albania, and Poland are the most approving of countries. Russia is near the bottom. H/t @kos_data .

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5 years

An honour and a pleasure visiting #Kosovo today. The people of this small, proud young republic can teach a lot to those in the west who have grown complacent of their own freedoms. Nice football jerseys, too.

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5 years

@BrandonNLB17 @brezaleksandar Wait what... Is this some Catalan-related nonsense? Spain undemocratic and fascist? 😂😂

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Nathan Stone

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5 years

Righteous anger at *checks notes* people going home after work.

Alex Phillips

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5 years

And now voting has closed look at them all run off to get their trains...

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1 year

@Munsterrugby Late flight cancellation in Brussels, scraped onto an alternative to make the connection in Frankfurt with three minutes to spare. If it was easy, it wouldn't be Munster 💪😂

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2 years

@ZachElsbury It's bizarre and grotesque how they'll defend this kind of murder as "decolonial violence" but then go off about how Stalin deporting the Crimean Tatars was entirely justified.

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