Fergus Robson
@fergusrobson.bsky.social
Historian of France and teacher of history, fan of people being sound to each other and the planet.
Not a fan of far-right, racists, sexists and other such feckers.
An Clár abú/Stand up and Fight ❤️ Munster rugby
Not a fan of far-right, racists, sexists and other such feckers.
An Clár abú/Stand up and Fight ❤️ Munster rugby
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Martin Leahy at rally in Cork today singing his powerful & emotive track, supported by Andy; get it Number 1 to keep pressure on team/FAI to #stopthegame #dontplay
Purchase for about €1: amazon or apple or bandcamp
This is about humanity 🙏
#speirghorm
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Martin Leahy at rally in Cork today singing his powerful & emotive track, supported by Andy; get it Number 1 to keep pressure on team/FAI to #stopthegame #dontplay
Purchase for about €1: amazon or apple or bandcamp
This is about humanity 🙏
#speirghorm
September 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
DON'T PLAY
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Martin Leahy at rally in Cork today singing his powerful & emotive track, supported by Andy; get it Number 1 to keep pressure on team/FAI to #stopthegame #dontplay
Purchase for about €1: amazon or apple or bandcamp
This is about humanity 🙏
#speirghorm
DON'T PLAY
DON'T PLAY
Martin Leahy at rally in Cork today singing his powerful & emotive track, supported by Andy; get it Number 1 to keep pressure on team/FAI to #stopthegame #dontplay
Purchase for about €1: amazon or apple or bandcamp
This is about humanity 🙏
#speirghorm
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So called "race realist" objects to being "smeared" as racist
WSJ giving Cofnas a platform to insist that he's just a brave truth teller but also a small bean birthday boy. People should lose their jobs over this.
August 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
So called "race realist" objects to being "smeared" as racist
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New: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports.
If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it?
www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it?
www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
www.404media.co
August 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
New: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports.
If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it?
www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it?
www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
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Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]
Northern Ireland council kept no record of chief executive’s meeting with far-right group
A council chief executive held a meeting with representatives of a far-right anti-immigration group without any agenda, terms of reference or minutes being produced, it has emerged.
www.irishnews.com
August 5, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]
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If Trump made a speech where he rejected the legitimacy of judicial action restraining the State we’d all know what we were hearing.
Just because the ideas are delivered by a character consistently speaking in a tone of watered down milk doesn’t change what it means.
Just because the ideas are delivered by a character consistently speaking in a tone of watered down milk doesn’t change what it means.
Minister attacks Court oversight under the Constitution. Dangerous.
July 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
If Trump made a speech where he rejected the legitimacy of judicial action restraining the State we’d all know what we were hearing.
Just because the ideas are delivered by a character consistently speaking in a tone of watered down milk doesn’t change what it means.
Just because the ideas are delivered by a character consistently speaking in a tone of watered down milk doesn’t change what it means.
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The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.
July 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.
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Much of the German mainstream is (finally) panicking that the AfD may indeed be, from top to bottom, the new Nazi party. It is grimly fascinating that they are still portrayed as ”a few bad apples” whereas all the apples are bad. Every single one.
The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis."
Musk literally just shrugs.
Musk literally just shrugs.
July 24, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Much of the German mainstream is (finally) panicking that the AfD may indeed be, from top to bottom, the new Nazi party. It is grimly fascinating that they are still portrayed as ”a few bad apples” whereas all the apples are bad. Every single one.
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Like I'm sorry you are going to start restricting some kinds of water use without even knowing who is using the water??? Hmmmmmmm curious
July 17, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Like I'm sorry you are going to start restricting some kinds of water use without even knowing who is using the water??? Hmmmmmmm curious
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While across the rest of the northern hemispere beavers are increasingly helping alleviate flooding, massively boosting natural ecosystems and local economies, in Ireland they're still barely even mentioned.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
How eight beavers solved a decades-old Tube flooding problem
The creatures were reintroduced in 2023 after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago
www.independent.co.uk
June 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
While across the rest of the northern hemispere beavers are increasingly helping alleviate flooding, massively boosting natural ecosystems and local economies, in Ireland they're still barely even mentioned.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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I have never seen such a bunch of reactionaries in my life as the US media establishment. Someone with 0 followers & a sickle in the bio told you to go die so now all leftism is evil. some asshole on an ebike ran into your kid so now bike lanes must be destroyed. Its like watching children do meth
June 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I have never seen such a bunch of reactionaries in my life as the US media establishment. Someone with 0 followers & a sickle in the bio told you to go die so now all leftism is evil. some asshole on an ebike ran into your kid so now bike lanes must be destroyed. Its like watching children do meth
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When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon.
Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.
Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.
NASA scrubs promise to land first woman, first person of colour on the moon from web pages | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th...
www.cbc.ca
June 10, 2026 at 7:41 PM
When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon.
Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.
Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.
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The left "The police are inept and corrupt, not all at all suited for almost all of the duties assigned to them"
The right "You lefty scum! How dare insult our brave boys in blue! Anyway, the police are working in secret with Muslims and Communists to wipe out white people"
The right "You lefty scum! How dare insult our brave boys in blue! Anyway, the police are working in secret with Muslims and Communists to wipe out white people"
June 3, 2026 at 11:11 AM
The left "The police are inept and corrupt, not all at all suited for almost all of the duties assigned to them"
The right "You lefty scum! How dare insult our brave boys in blue! Anyway, the police are working in secret with Muslims and Communists to wipe out white people"
The right "You lefty scum! How dare insult our brave boys in blue! Anyway, the police are working in secret with Muslims and Communists to wipe out white people"
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If you ever see anyone arguing for more crackdowns on social welfare fraud, remind them that there is none to speak of and that, far from saving money, the last time they opened a tipline for SW fraud it *cost* the state approx €471,320 in wasted investigations.
May 20, 2026 at 3:03 PM
If you ever see anyone arguing for more crackdowns on social welfare fraud, remind them that there is none to speak of and that, far from saving money, the last time they opened a tipline for SW fraud it *cost* the state approx €471,320 in wasted investigations.
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Another q for #historians
Looking for any research on political surveillance in inter-war South Africa...
Looking for any research on political surveillance in inter-war South Africa...
May 12, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Another q for #historians
Looking for any research on political surveillance in inter-war South Africa...
Looking for any research on political surveillance in inter-war South Africa...
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🧵 Fascinated with narcissistic sociopaths, having encountered one in person. The most infamous case is the US President. The medico-scientific community have followed the analysis by some of the world’s most respected profs on Trump with enormous alarm. They have released a new scary analysts [1]
May 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
🧵 Fascinated with narcissistic sociopaths, having encountered one in person. The most infamous case is the US President. The medico-scientific community have followed the analysis by some of the world’s most respected profs on Trump with enormous alarm. They have released a new scary analysts [1]
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I've checked my Irish Media Protest Manual and it says that if you trap people in their cars over a period of time then you are falsely imprisoning them and you should be charged and sent to prison
April 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I've checked my Irish Media Protest Manual and it says that if you trap people in their cars over a period of time then you are falsely imprisoning them and you should be charged and sent to prison
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Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...
April 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...
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Apropos of nothing, a parasite never lets a good crisis go to waste.
March 22, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Apropos of nothing, a parasite never lets a good crisis go to waste.
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I’m just a dum-dum girl, someone please explain how we get the troopies into Iran and then past all those mountains where surely nothing bad will happen to them
March 20, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I’m just a dum-dum girl, someone please explain how we get the troopies into Iran and then past all those mountains where surely nothing bad will happen to them
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Switzerland has said that it refused two US requests to fly over its territory yesterday in operations linked to the current war on Iran, citing its neutrality under international law
jrnl.ie/6985831
jrnl.ie/6985831
Switzerland refuses two US overflights linked to war on Iran
The two Swiss flight refusals concerned reconnaissance flights scheduled for today, the government said.
jrnl.ie
March 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
March 14, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
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Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
March 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
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