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[Nicola🤠 @NicASMR_]

When I was 13 I put “toodooloo muthafuckaaas” from The Hangover as my favourite movie quote on the Facebook personal info section, and my mum found it and told me I’d never be employed and I literally thought my life was over.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

@TheNotoriousMMA Didn’t know you could read and write Conor. Thought you used your hands to tap out.

[Boots, 'with the fur' @afraidofwasps]

Sydney Sweeney: (sitting next to me at bus stop) Do u think u could keep me company for a bit? I missed my bus :/

Me: (inventing a word to impress her) that's Haunchious

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[lenny @dr3amoperator]

this is exactly how you're supposed to watch twin peaks

[BDS 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦉 @JailTheEnglish]

seconds after my reincarnation as a vole

[Vanessa Harding @VHharding1604]

Proud to bring you my coloured pencil portrait of 8 yr old Nelly - a rescue from a puppy farm at just 18 mths old 😢. Happily she’s now living her best life - loving cuddles & cheese!
If you love her- please feel free to share. Thank you 🥰

[cmat @cmatbaby]

hear me out- cmat band for the oasis support

[Dublin Fire Brigade @DubFireBrigade]

Firefighters from Tallaght and Dolphins Barn fire stations were called to assist @DublinSPCA with a stranded pooch in a pond.

Water rescue trained firefighters were able to transport the dachshund off an island and into the care of DSPCA Inspectors. Anything is paws-ible 😊

[🕐HOURLY🕑 shitpost @hourly_shitpost]

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[Nicola🤠 @NicASMR_]

All time fave:

[Minga @KillaMinga]

what's the funniest tiktok video you've ever seen?

[Anastasia Trusova @amtrusova]

acrylic on canvas 60*80 cm "road home" 2023.

[Nicola🤠 @NicASMR_]

@ckeating_96 Hi is this still available?

[James Topham @JamesTophamWord]

Snap and Crackle after visiting the hospital

[Fiz @westcoastiscool]

“Two to put her down. Two to put her out.”

These are the words of Cathal Crotty, from Ardnacrusha, Co. Clare, after he savagely beat a woman.

And here are two nice, clear pics of the coward.

[Niecy O'Keeffe @NiecyOKeeffe]

Judge Tom O’Donnell is a thundering disgrace.

[Conor Sheehan TD @ConorSheehan93]

I have no words.

He beat her unconscious unprovoked because she asked him to stop shouting “f*ggot” at someone.

The state must appeal this. He should jailed.

Beat the living daylights out of a woman in the middle of O’Connell street and you’ll literally get away with it.

[Cllr Elisa O'Donovan @elisaodonovan]

I hope Natasha reads this and knows that everyone women in Limerick is behind her right now. We are all behind you 💚 This cannot be justice. Violence against women and girls is out of control in Limerick. It stops now