c.c. o'hanlon
@ccohanlon.bsky.social
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vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. https://linktr.ee/ccohanlon #nobots "So here is us, on the raggedy edge." – from the film Serenity (2005)
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ccohanlon.bsky.social
We return to our boat in Cagliari, Sardinia, today, a short flight across the Thyrrenian Sea, taking our youngest with us.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
Oh no. That is much worse. Have you tried checking ICE’s detention lists (as unreliable as they are)? I am so sorry.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
We live in an environment, a small boat, in which corrosion is rife especially within things like portable hard drives, no matter how we try to protect them. That said, you can fuck off.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
We live on a small boat. Our external hard drives corrode and degrade quickly.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
Everything on it, five years of writing (including two completed book manuscripts), photos, videos, music, a large library of digitised books, contacts, correspondence and personal records, irretrievably lost.

It feels like some kind of psychic coup de grâce.
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Just when I thought things couldn’t possibly get worse: I picked up my five-year-old Mac Air from Apple and found they’d replaced the motherboard and parts of the charging system, but neglected our request to save/back up the hard drive first.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
Thank you, all of you, who have supported our latest appeal either by contributing to it or promoting it. It has, quite literally been life-saving for us and for our youngest, who is now safe with us in Europe.

We wish we could hug you all.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?
Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane
Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home
www.gofundme.com
ccohanlon.bsky.social
Aww, thank you.

DM me sometime and let usknow how you are doing?

Love from us to you !
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jacobwren.bsky.social
“If you remember better times / you know they were lies, because they led / to this”
- Alice Notley
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lattaj.bsky.social
New York story: seeing composer John Adams solitarily dining a few tables away in a tiny Thai joint on Amsterdam near 79th. He poked one-fingeredly at a cellphone as one does now (in place of the folded newspaper or paperback of yesteryear).
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lattaj.bsky.social
As I likely suffer a mild prosopagnosial disorder, it wasn’t—would never be—me who recognized him, but my violinist son, who was thrilled.
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truthout.org
Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after the military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she was held in a cell infested with bedbugs and deprived of food and water.
Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody
“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Weather by Raymond Briggs, vibes by Samuel Beckett, soundtrack by a small child outside, wailing like an ambulance
ccohanlon.bsky.social
I’m not covered by any national health insurance so they cost me nearly €400 but yes, far cheaper than in the USA.
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nickharkaway.com
It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
One of my son’s flatmates is a gifted sommelier.
ccohanlon.bsky.social
“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?
Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane
Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home
www.gofundme.com
ccohanlon.bsky.social
So far, so not. We’re back to the boat at the weekend but with nowhere we can/should go in my current state.