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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸

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Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil. Reformed politico. Writer, activist, drag artist, singer & performer. Non binary gender bender. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Belfast, Ireland 💛

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · May 2

It's not enough to be pro-trans. You need to be anti-transphobic.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 1d

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

www.cambridge.org

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

100s of aid trucks making their way into Gaza but Israel wasn’t using starvation as a method of war? Only sick children were dying of famine? Pull the other one. They may think that their day or reckoning for genocide is over, and we should be doing everything to ensure it isn’t

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely gross but not surprising carry-on from Joe Brolly

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 2d

I'm actually disgusted. I wouldn't have called Joe a friend but I would have been friendly with him. This is abhorrent.

Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a peace deal, this is not a ceasefire. Israel is still dropping bombs on Gaza whilst the world celebrates the "peace" brokered between a genocidaire and their main financial backers. I am sick to the pit of my stomach. None of these monsters will see Heaven.

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 3d

It's also littered with the bodies of thousands of people, the rubble of homes, schools, hospitals, shops, businesses, the mass graves of Palestinian children. A genocide happened. People need to be held accountable and be put on trial. This wasn't a war.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d

Road to peace in Gaza riddled with potential potholes

Second phase of ceasefire is more complex and entails disarming Hamas and handing over control of Gaza

www.irishtimes.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

"Its an incomplete joy because we've lost a lot. I don't have a spoon or a fork in my house, its just some stones. Other lost families, some lost everything they own. Others lost legs and limbs, some lost everything, some went missing as well"

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 3d

Can't wait for Israel to do what it always does.

The image shows a cartoon illustration of a green frog swimming in a body of water. A dark red scorpion is perched on the frog's back. The background suggests a muddy bank and some reeds growing in the water.
The illustration is captioned with text in two places, imitating a dialogue:
Top text: "BUT IF YOU KILL ME WE BOTH DROWN" SAID THE FROG
Bottom text: "HAMAS" SAID THE SCORPION

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it will be a road to Damascus moment for them all as they realise landlordism is ruining Ireland and inspire them to seek to dismantle the broken system that turns each new generation into more rent cattle

or maybe no further action will be taken

who knows

Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 3d

Solicitors for Jim Gavin have reached out to his former tenant to resolve a rent overpayment – a controversy that contributed to his dramatic withdrawal from the presidential race.

Fianna Fáil meets tonight to discuss the fallout.

#VMNews

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 4d

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

Famine in Gaza is a "choice" made by Israel, says Alex de Waal, author of "Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine."

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 5d

That's exactly my point. It feels very galling

Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 5d

I am appalled at how the members of the flotilla were treated, and the brazen illegality of Israel's actions, but my brother in Christ they are shooting children and starving babies in Gaza.

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Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not linking to the article but Heather Humphries thinks the Gender recognition act needs to be looked at, and trans women are not women. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 5d

I am very uncomfortable with the entire situation around the aid flotilla. I understand that people want to do something, we all do, to intervene in the genocide, but I find it a bit galling that these white Westerners are putting themselves at the centre of the story again.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 5d

This is extreme hypocrisy from Bridget Phillipson, someone who has done more than most to ensure that Britain doesn't work for trans people, especially trans children.

Butb then maybe she, like the Labour Party leadership, doesn't regard trans people as human.

A united Labour party is making Britain work better for all. We cannot allow our mission to be disrupted
Bridget Phillipson

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Cara Van Parke / Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 5d

It's very telling that these new powers for the police to beak up mass protests only came about as a result of Palestine Action, yet when racists were gathering in their thousands last year and burning down hotels, there wasn't anything to be done.

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Joelle Grogan @joellegrogan.bsky.social · 7d

"Does taking the UK out of the ECHR breach the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement?"

Yes.

"But what if..."

No. It breaches the Agreement.

"Ok, but..."

No. Unless your position is "renegotiate with Ireland and conclude a new Agreement including NI parties", it is a breach.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

World+
HERTA MÜLLER
"In Gaza, the Queers for Palestine would not survive for half an hour."
By Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief WELT Group
As of 04.10.2025 | Reading time: 11 minutes

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d

Shireen Abu Akleh was the most famous Arab woman who did television news on the planet and the Israeli army shot her in the head on purpose while she was wearing a press vest and helmet