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Fatima O'Hara

@cabbagesandkings.bsky.social

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Muslim. Irish. Female. Immigrant. Tells you something about the other place that I hesitated to put these facts in a profile. Yeah, I follow too many. Went a bit mad with the starter packs. Winnowing slowly.

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 27m

In the same vein, from the same book.

May 2019 as Xi Jinping touted a rare earths processing plant in Jiangxi following Huawei’s addition to the entity list.

People's Daily: "Don't say you were not warned"

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1h

Park keeper I think

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Catherine Rose @cathersrose.bsky.social · Oct 25

Buy one. It will enrich your life!

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Oct 25

I have released three new prints. This is one of them.
They are all available now: tomgauld.com/shop

A print of a cartoon by Tom Gauld.
A view of the International Space Station. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

An illustrator friend did a kid's book where one of the mums wore hijab. Not to make a point, just as part of a normal city school background. Took it to publisher and was asked to remove because it 'wasn't a book about inclusivity'

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Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

But all politicians are trained to be defensive on the media and not to accidentally make news. It's why you hear about so many that they're really engaging at informal events but it doesn't come across in interviews. Their media work seems forced and artificial because it is.

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

Non-zero chance than Sam Altman spends a good many years in court/prison

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

Irish Presidential campaigns have brought many a character low but this is the first one to bring down a Taoiseach

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

I guessing this is an American bank

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is a Bibi plan with Donald branding. Trump thinks he got a quid pro quo for bombing Iran but Netanyahu has got just what he wanted. He needs the hostages back and an exit. If the cabinet complains about anything he can say 'Trump made me do it' and always go back to war whenever

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 1d

Often a good reputational move to die young

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 2d

Collins planned a huge bombing attack for Belfast in retaliation. It was Catholic bishops who talked him down. I often wonder if he might not have been a bit of a Franco if he'd lived.

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Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 2d

'high WHILE with the Irish president' might be a clearer construction

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Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 2d

There's a cruelty to it that feels more Telegraph than Times

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 3d

He never looks at their faces

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 3d

But they all work for him and so are invisible

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 4d

This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....

Mel Stride: Conservatives are the only people who tell the truth, and have a plan for growth that means something | Conservative Home

It falls to us, the Conservatives, to win back the country’s trust and reverse the economic vandalism of this Labour government. We can and we will.

conservativehome.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 4d

🎧: He’s next in line to the Murdoch throne, but what is Lachlan Murdoch’s story? Biographer @paddymanning.bsky.social joins Media Confidential with @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social.

The Successor: Who is Lachlan Murdoch?

He’s next in line to the Murdoch throne, but what is Lachlan Murdoch’s story?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Jennifer Kavanagh @quiatimet.bsky.social · 5d

Jim Gavin got a dose of the Glenroes and now we all have to stay up late on a Sunday evening with the stress of it all

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Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 5d

I think there was more than one Milliband in that leadership election, which made it a bit crowded

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 5d

Might see next week

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 6d

Yay for you

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 6d

I'm so sorry. You'd think they might leave off for a bit when everyone is feeling so rotten but, no. Beyond their imagination. I'm not even sure that the concern for Palestinians is empathy so much as an opportunity to score points.

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 6d

There are 2 police officers outside the synagogue on my street. That's not normal

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 6d

Or that London is a big place, had 4 EPL teams playing today, an NFL match, a rugby international, a large demonstration, and a heightened terror alert with hundreds of buildings needing extra patrols. And with many more sports and other events tomorrow. Bit stretched atm.