Colm O'Brien
@colmobrien.bsky.social
Ethical treatment of the Earth and it's life forms. Returning the plants and animals to my land that vanished hundreds of years ago. And who doesn't love dystopian/ sci-fi movies, rothair, trance ceol agus board games. Live long and prosper!
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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If only he hadn't sold out to AIPAC
February 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
If only he hadn't sold out to AIPAC
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Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI.
He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.
But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.
He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.
But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.
February 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI.
He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.
But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.
He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.
But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.
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What on earth is this?
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by private jet en route to Israel, owned by Trump donor Gil Dezer
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
What on earth is this?
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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"The act of being involved in politics at all, the act of casting a vote, is an act of hope."
Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.
Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"The act of being involved in politics at all, the act of casting a vote, is an act of hope."
Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.
Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.
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"If you want to know how your life used to be in the past, look at what you’re going through now. If you want to know your life in the future, look at what you’re doing now." –Orlando Cepeda #DailyDharma
The Baby Bull, a Buddhist
An interview with the late baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando Cepeda
tricycle.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"If you want to know how your life used to be in the past, look at what you’re going through now. If you want to know your life in the future, look at what you’re doing now." –Orlando Cepeda #DailyDharma
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A periodic reminder that very little has been done to address the biodiversity crisis
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Third of Ireland’s wintering waterbirds vanish in just 30 years
Some species increased numbers but others have declined by more than 50%
www.irishtimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 AM
A periodic reminder that very little has been done to address the biodiversity crisis
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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A thousand times this 👇👇👇
January 31, 2026 at 9:29 AM
A thousand times this 👇👇👇
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Wow -- incredible!!!
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Wow -- incredible!!!
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🚀 UpScrolled has jumped to No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, overtaking ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Threads over the past day. Founder Issam Hijazi shares an update on the surge and what comes next, saying the platform belongs to its users: “We’re just building it.”
WHAT!!! One MILLION!!! 🤯🤯🤯 YOU did this.
Our founder @issamhijazi.bsky.social shares why he built UpScrolled - and what's next.
"This is yours. We're just building it."
Here's a link to what Issam shares: share.upscrolled.com/en/post/4378...
Our founder @issamhijazi.bsky.social shares why he built UpScrolled - and what's next.
"This is yours. We're just building it."
Here's a link to what Issam shares: share.upscrolled.com/en/post/4378...
UpScrolled (@UpScrolled) / UpScrolled
WHAT!!! One MILLION!!! 🤯🤯🤯 YOU did this. No ads. No paid influencers. Just you. We have no words… But our founder @Issam does. This platform was born from pers…
share.upscrolled.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:01 PM
🚀 UpScrolled has jumped to No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, overtaking ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Threads over the past day. Founder Issam Hijazi shares an update on the surge and what comes next, saying the platform belongs to its users: “We’re just building it.”
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🔴 Gaza nurse Tasnim al-Hams shares rare update on her father, Dr. Marwan al-Hams, senior Gaza physician & director of the territory’s field hospitals.
Israeli forces abducted & imprisoned both after separate raids in Gaza in 2025. In testimony to Sahat, Tasnim describes being brought, handcuffed...
Israeli forces abducted & imprisoned both after separate raids in Gaza in 2025. In testimony to Sahat, Tasnim describes being brought, handcuffed...
January 29, 2026 at 10:05 PM
🔴 Gaza nurse Tasnim al-Hams shares rare update on her father, Dr. Marwan al-Hams, senior Gaza physician & director of the territory’s field hospitals.
Israeli forces abducted & imprisoned both after separate raids in Gaza in 2025. In testimony to Sahat, Tasnim describes being brought, handcuffed...
Israeli forces abducted & imprisoned both after separate raids in Gaza in 2025. In testimony to Sahat, Tasnim describes being brought, handcuffed...
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#Upscrolled is getting a lot of mentions on the Musk platform
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
#Upscrolled is getting a lot of mentions on the Musk platform
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January 22nd: TikTok acquisition closed and finalized
January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok
January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok
January 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM
January 22nd: TikTok acquisition closed and finalized
January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok
January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok
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“TikTok deleted my account. I had 1.4 Million followers.”
🇵🇸 Journalist Bisan Owda loses her TikTok Account to platform censorship — which she points out Netanyahu openly said would come.
Why is the TikTok discourse ignoring this part?🤔
🇵🇸 Journalist Bisan Owda loses her TikTok Account to platform censorship — which she points out Netanyahu openly said would come.
Why is the TikTok discourse ignoring this part?🤔
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“TikTok deleted my account. I had 1.4 Million followers.”
🇵🇸 Journalist Bisan Owda loses her TikTok Account to platform censorship — which she points out Netanyahu openly said would come.
Why is the TikTok discourse ignoring this part?🤔
🇵🇸 Journalist Bisan Owda loses her TikTok Account to platform censorship — which she points out Netanyahu openly said would come.
Why is the TikTok discourse ignoring this part?🤔
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Keep it up. Delete ur tiktok accounts. Uninstall the tiktok app. For your own safety
TikTok uninstalls are reportedly up ~150% this week 📱
This follows the U.S. joint venture takeover
(via CNBC)
This follows the U.S. joint venture takeover
(via CNBC)
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Keep it up. Delete ur tiktok accounts. Uninstall the tiktok app. For your own safety
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
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Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda had her account suspended from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors — including a firm headed by the notoriously pro-Israel Larry Ellison. The journalist had 1.4 million followers on the platform.
TikTok Takes Down Gaza Journalist Bisan Owda’s Account Mere Days After US Deal
Owda’s account had 1.4 million followers, she said.
truthout.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda had her account suspended from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors — including a firm headed by the notoriously pro-Israel Larry Ellison. The journalist had 1.4 million followers on the platform.
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Demands from Israel fuel fears of engineered displacement of Palestinians from devastated Gaza.
Israel seeks ‘more exits than entries' at Gaza's Rafah as Egypt objects
Demands from Israel fuel fears of engineered displacement of Palestinians from devastated Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Demands from Israel fuel fears of engineered displacement of Palestinians from devastated Gaza.
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Nearly 60% of Americans are either strongly interested, or open to car-free living. Those are HUGE numbers for a country without meaningful transit service in many places. Less cars in day-to-day life is not at all a pipe dream.
“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org
Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
usa.streetsblog.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Nearly 60% of Americans are either strongly interested, or open to car-free living. Those are HUGE numbers for a country without meaningful transit service in many places. Less cars in day-to-day life is not at all a pipe dream.
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Ireland’s plan to weaken legal protections for waterways will push many of them beyond recovery
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Why is Ireland planning to all but give up on protecting its waterways?
Ella McSweeney: The Department of Housing is proposing to give up trying to restore or naturalise many of our rivers
www.irishtimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Ireland’s plan to weaken legal protections for waterways will push many of them beyond recovery
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:13 AM
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills
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A completely unacceptable and disgraceful headline from RTE.
“Driver avoids jail after woman killed while crossing road” strips responsibility from the person who caused her death.
Passive, consequence-free language like this normalises people being killed on our roads and obscures responsibility.
“Driver avoids jail after woman killed while crossing road” strips responsibility from the person who caused her death.
Passive, consequence-free language like this normalises people being killed on our roads and obscures responsibility.
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 AM
A completely unacceptable and disgraceful headline from RTE.
“Driver avoids jail after woman killed while crossing road” strips responsibility from the person who caused her death.
Passive, consequence-free language like this normalises people being killed on our roads and obscures responsibility.
“Driver avoids jail after woman killed while crossing road” strips responsibility from the person who caused her death.
Passive, consequence-free language like this normalises people being killed on our roads and obscures responsibility.
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Wexford mum launches reusable nappy brand: 'We want to change the world one bum at a time'
Wexford mum launches reusable nappy brand: 'We want to change the world one bum at a time'
EcoKinly aims to make reusable nappies mainstream – and save parents money in the process
www.irishtimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Wexford mum launches reusable nappy brand: 'We want to change the world one bum at a time'
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🙌 Major climate win!
Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to legally ban meat and fossil fuel advertising.
🌍 More than 50 cities worldwide have now pledged to ban the advertising of fossil fuels.
www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...
Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to legally ban meat and fossil fuel advertising.
🌍 More than 50 cities worldwide have now pledged to ban the advertising of fossil fuels.
www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...
Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads
Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...
www.desmog.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:39 AM
🙌 Major climate win!
Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to legally ban meat and fossil fuel advertising.
🌍 More than 50 cities worldwide have now pledged to ban the advertising of fossil fuels.
www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...
Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to legally ban meat and fossil fuel advertising.
🌍 More than 50 cities worldwide have now pledged to ban the advertising of fossil fuels.
www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...
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“Every time I have come close to death under some driver’s wheels and had a conversation about it – the driver says they “didn’t see me”. I was there when you did not see me because you did not look.”
- Sarah Moss #spéirghim #cycling
- Sarah Moss #spéirghim #cycling
Sarah Moss: Cycling helmets and hi-vis jackets are symptoms of an Irish problem
Sarah Moss: Cycling helmets and hi-vis jackets are symptoms of an Irish problem
You’ll see very few helmets on cyclists in the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium, certainly no laws mandating their use
www.irishtimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:07 AM
“Every time I have come close to death under some driver’s wheels and had a conversation about it – the driver says they “didn’t see me”. I was there when you did not see me because you did not look.”
- Sarah Moss #spéirghim #cycling
- Sarah Moss #spéirghim #cycling