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Deborah Rose

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · Jan 9

I stitched this old tweet by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social and remind myself of its truth literally every day.

Photograph of an embroidery hoop. A tangle of multi colored threads dangles from the bottom of the hoop, and stitched in grey thread is the following quote by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca: "It can be overwhelming to witness/experience/take in all the injustices of the moment. The good news is that they're all connected, so if your little corner or work involves pulling at one of the threads, you're helping to unravel the whole damn cloth."

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 3m

Best Drogheda Lidl purchase ever lol

Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 42m

Loody is doing great, she ventures outside a lot more now but mostly loves snuggling up near the skylight. Even in a camper van, they’ve each marked out their territories and are staking their claim on cosy spots now the weather’s cooling 🍂

#Caturday #WinterIsComing

A grey and white cat sits on a folded woolen blanket in a nooky spot of the overhead storage above the cab of a van. The skylight above/behind her shows a blue sky with faint white clouds. Colorful paper chains hang in half loops below her on the plastic face of the bulkhead (I don’t know the exact vocabulary for these parts of the van eek!)

A tuxedo cat with a dashing white mustache looks out from a large tweedy grey dog bed on top of a couch in a camper van. Behind him, a large raindrop-dappled window looks out onto a sloping hill and grey sky.

Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1h

Another Caturday on the road with this messer. Norway is so beautiful, it tires the eyes…

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 12h

I love this so much!

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 13h

Y'all, in a world of AI slop, take a look at this real human art:

Telephone is a worldwide, multimedia, interactive game/art project/human-powered portal of inspiration

Each of us did our own part, and this is the first time we're seeing the sprawling results!

telephonegame.art

TELEPHONE

Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

telephonegame.art

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 13h

The video game style installation can be experienced here - I recommend checking it out

earshot-investigations.itch.io/zifzafa

Zifzafa by Earshot

A video-game fighting green colonialism in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights (Al Jawlan)

earshot-investigations.itch.io

Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 13h

“Whilst the devastating effects of climate change makes it imperative that something is done… many of the communities being asked to make concessions in order for nation states to meet their climate commitments are often those who have been marginalized for decades.”

www.munch.no/en/exhibitio...

Curator’s essay: Lawrence Abu Hamdan

In this essay, curator Tominga O’Donnell describes the backdrop to Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s exhibition <i>Zifzafa</i> at MUNCH, touching on exploitation in the Golan Heights in the name of green energy, ...

www.munch.no

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 14h

Governments cooperating with Enlight are in violation of international law. Renewables aren’t an obvious boycott focus, but these countries need to withdraw their collaboration with Israeli companies that are helping expand illegal settlements and are providing renewable energy to the IOF.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 14h

The company behind these projects, Enlight Renewable Energy, has a history of working with the IOF (so called IDF) and is currently behind major renewable projects in Italy, Croatia, Spain, Ireland, Hungary, Serbia, Kosovo, Sweden & the U.S.

friendsoftheearth.eu/news/occupat...

Occupation through renewables: FoE groups urge governments to cut ties with Israeli energy company - Friends of the Earth Europe

Renewable energy, same as fossil fuels, can be an active tool for military violence, land theft and occupation. The Israeli government aims to increase electricity production from renewable sources by...

friendsoftheearth.eu

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 14h

Experienced this sonic installation at Munch today. Absolutely sickening. Renewable energy is the future - but in Israel’s hands it’s being weaponized as a tool for occupation, land theft and military violence.

Chris Erik Thomas @chriserikthomas.bsky.social · 12d

For ARTnews, I visited the Munch Museum in Oslo for "Zifzafa," Lawrence Abu Hamdan's powerful new exhibition on the devastating sonic impact that Israel's wind turbines will have on the local Jawlani people in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

www.artnews.com/art-news/art...

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Latest Exhibition Brings the Blast of Golan Heights Wind Turbines to Oslo

Lawrence Abu Hamdan's exhibition at the Munch Museum looks at the sonic blast generated by wind turbines in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (Jawlan).

www.artnews.com

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 23h

Oslo mood (Grünerløkka neighbourhood) 🥳

Large mural on the side of a building in the Grünerløkka neighborhood of Oslo. Against an orange background, a large scale painting of a young girl blowing a horn instrument. Her head is raised and the instrument points upwards at the blue sky in the background

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 23h

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

In light of EU saüsagegate, I’m guessing this is vegan cheese but they weren’t allowed call it that and so here we are…

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

dublinsmallpressfair.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

ok this is fucking awesome

Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists recently found two evolutionarily distinct mushrooms converged to produce the same psychedelic molecule—psilocybin.

The “surprising” results underscore the significance of the hallucinogen but leave questions about its ultimate purpose.

#Psilocybe #MagicMushrooms

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

www.science.org

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned that caffeine is another example of convergent evolution, plants are very cool and exceedingly generous

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

“You want it to be one way, but it’s the other way” is the only legitimate response to Shapiro’s line of reasoning…

Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Great picture! 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

this is easily the coolest shirt design we've had at the flytrap and it's already our best selling item. go get yours!

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

A reminder that if you buy anything from our Free Palestine collection, 50% of profits will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/sao...

Saoirse don Phalaistín Shirt

The official shop of The Flytrap Media. Buy merch, and support your favorite feminist media collection!

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Context for folks outside of Ireland:

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How slogans as Gaeilge have become part of Irish Gaza protests

The use of Gaeilge at demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people is part of the radical tradition of Irish language activism

www.rte.ie

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Is it selling with people outside of Ireland? I love this!

Ní saoirse go saoirse na Palaistíne 🇮🇪🇵🇸✊🏼

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

From Seattle’s @expeditionpress.bsky.social

expedition.press/collections/...

Read While You Can

Original letterpress notecard for sale featuring an excerpt from the poem "Bottom's Poetics" by Luke Brekke. 4x6 inches, archival ink on renewable paper, with envelope. $6 single, $20 box of six.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Been carrying this postcard around with me for years now (I have zero chill lol).

From a line in ‘Bottom’s Poetics’, a poem by Luke Brekke:

“You should read while you can /
by whatever light, because it’s dark / and set to get darker.”

A postcard propped up against books on a shelf. On a creamy white background in all-caps black text: YOU SHOULD READ WHILE YOU CAN

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

(My cat's meowing brings my awareness back into my room and I realize I'm mostly/actually talking to myself here. But I think that's okay. So much is being ceded and eroded, gradually and incrementally; I think it's okay to publicly remind yourself what you do and don't stand for.)

Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously. Too many people are talking out of both sides of their mouth right now, trying to preserve their self-image while they strategize with other people's lives, and it's not only dishonest, it's dangerous and it's wrong and we can't succumb to this increasingly prevalent/pervasive "logic"