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Seamus Heaney ... it’s time to swim/out on your own & fill the element /with signatures on your own frequency/echosoundings,searches, probes, allurements/elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea... Socialist ☆no gods☆no kings☆no fascists☆ 🍉🌻

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Apr 16

(from)The Second Coming
By WB Yeats

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks. I was so delighted to hear Trump hadn't got it, then horrified to read later of the winner's support of likud & of Trump,in her statement -

"... today ...we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, & the democratic nations of the world..." 😱

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you. I was just going to delete the original post but then I thought I should share what I've found out.

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 4h

I meant that when I wrote it, but have since found this out about Machado. The Nobel Committee should have chosen better :

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado supports Israel’s war and Benjamin Netanyahu? Here are the facts- The Week share.google/4eudVEMPSB2N...

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 5h

That's absolute nonsense. He campaigned for Remain,and had jo Swinson decided to actually prioritise stopping brexit rather than stopping Corbyn, he could have prevented brexit.
And the charge of antisemitism against him is obscenely wrong.

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 5h

Yes indeed. The bracketed Scottish was really meant to suggest where geographically he hailed from, but thank you for the correction.

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 7h

. It refers to the brutal tactics of Roman invasion, suggesting that by destroying a people's land & way of life,Romans brought about a desolate "peace" that was actually a form of subjugation & ruin. 2/2

#gaza #genocide #Palestine

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 7h

"they create a desert & call it peace", a powerful quote from the Roman historian Tacitus's work, Agricola, spoken by the Caledonian (Scottish) chieftain Calgacus. 🧵 1/2

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10h

I truly don’t know what’s triggered it, but this phrase from Tacitus keeps coming to mind today:

“They make a desolation and they call it peace”.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 7h

😂😂😂

He-man Hegseth has some botox & beauty treatment💋

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 7h

Lowkey on the Ceasefire

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Lowkey EXPOSES Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire | Double Down News

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 10h

🌹❤️

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Well done, Nobel Prize Committee- rewarding an anti-populist activist when the world's biggest, loudest populist dictator was screaming for attention

#Nobel

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, Happy Day !

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

www.bbc.co.uk

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Let's all be Team Frog🐸✊️🐸

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11h

#poetry #booksky

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Indeed - the mother of parliaments - but i think it has ceased to work. I believe PR is the way forward - but it's in the best interests of the established system not to allow that to happen.

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