Sam
@irishwol.bsky.social
Escaped from the rubble of Twitter. Feminist, recovering medievalist, LGBT+activist, loves her family, animals and art. She/her
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I agree, but look: let’s compare the avalanche of scalding hatred that was tipped over Gary Lineker for saying the IDF should stop mass-murdering civilians against the treatment of Nigel Farage for *actually being a Nazi*. It will always be like this, for as long as this behaviour is tolerated.
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I agree, but look: let’s compare the avalanche of scalding hatred that was tipped over Gary Lineker for saying the IDF should stop mass-murdering civilians against the treatment of Nigel Farage for *actually being a Nazi*. It will always be like this, for as long as this behaviour is tolerated.
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
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Uplift petition to #StopCETA
Please sign, there's still time to stop this anti-people pro-corporation bill
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Please sign, there's still time to stop this anti-people pro-corporation bill
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Stop CETA: Stop secretive corporate courts
I’m telling TDs and senators to reject CETA. CETA includes investor courts that allow corporations to sue if regulatory changes affect profits, inc environmental & consumer protections. Will you j...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Uplift petition to #StopCETA
Please sign, there's still time to stop this anti-people pro-corporation bill
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Please sign, there's still time to stop this anti-people pro-corporation bill
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
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🚨 The sold-out Christmas cards are now back for a FINAL limited time restock, grab 'em before they're gone! #SpéirGorm
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Christmas cards available now and shipping here and abroad, featuring a choice of either a traditional Irish Christmas fireplace, or an Cailleach, the ancient Irish bringer of winter ❄️
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An Cailleach: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🚨 The sold-out Christmas cards are now back for a FINAL limited time restock, grab 'em before they're gone! #SpéirGorm
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1/🧵 I am releasing my witness statement as part of my information tribunal case against Wes Streeting and the Department of Health and Social Care.
Content warning: suicide
drive.google.com/file/d/1na2i...
Content warning: suicide
drive.google.com/file/d/1na2i...
Witness statement of E A Lee_Redacted.pdf
drive.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
1/🧵 I am releasing my witness statement as part of my information tribunal case against Wes Streeting and the Department of Health and Social Care.
Content warning: suicide
drive.google.com/file/d/1na2i...
Content warning: suicide
drive.google.com/file/d/1na2i...
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12 December 1921 | A Polish Jew, Izaak Ziegmann, was born in Kańczuga. A shoemaker.
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24583
He perished in the camp on 6 February 1942.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24583
He perished in the camp on 6 February 1942.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
12 December 1921 | A Polish Jew, Izaak Ziegmann, was born in Kańczuga. A shoemaker.
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24583
He perished in the camp on 6 February 1942.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24583
He perished in the camp on 6 February 1942.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
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The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
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Women's Organisations "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
Women's Orgs "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats
Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans inclusive approaches, citing "reference to legal challenge" in communications
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Women's Organisations "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
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Today, members of the House will vote on a dangerous bill that will expand government censorship under the guise of protecting youth online.
Tell your representative to protect the First Amendment and vote NO.
Tell your representative to protect the First Amendment and vote NO.
Censorship Does Not Keep Kids Safe
KOSA is an alarming bill that would enable censorship and violate young people’s First Amendment right to freely access information. We must call on Congress to act now and protect free speech online.
action.aclu.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Today, members of the House will vote on a dangerous bill that will expand government censorship under the guise of protecting youth online.
Tell your representative to protect the First Amendment and vote NO.
Tell your representative to protect the First Amendment and vote NO.
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Never before in the history of legal scholarship has there been such deep unhappiness about a case from the party that 'won' it.
No one can be surprised by the rank hypocrisy of Murdoch's 'Trump is a feminist hero' and 'Ending Roe v Wade was right' Times. But worth noting the difference between when it gets what it wants from the judiciary and when it doesn't.
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Never before in the history of legal scholarship has there been such deep unhappiness about a case from the party that 'won' it.
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"women's champion"
She has refused to condemn or speak out about the sexual abuse of people in sport she actually knows.
She has refused to condemn or speak out about the sexual abuse of people in sport she actually knows.
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"women's champion"
She has refused to condemn or speak out about the sexual abuse of people in sport she actually knows.
She has refused to condemn or speak out about the sexual abuse of people in sport she actually knows.
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Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
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I recall we had a decade of hysterical denunciation of The Left for tyrannical speech policing, and The Left saying this is drivel, these people are horrible racist reactionaries abusing their positions of prominence to make the world much worse. Does it look like it was the latter who were wrong.
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I recall we had a decade of hysterical denunciation of The Left for tyrannical speech policing, and The Left saying this is drivel, these people are horrible racist reactionaries abusing their positions of prominence to make the world much worse. Does it look like it was the latter who were wrong.
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
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Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
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This is the malaise in Ireland’s democracy.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is the malaise in Ireland’s democracy.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
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My friend Marah is back on Bluesky and she still needs our help 🚨
She’s currently dealing with the Storm Byron aftermath with her shelter being flooded.
If you can, please donate, share and help in any other way:
She’s currently dealing with the Storm Byron aftermath with her shelter being flooded.
If you can, please donate, share and help in any other way:
We’re dying please help us 😭
The situation is unbearable, our bodies are shaking from the strong winds and heavy rain😭
Our area is flooded, we’re drowning with it!!!
My daughter hasn’t moved since the morning from the freezing💔
Pleaseeeee help🙏🏻
gofund.me/c369c4851
@mommunism.bsky.social please🙏🏻
The situation is unbearable, our bodies are shaking from the strong winds and heavy rain😭
Our area is flooded, we’re drowning with it!!!
My daughter hasn’t moved since the morning from the freezing💔
Pleaseeeee help🙏🏻
gofund.me/c369c4851
@mommunism.bsky.social please🙏🏻
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My friend Marah is back on Bluesky and she still needs our help 🚨
She’s currently dealing with the Storm Byron aftermath with her shelter being flooded.
If you can, please donate, share and help in any other way:
She’s currently dealing with the Storm Byron aftermath with her shelter being flooded.
If you can, please donate, share and help in any other way:
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Jumping on since we were tagged - folks in this thread might benefit from "I Think I May be Intersex" interactadvocates.org/wp-content/u... and our Intersex Variations Glossary interactadvocates.org/wp-content/u...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Jumping on since we were tagged - folks in this thread might benefit from "I Think I May be Intersex" interactadvocates.org/wp-content/u... and our Intersex Variations Glossary interactadvocates.org/wp-content/u...
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11 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Louis Salomon Goudsmid, was born in Kampen.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
11 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Louis Salomon Goudsmid, was born in Kampen.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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I have ploughed my way through all 312 pages of the ruling in Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife & I can confirm that this story in The National is the only truthful media account of the full scale of her crushing defeat. archive.is/2025.12.09-1...
archive.is
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I have ploughed my way through all 312 pages of the ruling in Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife & I can confirm that this story in The National is the only truthful media account of the full scale of her crushing defeat. archive.is/2025.12.09-1...
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In case you missed it, here is mine and Jen’s latest piece on how Labour’s vote is fragmenting across two of its strongholds: London and the youth ⬇️
💡New! With the creation of Your Party and the Greens’ soaring popularity, @lauraserra.bsky.social and Jenevieve Treadwell trace the movement of voters to the left, and argue that Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
The Greens, Your Party and Labour’s left challenge | British Politics and Policy at LSE
With the creation of Your Party and the Green's soaring popularity, Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In case you missed it, here is mine and Jen’s latest piece on how Labour’s vote is fragmenting across two of its strongholds: London and the youth ⬇️
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It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
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Reposting with the picture of Lucy and Ricky looking for their home. Please share to help them find it! #LucyandRicky #ForeverHomeNeeded #Rescue #wobblycats #Connecticut #NewYork #kittens #cats
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposting with the picture of Lucy and Ricky looking for their home. Please share to help them find it! #LucyandRicky #ForeverHomeNeeded #Rescue #wobblycats #Connecticut #NewYork #kittens #cats
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Remember when Kemi Badenoch also boasted about hor the Tories packed the EHRC to stack policy-making institutions against trans people!? 😖
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it’s actually the malevolent scheming of a handful of bigots! 😩
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it’s actually the malevolent scheming of a handful of bigots! 😩
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Remember when Kemi Badenoch also boasted about hor the Tories packed the EHRC to stack policy-making institutions against trans people!? 😖
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it’s actually the malevolent scheming of a handful of bigots! 😩
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it’s actually the malevolent scheming of a handful of bigots! 😩
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it’s wild that link is still banned but talib kweli is allowed to harass women on here with impunity
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
it’s wild that link is still banned but talib kweli is allowed to harass women on here with impunity