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European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights statement on the escalating violations of international law and the threat to Kurdish population in North and East Syria (Rojava)
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ELDH Statement: On the escalating violations of international law and the threat to Kurdish population in North and East Syria (Rojava) – ELDH
eldh.eu
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 PM
European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights statement on the escalating violations of international law and the threat to Kurdish population in North and East Syria (Rojava)
eldh.eu/en/2026/01/e...
eldh.eu/en/2026/01/e...
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“Mutually Agreed Segregation”
January 21, 2026 at 3:06 PM
“Mutually Agreed Segregation”
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Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. 👀
January 14, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. 👀
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At the Oireachtas hearing today the police also complained that the existence of encryption creates an "insurrmountable obstacle to prosecution".
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
Particularly unhappy with the attempt to move discussion off the X illegal abuse image factory to the pre-existing Garda wish to bring in age verification to allow surveillance of all adults and children’s access of *lawful* material.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
At the Oireachtas hearing today the police also complained that the existence of encryption creates an "insurrmountable obstacle to prosecution".
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
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Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
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I wrote a blog post inspired by this train of thought. On Minneapolis, Northern Ireland, necropolitics, and the violences of the State:
eireannach.ghost.io/on-state-vio...
eireannach.ghost.io/on-state-vio...
People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.
January 8, 2026 at 11:56 AM
I wrote a blog post inspired by this train of thought. On Minneapolis, Northern Ireland, necropolitics, and the violences of the State:
eireannach.ghost.io/on-state-vio...
eireannach.ghost.io/on-state-vio...
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People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.
January 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.
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Not entirely sure any of these guys would even lift a finger if the Americans start renditioning Europeans straight off the streets here
January 5, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Not entirely sure any of these guys would even lift a finger if the Americans start renditioning Europeans straight off the streets here
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The first organisation quoted in this article (SERP, featuring associated Ruhama-adjacent people) still has an active X account
January 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
The first organisation quoted in this article (SERP, featuring associated Ruhama-adjacent people) still has an active X account
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Thank you to all of us in Ireland, especially TDs & leaders who’ve fled responsibility, accountability & protection of Ireland’s environment for decades.
We’ll not only have disgusting, dead land & waterways, we’ll have ❄️FROZEN❄️ dead land, waterways.
#AMOC #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Eco #Climate
We’ll not only have disgusting, dead land & waterways, we’ll have ❄️FROZEN❄️ dead land, waterways.
#AMOC #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Eco #Climate
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Thank you to all of us in Ireland, especially TDs & leaders who’ve fled responsibility, accountability & protection of Ireland’s environment for decades.
We’ll not only have disgusting, dead land & waterways, we’ll have ❄️FROZEN❄️ dead land, waterways.
#AMOC #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Eco #Climate
We’ll not only have disgusting, dead land & waterways, we’ll have ❄️FROZEN❄️ dead land, waterways.
#AMOC #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Eco #Climate
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When Catherine Connolly said the US was a volatile imperial power, the people kicking up most fuss weren't the people who didn't believe her. They were the people who know she's right and don't want to piss off the volatile ass we're kissing in the name of foreign direct investment #spéirgorm
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
When Catherine Connolly said the US was a volatile imperial power, the people kicking up most fuss weren't the people who didn't believe her. They were the people who know she's right and don't want to piss off the volatile ass we're kissing in the name of foreign direct investment #spéirgorm
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it's not "politicians" though, is it? it's the parties of government, who the likes of Leahy would have us vote back into government over and over again forever, while warning us how much worse it would be if we ever dared to vote for a left alternative
January 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
it's not "politicians" though, is it? it's the parties of government, who the likes of Leahy would have us vote back into government over and over again forever, while warning us how much worse it would be if we ever dared to vote for a left alternative
@garethdennis.uk irish news, driverless underground heavy rail? www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-dr...
MetroLink trains won't have drivers - how's that going to work?
A transport professor told The Journal that driverless technology is now the norm for new rail systems internationally.
www.thejournal.ie
January 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
@garethdennis.uk irish news, driverless underground heavy rail? www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-dr...
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hey @newschambers.bsky.social or any other Irish journalist with a backbone, fancy asking Martin or Harris if they are comfortable still using a platform which generates CSAM? #speirgorm
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
hey @newschambers.bsky.social or any other Irish journalist with a backbone, fancy asking Martin or Harris if they are comfortable still using a platform which generates CSAM? #speirgorm
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“What was a hand-built city, that wasn’t bombed during the war, has been undermined entirely by dilapidation & by an indifference…”
Also ignoring Irish commitment to the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
social.desa.un.org/issues/disab...
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #UNCRPD
Also ignoring Irish commitment to the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
social.desa.un.org/issues/disab...
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #UNCRPD
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
“What was a hand-built city, that wasn’t bombed during the war, has been undermined entirely by dilapidation & by an indifference…”
Also ignoring Irish commitment to the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
social.desa.un.org/issues/disab...
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #UNCRPD
Also ignoring Irish commitment to the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
social.desa.un.org/issues/disab...
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #UNCRPD
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They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
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Genuinely mental how many people are claiming the antisemitic graffiti in Louth is a false flag. As if they cannot comprehend the idea of there being racists living in fucking LOUTH
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Genuinely mental how many people are claiming the antisemitic graffiti in Louth is a false flag. As if they cannot comprehend the idea of there being racists living in fucking LOUTH
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Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
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The Irish State's positioning on Palestine is cynically hollow
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
Palestinian cultural tour to Ireland in limbo as Government tightens visa policy
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Irish State's positioning on Palestine is cynically hollow
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
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This is really awful
Compensation will no doubt follow
But the practices won't change
The War on Drugs breeds ignorance, incompetence and ineffective triumphalist punitiveness
www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
Compensation will no doubt follow
But the practices won't change
The War on Drugs breeds ignorance, incompetence and ineffective triumphalist punitiveness
www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
‘It was creatine after all’ – Clare man spent five weeks in prison after drugs test wrongly found white powder was cocaine
A man spent five weeks on remand in prison due to a test that wrongly determined a white substance found at his home was cocaine.
www.independent.ie
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is really awful
Compensation will no doubt follow
But the practices won't change
The War on Drugs breeds ignorance, incompetence and ineffective triumphalist punitiveness
www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
Compensation will no doubt follow
But the practices won't change
The War on Drugs breeds ignorance, incompetence and ineffective triumphalist punitiveness
www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
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it's completely insane to me that this deal was voted through without the investor's name being disclosed. I know why the investor doesn't want their name disclosed, I just don't get why anyone went along with it
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Why won’t Waterford council name US investor buying €2.3m of public land for just €50,000?
Council sees development as improving access to southeast and boosting local economy but secrecy is not sustainable
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
it's completely insane to me that this deal was voted through without the investor's name being disclosed. I know why the investor doesn't want their name disclosed, I just don't get why anyone went along with it
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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I would like to know what are the inhumane and degrading treatments the Minister believes should be legal.
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
Ireland shares concerns over challenges posed by convention on human rights in relation to migration and deporting criminals, Minister tells meeting
www.irishtimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I would like to know what are the inhumane and degrading treatments the Minister believes should be legal.
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I know you're all sick of me saying this, but it needs to be repeated until they are gone.
FFG only see neoliberalism & austerity as the way to run the country.
They have abandoned the responsibility of investing in infra for future prosperity or climate, in favour of market greed.
#IrishPol
FFG only see neoliberalism & austerity as the way to run the country.
They have abandoned the responsibility of investing in infra for future prosperity or climate, in favour of market greed.
#IrishPol
They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I know you're all sick of me saying this, but it needs to be repeated until they are gone.
FFG only see neoliberalism & austerity as the way to run the country.
They have abandoned the responsibility of investing in infra for future prosperity or climate, in favour of market greed.
#IrishPol
FFG only see neoliberalism & austerity as the way to run the country.
They have abandoned the responsibility of investing in infra for future prosperity or climate, in favour of market greed.
#IrishPol
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There's also huge investment planned for Rosslare Europort which really should be coupled with investment in both passenger and freight rail in the area.
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There's also huge investment planned for Rosslare Europort which really should be coupled with investment in both passenger and freight rail in the area.