Need to deal with this, fast (months ago was already too late). Need to leave room for satire etc., but we can't allow this. Needs to be very heavily disincentivised/penalised where it interferes with the democratic process.

Also: urgent need for information & digital literacy interventions.

Thought-testing my half-baked new theory that the general trend of reality TV shows is a reliable macroeconomic and boom-bust indicator.

"We need to prevent and to punish, not to allow genocide."

Mary Robinson accuses Israeli government of 'nonsense', 'malicious lying' (about aid in Gaza)

www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

In civilised countries, publics and governments try to solve homelessness and to house people, not cleanse their urban spaces of rough sleepers like they’re human waste.

Not in our name.

Minister Donohoe must:
2. Direct that there be no investment in entities profiting from/linked to human rights violations, illegal settlement, occupation, arbitrary detention, Israeli surveillance state, settler colonialism, apartheid, IDF, displacement, ethnic cleansing, genocide.

Not in our name.

Minister Donohoe must:

1. Order immediate divestment

Not in our name.

Irish sovereign wealth fund pumped millions into companies contracted by Israel Defence Forces: jrnl.ie/6752927

Emailing myself so many things and reminders, to-dos and imaginal doohickies, priority emails and superficial research ideas that my own out-of-office emails have both started and ceased coming to me across multiple accounts. This is where ancient explorers thought they could reach: End of Earth.

I just had a plate of penne puttanesca, which I have only made one time; for my grandmother. A lot of memories just returned. There it is.

Troops of fascist, apartheid regime, currently committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and planned starvation of civilians, fire on UN peacekeepers.

'Tánaiste to contact Israel after Irish troops fired upon' @rtenews

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We need the passage of the Occupied Territories Bill. It is very long past due.

An offer of effective complicity in ethnic cleansing should be a fireable offence in this.

Kaja Kallas, EU Foreign Rep, former PM of Estonia.

'Utterly shameful': Irish MEPs slam EU offer to assist Israel in replacing Gaza aid agencies

#Gaza #EuropeanUnion

jrnl.ie/6699324

I'm not Australian, but I get the sentiment...

Eight hours to work,
Eight hours to play,
Eight hours to sleep,
Eight bob a day.

A fair day’s work,
For a fair day’s pay.

Australia, 1856: stonemasons strike, winning an 8-hour day.

Happy #InternationalLabourDay !

#LabourRights #InternationalLaborDay

See here
www.nma.gov.au/defining-mom...

It's me. I'm the rare atmospheric phenomenon. It's me.