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Phoenixrising1051

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Mid 70s. Gardening, reading, preserving, cooking, politicaly left of centre. Left the UK to escape Brexit. Pro Palestine, anti fascism. Pro humanity and all creatures that live on this planet. Not very optimistic for the future of human kind. 🏳️‍🌈🌱🍴🌻🇵🇸 🇪🇺 🇮🇪☘️

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · Sep 3

Danni from birth to death. 3rd August 1981 to 5th September 2011.

I still miss her. I still talk to her.

Despite all that she had to go through in her short life she was so very alive, so very giving. I miss her, especially her very wicked sense of humour.

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Top left Danni one day old.
Middle left Danni's grave marker, woodland burial.
Bottom left Danni on holiday with me in Portugal after her treatment for cancer the previous year August 1998
Top right Danni hooked up to the dialysis machine about a year before her death.
Bottom right, the last photo of Danni that I can find.

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 16h

He never had it to lose!

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Kιƚƚყ ₜₕₑ ᵥₑgₐₙ ₛₒcᵢₐₗᵢₛₜ 📎Ⓥ🌱💚🦇🌍🐠🇬🇧🇪🇺 @sparklykitten.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay lovely phone family. There's no shame in admitting you're not doing great or you need support. There's always someone who will listen, so reach out if you need to and check in on loved ones. Be kind to yourself and each other. Have a peaceful day 🥰
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Two fluffy pandas sat together. One has an arm around the other and there are love hearts across them both.
Text reads: When someone is going a rough time, just sit with them, no preaching, no judgement, just be there for them.
Credit - Mental Health Believe UK

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. How are you?

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. And yes very hard to do especially when travelling, trying to find hotels that do not use fragrances in their laundry. It has become so much worse in the last five or so years.

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Fragrance allergies can be very debilitating.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

I’m sensitive to the scents my children’s friend brings into the house. What do I do?

You can set boundaries for your health in our perfume-obsessed world – but you should be extra considerate

www.theguardian.com

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 3d

Budget 2026: What’s another year to a hungry two-year-old?

Fintan O'Toole on Budget 2026: What’s another year to a hungry two-year-old?

Nobody disagrees on the value of a second tier of child benefit. So why has it not been introduced? Lethargy

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 3d

We were in #Portland this week six years ago. Would we feel as safe today? #USA

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 4d

Pictures coming out off the USA with heavily armoured and clad soldiers in some cities are really scary. War torn countries spring to mind. 1930s Germany? How has this happened? This isn't policing as most of us know it. #USA #war #nazi #pieergrab

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 5d

How can he be president? Who are his puppet masters? He clearly is not in charge of himself or any one else.

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 6d

One of the climbing roses that is still flowering in the garden. The storm did not blow off all the flowers

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Palestine 🍉🇵🇸 @palestne4ever.bsky.social · 6d

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 6d

I am furious. There would not be "relentless protests" if the government ended their support for the genocide in Gaza and their support for Israeli annexing of the West Bank. Stop the supply of weapons and other goods to Israel.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Andre C @caseopia23.bsky.social · 6d

And what will they cancel as a mark of respect for all the Palestinians killed by Israel on the same day?

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 6d

Yes.

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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 6d

youtu.be/HcCgV0dSoAM?...

Holocaust Survivor DEMOLISHES Israel's Final Solution

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 9d

A question - why does no media make the point that Gaza's coastline is not Israeli waters?

Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 9d

Where we were last night. This is before everyone came in, every seat was sold. We saw Macbeth by @druidtheatre.bsky.social it was so very very good. 🎭👏👏👏

#macbeth #theatre #Dublin

Inside of the Gaity Theatre, Dublin before every seat was filled.

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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 9d

Unless we stop the #genocide, #Gaza will be the model for Governments in how to deal with inconvenient populations. NO ONE WILL BE SAFE AND OUR CHILDREN 'S LIVES WILL BECOME UNLIVEABLE.

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Lady Muck @ladymuckstyle.bsky.social · 9d

Apologies for radio silence!

Just had to have laser eye surgery ugh 😳

So resting up!

Keep on enjoying those gardens & allotments! I shall be back out there soon!

#GardeningFeed

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 9d

🇵🇸 That's solidarity! 175 great civil society groups have endorsed our National Demonstration for Palestine Saturday. See you at the Garden of Remembrance at 12.30pm, all out for Palestine! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 12d

Again: Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”

open.substack.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12d

Thou shalt worry less about Tylenol causing autism and more about Donold causing fascism.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

It was an extraordinary week. The slumbering giant of America is awakening. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-7f6

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Phoenixrising1051 @scorpions51.bsky.social · 14d

We are also worried about our trans grandchild and their friends in the UK, they can get on a flight or boat and join us here in central Ireland. The contagion from the USA is spreading.