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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · 14d

Thrilled to see my first ever hedgehog visitor in the garden #hedgehog

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14d

This man has left his nation in a state of total isolation. He is disaster for Israel's international standing and security.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14d

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 18d

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · 20d

Love seeing evidence of leaf cutter bees hard at work in the garden #leafcutterbees

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 21d

High quality journalism is paywalled, right wing propaganda is funded by cunts and free

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Aug 26

Israel had every right to respond to Hamas' 7 Oct 2023 attacks.

But this has NOT been a proportionate response: it has been an escalating campaign of war crimes, crimes against humanity & genocide as the world just watches.

It is fair to hold Israel to a higher standard than Hamas terrorists. 5/5

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Aug 4

Sunshine and storms, Inishmore

Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Jul 23

Israel is forcing Palestinian children to starve to death and is executing thousands of starving Palestinians at aid distribution points. Jews who suffered in camps under the Nazis would recognise this for what it is. The world must act.

Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Jul 21

The state of Israel is committing the most horrific of war crimes while the world watches idly by

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 21

Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'.

A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

A Palestinian girl cries out for food with her hands held out at a charity kitchen amid the famine in Gaza. She is surrounded by other young, anguished children. This photo was taken on Thurs July 11, 2025 after at least 10 children were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point. More Palestinians have now been killed just waiting for food than the number of victims killed in the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7.
Photograph credit is to Ebrahim Hajjaj of Reuters

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Jul 18

For once, Lunch with the FT is with someone truly inspiring and heroic. You might, if you can get through the tears, think that David Nott deserves rather more than seabass and chips in Sloane Square on us, but it's a start.
(Link free 300x) on.ft.com/410ARdR

War zone surgeon David Nott: ‘Life is all about taking calculated risks’

[FREE TO READ] The doctor who’s saved countless lives through his work in Ukraine and Gaza on operating under fire, the challenges of PTSD — and his belief in God

on.ft.com

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Jul 14

Those fuckers keep harping back to the ‘dignity of work’ theme. Arbeit something something……

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Jun 22

166km through the burren. Magic.

Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Jun 19

Israeli minister says Iran's supreme leader 'can no longer be allowed to exist' after hospital strike

In the meantime, Israel carries on bombing hospitals and starving the civilian population of Gaza. Fucking hypocrites.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · Jun 18

The world watched a people erased in real time, and called it complicated. As the bodies fell, as the children vanished beneath broken concrete, as voices turned to dust, leaders chose profit over life. History won’t ask how it happened. It will ask how humans lost their humanity.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · Jun 17

Starving Palestinian civilisans is not enough for these monsters

Maybe it's just an excuse to bring people out into the open so they can murder them as they queue for food?

Every one of the individuals responsible should be be put on trial for war crimes

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

At least 51 Palestinians killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks, says health ministry

More than 200 also wounded on Tuesday morning as they waited for UN and commercial trucks to enter territory with aid supplies

www.theguardian.com

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Jun 4

Healthcare in America is broken. It is a basic human right, not something only the richest can afford.

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · May 24

Pints….

Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · May 12

The US bringing in white South African “refugees” because the ly have been subjected to “genocide”. Meanwhile in Gaza….

Gaza at critical risk of famine, with one in five facing starvation jrnl.ie/6702653

Gaza at critical risk of famine, with one in five facing starvation

Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to Gaza has entered its third month.

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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · May 11

Sunday's @nytimes.com carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · May 10

Looks amazing

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · May 6

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

www.theguardian.com

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Apr 30

Parallels with crowds of indoctrinated mindlessly chanting sieg heil…..

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Apr 24

He should be on Mars right now….

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Tom @tomfitzsimons75.bsky.social · Apr 12

An absolutely brutal cycle around Wicklow followed by a much needed pint…

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · Apr 9

The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct.

An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Dire wolves remain very extinct

Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

arutherford.substack.com

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