Emma Rogan 🇵🇸
@emmadragon.bsky.social
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Res Non Verba 😷 #Resist 🏳️‍🌈 🧠❤️‍🔥Brain & mind health activist playing the long game. Fascinated by it all| Typical human attributes with additional super-power to chat to strangers. "Joy is my favorite weapon" (Cooperstreaming) Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️❤️‍🔥
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From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation by Gene Sharp

"It is my hope that this brief examination of how a dictatorship can be disintegrated may be found useful wherever people live under domination & desire to be free"

www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126900/8...

#spéirghorm
Book cover of From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp. There is a silhouette of a crowd of people with their fists raised in protest. The title of the book is on a black banner across the width of the book. Quote 'Inspired dissidents around the world' New York Times. 'Recommended reading' Wikileaks

From Wikipedia: 

From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one.[1] The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (1928–2018), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book has been published in many countries worldwide and translated into more than 30 languages. Editions in many languages are also published by the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2012 its current primary English-language edition is the Fourth United States Edition, published in May 2010.[2]

The book has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring of 2010–2012
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emmadragon.bsky.social
Aww…I’m so sorry for the loss of your beloved friend 😢🫂
emmadragon.bsky.social
“Budgets are moral documents. They reveal priorities & values, and as a society, they are the primary way that we care for one another, especially for the vulnerable.”

Or not #Budget26 🤦🏾‍♀️

www.citizensinformation.ie/en/money-and...

#spéirghorm #Áras25 #IrishPol #Budget26 #Disabled #Ireland
catherinegalway.bsky.social
"Unpaid carers are predominantly women, which might go some way to explaining why their contributions are ignored." Catherine Connolly speaking out following yesterday's budget on the continuation of the means test for carers, and the unfulfilled promise of a cost of disability payment.
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yasharali.bsky.social
BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
emmadragon.bsky.social
AI is not an ‘industry’ if its core is based on the stealing of people’s ideas, creations, decades of work & ignoring copyright.

These companies need to ask EVERY creator for their permission.

The business equivalent of
“ask for forgiveness, not permission”
style of skulduggery.

#spéirghorm
emmadragon.bsky.social
How keen people are to ignore the law just to steal & pillage the work of artists & creators.

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“Nick Clegg…former Meta exec. claimed a push for artist consent would “basically kill” the #AI industry. Speaking at an event promoting his new book….” 🤦🏾‍♀️

#spéirghorm #AIStopStealing #Tech
atarbuck.bsky.social
I really hope that Nick Clegg understand why all millennials loathe him.
theverge.com
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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ronsexsmith.bsky.social
Keep Dolly Parton in your heart tonight
If you pray include her in your prayers
Apparently she's having some serious health issues
She's always been a force for good
and a beacon of love & kindness in song
The world (and especially America) needs her more than ever
in these challenging times RS
emmadragon.bsky.social
POTUS & the MAGang authoritarian/nazification complete.

CNN seems to have reshot the piece so as to completely appease the fascist masters 🤦🏾‍♀️

They removed “plenary authority” because they know how fked up it is for Miller to be so publicly, unapologetically Nazi.

#Nazi #Fascist #US
cwebbonline.com
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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emmadragon.bsky.social
Look at these fabulous librarians!

Shout out to the brilliant Malahide staff @fingal.ie & every one who makes these beautiful spaces a safe, book-savouring haven for all 🫶🏾 📚❤️

#spéirgorm #Librarians #Malahide #Books
emmadragon.bsky.social
Your work is splendid! Pls make more 🙏🏾❤️
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”
emmadragon.bsky.social
🫶🏾 It can be so lonely, sometimes shaming, to deal with these powerful orgs & companies. I’m so glad you shared 🤩
Take care & enjoy that delicious coffee 😀🤌🏽
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asharangappa.bsky.social
We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
emmadragon.bsky.social
These solicitor/legal letters can be terrifying. Very glad you’ve some good coffee to get through 🤩
emmadragon.bsky.social
JFC. I’m so sorry 🤦🏾‍♀️🫂
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catherinegalway.bsky.social
An rud atá soléir domsa ná, tá bearna ollmhór idir na téamaí atá faoi chaibidil ag muintir na tíre agus an rialtas, agus barr an liosta, an Phailistín.
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robosullivan.bsky.social
Seeing Irish people simp for Humphreys because she'll keep her head down reminds me of that MLK quote "...the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" #spéirgorm
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rebelalliance77.bsky.social
Coladh sámh Manchán.
Man of golden words man of many wonders.
Fuinneamh, suaimhneas thaggainn a cuid smaointe as a céile agues an fíor Gael

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
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integrity73.bsky.social
ITS ALL HERE PLEASE PASS THIS ONTO YOUR COMMUNITY
emmadragon.bsky.social
Irish here- it’s a term that’s been reclaimed from the bigots but there’s some residual use of it as a way to shame us LGBTQI+ folks 🫶🏾
emmadragon.bsky.social
Who knew @catherinegalway.bsky.social could ALSO do ‘keepie-uppies’ 🤩???

What a glorious sight!

#spéirghorm #Áras2025 #Connolly
emmadragon.bsky.social
Whoop for you!! That’s wonderful 🫶🏾🤩🥰

Needing someone like that over here in Dublin ☘️ 😔 Send the good vibes pls.