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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 2d

It’s obvious who in politics here is responsible for stoking tensions

A graphic showing pics of the 8 group leaders at Belfast City Council and text saying:

After the disgraceful threats by loyalist paramilitaries to burn Belfast City Council facilities that had Irish language on them the party leaders at Council had the opportunity to sign a letter condemning the threats

Alliance, Green Party, Sinn Féin, SULP & People Before Profit all signed it

The DUP, UUP & TUV did not

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Faith Elisabeth Lilley @stormknight.bsky.social · 2d

This appealed to me because of the way it expands the classic illustration of equality and equity (we should always be striving for equity over equality) plus it's really on the nose with that capitalism section.

A cartoon illustrating three panels labeled “Equality,” “Equity,” and “Capitalism.” In “Equality,” three people of different heights stand on equal-sized boxes to look over a fence at a baseball game and only the tallest can see. In “Equity,” the boxes are redistributed so each person can see over the fence. In “Capitalism,” one person sits on a huge, unstable tower made of hundreds of boxes reaching into the sky, while a police officer and a soldier guard the pile; the others are left with nothing and one person is being restrained on the ground.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

You never hear Doug Beattie say a 'firm hand' is needed for the people who actually terrorise Northern Ireland

News Letter front page 'Firm hand' needed over Gaza protests. UUP's Beattie makes action call after arrests.

Sunday Life front page 5 October 2025 Loyalists in vow to burn council vans over Irish

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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 3d

Abortion and Faith

📅Tue 7th Oct 1-2pm
📍PS2 Rosemary St, Belfast
Bring your lunch! Tea, coffee & biscuits available. This workshop from Kellie Turtle will explore the role of faith in the experiences of abortion seekers and providers and discuss how different religious frameworks deal with abortion.

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 3d

Idk guys if I had a choice between "offer additional security to a community that had just been the victim of a heinous crime" or "arrest people for holding bits of paper", I would consider that an easy choice and not cry in the national media about it stretching resources too thin trying to do both

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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 4d

That fascist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was allowed to enter the holding area and insult and berate those members of the flotilla who had been kidnapped shows how depraved this regime is. He did the same with Palestinian prisoners recently whose plight is obviously much much worse.

brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social · 5d

Diarmuid has stood up against racism and racists in Finglas; he needs support now

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 4d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

Via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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ash Anraí-Jones @looseyleftie.bsky.social · 4d

because there are so few problems locally for the police to deal with, they had to send them to drag anti-genocide protestors away in london

Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 4d

The PSNI sent over some of their own officers to help arrest peaceful protesters against the genocide today in London 😡

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

PARTNERS WITH FLYTREX, AN ISRAELI DRONE COPMANY, ALL WHILE ISRAEL USES DRONES TO KILL CHILDREN

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing show of solidarity for the LGBTQIA+ Greens at the first day of conference.

Elect the dolls!

Two dozen people posing for a picture wearing 'elect the dolls' t shirts

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 8d

Great that the Yanks are doing literal fascism, genuine actual fascism with their defence minister just rejecting any kind of rules of war, actual, full throated, Nazi-level fascism, and the whole of Europe just has to stay in military alliance with them, wonderful, great, not horrific at all

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8d

None since Labour were elected. Not one.

EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 8d

#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 9d

Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 9d

Israel are planning something horrendous for the Gaza aid flotilla.
This cannot be allowed to happen.

We need to make as much noise as possible.
Tell them they must give the flotilla safe passage.

Eyes on the flotilla.
Eyes on Palestine.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 11d

Let that sink in

"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social · 12d

Lucifer has entered the chat.
Bastard.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.com

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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 14d

Migrants didn’t wreck our communities. Stormont did. Decades of broken promises left us with a housing crisis, collapsing services, and division.

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ash Anraí-Jones @looseyleftie.bsky.social · 14d

Green Party councillor Brian Smyth raised the issue of self-styled vigilantes patrolling Belfast parks late at night in recent weeks and described them as "nothing more than racist scumbags".

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14d

Belfast DUP councillor Dean McCullough wants to stop 'loitering without a legitimate purpose' in public parks. Why? To target immigrants who sometimes spend their time in parks because they aren't allowed to do much else.

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DUP councillor's motion on safeguarding Belfast play parks designed 'to whip up tensions'

A DUP councillor was accused of whipping up tensions and putting targets on individuals backs after his motion on safeguarding play parks in Belfast was defeated at Belfast City Council.

belfastmedia.com

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Emily Shepherd @emi.ly · 14d

Very good to see politicians calling for this.

The West love to claim we are the moral arbiters of the world, and yet when the world needs real moral actions more than ever, where are our leaders?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve written to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper demanding urgent action to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla. 52 boats carrying aid and peace activists to Gaza.

The UK must act to assure their safety.

Israel is committing a genocide. All eyes are on this flotilla.

Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP
Prime Minister

Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
Foreign Secretary

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

24th September, 2025

Dear Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary,

I am writing to you with urgency regarding the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which is currently attempting to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza. The flotilla is made up of 52 boats, carrying humanitarian supplies and peace activists determined to support civilians facing unimaginable suffering.

Reports have already emerged of explosions, unidentified objects being dropped near the vessels, drones circling overhead, and communications being jammed. These are deeply concerning developments. We know from past experience that when Israel smears peace activists with unfounded claims of links to Hamas, it is often a precursor to violent attacks.

The UK Government must make it absolutely clear that these boats, carrying only aid and peaceful activists, must be treated safely and in line with inte

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Elliot @altirishhistorian.bsky.social · 15d

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 16d

aargh journalists you do not get to say "Many experts are sceptical" in the face of this bullshit, you say "This is not true". You are at a rare point, maybe a few years every century, where your willingness to doing your actual job would be crucial and heroic, and you're blowing it

BBC News headline: "Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical"

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