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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her)

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Temporarily Embarrassed Communist. Neilly from the YouTube channel The Leftist Cooks Watch us here: https://youtube.com/@theleftistcooks Follow Sarah: @saribo.bsky.social Sometimes I write, video edit or compose music for other channels #speirgorm

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 16d

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I just realised I had not pinned our new video - an essay about the very concept of Irishness and historical identity.

Are Americans Irish?

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1m

Fuck Europe.
Bunch of greedy regressive fascists fellating lobby groups and military industrialists out of both sides of their unelected mouths.

Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 2h

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 49m

Happy Anniversary!

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1h

Happy International Lesbian Day to all who celebrate.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine thinking that the problem with Vladimir Putin is that "he's a communist"

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

No, Domhnall, it was a 5-string

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

On a cultural level, I am a working class Irish woman, and everyone had better make fucking way for a bunch of us working class Irish women who look and sound and act different to your reductive preconceptions of that category.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

More purist Marxists than I would say the whole class system is much more effectively understood as Proletariat and Bourgeoisie (with plenty of sub-categories if we want to go there) and I'm inclined to agree on an economic level. But...

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

It shouldn't matter what someone else thinks of your praxis; there is no LARPing a revolution in my view. We all simply do our best. But I'm fiercely proud of my working class background and the perilous journey to get to where I am.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

This idea that "rich kids talk fancy" is so counter-productive. I'm autistic is what's happening there. I'm still working class. The Irish landlords earning €100,000+ a year who claim working class bona fides because they have a regional accent and regressive views are still capitalist class scum

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

I've been homeless, I've lived in squalor, been terrified of losing electricity. I became a parent at 19. Poverty has taken its toll on me both physically and mentally, in real and measurable ways.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

I had to work from age 12 to support the household. And I'm not that old, yknow? We're talking about the early 2000s. I was raised and educated in a very rural part of the west of Ireland. I did not have a "good" education. At all. It was frankly shite.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing annoys me more than people accusing me of being a Rich Kid LARPing as a Revolutionary. I grew up in a single income household with parents who rented and, between odd jobs, my father's most consistent vocation was playing the frickin banjo.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 8h

They're not illegals unless they're from the Champagne region. Otherwise they're just sparkling ex-pats.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 22h

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Baby got too big. Really big really fast. Not sure if we're doing something right or something wrong. This is a giant baby. They hardly ever wear shoes anyway.
- Ernest Hemingway

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

*thugs

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

This story is from 2023

I'm trying to throw her election.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

What, her favourite characters are the ones who are consumed by their own hubris and greed by the end?

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

There's a significant enough number in Dublin but it is VERY hard to not get turfed out and brutalised. Authorities and private security things wrecked some of the most beautiful squats in the city.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

From the River to the Sea, Saoirse don Phalaistín

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

Property hoarding is a massive and direct cause of homelessness in Ireland at a time when there is record homelessness.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

www.ontheditch.com/heather-hump...

I believe what she actually said was "ehhhhh fuck off and ehhhhh leave me alone"

‘Fuck off and leave me alone’: Heather Humphreys

Heather Humphreys today refused to explain to The Ditch why she’s never sought planning permission for using two derelict residential properties she owns as office storage.

www.ontheditch.com

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

I can't put into words how much respect I have for you.

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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 1d

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

I try to avoid being a mean girl myself but, come on, Briana Wu cannot throw stones about anyone's appearance, what with her being the anthropomorphic personification of the expression "shaking like a shitting dog"

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Tirrrb ( me-ow ) @tirrrb.bsky.social · 1d

Find like one other person that’s really running towards community and activism in your city, then follow them n attend every event they’re at for like half a year

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