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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 4d

I'm honoured to be featured in this new exhibition at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, focused on Irish journalists reporting internationally. More info here: epicchq.com/new-exhibiti...
It runs until March next year.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so sad to hear of the death of photojournalist Antoni Lallican, who was killed by a Russian drone attack on a (clearly marked) group of journalists in Ukraine today.
Look back at his exceptional work here www.instagram.com/antonilallic... & here www.antonilallican.com?fbclid=PAZXh...

Antoni Lallican (@antonilallican) • Instagram photos and videos

3,552 Followers, 1,322 Following, 176 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Antoni Lallican (@antonilallican)

www.instagram.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 5d

New statement from Ireland's Tánaiste on the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, includes:
"I am aware of a number of Irish citizens participating in other Flotillas en route to Gaza and have instructed my Department to closely monitor that evolving situation."

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 6d

Irish government statement on #GlobalSumudFlotilla

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 6d

Live tracking shows the Mikeno closest to Gaza but not sure if it’s been intercepted. #GlobalSumudFlotilla

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 6d

You can also track the interceptions here: flotilla-orpin.vercel.app?fbclid=PAZnR...

flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 7d

& here: Kieran Andrieu says the Alma has already been boarded by Israeli forces. "The whole flotilla is being intercepted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAN...

BREAKING: A Fleet of Vessels is Approaching the Global Sumud Flotilla

YouTube video by Novara Media

www.youtube.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 7d

#globalsumudflotilla livestream, as interceptions are reported. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... #Gaza

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 10d

Via German reporter Andrea Backhaus. #gaza

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 11d

"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a “Godfather of AI” — a technology that likely wouldn’t exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT."

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 11d

"To learn what these AI breakups and divorces look like, we talked to more than a dozen people who say that AI chatbots played a key role in the dissolution of their long-term relationships and marriages." futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

futurism.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 12d

In Trinity next week (I think it’s open to everyone).

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 12d

& South Asia Bureau Chief job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 12d

NYT hiring a West Africa correspondent job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
Afghanistan/Pakistan Bureau Chief job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
China-Hong Kong Reporter/Researcher
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti... & job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti... #journojobs

West Africa Correspondent

Dakar, Senegal

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 14d

Anyone managed to get an answer from the Air France customer service WhatsApp line? They said I'm in the queue nearly 6 hours ago and nothing has happened since then and no one responds anymore.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 14d

New statement from @simonharrisireland.bsky.social on attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla:

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Reposted by Sally Hayden

Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 14d

"My Fourth Time, We Drowned" by @sallyhayd.bsky.social should be compulsory reading at the Home Office, including at the very top. What has been happening and continues to happen in Libya is horrifying.

Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 14d

this man had travelled through Libya and this did not raise any alarm bells for them about potential trafficking.

The problem is the system, not the law: freemovement.org.uk/the-reality-...

The reality behind “last minute" legal challenges to removal - Free Movement

Last week the Home Secretary expressed outrage at “vexatious, last minute claims” made by people seeking to prevent their removal to France. She is hardly the

freemovement.org.uk

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 14d

For some reason my video won’t upload here but there is a very loud drone above Beirut today. x.com/sallyhayd/st...

Sally Hayden on X: "Assuming this is an Israeli drone, it’s the loudest one I’ve heard since getting back to Beirut on September 1. #lebanon https://t.co/7cpY4lKbWe" / X

Assuming this is an Israeli drone, it’s the loudest one I’ve heard since getting back to Beirut on September 1. #lebanon https://t.co/7cpY4lKbWe

x.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 16d

Two new & important investigations abt disappearances & killings of Black women.
On Monic, a Ugandan who goes to Dubai:
Doc: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboT... podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
& Joy, who goes missing in London: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @charliebcuff.bsky.social

Death in Dubai: #DubaiPortaPotty - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

YouTube video by BBC News Africa

www.youtube.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 16d

🙏

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 19d

Next year maybe?

Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 19d

Scholarship for book writing (worth £18,000) open to anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa, or both of whose parents were born in Africa. Deadline September 22. milesmorlandfoundation.com/entry-requir...

Entry Requirements - The Miles Morland Foundation

The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship Entry Requirements It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this n...

milesmorlandfoundation.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 20d

Watching Gaza City high rises be levelled this week while thinking of this line that I overheard an Israeli tour guide say in late July:

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 20d

Human Rights Watch new release on Israel's actions in Syria, calling them “not legitimate acts of military necessity, but pages out of the playbook used in the occupied Palestinian territory & other parts of the region, stripping residents of basic rights & freedoms.” www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Syria since December 2024 have carried out a range of abuses against residents, including forced displacement—a war crime.

www.hrw.org

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 20d

Two pieces worth reading from a former fact checker with the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou... & former journalist with the BBC www.newarab.com/opinion/why-... who felt forced out of their jobs re Gaza coverage.
"Every time we stay quiet, we help write the story against ourselves."

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

bidoun.org

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