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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 4h

I think she is going to make a brilliant president (framing it like it has already happened, manifestation & all that) I think she is so decent & full of integrity, I don't think you can fake that.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 5h

100% Teresa, it's so dishonest for them to pretend to be able to identify with the fear or shame that surrounds poverty.

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Matt Knight 𓀦 @mattknight.bsky.social · 8h

'Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups” on its behalf before a careers fair, prompting the university to agree to “implement the measures you have suggested”.'

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 9h

What has my country become? 😤 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 6h

Listening to Chris Andrews on @drivetime.bsky.social it's dystopian. I can't believe the Irish Stateb ... it's like really what is happening? What is this world?, do any of us recognise it anymore? TDs being abducted & pretty much silence. #Speirgorm

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 6h

There is no cost of disability payment for any disabled person & what we do know is every disabled person does face additional costs. The gov haven't followed through on their own programme for gov ... they sold a lie #speirgorm

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 6h

🧵Thank you to Cormac O' Hara @drivetime.bsky.social for pressing Hildagarde Naughton on budget 26 & cost of disability, everyone who cares about #disability rights should listen back . The fact that the cost of disability is diff for individual persons with #disabilities is irrelevant #Speirgorm

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 7h

Glad I checked myself in the mirror before going into the shop, charcoal on my forehead 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 7h

Just out of my craft group, was so relaxing, covered in charcoal. Didn't really overthink this cause I was chatting ... really need to keep doing creative bits, it really helps my head 😊

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 7h

Just out of my craft group, was so relaxing, covered in charcoal. Didn't really overthink this cause I was chatting ... really need to keep doing creative bits, it really helps my head 😊

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16h

The destruction of Gaza. Genocide.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 9h

Just saw a clip of CB this morn Well done to that woman Liz who asked Pascal Donohoe & Jack Chambers if they had any idea what it was like to live alone on a pension ... the way Pascal responded to her with a tone of annoyance "Yes we do Liz" ... really?! The disingenuosness of it #Speirgorm

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 11h

The physio put some compression bandaging on my knee cause she said theres still a lot of fluid in it. It's almost 10 months on from my fall 😭 but the compression bandaging gives great relief.

Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 15h

Have physio this morn, hope she can work her magic on my knee.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 13h

Yes thats true, better to feel sadness, even despair than to feel nothing, as you said it's when you feel nothing that you give up 💜

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

It really is so difficult to not completely despair. I'm really glad they published it too. I'm sitting in a waiting room for an appointment & have been trying to hold in my tears. It really struck me too how so many were toddlers & babies, the callousness & cruelty of it. You are doing v good work.

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 14h

It’s really hard not to give in to hopelessness in moments like those. I’ve written about it at length trying to really focus on what justice would look like, could but most importantly should look like. So many also were under the age of 3. I’m glad, however, that a news outlet published it.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

for to account as those you don't. I believe the ppl I voted for are good people with good intentions but at the moment I am just not hearing their voices.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

I know you are prob right I voted predominently for Soc Dems & independents & feel really dissapointed with them too. I suppose it just doesn't feel like there's much of a democracy when not all TDs have a say in representing the ppl who elected them. I think it's as important to hold those you vote

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

I actually don't think i've ever read anything as devastating as this ever. Can't fathom such evil being commited against children, I don't think there is any type of justice that will ever be able to remediate for this. I think humanity is lost. #GazaGenocide

Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

#GazaGenocide this is the saddest thing ever 💔

Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 14h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

#GazaGenocide this is the saddest thing ever 💔

Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 14h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 14h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

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Lara ~ making BIBDU @bibdu.bsky.social · 1d

Today's painting is the Irish Hare!
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I've set up a tip jar for game development, check it out if you have the means & thank you all for all the support on my art for the game!!!!🌻
buymeacoffee.com/bibdulara/share/first-coffee

#handdrawn #indiedev #gamedev

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

This is beautiful 😊

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

Felt kind of enraged reading this because I know of a few families with children in this exact situation now living in overcrowded conditions & who are actually being housed by the State/AHBs. It's so upsetting that we are a rich country that treats our children like this.

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

This piece is well worth reading #childrensrights #housingcrisis

Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 14h

here’s just one recent example of very major policy change that could have been tested on the back on an envelope in half an hour www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Why new apartment standards won't mean housing more people

Half of the households in Ireland have children, yet there is no plan for where, and how, the next generations will live

www.rte.ie

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 14h

I suppose i'm just shocked at that ... the fact that we have a gov that don't employ any of these things, critical thinking, risk assessment, consideration of research/evidence. You would be failed in college/uni if you did this.

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