One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!

They can fuck off

I’ll ride less for sure - get the car out. Unless of course my small town gardai turn a blind eye

Chinese spoons repurposed as souvenirs of Mozambique

Apropos of the many ahistorical takes on how states on this side of the Atlantic have acted in the past, an extract from David Peace's brilliant novel about the miners' strike, GB 84 (2004). This is the voice of one of the striking miners.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

"UK chancellor Rachel Reeves said the existing US trade deal stands, and she had been in regular touch on WhatsApp with US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent." WhatsApp? www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Europe and Canada are going to have to recognize that their future lies either in great power bloc subsumption, or solidarity with middle powers they've traditionally thought of as beneath them. It's vanity to think otherwise.

Ireland’s police force does what it likes

While I always enjoy someone appreciating the Kagera War, I am surprised that @jkass99.bsky.social and @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social didn't get into General Marwa who not only was another large lad, but who strutted around with his pipe and a gunbelt stolen from Amin www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pN...

While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.

And they’re off. The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating the real jailbreak of 1592 by Red Hugh O’Donnell & the O’Neill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. That’s if they make it, unlike Art O’Neill, who died en route.

#PalestineAction Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, & Lewie C have ended their hunger strikes after Elbit contract blocked.

** Mozambique ** Important Seminar online this Thursday about the #insurgency in #Mozambique, with @swahilistreet.bsky.social, Prof Emilio Zeca and Dr Tomas Queface. Register and connect here: acleddata.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Adichie accuses Euracare Hospital of negligence over son’s death businessday.ng/news/article...

Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me. In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery. 1/

An alien just landing on Earth and reading this would not understand what this is about because European leaders are just unable to name things. This is a disaster and a shame

A lot of officers hanging their future careers and perhaps freedom on a badly-drafted OLC memo and perhaps vague conceptions of the presidential pardon powers.

Desperate Searches and Arrests Continue to Define Tanzania’s Post-Election Crackdown thechanzo.com/2025/12/30/a...

Just learned that Al Jazeera refers to Taiwan as a “self-governed island.”

Fascinating aspect of Irish politics currently is that the groups who 1. Want to invest millions in an air force actually able to police our airspace, and 2. Want Irish laws regarding arms trafficking through our airspace actually enforced have 0% overlap www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Webiro Wassira on the political boycott of musical artists, and how creativity has been smothered by political acquiescence thechanzo.com/2025/12/27/f...

Dunshaughlin & 1798

Retired Prime Minister Joseph Sinde Warioba - more Tanzanians were killed in the election troubles than in the Kagera war….

Tanzania’s President Suluhu and ruling CCM killed hundreds and rigged the October election. It is ironic that had CCM run a free and fair election, allowing all opposition candidates to run, it may still have won 1/3

More than 40 investigations carried out into money going missing from Garda stations www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Fears grow for hunger strikers

When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks. The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up. But there is another risk- particularly acute for men. There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

A religious war? Jihadist attacks on Christians in Mozambique - @emorier.bsky.social sets out clearly why talk of religious war is wrongheaded and dangerous www.hoover.org/research/rel...

Envisioning a eurovision where the only contestants are Germany, Hungary, and Israel

The Irish Health Minister denounces antitrans nonsense as a vile British import...

When Tanzanians recently took to the streets to protest, in cities including Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Arusha, security forces responded with tear gas and live ammunition.

“As the Swahili saying goes: ‘Mdharau maradhi, kifo humuumbua’ – He who ignores an illness is humbled by death. udadisi.com/island-of-pe...

News of these murders has been circulating on twitter for almost a week. The Chanzo has this report, a microcosm of the horror that has unfolded across Tanzania sins 29 October. thechanzo.com/2025/11/09/m...

"Was Shaaban, on his way to buy food, an imminent threat? Was Master Tindwa, standing in his own front yard, a danger to the state? Was a mother in her car with her child a legitimate target for lethal force?" thechanzo.com/2025/11/04/a...

Tanzanian mainstream media is not reporting, and BBC Swahili appears to be the only international coverage in-country. While clips abound online, despite internet being blocked, it will take time to work out what has been happening.

Huge, unprecedented protests in Tanzania yesterday. I've found literally one post on bluesky. This is why some of us can't fully shut our twitter accounts, much as we might wish to.

"Even the masjid’s name, Sultan Mecid ... is an ode to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid, and his aid and solidarity with Irish people as they grappled with famine and hunger under British colonial rule." #Spéirghorm This is an important, insightful article about Islamophobia in Dublin. 👇🏻

Friends protest over arrest of Irish citizen alleged to have damaged Israeli arms plant www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Friends protest over arrest of Irish citizen alleged to have damaged Israeli arms plant www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

This is today, in Dublin. Attend if you can. Public pressure is vital to push back against oppressive states #Ulm5

If interested in the Tanzania elections, follow #MO29 anywhere but Bluesky which is useless for most of the world

On Hardwicke Lane, a tiny masjid faces hostility and xenophobia, but it can’t afford to move. A new report says there’s a lack of spaces for faith-based communities in the north-east inner-city, and urges the council to help. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/on-hardwicke...

If in Dublin, get to Booterstown 29 October for Daniel, and the movememt. Charged under gang laws for actively opposing genocide.