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RIP Nilay Ateşoğlu, a Queer Kurdish asylum seeker who sadly took her own life at the Cliffs of Moher. "I have no family," her note said. She asked to be buried in "a handful of soil" in Ireland. "Do not give my corpse to the oppressors." Her note was ignored & her body was sent to Turkey.

Eamon Ryan was in a position of real power to change a disastrous sitka-based forestry model, but did nothing. (The Green Party's Pippa Hackett was in charge of a review.) Now he's lamenting our disastrous sitka-based forestry model??? Words fail. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Sarajane is a young mother of two teens and carer for her own wheelchair-bound mother based in Laytown. Her family are all being evicted with no home to turn to. (1/3)

Good meeting in #Newry last night for #PeoplesHousingBill Consultation from @pbp.ie Important hearing from young people suffering systemic housing & rental issues, & to discuss island-wide effects of the worsening housing crisis We need rent controls, more social housing & end no fault evictions

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

I wonder who may be responsible for this, Daily Mail?

1 month on from NYE #Newry Solidarity demo Since a tentative Gaza ceasefire has been implemented including prisoner transfer & Zionism pressured to drop its immediate goal of eradicating Hamas-lead resistance Zionist West Bank violence & colonialism has ramped up with little media attention [1/5]

#Newry #PeoplesHousingBill meeting Thu 6th Feb #BallybotHouse 7pm 🗓️🏘️ We’re in an Ireland-wide housing crisis. Northern statelet’s reports project housing supply won’t meet demand even in Newry’s council area Empty homes, unaffordable rents, crooked landlords & poor conditions blight the landscape

It's rubbish that they're sitting there, but I have absolutely no respect for the councillor trying to get these sold to private buyers based on the fact that they could be renovated by them quickly and then rented out [at some no doubt stupendous] cost.

This is a sickening disgrace. The Irish government is responsible for multiple children being harmed everyday. Not a single child should be allowed to abused in this way - and yet it is a systemic issue now, built into how the system works.

No wonder they want their meetings arm dealer lobbyists kept secret... What a disgrace. New Irish Defence Forces helicopters will use tech from the blacklisted arms manufacturer and worlds largest supplier of the IDF, Elbit Systems.

I think it’s cool that this historic storm is landing the day the new gov is formed. Really driving home where these climate change deniers are taking us

This is the flyer the KKK is distributing in Kentucky 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Carol Nolan and Mattie McGrath are the last legs propping up this fake opposition group! #FakeOpposition #LowrysLackeys #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

Peadar Tóibín lying on Morning Ireland saying Aontú only part to rule out coalition with FG before election. He knows that's not true. @pbp.ie was very clear in ruling out FG and FF. Whereas Aontú wanted coalition with FF.

RA prisoner Pauline Drumm writing about her incarceration in French prison in 1990. Drumm had been arrested alongside Donncha O'Kane and Patrick Murphy, having been accused of carrying out attacks against British bases in Germany. [The Captive Voice Vol. 2 Issue 2.]

We are strenuously objecting to the wrong interpretation of Standing Orders by Verona Murphy, the Ceann Comhairle elected from Lowry's group! Aontú & Carol Nolan can stop this stroke themselve. Without them, Lowry's group only have four TDs and you need five to form a Technical Group.

Cairn Homes made €160 million profit last year! That’s a profit of €70,000 per home built. Who is paying for that profit? People trying to buy homes! Profiteering from the basic human need for shelter is disgusting. It’s why we need a state construction company to cut out the cost of private profit.

I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?

The past year has delivered three important lessons that every government in the global South should take seriously. 🧵

I've been pursuing this scandal the last year. This company overcharges parents just to see their own children. It’s also alleged they haven't ensured staff working with children are Garda vetted. It’s scandalous TUSLA gave them more than half a million euros of public money over the last 2 years.

You, beholden to traditional greetings: Dia duit / Dia is Muire duit Comrade "Anois is Arís" Irish course by RTÉ from 1981:

Funny all these politicians waking up to the rich subverting democracy now that Elon Musk is doing it so blatantly. You think this is abnormal though? This is precisely what "capitalist democracy" is about. You just didn't mind it when they were supporting your parties!

The right has successfully created a victim narrative out of content moderation. https://interc.pt/3DHad10

Someone else posted this and I've been thinking a lot about how we got here

The algorithm wants to focus on good news over criticism just in time for the new administration lmfao

cc ICC

Israeli military authorities have said that they intend to block Palestinians from ever returning to north Gaza.

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir!

Without evidence, Israel has arrested the last doctor at the last hospital in North Gaza and declared that he's a "militant". Here is his piece from earlier in December for NYT Opinion www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

my immediate response was to say i’m leaving, but then i thought about all the people who are basically just stuck on these platforms and subject to every terrible new decision zuckerberg and his minions make to eke out a little more profit regardless of the social consequences

The surge of boycotts across the region has forced multinational corporations to confront their vulnerabilities.

#NYE Palestine rally in #Newry on Buttercrane Quay at 1pm We must continue to push the #BDS movement. The arms trade must be end through our airports. For our politicians to boycott America, Britain & the EU as they facilitate genocide #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PalestineWillBeFree

"There's no room at the inn" - say the corporate landlords and their apologists. But the story of Christmas is about solidarity. The housing catastrophe is the fault of successive Governments and their determination to allow vulture funds and corporate landlords to profit off housing need.

The expansion of data centers is having serious effects on the US grid, with three-quarters of highly distorted power readings occurring within 50 miles of sites with significant data center activity. That threatens home appliances and aging energy infrastructure, and increases fire risks.

Israel massacred five journalists in Gaza, burning them alive. This on the same day that reports emerge of Palestinian babies freezing to death in the displacement camps. Every day this regime charts new depths of barbarism.

disney+ (and marvel - info on the second picture) have been bumped up from pressure targets to priority boycott targets by the BDS. do your best to boycott all of these targets to the best of your abilities, as always. please avoid further platforming & promoting of disney and marvel IPs.

Billionnaires stole your living. Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion. Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.

Even the mildest pushback against AI & stereotypes about the liberal arts these days seems to generate “you’re Luddites who lack critical thinking & civility” responses here from its STEM/business champions. There are tradeoffs in everything. We need to talk seriously about them. This isn’t it.

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

These graphics always blow my mind. The idea that humanity basically cannot exist without fossil fuels gets shown up as being a total scam when you realise that they only grew to dominate energy systems a few decades ago

We are in an interesting lag right now where the historiography knows capitalist and socialist blocs were deeply financially entangled from the 70s on but pop/trade history still writes the Cold War’s rise and fall as a geopolitical standoff between two mutually isolated territories.

NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy.

Journalists and news orgs the world over continue to pay him to do this stuff. Baffles me, personally. Stomps all over press freedoms, amplifies disinformation, tips the scale for his chosen political allies and bankrolls them.

#Newry vigil for #KarenCummings Great outpouring in memory of Karen, with many of her Daisy Hill coworkers attending We must see tangible action from politicians to prevent causes of tragedies like this. Resources for refuges, housing, consent based RSE, domestic violence & counselling services