Gráinne Brinkley

This is a delicious read on the scourge of bothsidesism in legacy media.

Screenshot of a hilarious Daily Mail meltdown over the election of new Irish President Catherine Connolly.

I see the Daily Mail has taken the news well.
#irishpresident #catherineconnoñly

One of the most insightful commentators on the NHS today is @samfr.bsky.social - here writing from his perspective as a patient. Essential reading for anyone interested in what has gone wrong (and he writes on lots of other important things too).

I think Paul Hollywood gave him the show’s first and last ‘special commendation’ award. But yeah, should’ve won star baker.

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“What strikes me when I speak with journalists in and from Gaza is how evangelical and heartbreakingly idealistic they are; how much journalism to them was a duty even if it meant certain death,” — powerful and heartbreaking column by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on Gaza's heroic journalists

More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza.

And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

How can it be that the British Prime Minister - a human rights lawyer - believes that the appropriate response to an Israeli-instituted famine that threatens to wipe out an entire people is to recognise Palestine unless Israel improves the situation?

Nice to see that the Rich Asshole perspective on Gaza has shifted from “they’re all terrorists, especially the babies,” to “someone should do something.” Looking forward to “this was impossible to prevent” right around the time the last few folks starve

Belfast athlete aiming to defy bleak diagnosis: ‘You’re about to see your first miracle, doctor' A Belfast athlete and mum-of-six is facing the race of her life after being rocked by a rare cancer condition.

Ballygomartin woman Sarahjane Cooke is determined to get more time with hubby and beloved children as they launch £50k fundraiser for specialist treatment

It’s ok everyone, Winterwatch starts tonight.

My mother is currently minding her mother, and this poem speaks so beautifully to caring for a parent, work done so well by so many people I know - from Jane Clarke’s ‘A Change in the Air’

If my the adverts on my Instagram timeline are anything to go by there is a shocking shortage of ‘ladies’ available for six week challenges in Belfast gyms.

I was on £16k a year for a ‘senior reporter’ job in a weekly newspaper. Granted this was back in 2010.

I was today years old when I learned Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots released a Christmas album.

Not a recognised crisis-comms response, it must be said.

The M2 going out of Belfast is an absolute car park. Stuck in this for an hour now. Passed 3 separate accidents with another to pass up ahead. AVOID

Just cutting an article out of Kerrang! with some rock paper scissors.

The view from #Benbradagh above #Dungiven in Co. #Derry

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.

Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/

*movie 🥲

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📕 - The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
One move 🍿 - The Fog
One album 💿 - Nirvana, In Utero
One TV show - Arrested Development

Normalising disability in the workplace | BMA blogs Emergency medicine specialty doctor Clodagh Corrigan reflects on a year of action in highlighting the voice of disabled doctors in the workplace

Dr Clodagh Corrigan. ED specialist and Disability advocate in Southern Health trust. #TalkBackWomen.
Great blog on her work here - www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

I read it argued somewhere that it’s a possible hangover from the Troubles, a ‘be grateful for what you get as things could be much worse’ attitude. I’m not sure I agree with that myself!

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A red dog painting with the caption “Sorry I didn’t mention you on my Bluesky starter pack

Made another highly specific apology card.

This is utter madness.

IDC Chair responds to shocking evidence on Gaza healthcare - Committees - UK Parliament “It doesn’t matter who you are in Gaza. If you’re Palestinian, you’re a target.” – Professor Nizam Mamode.

"There were clear, deliberate, and persistent acts, where after a bomb would drop, drones would come and target civilians and children… 60 percent of the people we treated were women and children."

committees.parliament.uk/committee/98...

I can’t be the only one who thought Neil Diamond was singing about ‘Reverend Blue Jeans’ well into my 20s?