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Donegal/Derry/sometimes Belfast. Politics, books,the craic. Like sound and decent people.

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Reform with 5 MP's gets more TV and Newspaper coverage than the Greens, SNP, Independents and Lib Dems combined.

This is because Reform is owned by the billionaires who own the Media.

25.02.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1160    ๐Ÿ” 401    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Child Poverty %

Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%

The UK 32.1%

20.02.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 838    ๐Ÿ” 418    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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This ancient, wild oak in my place is about 12m from the edge of a road. It has stood there for 100s of years, supporting a whole web of life, bothering nobody.

Now they're talking about removing it and countless others, because in Ireland (1% native forest left), nature ALWAYS has to pay.

11.02.2025 05:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 459    ๐Ÿ” 98    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Can guarentee if 20 years ago someone had done a Nazi Salute at a Presidential Inauguration that person would have been kicked out of Government for good.

But now the richest own the Government completely.

23.01.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 522    ๐Ÿ” 123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Nice sounding terms and what they actually mean in real life.

Free Market - Monopoly entirely controlled by the richest
Free Speech - Monopoly entirely controlled by the loudest who are the richest
Democracy - Your chance to pick from a selection of people owned by the richest

11.01.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 234    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Pascal Soriot the UK's highest paid CEO gets ยฃ18,700,000 a year, largely in shares so he doesn't have to pay any tax.

In just one day he 'earned' more than 90% of UK workers will get in a year.

THIS is the problem.

06.01.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 468    ๐Ÿ” 143    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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And they did absolutely FA for it.

06.01.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 203    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k

04.01.2025 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 786    ๐Ÿ” 314    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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We'll always be together
however far it seems
We'll always be together
together in malignant schemes

03.01.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Lovely sentiments, Helen. Wishing you peace and joy in 2025.

31.12.2024 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

when I was homeless in florida, the library was a godsend, straight from heaven. air conditioning, bathrooms, somewhere I could sit, go online, read, just exist.

27.12.2024 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9106    ๐Ÿ” 673    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 154    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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a poster that says " we stand with palestine " on it ALT: a poster that says " we stand with palestine " on it

Your daily reminder to keep the Palestinian People in your thoughts and prayers

25.12.2024 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tesco could afford to give every single one of their 12m customers ยฃ100 for Christmas and their profits would still be higher than 2 years ago.

That's because that is how much extra they are stealing off you.

24.12.2024 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 653    ๐Ÿ” 252    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

21.12.2024 00:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21997    ๐Ÿ” 8722    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1061    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1052

The Grand Stretch is Back baby!

14.12.2024 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Short letter to Irish Times, detailing the grief felt by the letter writer at Christmas, after the loss of his wife.

Short letter to Irish Times, detailing the grief felt by the letter writer at Christmas, after the loss of his wife.

What a letter.

14.12.2024 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1353    ๐Ÿ” 353    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51
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The story behind this picture.

This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him ยฃ153k to save his life.

They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500.

That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay.

14.12.2024 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1803    ๐Ÿ” 848    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 127    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67

Remember the most profitable businesses in the USA are healthcare and war.

And they both involve killing people.

14.12.2024 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 296    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Totally agree. Can't watch it.

11.12.2024 22:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PSNI 'increasingly concerned' for missing man last seen three days ago The 46-year-old was last seen in the Moira area at around 2am on Thursday, December 5th

I donโ€™t know if this app is local enough to be used for this yet. But Phil is a friend of friends, missing since last Thursday. Areas - Moira, Magheralin, Mournes.

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

09.12.2024 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Some balloons here in Donegal as well.

29.11.2024 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.

29.11.2024 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2575    ๐Ÿ” 562    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 160    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

I did not have one canvasser at the door, or one leaflet in the letterbox here in Donegal.

29.11.2024 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Future will be exactly the same as the Past because nothing has changed.

It is still a handful of the richest most powerful people forcing everyone else to kill each other and destroy the planet for their own gain.

27.11.2024 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 449    ๐Ÿ” 103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Not one here in Donegal either.

25.11.2024 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Actually Great Power is evil, and you see that every single day.

23.11.2024 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3432    ๐Ÿ” 470    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
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@carlowweather.bsky.social Foyle River very high at Lifford just now.

23.11.2024 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help. Trump allies have discussed breaking tradition and firing opponents on the National Labor Relations Board, which also faces legal challenges from SpaceX and Amazon.

Hey look.

The billionaires are plotting to make it easier for companies to screw workers.

Helping the rich get richer. Thatโ€™s all this has ever been about. #UnionsForAll

21.11.2024 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 220    ๐Ÿ” 91    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Daily Mail headline: Prankster fools Selfridges staff three times into getting rude words printed on jars of nutella

- Seamas O'Reilly, from Derry, Northern Ireland, came up with the jokes
- Staff in Oxford Street store made to put 'bumgravy' and 'backdirt# on jars
- One poor worker was even convinced that 'arsemuck' was an Irish name
- The 30-year-old admits he's spent ยฃ19 and doesn't even like Nutella

Daily Mail headline: Prankster fools Selfridges staff three times into getting rude words printed on jars of nutella - Seamas O'Reilly, from Derry, Northern Ireland, came up with the jokes - Staff in Oxford Street store made to put 'bumgravy' and 'backdirt# on jars - One poor worker was even convinced that 'arsemuck' was an Irish name - The 30-year-old admits he's spent ยฃ19 and doesn't even like Nutella

What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before.

But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.

21.11.2024 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1089    ๐Ÿ” 198    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

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