Sinead O'Shea

That’s precisely how advanced the AI is

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com
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Planning permission has been granted for 140 apartments to be built on the site of Bessborough Mother & Baby Home.

Reports have shown that 923 children died in the home.

To build over the site – instead of examining the grounds for remains – would be a desecration.

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’ Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

I still think about this article, but reading Simone Weil on duties and rights brought it back to mind

Still gathering my wits from Sundance. It was a brilliant if intense launch for our new film All About The Money.

Thanks to Culture Ireland and especially to @screenireland.bsky.social - it is now rare anywhere to have the opportunity to make films about complex subjects with nuance.

Appetite for radical change grows as voters’ patience wears thin over housing crisis Half of all voters say country’s problems are getting worse instead of better

New polling on Ireland's housing crisis:

- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"

- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing

- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing

- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis

'We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s' The issuing of 5,000 eviction notices in three months last year is quite revealing when viewed against Ireland's historical record

"We are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s."

A damning reality laid bare in this piece of well-researched analysis.

Apple Introduces New Subscription-Based Apple Creator Studio - Newsshooter Apple is entering the subscription model with an all-new suite of creative apps. Apple Creator Studio includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI...

This looks like the beginning of the end to my €300 for 15 odd years of Final Cut Pro.

Expected but yea, the time of owning things is almost finally over

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Terrible

‘A fit house for an outlaw’: The cóta mór and its strange power to convey something of Irish culture Coats offer a way back into thinking about romanticism in Ireland during an extraordinary period of literary invention in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

I liked this article about cóta mór and frieze fabric by Prof Claire Connolly:

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This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.

🇺🇳 UNFPA: Premature births in Gaza have surged from 20% to 70% since October 2023; one in three pregnancies is considered high-risk; more than half of youth and 40% of adults are expected to suffer PTSD. UNFPA Deputy Executive Director Andrew Saberton — who leads the UN agency responsible for reproductive and maternal health — just returned from his first visit to Gaza. In a word, he described it as “flattened — mile upon mile of rubble and dust.” What he witnessed, he said, “was not collateral damage.” Every UNFPA staff member in Gaza has lost family, and nearly all have had their homes destroyed. “Women have lost everything — their families, their homes, their colleges, their jobs,” Saberton said, noting many now lack even basic hygiene supplies. Thread 🧵

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🇺🇳 UNFPA: Premature births in Gaza have surged from 20% to 70% since Oct 2023; 1 in 3 pregnancies is considered high-risk; more than half of youth & 40% of adults are expected to suffer PTSD.

UNFPA Deputy Executive Director Andrew Saberton — who leads...

Thread 🧵

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Jeremy Harding · Something Shameful: Britain and the Palestinians To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population...

‘On the ground, the Palestinians’ asym­metrical fight for survival on a few scraps of land is no further along than it was when Dimbleby wrote the book. On the contrary.’

Jeremy Harding on Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin’s reissued portrait of 1970s Palestinian life
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🎧 LISTEN: Gaza’s Civil Defense chief describes how a newborn died from hypothermia after Israel refused to allow shelter materials into Gaza, despite a ceasefire agreement requiring their entry. Families have been left exposed to winter conditions while tents and supplies sit stockpiled just outside the border. The child’s family had already lost another child in September 2024, also due to exposure. 👇👇

) @translatingpal ❤️‍🩹Rida was a Palestinian baby girl who had already lost her brother earlier this year before she herself lived only a few days after being born into displacement. Her family was sheltering in a torn tent along the Gaza coast after being forced south, and according to Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal, rain flooded the tent as winter storms intensified. The father tried to move Rida from place to place to keep her warm, but she died from hypothermia, one story among thousands in Gaza, where children are dying from cold and deprivation after repeated warnings to the world went unanswered. Source: mahmoud_basal88 (IG)

🎧 LISTEN: Gaza’s Civil Defense chief describes how a newborn died from hypothermia after Israel refused to allow shelter materials into Gaza, despite a ceasefire agreement requiring their entry.

Families have been left exposed to winter conditions while tents & supplies sit stockpiled just...👇👇

We'll also be screening again in @lighthousecinema.bsky.social on December 29th

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Our new film, ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, has been chosen for the World Documentary competition in Sundance.

It's a huge thing for me personally and we are now frantically trying to finish it.

Thanks so much to @screenireland.bsky.social for their support.

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Heartened to feel the love for Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story as the year closes.

We've been included in some end of year highlights programmes too in both UK and Ireland starting with @berthadochouse.bsky.social this week.

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I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing.

Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?

Director Ryan Coogler explained how the Disney Channel Original Movie "The Luck of the Irish" was an inspiration for his film SINNERS... and the woman who pitched it to Disney Channel was actually in the audience.

#Movies #Disney #FilmSky #DisneyChannel #Funny #PopCulture #RyanCoogler #Irish

⭕️ JUST IN: A Palestinian child has died from gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired tear gas bombs at olive pickers near Beita, south Nablus, 2 weeks ago, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. The child, Asem Maalla, succumbed on Tues. to injuries sustained during the army’s assault on...

“”The Biden administration deliberately looked the other way in the face of overwhelming evidence that war crimes were being committed with U.S. weapons in Gaza,” @vanhollen.senate.gov
of Maryland, told Reuters.

There’s a history of people being burnt out of their homes on this island.

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Mary ‘May’ McGee: The dignified Irish mother who took on the might of the State and became a feminist icon Mary ‘May’ McGee, who died this week aged 81, successfully fought the ban on contraception

Lovely obituary to Mary "May" McGee, a brave and dignified woman.

She and her GP James Loughran were part of a group of Irish people who introduced seismic social change. The Randles doctors from Navan were close associates.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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Ha. I thought that bit was brilliant. Everything else is so complex except for that.