Barbara

Barbara

@barb26.bsky.social

Living in the West of Ireland. Also living with Metastatic Breast Cancer, on the upside love comedy, TV, books films and hurling.. always hurling 😆

35 Followers 57 Following 28 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 year ago

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.

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1 year ago

Got there by default but really??……

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Pink square graphic with black text which reads, 'World Cancer Day - 4 February'

In the UK, nearly 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime. It's World Cancer Day today – a global day to raise awareness and take action against cancer 🌍

Whatever your cancer experience, share this post and help us get the word out.

#WorldCancerDay #WCD2025

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1 year ago

The #Oscars nominees for Best Documentary Feature Film are…

Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat
Sugarcane

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Documentary Short Film are…

Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra

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The #Oscars nominees for Best International Feature Film are…

I’m Still Here
The Girl with the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow

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1 year ago

The #Oscars nominees for Best Animated Feature Film are…

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Production Design are…

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Film Editing are…

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Sound are…

A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Visual Effects are…

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Cinematography are…

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role are…

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role are…

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Picture are…

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

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The #Oscars nominees for Best Directing are…

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

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1 year ago

Oh tonight’s round table is 🔥#thetraitorsUK

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👏👏👏👏👏

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Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

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Stunning images capture Ireland’s disappearing beauty Eoghan Daltun journeys throughout Ireland in search of our disappearing rainforests. He chats to Jenny Lee about the urgent need to preserve our rare and declining ecosystems for our future generation...

“Immersing yourself in a wild Irish rainforest is like discovering another existential dimension entirely – one of timeless beauty, complexity, and wonder.”

Great piece in the Irish News about my latest book 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest', and more.
www.irishnews.com/life/stunnin...

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Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics

As I’ve said before, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it with speed & we need to do it with urgency & then we need to use it with truth & justice to send Elon Musk packing
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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1 year ago

Have decided watching the ultimate Christmas movie Die Hard with a tub of sweets before we head into Thomand for #MunsterVLeinster as good a way to spend the day as any 🤩

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kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain and saying hooray . ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain and saying hooray .
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a baby is crying with a tear coming out of his nose . ALT: a baby is crying with a tear coming out of his nose .

When #stormdarragh takes out your power so you miss #latelatetoyshow and this morning you can see what you missed 😭

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Richard Tice smugly gaslighting the country - saying he doesn’t believe the Times investigation (and by extension the actual Court reports) into why Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for assault.

Side note: Sophy Ridge has the patience of a saint. A tough, infuriating watch. #PoliticsHub

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1 year ago

#Strictly ah here… 🙈

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1 year ago

Phew is an understatement 😳🙈

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