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Karen D

@dervan8r.bsky.social

Labhair Gaeilge liom! Galway girl in Ireland. Musician and producer. I hate warmongers. Saoirse don Phalaistรญn ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ. Doing what I can to save the planet and our natural environment. Animal lover, snooker obsessive, hopelessly addicted to politics.

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// History Repeats Itself as British Authorities Get to Decide Who the Terrorists Are // bit.ly/43GKpwg

A member of Kneecap has been charged with a terrorism offence, but those in power continue to look away from the deeper crisis, writes Toner Quinn.

22.05.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Not only has @irishtimes.com decided to publish this piece softballing the war crime state of Isrโ‚ฌ&l, but theyโ€™ve even put it in the Music section. Shameful decision to print this. What are they thinking? Jesus wept.

18.05.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We had a strong message at RTร‰ yesterday, boycott apartheid Israel until freedom, justice and equality for Palestine. #BDS #FreePalestine

10.05.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Why @theguardian.com ? Even in Photos of the Day, you chose duplicitous language. Twice the use of the word โ€œreportedโ€ when referring to Israeli air strikes but notably not used when referring to Russia.

Sometimes I really question my subscriptionโ€ฆ..

18.04.2025 07:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โœจ๏ธChristy Moore hassled by the Special Branch, Kildare 1978, shortly after he recorded his "90 Miles from Dublin" song for the H-Block L P. โœจ๏ธโ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŽธ๐Ÿช™๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช

12.04.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And Musk most certainly conducted the interview!

10.04.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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News reporter with fluent Irish? The Journal is hiring its first-ever Gaeltacht Correspondent Applications are currently being accepted up until 13 April.

News reporter with fluent Irish? The Journal is hiring its first-ever Gaeltacht Correspondent jrnl.ie/6667597

09.04.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

09.04.2025 06:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89012    ๐Ÿ” 27604    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 875    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1266
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Protect Palestinian reporters and end media complicity in genocide: A call to all journalists and media workers We, the undersigned, demand the protection of Palestinian journalists. We must work creatively to combat the shadowbanning, censorship, and targeting of voices that speak for Palestine here at home wh...

Journalists across newsrooms must demand a change to their internal policies and confront that they are complicit in genocide by centering Israeli and IOF narratives. You do a discredit to your profession.

I urge media workers to read and sign this letter.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

07.04.2025 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Antony Loewenstein: "Palestinians need friends, need allies, need support, & if that's not going to come, as it clearly is not, from the US, the EU, and a lot of Arab states, where is it going to come from? Civil society needs to massively pressure govts to take action"

07.04.2025 05:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I wrote a thing about McGregor, Garron Noone and why we need to talk about where this nonsense is coming from.
ourmaninstockholm.substack.com/p/what-peopl...

20.03.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 387    ๐Ÿ” 136    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33
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Remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government 2025 I've just signed this petition calling on the government to remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government. Will you sign too?

Remove the IHRA definition of anti-semitism from the Programme for Government
my.uplift.ie/petitions/re...

23.03.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids.

The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids.

"Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel.

Sigh.

18.03.2025 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8644    ๐Ÿ” 2276    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 271    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69

BREAKING: At least 3 people have been killed today in Rafah and eastern Khan Younis by drone strikes and snipers as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Yesterday, Israeli forces shot and killed 6 people.

04.03.2025 03:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 174    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

a nice side effect of No Other Land winning an oscar is that the worst people on earth are incredibly mad about it.

03.03.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 594    ๐Ÿ” 144    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Sรฉamas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even "...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Governmentโ€™s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...

I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

01.03.2025 09:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 151    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Reminder: We are hiring VOICE ACTORS for our upcoming Gothic Horror game @eyesofhellfire.bsky.social

01.03.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The cat is handsome.

28.02.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After a day of writing a funding application that has less than a 20% chance of success, Iโ€™m genuinely starting to think severance is the way to go for independent artists.
Your โ€œartyโ€ does all the existential artistic identity crisis shit and your outie thinks they have a cool normal job

24.02.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Palestinian *hostages*
Israeli hostages.

Most Palestinians are detained without charge, without trial. Including children. They are hostages to a cruel imperialist regime.

22.02.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Red = lowest ecological integrity.

Ireland has the great honour of being probably *the* most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿ†

03.02.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 806    ๐Ÿ” 230    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

The childโ€™s father has a job in the govt of Gaza, like thousands of others used to have. The genocide defenders are getting so desperate that the truth is getting mainstream. R Berg will be smashing up the BBC HQ thoughโ€ฆ

20.02.2025 08:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The long road to freedom in Gaza Clare historian, Tomรกs Mac Conmara explores the foundation of the Israeli state and its long history of conflict The oldest member elected to the new Dail, Pat โ€˜The Copeโ€™ Gallagher, was born โ€ฆ

Phenomenal piece by Irish historian Tomรกs Mac Conmara in todayโ€™s Clare Champion newspaper

clarechampion.ie/the-long-roa...

30.01.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani The first time you came into my hospital, shards of glass shredding your tiny body, I saved you. The second time I failed As news of the ceasefire ripples my way, my memory mocks me. Your face glides into focus from my mindโ€™s abyss, where I had buriedโ€ฆ

I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani

24.01.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 192    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Three absolute bangers from Elon Musk. I'm so sorry but you asked for ALT text.

How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two, but how did they get in there??

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Me: How many radical leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Radical leftists: That's not funny [frowny face]
Me: [Crylaugh emoji]

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When I see the troll emoji, it's like looking in the mirror

Three absolute bangers from Elon Musk. I'm so sorry but you asked for ALT text. How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb? Two, but how did they get in there?? -- Me: How many radical leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Radical leftists: That's not funny [frowny face] Me: [Crylaugh emoji] -- When I see the troll emoji, it's like looking in the mirror

If anything, I think Musk's harrowingly shit sense of humour is under-discussed. The Florence Foster Jenkins of it all. The deeply unfunny freak who bought the joke factory and juiced its algorithm so he could subject all its users to... this. The gas leak comedy of a psychedelically humourless man.

23.01.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1207    ๐Ÿ” 169    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34

Spoke to someone in the legal profession yโ€™day who said that McD has written articles in the Sindo full of lies about refugees/migration. Heโ€™s a dangerous man. Heโ€™ll court the anti-migrant vote.

12.01.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I loved the first episode of S2. Maith sibh go lรฉir. The Irish Monopoly gameโ€ฆโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคช๐Ÿคช

11.01.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When buskers start actually cordoning off public space like this, something has gone seriously wrong with the craft of busking. They have no right to take over public space. This comes from someone who used to busk a lot as a teenager.
@dublincitycouncil.bsky.social need to do something about this

11.01.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes! Buskers doing stadium gigs on Grafton St, decibel limits be damned. And the wee acoustic ones are forced into the lanes most of the time. I only give money to the acoustic buskers- thatโ€™s real busking.

08.01.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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