Fi Murray

He has enough money to retire and show some backbone / humanity

Steve Jobs - turning in his grave.

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Good grief 🙈

Partner had a heart scare November.
Consultant put her on ozempic and great results.
Fair play Helen.

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one. This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide.

"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."

Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.

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Israeli strike on Gaza seafront cafe kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say The outdoor cafe was frequently used by journalists, activists and local residents.

And on it goes. Israeli politicians using UK media to stoke up outrage around Bob Vylan & Kneecap must be laughing their heads off at how easy it all is. I think this brings the Palestinian death toll *since the Glastonbury performance* in to triple figures.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Ryebank Fields Aspen Grove The Aspen Grove at Ryebank Fields Article by Paul Wood, Author of Great British and Irish Trees The Ecology of Aspen Woodlands – free download A primer by Robin Grayson (FGS) and Mandukhai Grayson Exc...

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social great to hear you featuring Paul Wood’s book on #6music 😊 He came to #RyebankFields Manchester looking for our rare #ManchesterPoplar and wrote about our rare #AspenGrove both are under threat of development by #ManMetUni www.saveryebankfields.co.uk/features/asp...

Her expressionless face..

The tapping of her ear

How lost she looks

Her little feet on the rubble

Is she, as Netanyahu puts it:

“A murderous Islamist terrorist organization”?

Can we be real about this FFS?

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Critics of Israeli government policies being labelled anti-Semitic is ‘outrageous’, Higgins says President says absence of some leaders at pope’s funeral is ‘very significant’

Critics of Israeli government policies being labelled anti-Semitic is ‘outrageous’, Higgins says www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The White House Twitter account’s dishonest & hideous doctoring of a New York Times front page describing Senator Chris Van Hollen’s meeting with a wrongly deported man with no criminal record.

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

also bravo

Well that’s bloomin’ amazing.
Well done Granard.

Carole is an superhero!

America.
Shameful.

… and this is why we love you!

100% not travelling, got a voucher refund of April flights.
May go to Canada instead.

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

A good read today.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"More Australians see Donald Trump, the leader of Australia's most important security ally, as a threat to global peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping,"

@emmashortis.bsky.social on Sky News. #auspol

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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Sure how long is a piece of string!
Anseo!

Lá Fhéile Bríde

St Brigid’s Day.

#lafheilebride #stbrigidsday

We have more than a 100 oaks, and many of them will be a quarter of a century old this year. Will they make it to a century? Not if Manchester City Council let ManMetUni and Step Places have their way 💔
#saveryebankfields
www.saveryebankfields.co.uk/features/mil...

Hard conditions in the midlands of rural Ireland.
What a job…

The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!

After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

We know we’re aging, early night… yeasss! 🙌

Stylistics, Carpenters and Neil Diamond on our journeys!