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Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 23h

Jihad is my sweet little friend, he sends voicenotes saying "Hello Rose, I love you" 😭🥰 and I try to reply in Arabic.

Tomorrow he will be four, his dream is to eat chicken again and he wants to be a Dr so he can treat his brother Jamal's diabetes 💔

Let's help Dr. Jihad have a good birthday.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 22h

Another baby to wish happy birthday too ❤️

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 URGENT: Jihad’s Birthday Under Siege 🎂💔
My son Jihad turns a year older on October 14 — but we have no food, no cake, no peace.
He’s asking for a small piece of cake… I just want to see him smile again.
Please share my pinned post & help us make this birthday a miracle. 🙏💔
gofund.me/7657074f3

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 1d

Please help Sakher and Reem today - our friends in Gaza still need us ❤️

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 1d

Can we help Haya out today? Samih is sick and he such a comfort to her.
Let Gaza Live ❤️

I’m Haya🍉 @helphaya.bsky.social · 1d

Hello my friends💔😔
I’m very sad because Samih is very sick.He has been vomiting since the morning — it might be food poisoning and a cold as well. He is extremely weak
I need your help to get him some rehydration solution and to help him recover and feel better again🙏🙏💔😣
chuffed.org/project/1139...

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 1d

It's little Jihad's birthday tomorrow. Can we help Heba and Mohammed so they can get him a small birthday treat? Everyone should get to have cake on their birthday.
Let Gaza Live ❤️

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 URGENT: Jihad’s Birthday Under Siege 🎂💔
My son Jihad turns a year older on October 14 — but we have no food, no cake, no peace.
He’s asking for a small piece of cake… I just want to see him smile again.
Please share my pinned post & help us make this birthday a miracle. 🙏💔
gofund.me/7657074f3

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 3d

Please help out little Jamal today if you can. Let Gaza Live ❤️

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 3d

My child, Jamal, a diabetic and war-wounded man, survived the most brutal war in history and the horrors that shook his heart. He tells you: Don't forget us, and support us with your donations and your sharing.

Please support my sister with any word and give her some hope

gofund.me/f3e7f81c8

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Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social · 5d

Five Irish citizens are among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla, including writer Naoise Dolan. They were not breaking international law and should be released immediately.
🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín

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Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla

Author Naoise Dolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean

www.irishtimes.com

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 6d

Had my 40th client hour as a trainee therapist this evening. Which is a third of the way through my trainee hours. Feels pretty momentous.

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 6d

Please please help out Heba, Mohammed and their kids. They are people just like us just wanting to live normal lives and take care of their children. Let Gaza Live ❤️

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 6d

This is my son... he is losing weight day after day before my eyes, and I am unable to provide him with the food he needs

If you ever feel powerless, remember this —
Your single dot ,can light up someone’s darkest night.

If you're browsing, please leave a dot. It's just a dot
gofund.me/ce1424a23

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 6d

Please help Soad and her little one today. The cost of your coffee or a pint would help her out ❤️ Let Gaza Live

Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 6d

Free Palestine

Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 6d

A wee message from us 👇

A Message to the Police (British) State

News of a Crown Prosecution Service Appeal against the ruling of their own judge is unsurprising.

He ruled the charge was ‘unlawful and null’ and it was.

It is unsurprising because this whole process has not been driven by the police or the courts, it has been driven by politicans backed up by British media. This is political policing.

There is no ‘important point of law’. The CPS have submitted nothing new in their appeal. What there is though, is a state wide witch-hunt against Palestinian solidarity.

The media were gleefully informed about this appeal before we were.

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A Message to the Police (British) State

Once again this is a massive waste of taxpayers money, of police time, of court time.

Once again there are endless news reports about Mo Chara, about Kneecap but we are NOT the story.

Yesterday 104 Palestinians were murdered in Gaza and hundreds more maimed as Israel commits genocide.

Entire families wiped out, people bombed to pieces as they slept, young kids with limbs blown off and no medicaine to treat them.

This is aided and supported by the British State.

We will fight you in your court again. We will win again.

FREE PALESTINE / TIOCHFAIDH ÁR LÁ

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 6d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 7d

Mohammed and Heba still need some help. Don't forget our friends in Gaza ❤️

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 7d

🆘🚨FIRST OF ALL, thanks to your help we were able to cover the cost of my child Jamal medicine for this Weekly , but we still need healthy food and water. So, please donate even a small amount.

if you believe me, PLEASE leave a dot and retweet.
gofund.me/d0d5f555b

@mommunism.bsky.social 🙏❤️

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 7d

Help Sakher amd Reem today if you can. They have lost so much and need, and deserve, our empathy ❤️

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 7d

Samih is such a great source of comfort to Haya - help her out today so she can get some food for him and he can keep bringing her comfort ❤️

I’m Haya🍉 @helphaya.bsky.social · 8d

❗️Samih is in great need of your help. He hasn't eaten anything since yesterday because I couldn't provide him with food. He tried to feed him bread and he didn't accept it. Samih needs your help💔
He is very hungry❗️📌🍉
chuffed.org/project/1139...

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 8d

Julia is constantly curious and excited about the future, but there are days when her mother Samaa can't imagine one. She doesn't know how she'll keep her girls warm as winter approaches. Please help if you can. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #Gaza 🍉

A three year old Palestinian girl with shining eyes and a wide smile.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 8d

Please help Mohammed and his two daughters if you can:
gofund.me/4f2edf6d

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 8d

I feel this way about The Sopranos

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 8d

The GRA was passed in 2015 with very little fanfare following years of courageous campaigning by trans people. We have yet to see any negative ramifications in society - and we won't.

We simply *cannot* have a President of Ireland who speaks about trans women or their human rights in this way.

Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not linking to the article but Heather Humphries thinks the Gender recognition act needs to be looked at, and trans women are not women. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 8d

If you needed any other reason to not vote for Humphries... #speirgorm #Aras25

Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not linking to the article but Heather Humphries thinks the Gender recognition act needs to be looked at, and trans women are not women. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 8d

18 hours left—birthday drive yall, and we’re helping students in Gaza take their exams!!!

Spark Space is providing electricity and internet for these kids, and we can and MUST help them do that with fuel for their generator. 714/1000 chuffed.org/project/spar...

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken...

chuffed.org

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 8d

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks to American interference in Irish presidential matters on this app today, Gavin is out #speirgorm

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 8d

Statement from Micheál Martin:

Jim Gavin has this evening informed me of his decision to step away from the Presidential campaign with immediate effect.

I fully understand his decision and believe it is the correct one.

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 8d

Stars of Track and Field on If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian. Sets the tone.

Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social · 9d

Which album has the best opening track of all time?

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Méabh McNairney 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸 @bookshoplady.bsky.social · 8d

Beyond hilarious how many Americans have wandered into this thread. Like catch yourselves on - yous are not actually the centre of the universe.

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