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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸

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Res Non Verba 😷 #Resist 🏳️‍🌈 🧠❤️‍🔥Brain & mind health activist playing the long game. Fascinated by it all| Typical human attributes with additional super-power to chat to strangers. "Joy is my favorite weapon" (Cooperstreaming) Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️❤️‍🔥

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · Mar 3

From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation by Gene Sharp

"It is my hope that this brief examination of how a dictatorship can be disintegrated may be found useful wherever people live under domination & desire to be free"

www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126900/8...

#spéirghorm

Book cover of From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp. There is a silhouette of a crowd of people with their fists raised in protest. The title of the book is on a black banner across the width of the book. Quote 'Inspired dissidents around the world' New York Times. 'Recommended reading' Wikileaks

From Wikipedia:

From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one.[1] The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (1928–2018), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book has been published in many countries worldwide and translated into more than 30 languages. Editions in many languages are also published by the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2012 its current primary English-language edition is the Fourth United States Edition, published in May 2010.[2]

The book has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring of 2010–2012

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💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 16h

People don't realise how malicious the 'reforms' proposed by Heather Humphreys to disability supports were. Very few people appreciate the work put in by disabled activists to resist those reforms or the lasting damage caused. No apology or even acknowledgement, HH is not a President for all #Áras25

Daniella Bella @daniemililly.bsky.social · 8d

I was one of the leaders of Scrap The Green Paper because I & my friends were suicidal after learning proposals for ~84% of disabled to be pushed into work

I've not recovered from pushing myself to fight it, nor my friends

I'm so broken & Humphreys wants a house in the park on our backs

#áras25

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Good Brain News - by The Dementia League @dementialeague.bsky.social · 12h

⚕️ PROVIDER NOTICE: Understanding Why People Avoid Dementia Screening

🗝️ KEY FINDINGS
- Nearly 50% of participants felt likely to develop dementia.
- 9.5% exhibited avoidance of dementia information in general out of fear
- Lower self-efficacy linked to greater information avoidance.

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 12h

*That security guard is wonderful 🤩, powerfully calm, centred & so eloquently describing EB as “disrupting the decorum” of the school.

Absolutely compelled thanks to fundamentalist upbringing, this man will never, ever, ever, ever stop. Ever. 🤦🏾‍♀️

#Wilson’s #ResNonVerba #Resist

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 12h

For all the gorgeous Wilsonians heading towards mid-term & staff teaching & instructing them, may their schooldays soon be free of this pillock.

A typical foggy, fresh morning in Multy with countryside sounds interrupted by ramblings of a man who doesn’t like to hear “No”.

#spéirghorm #LGBT+

Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12h

Burke will continue to cost Wilson's Hospital School and the state unless his disciplinary appeal is heard, and upheld. What is the hold up??? It is not his school, he's not a teacher there (pending appeal) he has no right to be there. The security guard is correct in his actions.

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 14h

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."

— Toni Morrison, 2015.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 English Literature

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 14h

Between people having to kayak to work in both Alaska and Jersey and Long Island posting sad videos of Halloween decor floating down their streets and the Bay Area staring at their submerged cars, I really think it’s time to stop claiming climate change isn’t real.

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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 1d

If evolution, comparative #neuroskyence & #PainResearch are your thing, here's a great review from Terry Walters: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

From nociception in aneural animals to human suffering: toward a comparative biology of pain

Summary: The biology of widely shared and unusual features of human pain is informed by functional and mechanistic comparisons of nociception and pain-like aversive states across vertebrate and invert...

journals.biologists.com

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 17h

Withered & withering inside with the
sound -bitey sniping from HH campaign with a piety that knows no bounds 🙄

At least there’s no FF echo coming off Gavin anymore. CC holding her line as an independent, inclusive person deeply knowledgeable, compassionate & embodies personal accountability.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 18h

This is absolutely brilliant!

Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 5d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 18h

“…It is where their joint authority as the near-identical twins of the Irish power system started to unravel. They don’t like it…. This is the part of the Irish political system that has escaped the grasp of the eternal Establishment….”

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Àras25 #Connolly

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 18h

“Do we or do we not want the office to go back to what it was before 1990?”
Pre- Robinson, McAleese & Higgins.

“For Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael, this is a consummation much to be desired…the office has been a disaster zone for the old Civil War parties….“

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Àras25

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 18h

Higgins speaks fearlessly against war & genocide.

“Given a choice, Irish voters have opted for 35 years now for public intellectuals who could hold any audience, at home or abroad, in thrall for an hour with their eloquence & passion.”

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Àras25

archive.is/202510140522...

archive.is

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed. I wholeheartedly agree the presenter/moderator is key as they set the table & can facilitate a robust, illuminating exchange. Áine Lawlor is superb. Floats like a butterfly & stinging like a bee with her inquiries 🤩
I had to watch x3
www.rte.ie/player/serie...

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Áras25

The Week in Politics 2025-10-05

Reflections on the political week and current affairs, combined with interviews and discussion from journalists, senators and TDs. Watch The Week in Politics 2025-10-05 on RTÉ Player for free

www.rte.ie

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 21h

Event tomorrow, Wednesday 15th October Irish voices on peace and nuclear disarmament with Hiroshima survivor Kiyoko Gibson.

Free to attend but you must register.

It is co-hosted by Afri, Irish CND, and Dublin Quakers.

#spéirghorm #Peace #IrishPol #Quakers

Dublin Area Quaker Community @daqcfriends.bsky.social · 6d

Join Eustace Street Friends for testimony from second-generation Hiroshima survivor Kyoko Gibson along with Irish voices on peace and nuclear disarmament. Co-hosted by Afri, Irish CND, and Dublin Quakers. This event is free but you must register at the link below.
buff.ly/eOvRkHz

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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 23h

No surprises here but will the rhetoric change? I doubt it.

'Despite all the rhetoric about saving our nitrates derogation and turning the tide on water quality in Ireland, there is still no evidence of the necessary improvement across the board in our waters.'

www.antaisce.org/news/decade-...

Decade-long decline: Irish waterways continue to be polluted

Latest Water Quality Report from the Environmental Protection Agency indicates decreases in overall ecological quality of our waters

www.antaisce.org

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 23h

Yep.

It’s dirge for the ears/clickbaitey-bs that just fills the space rather than a giving voters a channel to discern what candidates value, goals for the position & who is alongside them. It treats us like toddlers needing constant stimulation when actually we just want good intellectual debate.

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

Communities being destroyed in Alaska,
no end in sight &
no response to the dreadful catastrophe, these people
in peril.

Please share widely, this is all our responsibility.

#Alaska #spéirghorm #Typhoon #ClimateInjustice

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

Mic dropped into AK’s hoisted lap 🎤

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Áras25

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

“The Presidential election is a rare opportunity to elect a voice for the people, someone who is committed to promoting the common good…bringing Catherine's message of hope to every community & every corner of the country”.

#spéirghorm #Áras25
#IrishPol

www.catherineconnollyforpresident.ie

Image of a diverse crowd of people- Black, white, Asian, women, men, mixed age range, disabled people- holding “Connolly for President” election materials. They are supporters canvassing for the next Irish Presidential election 24th October. They are standing/kneeling & wheelchair users all facing the camera with happy, exuberant smiles on their faces.

Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

Saying the quiet part
OUT LOUD on national radio is so very helpful.

Years of FG bad policy, cutting public services & financialisation of housing, has former Minister Humphries & the FG machine going with ‘Smear & Bolloxology’ as a strategy. Ugh 😤

#IrishPol
#spéirghorm #Áras25

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Well this is just jawdropping - have a listen, the smear campaign by FG on Catherine Connolly is really their only tactic. Also has anyone (other than a niece/nephew) ever called Heather Humphreys ‘Auntie Heather’? #speirgorm #aras25

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

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The shared joy in this fandom is magical. It’s a gorgeous ethereal intimacy across our, very varied, lives…amazing 🫶🏾✨

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

Sublime ✨🫶🏾! Do not delete & have a fabulous day 🤩

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 1d

“When asked an “and finally” question about party pieces on Drivetime, #Connolly bemoaned no longer being able to do 100 keepie-uppies. Under no pressure, Humphreys froze, reverting to an empty talking point and suggesting her “best skill set is listening”.”

#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Áras25

Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly’s podcasts and viral moments V Heather Humphreys freezing under no pressure.

I wrote about the big differences between how the Irish presidential candidates communicate and connect.

#Aras25

Una Mullally: Heather Humphreys tells us she’s a people person. Catherine Connolly shows us

Connolly has appeared on several podcasts that appeal to younger audiences and the more candid format suits her

www.irishtimes.com

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