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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 5h

Two Canadians who were on board a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces say their experience in detention was "horrific" and they are relieved to finally be home.

Canadian flotilla activists released from Israeli detention share their experiences

Two Canadians who were on board a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces say their experience in detention was "horrific" and they are relieved to finally be home.

cheknews.ca

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 5h

None of the reforms in the green paper dealt with the practicalities or put any onus on The State or Employers.

Surely WFH should have been a huge part of Disability Rights & work place accommodations, & better accessiblity for public transport.

But nope such actions were not given consideration.

💀 emmaaaaagh burns 🔥 @betaburns.bsky.social · 9h

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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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 5h

You asked and I answered. Can't really do more than that.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 7h

Posidonius and always more of him.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 7h

Now you know how to say goodnight to it, though. Think of the benefit should Artemis ever reappear.

Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 7h

I flipped through it at a shop...

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 7h

It's a heartwarming story of a teenage girl who really, really wants sex and doesn't get punished for that.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 7h

Sound man.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 8h

It made it very clear that he was a horror who should be shunned, so in that sense, it had a tremendous benefit for me personally.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 8h

It is an awful pity he didn't have better literary taste.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 8h

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

www.newscientist.com

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 8h

I still have some copies of my book left if anyone wants to buy it.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 8h

I'm up for any book related challenge that does not involve reading Tertullian.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 8h

By not caring about them, I suspect.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 8h

I'm with Pliny the Elder on this one thing: there is no book so bad that some benefit can not be gained from reading it.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 9h

Writing is how poor people, as long as they have something to say that continues to be meaningful, can live forever. Rich people too, obviously, but they rarely have that much of interest to say.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 12h

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16h

The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition

Presidential candidates clash over Special Criminal Court

The two candidates in the Presidential Election have clashed over the Special Criminal Court with Heather Humphreys saying she supported it and Catherine Connolly calling for its abolition.

www.rte.ie

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h

Follow this account 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 14h

🐦🎓🫶🏻🇵🇸Welcome to Sparrows for Palestine! Our collective gathers university members who care about our institutions ending their complicity in the apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian People by disclosing, divesting from and cutting institutional ties with complicit Israeli institutions.

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Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 14h

🐦🎓🫶🏻🇵🇸Welcome to Sparrows for Palestine! Our collective gathers university members who care about our institutions ending their complicity in the apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian People by disclosing, divesting from and cutting institutional ties with complicit Israeli institutions.

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 15h

$5.9bn = the amount spent annually on protecting and restoring forests

$409bn = the amount of subsidies going to agriculture industries destroying forests

Anyone else see the problem here?

The Guardian: "'Dismal' health of world's forests is threat to humanity, report warns. Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus. Jonathan Watts, 14th Oct."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14h

The University of Toronto has made a consistent point of surveilling and disciplining faculty members critical of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

When you read this, it becomes very clear why that is.

Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 14h

How deep do UofT's partnerships with Israeli institutions run?
Quick answer: Very, very deep.
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/how-deep-d...

How embedded within UofT have partnerships with Israeli institutions become?

Quick answer: Very, very much.

sparrows4palestine.substack.com

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 10h

Brian Leddin and Alan Kelly announcing their support for Heather reminded of this line in Futurama, when someone takes Zoidberg hostage

Futurama: do you have any better hostages?

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 18h

presumably for the opportunity to write an op-ed in the Irish Times titled “Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly”

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20h

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 11h

He'll not find another party as forgiving, though.

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 13h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I'm JP, a comic colorist/writer who has worked with 2000 AD, Boom, First Second, IDW, Image, Mad Cave, Maverick, Titan and more

I have three big projects ending very soon so now is the best time to hire me for your book!

Portfolio: jpjordan.carrd.co

Let's make some comics!

The Author Immortal #2 Youngblood Variant Cover, inks by Jim Towe and colours by me

A page from Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Seeds of Salvation #1, written by Robbie Thompson, drawn by Travis Mercer lettered by Jodie Troutman and coloured by me

A page from A Walk Within The Queen's Wood, written by Asa Wheatley, drawn by Daniel Coloma, lettered by Micah Myers and coloured by me

A page from VR Troopers #3 written by Mairghread Scott, drawn by Sebastián Píriz, lettered by Taylor Esposito and coloured by me

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