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Paula Geraghty

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Photographer, filmmaker, wheelchair user, proud disabled woman. I focus on hope & people who fight for a better world. Hire me. Join a union!

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Paula Geraghty @paulageraghty.bsky.social · Dec 20

10 years ago the #Right2Water movement kicked off a campaign of mass mobilisations to stop the privatisation of our water supplies. I’ve put 164 images in the DRI’s archive so it is available for researchers, students etc. plz do look & share!
dri.ie/news/remembe...
#photography
#archives

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 5d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Kevin Cooper @kevinc55.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to Trevor Mcbride NUJ Derry & North West NUJ celebration of Eamonn McCann ’s NUJ Membership of Honour.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16d

All these rich, successful comedians taking Saudi blood money so they can buy another summer house or have their purebred dogs cloned a thousand times are such repulsive sellout losers.

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Paula Geraghty @paulageraghty.bsky.social · 4d

Love ADF.

DJ Francois @djfrancois.bsky.social · 11d

Last up some joyous bounce up and down on the dance floor number from ADF in 98 irresistible
#raveyardshift
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X10w...

(PV) Asian Dub Foundation - Buzzin

YouTube video by freshmint042005

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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone familiar with Dawson St will know how much space The Ivy has taken up with its outdoor tables it doesn’t use and the planters around it. Now it wants more but at the Luas stop. If you’d like to be able to walk down the street and not be in over by trams please think about objecting

An application for a table and chair licence for noted tip robbers The Ivy

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DJ Francois @djfrancois.bsky.social · 5d

Great line up for a worthy cause, donations also available online

Dean Sherry @djdeansherry.bsky.social · 5d

This one Upcoming v fast pls support - make the difference

Rayne Judge DJ Fundraiser The Sound House
Saturday 25th October The Soundhouse Dublin dayrave from 5pm
raynejudgefundraiser.eventbrite.ie

Rayne Judge DJ Fundraiser

Help us raise funds for Rayne who urgently requires foreign medical treatment. All day & night DJ legends music clubbing fundraiser event

raynejudgefundraiser.eventbrite.ie

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 4d

This is on every MEP who voted to strengthen Fortress Europe.

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

61 bodies of migrants recovered in west of Libya's Tripoli, medics center says reut.rs/42AeyMW

61 bodies of migrants recovered in west of Libya's Tripoli, medics center says

At least 61 bodies of migrants have been recovered over the past two weeks on the coast west of the Libyan capital Tripoli, a medical center said in a statement on Saturday.

reut.rs

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

Fuck yeah you should.

Using a swearword in your Google search can stop the AI answer. But should you?

Artificial intelligence is more than Trump deepfakes of Tilly the actor. It’s used in smartphones, customer service, healthcare – even legal cases. Is it possible to avoid?

www.theguardian.com

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 5d

This is awful. Transphobia affects everyone

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 5d

So remember that man who attacked an elderly woman and shoved her in a bin because he thought she was "a man dressed up as a woman and that she was actually a predatory paedophile"? She died. Transphobes have more blood on their hands 🤬

(Original story www.rte.ie/news/courts/...)

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

www.rte.ie

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5d

so they gave the Nobel peace prize to the lady the CIA is trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government with? lol

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Aug 31

Free Disability Research zines, all made by the Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) Find them and subscribe to new releases here : linktr.ee/disabilityark

Disability and film, horror, star trek, dwarfism, saints, ancient egypt, eugenics, gods, leaders, radicals, communists, anarchists, history, feminists.

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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 6d

And from Holly Cairns:

Responding to comments made by Fine Gael Minister Jennifer Carrol MacNeill earlier, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said:

"Minister Carroll MacNeill's statement should be seen for the desperate distraction attempt that it is.
"It is genuinely disappointing to see a senior government minister reduced to cheap negative campaigning.
"From my own experience of campaigning with Catherine in recent weeks, I know that her message of positivity, social justice and inclusion is really resonating with people all over the country and her campaign has huge momentum.
"Those of us supporting Catherine's bid for the presidency refuse to be distracted by baseless attacks from a Fine Gael party that is clearly lashing out and in panic mode."

Ends.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 6d

It's eternally frustrating that the HSE has the blinkers on & only looks to UK when it comes to trans healthcare when Spain & Malta are right there! In Spain I can walk into a pharmacist & get estrogen patches. No GP, no traumatic assessments. Just medicine without the bullshit and no one is harmed.

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 6d

I’m at the Oslo trans healthcare conference today and have just been listening to Rosa Almiral of the Spanish trans healthcare service say “We have a waiting list of three weeks.” !!!!!!!!!!

Helsestasjon for kjonn og seksualitet
THE OSLO
INTERNATIONAL TRANS HEALTH CONFERENCE
9.-10. OKTOBER 2025

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.bsky.social · 7d

Ireland could build a new children's hospital every three years for the cost of the hospitality VAT reduction.

We could build a Galway sized luas system every year for the same cost

We'll invest less in the National Grid between now and 2030, than we will in €18 sandwiches in 2026

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 6d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 14d

Having a flashback to when a senior Garda contacted my college in Oxford to try to get me expelled because of my conviction

Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone

Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 14d

Counter-terrorism gardaí intervened to stop Catherine Connolly from hiring a woman convicted of a gun crime to work in Leinster House, The Journal has learned.
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t

Gardaí blocked Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime

The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

jrnl.ie

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Paula Geraghty @paulageraghty.bsky.social · 14d

@sarahmaintains.bsky.social hoping everyone stays safe. Sending love and solidarity ❤️✊🏼🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 15d

"cancel culture" was an overblown thing where some people got fired for sexually harassing their employees and others got yelled at on Twitter. The conservative version, which some claim as an inevitable counterbalance, is doxxing & death threats for making fun of self-proclaimed white supremacists.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 17d

2003: Michael D with Catherine Connolly (and her two sons out of pic) in a protest against the disastrous war on Iraq.

📸 Joe Shaughnessy #Áras25

Michael D with Catherine Connolly (and her two sons) in a protest against the disastrous war on Iraq.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16d

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 16d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 16d

“Surrogate marketing, where non-alcoholic products are branded with alcohol-related brand names, has provided an opportunity for…brands to continue to expose consumers to #alcohol marketing wthout technically marketing alcohol. A notable example is _____a non-alcoholic brand….”

#spéirghorm #EU

EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 16d

The EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive: A Missed Opportunity to Regulate Alcohol Brand Marketing

Author: Jaydon Souter is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Fellow in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. His research lies principally in the fields of EU public health law, consumer protection, digital law, and internal market law. His thesis focuses on the regulation of the digital marketing of […]

healthgovernance.ideasoneurope.eu

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

Irish pharmacists are very supportive if you ask for a non-Teva substitute. Stock shortages might mean they still occasionally have to dispense Teva but they will try their best to respect your wishes. Never put your health at risk if a substitute isn't available.

Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 16d

The Israeli firm aiding the NHS and IDF

Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 16d

it's complete bullshit to be forcing anyone do be doing 'volunteer' work, regardless of if they're a doctor or not.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16d

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 19d

It doesn't matter if you're into food and restaurants, this is a must-read on the importance of fact-checking and subject-matter experts (and a mini exposé on how a particular food enterprise in Dublin is capitalising on its absence in Irish media). www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...

Is new Dublin restaurant Entrecôte connected to the French originals?

A few weeks ago this Instagram page appeared, announcing a "world famous French bistro" was coming to Dublin. Ears were pricked, and questions abounded about exactly which "Entrecôte" was coming to Ir...

www.allthefood.ie

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