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philipoconnor.bsky.social
"Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night." Irish journalist based in Stockholm, covering the world.
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Who taught you immigrants were the cause of all the unhappiness in your life?

They never cite legitimate concerns when they’re platformed - they just spout lie after lie. Lies about migrants being bussed here, lies about the benefits and housing asylum seekers get. Straightforward provable lies every time, it’s a dog whistle term, not very delicious - ever

Nu kvarhålls deltagare i March for Gaza på flygplatsen. Tusental är redan på plats och många fler är på väg. Sist i denna reel finns information om hur DU kan hjälpa till. www.instagram.com/p/DKzFkHZMpN...

Anyone using the "legitimate concerns" explanation for the racist pogroms in the North is telling you exactly who they are, and you should believe them.

The talking points of Sweden's Zionist government aboit #Gaza getting a thorough debunking from Staffan. Well worth running through Google Translate - the two ministers in question, Dousa and Stenergard, are two of the most useless and ignorant in history.

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for #LibreOffice and #Linux www.zdnet.com/article/why-... Europe doesn't trust the US government or its tech powers, so its countries are looking elsewhere.

Scheierman became 1st NBA player from tiny Aurora, NE. But nobody pictured that when he stood ~5-10, 100 pounds as a freshman. A standout football career didn't seem likely, but he was convinced to play, grew & drew D1 looks. It helped his bball aspirations: www.clnsmedia.com/baylor-schei...

This article in the Financial Times is encouraging US citizens to move to Europe. There are so many layers to it but the underlying vibe is “not all of you”. “Fortress Europe, so unwelcoming to people from poor countries, keeps one gate permanently open for Americans”. Quiet part, out loud.

It's true, do please come and visit us and make sure to fly in through our city airport named after a man who beat his wife

Ordinary people are risking their lives to report on what is happening in Gaza and it’s made almost impossible by Israel again cutting WiFi/3G. I have an interview now on my phone that is made up of 8 WhatsApp voice notes that the guest had to walk miles to send out. #UnmuteGaza

In the replies for Brian Wilson’s Twitter account announcing his death are bluechecks saying “another victim of the vaccine” if you’re wondering how it’s going over there

How the fuck do you get this stupid?

I wonder how many Irish people would have voted for this government if they knew they were Zionists?

Enda sättet att uppfylla det löftet är om L missar spärren i nästa Riksdagen - det går ju inte att tror på ett ord någon av de här hycklarna säger.

Today in "Is Los Angeles Burning?": No.

"Is every memecoin a scam? According to David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: “Basically, literally, yes.” “All of this is like a big game of pretend with made-up financial instruments,” he said. “It’s printing your own made-up money." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you’re rioting or even just protesting because a foreigner has been accused of rape, but you never rioted or protested when a white Irish bloke was accused of rape, you are not a defender of women and are - quite literally - just a racist

We feed you. They hunt us.

It was ever thus.

Just left downtown LA after the curfew was called. The film screening I was at canceled. People told to get home safely. Bartender allowed us to stay to finish our drinks. "It's the new gestapo," he said. #LosAngeles

The riots in ballymena are because of racism. The last thing they’re about about women’s safety. Ask @elainecrory.bsky.social about the cross community chorus of men who ring up Talkback to tell her to stop taking about violence against women every time she’s on after a woman is murdered here

the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

You know, if I touted myself as an Ireland knower, one thing I would not be doing is treating Ballymena - Ballymena(!) - as representative of the whole island.

4️⃣ Following the draw against Luxembourg, the Republic of Ireland Men's National Team have gone four games unbeaten from the start of the year for the first time since 2019, when the Boys in Green went seven games unbeaten until losing to Switzerland in October #COYBIG

Are you a journalist covering LA protests? Check out our digital security guide on how to protect yourself, secure your communications and protect the information on your devices: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Very excited about this!! ✨️ belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/ove...

this sucks a lot, but also, everybody should have seen this coming after facebook convinced publications to pivot to video, lied about numbers, and then unceremoniously kicked them to the curb in favor of slop. tech companies cannot be trusted

Anyone remember "free speech"?

Peaceful protest is not "unrest", and to characterise it as such is to accept the framing of the regime trying to provoke violence for its authoritarian ends.

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

Sanslöst - kicka SVT's ledning, styrelse, rubbet. Bara gör det.

it's fucking wild how artificial the trans panic is

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller www.publicnotice.co/p/abc-terry-...

Last day to order prints in time for Father's Day in Ireland on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints Get your dad something he'll look at with mild confusion, say "oh, that's nice" and place in the back of a press somewhere, never to be seen again.

They will in their bollocks.

"I have looked at the world around me, and amid all the genocide, rising fascism and climate collapse, it is my considered opinion that we are not having nearly enough of a go at trans people, who of course are the real enemy."

När historien om nutiden skrivs kommer ingen att komma ihåg Carl-Oskar Bohlin överhuvudtaget.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Bequeathed with a precious packet of the Maltese knock-off Mr. Tayto crisps by a friend. Imitaytos, if you will.