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✨👏🏾STANDING OVATION👏🏾✨

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Most people are far closer to becoming disabled and/or homeless than they realize. All it takes is one accident, infection, virus or stroke of bad luck. Your life can change in an instant, and no one is the exception. You can’t “try harder” your way out of it, and it’s not a personal failing.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

"A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices. Israeli fatalities received 33 times more coverage per death. The word ‘massacre(d)’ was used 18 times more frequently for Israeli than Palestinian victims".

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

In Ballymena alone, "Eleven men and one woman are scheduled to appear in the town’s magistrates court over the coming week accused of sex offences ranging from rape to paedophilia, only one of whom is a foreign national." archive.is/202506150634...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

He sexually assaulted his sleeping wife for a decade. He took photos and shared them online. He took photos of other women. They won't riot over this.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

it is hard to find better examples of the danger of not throwing fascists in jail when you have the chance than Netanyahu and Trump

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

The Ballymena chap who says he wants to go back to the 70s really doesn’t

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"I went to talk to people in Ballymena, and was told to make myself 'scarce' or there'd be trouble "Some local people were reluctant to speak to The Journal, stating that they only speak to GB News." www.thejournal.ie/ballymena-an...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Gordon Lyons posts the first and within hours the facility is under attack. He (well someone) then posts the second. The DUP. Stirring the shit and then standing back for 60 years.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but the Speaker of the House calling for the Governor of California to be tortured seems like it should be a pretty big story.

submitted 8 days ago • 253 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 9 days ago • 220 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 12 days ago • 308 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 373 comments

Tell me again how women are too emotional to hold office... 🙄

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

ME/CFS: is there a comprehensive explanation for this long-misunderstood illness?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

🔥 Because I've not seen it anywhere yet... Here's a map I made of the 4 Russian air bases that Ukraine hit with drone attacks just now (red stars) Look how deeply they penetrate into Russian territory. From the Arctic Circle to mid-Siberia, nowhere in Russia is now safe. Slava Ukraini. ✊

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Ireland has opinions

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty "The implication is that people can’t be trusted to narrate their own experience. In doing so, she revives a medical paternalism reminiscent of the Victorian physician prescribing fresh air and cold baths for hysteria. " www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

You can measure the sincerity of the #Kneecap prosecution in London, and the political and media circus in GB over a flag at a gig. This is what nursery and primary school kids are forced to look at as they leave school in Belfast. When the terrorism wears a Union Flag there's not a word to be said.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Nick Clegg's new book is £25, but I'm sure he's okay with us stealing it.

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

Portaloos. The famously single occupancy portable toilets. That only one person can use at a time. Separately from other people.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Bizarre story from a cup final between Clapton Women and Dulwich Hamlet Reserves in Maidstone. Police called and the match abandoned after 33 minutes because both sets of supporters... had Palestine flags

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital has just received the charred remains of her 7 children: 1- Yahya Hamdi Al-Najjar 2- Rakan Hamdi Al-Najjar 3- Ruslan Hamdi Al-Najjar 4- Jubran Hamdi Al-Najjar 5- Hawaa Hamdi Al-Najjar 6- Rivan Hamdi Al-Najjar 7- Sydeen Hamdi Al-Najjar

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Israeli authorities have temporarily allowed us to deliver limited aid to Gaza after 11 weeks of blockade. A drop in the ocean. It must reach the civilians who need it so urgently, and we must be allowed to scale up. We are determined to save as many lives as we can.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Me in The New Statesman today on poverty. Please share :)

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments