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Karen D

@dervan8r.bsky.social
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Labhair Gaeilge liom! Galway girl in Ireland. Musician and producer. I hate warmongers. Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸. Doing what I can to save the planet and our natural environment. Animal lover, snooker obsessive, hopelessly addicted to politics.

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Ewan Cowley @ewancowleymusic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Not only has @irishtimes.com decided to publish this piece softballing the war crime state of Isr€&l, but they’ve even put it in the Music section. Shameful decision to print this. What are they thinking? Jesus wept.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We had a strong message at RTÉ yesterday, boycott apartheid Israel until freedom, justice and equality for Palestine. #BDS #FreePalestine
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Why @theguardian.com ? Even in Photos of the Day, you chose duplicitous language. Twice the use of the word “reported” when referring to Israeli air strikes but notably not used when referring to Russia. Sometimes I really question my subscription…..
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
✨️Christy Moore hassled by the Special Branch, Kildare 1978, shortly after he recorded his "90 Miles from Dublin" song for the H-Block L P. ✨️☀️🎸🪙🇮🇪
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Fiontán Ó Caoláin @fiontan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
News reporter with fluent Irish? The Journal is hiring its first-ever Gaeltacht Correspondent jrnl.ie/6667597
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News reporter with fluent Irish? The Journal is hiring its first-ever Gaeltacht Correspondent
Applications are currently being accepted up until 13 April.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Journalists across newsrooms must demand a change to their internal policies and confront that they are complicit in genocide by centering Israeli and IOF narratives. You do a discredit to your profession. I urge media workers to read and sign this letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Protect Palestinian reporters and end media complicity in genocide: A call to all journalists and media workers
We, the undersigned, demand the protection of Palestinian journalists. We must work creatively to combat the shadowbanning, censorship, and targeting of voices that speak for Palestine here at home wh...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Antony Loewenstein: "Palestinians need friends, need allies, need support, & if that's not going to come, as it clearly is not, from the US, the EU, and a lot of Arab states, where is it going to come from? Civil society needs to massively pressure govts to take action"
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I wrote a thing about McGregor, Garron Noone and why we need to talk about where this nonsense is coming from. ourmaninstockholm.substack.com/p/what-peopl...
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Lynn Boylan MEP @lnbdublin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Remove the IHRA definition of anti-semitism from the Programme for Government my.uplift.ie/petitions/re...
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Remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government 2025
I've just signed this petition calling on the government to remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government. Will you sign too?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids. The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids. "Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel. Sigh.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/03/2025
BREAKING: At least 3 people have been killed today in Rafah and eastern Khan Younis by drone strikes and snipers as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Yesterday, Israeli forces shot and killed 6 people.
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jamsheed @jamsheed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
a nice side effect of No Other Land winning an oscar is that the worst people on earth are incredibly mad about it.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even
"...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Government’s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Reminder: We are hiring VOICE ACTORS for our upcoming Gothic Horror game @eyesofhellfire.bsky.social
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The cat is handsome.
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
After a day of writing a funding application that has less than a 20% chance of success, I’m genuinely starting to think severance is the way to go for independent artists. Your “arty” does all the existential artistic identity crisis shit and your outie thinks they have a cool normal job
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Red = lowest ecological integrity. Ireland has the great honour of being probably *the* most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. 🏆 🏆 🏆
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BAMny @bamny.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Phenomenal piece by Irish historian Tomás Mac Conmara in today’s Clare Champion newspaper clarechampion.ie/the-long-roa...
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The long road to freedom in Gaza
Clare historian, Tomás Mac Conmara explores the foundation of the Israeli state and its long history of conflict The oldest member elected to the new Dail, Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher, was born …
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/01/2025
I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani
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I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani
The first time you came into my hospital, shards of glass shredding your tiny body, I saved you. The second time I failed As news of the ceasefire ripples my way, my memory mocks me. Your face glides into focus from my mind’s abyss, where I had buried…
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If anything, I think Musk's harrowingly shit sense of humour is under-discussed. The Florence Foster Jenkins of it all. The deeply unfunny freak who bought the joke factory and juiced its algorithm so he could subject all its users to... this. The gas leak comedy of a psychedelically humourless man.
Three absolute bangers from Elon Musk. I'm so sorry but you asked for ALT text.

How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two, but how did they get in there??

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Me: How many radical leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Radical leftists: That's not funny [frowny face]
Me: [Crylaugh emoji]

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When I see the troll emoji, it's like looking in the mirror
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
When buskers start actually cordoning off public space like this, something has gone seriously wrong with the craft of busking. They have no right to take over public space. This comes from someone who used to busk a lot as a teenager. @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social need to do something about this
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
You know you can cancel any free cancellation booking on the booking. com website and you will have the opportunity to express your reason for cancelling, under “other”. Supporting apartheid colonialism a good enough reason? www.middleeasteye.net/news/rights-...
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Rights groups file complaint against Booking.com for listing Israeli settlements
Dutch NGO Somo reported finding at least 70 listings on Booking.com in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank
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Hugh Jaeger @hughjaeger.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The racist, colonialist double standards of the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
A screenshot of two contrasting tweets by Ursula von der Leyen. In the first, she condemns the Russian occupation of Ukraine. In the second, she celebrates her visit to the genocidal apartheid State of Israel, and calls for more partnership between Israel and the EU.

Only a genocidal racist could have such double standards, and tweet such hypocritical shite.
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Cathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A message for other US presidents “I cannot think of anyone who would be more appalled at the images on the television screens of the world of tiny children, a few weeks old or less, being buried having died from hypothermia, their mothers malnourished and the last of their working hospitals razed.”
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Don’t lose focus in 2025. It’s been 15 months of genocide. Boycott. Divest. Protest. Disrupt. Donate. Take over spaces. Confront your institutions. Block whatever you need to in society to end this. Israel and its backers are counting on your fatigue. We cannot rest or let up.
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WHO @who.int · 27/12/2024
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in North #Gaza out of service. Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid.
This morning’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has put this last major health facility in North #Gaza out of service. Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severely burnt and destroyed during the raid.

60 health workers and 25 patients in critical condition, including those on ventilators, reportedly remain in the hospital. The patients in moderate to severe condition were forced to evacuate to the destroyed and non-functional Indonesian Hospital. @WHO is deeply concerned for their safety.

This raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes after escalating restrictions on access for WHO and partners, and repeated attacks on or near the facility since early October. Such hostilities and the raids are undoing all our efforts and support to keep the facility minimal functional. 

The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of health care.

This horror must end and health care must be protected. Ceasefire!
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Once more for those at the back. Condemning the indiscriminate murder, starvation and displacement of tens of thousands of people does not also mean you hate everyone who shares the nationality or religion of those who perpetrate these acts.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Now. What do we want? Time traveller jokes. When do we want them?
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Nearing the end a 24hr fast ⬇️ To have felt this discomfort today, knowing that this is what people in Gaza are enduring every day, makes me so angry. I can chose to eat later. People in Gaza cannot. They’re being starved & degraded by genocidal maniacs Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/hunger-for...
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Donate to Hunger for Justice: Gaza, organized by Fergal McDonnell
THIS WEEK: HUNGER FOR JUSTICE MASS FAST, THURSDAY, 12 DECEMBER To highlight the humanita… Fergal McDonnell needs your support for Hunger for Justice: Gaza
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/12/2024
Lebanon counts 62 Israeli violations of the ceasefire deal since it entered into effect last week, including 10 breaches on Sunday alone. These include airstrikes in the south of Lebanon and machine gun fire in areas where the Israeli army hasn’t withdrawn yet.
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Is***l has now contracted private companies specialising in settler construction to work in northern Gaza. For those at the back who haven't heard...........they have been ethnically cleansing the north of Gaza for the last 6 weeks so prepare for this. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-pr...
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REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza
A prominent Israeli settler offered me $165 per day to demolish homes in Beit Lahia
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Riddle me this. If Greens had brought down the govt in the last year by opposing FFG on a point of principle, e.g. sanctions against Is***l, climate action, would they have earned more respect from voters? It gives me no pleasure to say they brought this on themselves #GE24
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This needs to be emphasized because it’s barely receiving any media coverage in the West, especially in light of broader developments in the region. There is a serious Egyptian proposal to end the war in Gaza and stop the killing.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 30/11/2024
Do not become numb to this genocide. Israeli airstrikes have killed nearly 100 Palestinian civilians in the past 24 hours. This, immediately after Biden sent another $650M in arms to Netanyahu, and after Netanyahu was charged with war crimes by the ICC. Horrific. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Israeli attacks kill nearly 100 as ‘catastrophic’ hunger grips Gaza
UN official warns of ‘dreadful struggle for survival’ in Gaza as strikes by Israeli jets, tanks and drones kill dozens.
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Dr Harold News @drharoldnews.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
BREAKING: Ireland Loses General Election
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 29/11/2024
Get out and vote: elect a left government that will shut the door on the Israeli ambassador, and tell them not to come back til the genocide ends and Palestine is free.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Musk-rat amplifying one of the most vicious, nasty far right loons ahead of #GE2024 - he and his toxic brand have disrupted politics in America, do not let him do it here #votelefttransferleft
Photo of a post on C by musk promoting and Irish far right candidate
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Within 6 months of PBP TDs making this protest, for which they were derided, Biden helped & continues to help Is***l unleash a barbaric genocide on Gaza. They were right to call him a warmonger. @paulmurphy.pbp.ie @richardboydbarrett.pbp.ie #VoteLeftTransferLeft www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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Biden visit 'utterly nauseating' - People Before Profit
A People Before Profit TD has defended his party's decision to boycott yesterday's Dáil speech by US President Joe Biden.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨Minister of state Ossian Smyth confirms US interference with Occupied Bill – and why Fine Gael blocked it🚨 ‘The Occupied Territories Bill was blocked by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil because the Democratic Party in America asked them to block it.’
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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Not letting Biden take any glory for the ceasefire, welcome as it is. He could have done so much more to have stopped the suspected war crimes being perpetrated on the people of Gaza but sat in his hands. Shameful.
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Dr Harold News @drharoldnews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
After Fine Gael drops 4 points in latest poll, a new video of the 'Harris Hop' has surfaced:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza. For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing. How they’ve responded is shocking. Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A superb piece from the best sports writer @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
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Karen D @dervan8r.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Recipe writers‼️ Stop telling us to preheat the oven in step 1. This is utter madness. Unless your recipe is “add some black pepper to a frozen pizza, put in oven”, preheating comes *after* all the chopping & mixing & cursing & swearing & regret.
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