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John Wallace

@epanastasi.bsky.social
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He/Him. Irish. Huge fan of music and film. Profoundly angry at the state of my country and the entire planet. 🇮🇪🇵🇸

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been trying to word my feelings between fascism and AI and this just sums it up beautifully, better than I could ever word it.
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He's not sitting on the fence, he's just wondering if he could get away with the same himself.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Unless I’m missing something the bare minimum now is to stop being a Patriots fan + demand a refund for season tickets, no? Kraft is an active genocide supporter. The overwhelming majority of NFL owners are creeps but Kraft is occupying a dark, dark place. And oh yeah, he’s in the Epstein files.
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you haven’t done so already, please sign this petition. It’s not just for Nadia; it’s for everyone who is being punished simply for being vocally anti-mass murder. signal.179-237-85-14.sslip.io/p/nadia-itv-... signal.179-237-85-14.sslip.io/p/nadia-itv-...
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Stand with Nadia Sawalha!
For more than 20 years, Nadia Sawalha has been one of Britain's best-loved television personalities. As one of Loose Women’s original panellists, she helped build a programme founded by women speaking
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Different lead singer. Same band.
Burnham received £345,000 of donations ahead of becoming PM
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.
Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.
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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Absent of any direct action, it's just shallow, empty words
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Emmet Kirwan @emmetkirwan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Collins always seems to be softening the ground for future government policies, writing about scraping the triple lock far in advance of it happening, i take from this the government are going to start floating the idea of privatising the water commons again. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Stephen Collins: Water rationing is probably inevitable unless people are made to pay for it
The existing system of unlimited free public water for all households is unsustainable in the long term and unfair
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
‘What we are asking the minister for is not complicated. Waive the documentation requirements that cannot realistically meet, and use the discretion his department already has to assess these cases against the exceptional circumstances people are coming from’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Why is department acting against Government policy and public wishes on Gaza students?
Last year, 80 Palestinian scholarship students were granted visas. This year, at least half have been refused. What has changed? asks Angie Gough
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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This reply on Twitter from Roisin Murphy seems to me to be the kind of thing a sociopath or a sadist might say. In what world is it ok for trans women to be raped and killed simply because they have been given a prison sentence?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Starmers worried about the Green Party challenging this governments failures. He's right to be. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Keir Starmer orders labour to ramp up attacks on green party
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
"It's Immigrants robbing you."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government." Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List. We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The government is letting the hunger strikers die. This is a national scandal - and should be on the front-page of every newspaper in Britain. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
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Government risks letting protesters on hunger strike die, Corbyn warns
JEREMY CORBYN warned today that the government risks letting jailed Palestine protesters on hunger strike die in prison.The former Labour leader and Your Party MP said that he had visited one of the h...
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A barefaced sociopath.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
“Groups engaging in far-right rhetoric and discourse .. have grown increasingly emboldened in Ireland to the point they gather and sometimes march openly in military fatigues in our cities.“ - James Carr www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Lack of action on hate speech contributing to racist violence
The far-right have been emboldened by lack of action to curtail them. It's beyond time to act
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma.
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Austerity has a powerful impact on children’s mental health
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I'd love to "debate" why their MEPs voted with the far right to allow migrants drown in the Med, but no-one in Fine Gael ever seems to want to talk about that.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Jim O'Callaghan and Fianna Fáil are asking you to pick a side. The choice is between them and the landlords and moneyed classes they serve, or between ordinary people and those driven from their homes by war or poverty or oppression to seek a better life. I know what side I'm on. No pasarán.
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 18/11/2025
A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/11/2025
Remember how Trump said ICE targets “violent criminals?” Trump’s own DOJ now reports that ONLY 2.5% of the people ICE arrested in Chicago have any criminal history. That means 97.5% have ZERO criminal record. They were targeted because they were of Latino ethnicity. This is what fascism looks like
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IrishPopeye @irishpopeye.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
B0ycott all nestle products ##FreePalestine
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Simon @sociuscriminis.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
And these people are being assisted by the recent rhetoric of current government members.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I mean, did you join hoping your membership fees would go towards making an already difficult life even more difficult for people seeking asylum? Or did you want healthcare taken away from trans people? Maybe you wanted to give the rich even more while taking meagre benefits away from the poor?
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
And no one who still believes in all the things a Labour party is supposed to stand for should remain a member because you are now in a right wing, racist transphobic, anti-immigrant, party led by venal dullards only interested in power and serving capital
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
shells has passed through EU maritime territory on its way to Israel.  A second cargo ship likely to pass through Spanish waters in the coming days with tonnes of explosives for the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/almost-400-t...
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Almost 400 tonnes of munitions shipped through EU to Israel
A second cargo ship likely to pass through Spanish waters in the coming days.
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/op...
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Open letter to Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: We remember you ❤️
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya served as director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, until his unlawful arrest and has been arbitrarily imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Forces for over six months. During a r...
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
World exclusive with @ShadowWorldInv1 A subsidiary of Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, used a Slovenian port to transport 'military' cargo to Israel – a week after the Slovenian government banned these shipments. www.ontheditch.com/elbit-system...
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Military cargo shipped from Slovenia to Israel despite ban
An Elbit Systems subsidiary used the Port of Koper in Slovenia to transport goods flagged as "military" cargo.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I rang the Police. "I think someone is breaking into my house." "We don't come out for that." "They are holding a I support Palestine Action sign." 5 seconds later, 100 Police and an Apache Gunship arrived.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A United Airlines flight illegally transported ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning. They’re being delivered to the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...
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United illegally brought munitions through Irish airspace
They were among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Let’s be VERY clear what the President is doing here. Canada is the United States’ number one trade partner. The President is willing to use a trade deal with Canada as a bargaining chip to do Israel’s bidding. That’s not “America first.”
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Very saddened to hear of Seán's death, always enjoyed our interactions on and off air. A great loss for Irish culture.🕯
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I’m truly going to miss his voice in the evenings. He was such a great presenter. My first memory of him was when I was 10 years old and he was teaching my class how to sing “Swing low, sweet chariot” during his stint teaching in the Friary school in Dundalk in the mid-80s. 😔
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NoThanks Boycott App @nothanksapp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi! The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in! And they don’t look good for Pepsi
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Now that reports about famine are reaching the media, can we recall that Netanyahu is subject of an arrest warrant since last November on charges including intentional starvation as a method of warfare?
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Trans Fury @transfury.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We've been screaming this the *whole* time. When personal profiles are marked "NSFW" just on the basis of them being Trans-owned and nothing else, that's censorship. It all falls-into the suppression of minority group voices. Which stage of jellyslide is my community facing?
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Trans Fury @transfury.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
What are the first things to be affected by the UK's restriction of "NSFW" content, other than porn? Across multiple platforms, the ban restricts access to LGBTQIA+ content, Trans profiles/groups, resources for mental health, DIY HRT, info on 🇵🇸 and more. But this was always the plan.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The Ditch stands with all those doing what they can to confront genocide and our state’s complicity in it. Nell Buckley, Emma O'Grady, Jane Windey and others appear in Ennis District Court on September 10, and The Ditch will stand with them. We encourage others to join us.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
People with power who congratulate themselves on a willingness to take the hard decisions never take a decision that would reduce their income, or their power.
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
An entire civilian population is at imminent risk of death by starvation because Israel refuses to allow aid into Gaza. I will be making a phone call tomorrow. Maybe you can too. There is literally nothing more important on earth right now.
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Very much looking forward to “Starmer: Israel’s Man in Downing Street”. It’s coming soon surely?
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John Wallace @epanastasi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Please sign.
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No Tax Breaks for Vacant Landlords
Louth County Council is considering cutting rates on empty properties for 2026. Working class people will still have to pay rates on their homes. Councillors have defended this proposal by stating tha...
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Truly astonishing story from EU Observer here
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This is the plan CnaM, Ireland’s clueless Internet Regulator, has for here- and the rest of the EU’s Internet.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
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