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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cannot stop smiling: Canadian Resistance Army - Lake Ontario (Official Music Video) youtu.be/PUKa7tHbrFA?...

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Canadian Resistance Army - Lake Ontario (Official Music Video)

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A heads-up for those with access: this Irish-language adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella Foster is currently streaming on Channel 4. Scannán iontach atá ann. (It’s a wonderful film.)

Poster for An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl, 2022) featuring Catherine Clinch and directed by Colm Bairéad

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 28/08/2026

The UN Commission’s recognition of age based persecution of Palestinian children is a breakthrough but mostly it brings partial light fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-... #arcjustice

The UN Independent International
Commission of Inquiry's report on Israel's deliberate targeting of Palestinian children mirrors the bias in our reflective consciousness. Like international law and practice more generally, the crime is present more than saidin its findings. Its recognition of Israel's age based persecution of Palestininian children is a breakthrough but mostly it
brings partial light. It overlooks its systemic form, limits its finding to its most obvious manifestation (direct child targeting) and leaves out its most effective manifestation (indirect child targeting).

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Save Our Bride Otters @saveourbrideotters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Did you know that otters will catch and eat birds? It's not the first time wildlife photographer Chris Martin has seen this happening. The last pigeon was not so lucky. Thanks for sharing your video with us Chris. Chris has fantastic wildlife pictures - @looselenscap on instagram. Sound up. #cork

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

9 years ago, Myanmar’s military crackdown in Rakhine State forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes. We’re sharing a poem by Ro Hefzu’ from his debut book Still I Breathe, written for a community still fighting to be heard. Read more ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/committee-ne...

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Little Accents by Vasily Kandinsky, 1940 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hilla Rebay Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvellous. Anaïs Nin

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Evergreens and a floating bejeweled crown

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“…recognise that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts respectively and without external impediment, to exercise their right of self-determination on the basis of consent, freely and concurrently given… to bring about a united Ireland”.

Extract from the Good Friday Agreement, 1998: “1. The participants endorse the commitment made by the British and Irish Governments that, in a new British-Irish Agreement replacing the Anglo-Irish Agreement, they will:
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recognise the legitimacy of whatever choice is freely exercised by a majority of the people of Northern Ireland with regard to its status, whether they prefer to continue to support the Union with Great Britain or a newsovereign united Ireland;
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recognise that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts respectively and without external impediment, to exercise their right of self-determination on the basis of consent, freely and concurrently given, North and South, to bring about a united Ireland, if that is their wish, accepting that this right must be achieved and exercised with and subject to the agreement and consent of a majority of the people of Northern Ireland”

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 27/08/2026

Respect Not Sentiment! My response to the UN Special Envoy on Global Education, Gordon Brown’s, opinion piece in The Guardian of March 12 calling for a specialised international criminal court to try crimes against children fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-... #arcjustice #walkhope

Over 100 years ago Janusz Korczak reproved the 1924 Geneva Declaration on Child Rights for failing to assure children's right to respect. His reproof is still resonant in international law and practice. When justice is pursued for children it's partial. Too often respect is substituted for sentiment.
Emotion matters. The 'upheavals of thought' we feel as we bear (digital) witness to unlawfully killed children carry pre-reflective
'intelligence' that rouse our reflective consciousness and shape reason, as Martha C Nussbaum's scholarship supports. But colouring reason with sentiment partialises children's claims to transformative and remedial justice and attenuates their claim to possess rights.
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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 27/08/2026

The ceremony of innocence prevails limiting international justice for children fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-... in my examples Iranian and Palestinian children

Innocence as W B Yeats suggested in The Second Coming is a ceremony. In this instance it prevails recreating the fiction that the most serious threat to children is incidental child killing or injury; or in extremity wilful child killing or injury by a supposed modern-day Grendel or Captain of Evil, Think for example Hamas or Iran.
The ceremony is difficult to resist because it creates an appearance of justice. The way it displaces and replaces the principles of non-discrimination and universality, influencing which severe breaches of children's fundamental rights we privilege, which children we pursue justice for and which perpetrators we demand are held to account is mostly unseen.

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 27/08/2026

‘A woman writer is always caught between the gavel of power and the anvil of society.’ — Najwa Bin Shatwan

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 27/08/2026

Quite a list pgwrk-websitemedia.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/production/p...

The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary, ACA-Europe, the International Association of Judges and the Network of Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union reaffirm our support for the independence of the International Criminal Court, including its judges, prosecutors and staff.
We are united in our condemnation of this most recent initiative by the US Government against the International
Criminal Court.
ENCJ President
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Brian O Moore
ACA-Europe President
IAJ President
NPSJCEU President
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Michail Pikramenos
Walter Barone
Donal O'Donnell
Chief Justice

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 15/08/2026

Light working off darkness fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/...

Though public international law's
Universal Yes to humanity offers proof that nothing is beyond our statist-representatives, that they may reach for Justice herself, its proving darkness offers proof of the very opposite: that nothing is beneath them, that they may yield to gross injustice
OUR CLAIM TO POSSESS RIGHTS I FROM SALT IN TEARS
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Weird of Mouth @anpatric.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As it got closer to the maximum of yesterday's solar eclipse in the West of Ireland the dimming light upon the cloudscape produced unfolding Gothic moments. #eclipse #skyphotography #speirgorm

Photograph showing the drama of cloud and light present at the solar eclipse in August 2026 as viewed from a garden in the West of Ireland.

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Live coverage of the 0.973 magnitude solar eclipse in West Cork. #eclipse #solareclipse #ireland #spéirgorm #TheGreatGigInTheSky

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TOTALITY. Castrojeriz, Burgos, Spain minutes ago.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/08/2026

UN: Five years after the Taliban seized power, women and girls in Afghanistan have been systematically stripped of their rights. De facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees curbing education, work and freedom of movement – restrictions now compounded by deep cuts to aid on the ground.

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sound on 🔊 Dripping water echoing through a Seacave at lowtide. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 12/08/2026

‘Shared decision-making for resilience…’

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 12/08/2026

What’s the most fundamental of rights? fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/... #arcjustice #walkhope

We became aware of its existence, Hannah Arendt explains, 'only when millions of people lost no longer possessed] it and could not regain it.' When millions were denied not just a claim to possess rights but its fundament: standing or status as a person (an individual human being).
Now as then, its denial as François de Menthon argued at Nürnberg is a 'crime against human status' and 'the spring for crimes against existence itself.
OUR CLAIM TO POSSESS RIGHTS | FROM SALT IN TEARS
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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 12/08/2026

‘Can the subaltern speak?’ fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/... #arcjustice #walkhope

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asks 'can the subaltern speak?' To this question my answer is the subaltern speaks in silence through the music of what happens. Like Earthsea's Creation of Ea, this version of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's music is the oldest. In its harmonic, it plays out the 'upheavals of thought that call us to freedom and move us to resist injustice. To invoke even in defiance of law transcendent justice to refute needless suffering — pain, distress, privation and harm.
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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fiesta at the Fleadh.

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 09/08/2026

There are layers to this silence. The crime of gender persecution even apartheid is called out but not age persecution. Pursuing justice for Afghan girls demands calling out this crime too fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 09/08/2026

Why I blend public international law’s Yes to humanity with storytelling fromsaltintears.com/the-art #arcjustice

Unlike art, law has effective power; it makes things happen. Even public international law by its purpose and nature, and through its reasoning mode of thought, conduces things to happen.
Poetry' however as W H Auden quipped
'makes nothing happen. Yet its power to affect 'upheavals of thought' influences the music of what happens. It's the reason Plato banned poets from his Republic. The reason W B Yeats feared 'Did that play of mine send out / Certain men the English shot?' The reason Uyghur poets Cry Wind from their jail cells...
THE ART | FROM SALT IN TEARS
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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 09/08/2026

Who has human status? fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/2-proofs-of-injustice-who-has-human-status #arcjustice

Who belongs to this earth? Even before the remembered and accounted for international crimes of the mid 20th-century, the deprivation of meaning and the value of existence itself had begun.
With each iteration of colonialism's supporting logicality (where / the rift is, the break is), its effective and affective power grew, until the threat of having a claim but being unclaimed, racialised and rationalised, came home to Europe, in its most totalising form. Like its proving darkness, it is not a story to pass on.
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Brendan McNally @brendanmcn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“In fact I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide.” www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/womens-...

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Women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority

Far from being silenced, anti-trans views are currently among the most disproportionately platformed — shared by the world’s most powerful men

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fiadh, slinking about in a Seacave. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 06/08/2026

I think Rachel Carson might concur

From Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)

wildlife, and man himself. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the

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David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Out of Office Replies: Samuel Beckett. Failing elsewhere.

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 06/08/2026

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Rather than rising in one bright wave in the mid 20th-century, then, public international law's Yes to humanity rose up from many bright waves, a steady succession of sources, carried along by the music of what happens. Each source emanating from a quivering of the republic of conscience and revealing what Edith Wharton calls a republic of spirit.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 24/07/2026

Their core principle of non-refoulement – prohibiting the return of people to a place where they would face persecution, torture or other serious harm – is recognized under customary international law, which applies to all countries, whether or not they have signed the Convention.

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 05/08/2026

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Like disremembered earlier sources, public international law's iteration of our claim to possess rights, its Universal Yes to humanity, is proved from salt in tears. The salt in tears we weep when it becomes clear our solitude might be endless reveals its essential elements. 'Something we hadn't seen revealed. / Only the meaning lits radical intent and inherent limits! wasn't revealed. Though upheld as unwritten law (custom), authorised as written law (treaty law), it is still unspeakably fragile...
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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 04/08/2026

Derry Soweto Gwangjo Daraa Yangon Jenin and Gaza City El Fasher… Proper nouns or common nouns for young age directed child killing? fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

becomes the now. When a time and place in which human cruelty and dignity existed in extreme parallel is referred to as Gwangju, that name ceases to be a proper noun unique to one city and instead becomes a common noun, as l learned in writing this book. It comes to us-again and again across time and space, and always in the present tense. Even now. From Han Kang's Light and Thread

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Israeli army has set fire to vast olive groves in the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon 🇱🇧

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'I am now writing on Saturday, 2nd of August, seated quietly in Mr Curran’s bookroom in his rural retreat, 4 miles from Dublin… ' My co-authored piece on William Godwin’s six-week visit to Ireland in the summer of 1800, hosted by the Irish Patriot lawyer John Philpot Curran, is now on open access:

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‘A nation in its last moments’: William Godwin’s visit to Ireland, 1800 - History Ireland

Godwin’s letters have left us an eyewitness account of aspects of Irish social and political life at a critical moment in the country’s history. In June 1800 the Irish ‘patriot’ MP and barrister John ...

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 01/08/2026

‘Every story counts. Every perspective makes a difference. What happens when some voices simply aren’t heard?’

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