Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026European states are now going to observe the price paid for not preparing for a post-US security future the moment Trump was nominated in 2024. Unfortunately the price will be paid by Ukrainians. 32671193
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Among the traits humans are called to develop as a baseline prerequisite for participation in a human civilization is to have at least a rudimentary awareness of the shapes evil takes. Anyone who cannot recognize in people like the individual below an *actual, live culture of pure evil* is failing. 2624075
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic. 53798253696
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Russia killed eight people in Zaporizhzhia last night, three of them kids. 16 more injured, three kids among them, as well. 12 more people are missing. The search and rescue operation continues. 17300141
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country. 2070162705673
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... 311587
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/10/2026⚡️5 Russian missiles and drones exploded on Moldova's territory in overnight attack against Ukraine, Sandu says. "Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Oct. 3.kyivindependent.com5 Russian missiles and drones exploded on Moldova's territory in overnight attack against Ukraine, Sandu says"Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Oct. 3. 10246103
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Data centres • Increase our electricity bills • Pollute our water • Increase unemployment via AI • Accelerate climate + eco collapse • Offer NOTHING to ordinary people in return Why is the Irish government pushing us headlong towards them? www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...irishtimes.comNew data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035 1523479
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A satellite image of southern Gaza shows an apocalyptic scene—not a single building appears to be left standing. 16837
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialAngelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026❗️russia just dropped a guided aerial bomb on a SCHOOL in Sumy, Ukraine. A school. How many schools, hospitals and homes must be destroyed before the world stops treating russian terror like another ordinary headline??! 55527
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Comment from me: Russia is failing but it still has a lot of capacity to make life unbearable for Ukrainians and be a serious threat to Europe. Support for Ukraine must be proactive, not reactive. 323340
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialCian @codonn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026beyond the weird catholics-arent-Christians implication here, I take exception to the whole invoking of religion at all for this point. Aren't atheists capable of 'acting for the greater good' too? 0165
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialAngelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026❗️Ukraine needs air defense right now. And today brought a painful update. EU countries failed to agree on additional Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine. Meanwhile, €1 billion from the €6.6 billion European Peace Facility will go toward joint procurement. 26414
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialKaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russia has been carrying out attacks against Ukrainian civilians again. Ukraine needs more Patriot interceptors before winter. We are calling on Member States that have them in their stocks to provide them to Ukraine. (1/2) 22764217
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence. 16478182
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And here, our Government has, in the last year, taken a harder and harder turn towards Bullshitting as it simply does as it pleases and says whatever, with the two increasingly uncoupled. Yesterday they had a Minister again claiming the PSC becoming an ID card was voluntary. 1165
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Says it all. @jvp.bsky.social 13512229
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026…helps Palestinians… to the next life. 013
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialTrita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The complicity is undeniable. "Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel... They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons killing Palestinians." - UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul 116198
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Absolutely unhinged response from the Israeli government, trying to revoke the citizenship of people who make critical films about the armed forces. Symptomatic of a national descent into far-right authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comNetanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensifyIsraeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists 26706243
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Because of course we are. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...irishtimes.comIreland ‘seriously considering’ importing fracked US gas for LNG reserve in ClareNew Mexico petroleum body says talks centred on creating a ‘long-term supply relationship’; Ireland previously banned importation of fracked gas 011
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times. 5336128
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialAnnie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#StopTheTrumpBallroom #ProtectTheSnail 03012
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So a war mongering, rapist, racist, misogynist coming to see you play golf is a good thing. It brings attention alright … altho not in the way McIlroy means. But not a bother -they’re the original ‘I’m alright Jack’ lads … who cares about wars & tariffs & ICE prisons & dead Iranian schoolgirls. 75920
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialThe Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.com · 08/09/2026I grew up on an island community. Two of my teachers were RNLI volunteers and, regularly, would have to drop everything in a lesson to go answer a call. Two of my closest friends are now Coast Guard volunteers working with the RNLI. If you're doxing people like that? You're a fucking fascist. 210634
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate. 511833448
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLaura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Who’d have thought that a duplicitous Brexiter would turn out to be an utterly unpleasant shit? 192
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And the President is spending his time renaming lakes to piss off Canada while Google changes the map and the press feeds the spectacle. STOP TREATING PROPAGANDA AS GEOGRAPHY. STOP TREATING MADNESS AS NORMAL POLITICS. We have REAL fucking problems. WHAT. THE. FUCK. ARE. WE. DOING? 312721
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/08/2026WHY THE FUCK IS googlemaps (on X) PARTICIPATING IN THIS? Trump cannot rename Canada's part of Lake Ontario. He cannot order Canada to call it Lake America. Yet one of the most powerful information companies on Earth is helping turn one man's political stunt into the “geography” Americans see. 2134
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialBernadette Kearns │Fiction editor @booknannyeditor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ciara's prints are fabulous, folks. So please do treat yourselves. 195
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 28/08/2026FACT OF THE DAY. 28 August 1963. Dr Martin Luther King Junior delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington DC before a crowd of some 250,000 people, at the end of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It remains one of the most famous and inspirational speeches in history. 06324
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is not your decision to make bucko. Read the fucking Good Friday Agreement. 011
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialBarry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"If traditional media is subject to so many of these rules and regulations, how come social media giants are allowed to operate without any consequences or legal ramifications within our fair city?" 075
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Imagine being Dr David Woods at the Department of Classics at University College Cork and boldly putting your name to a letter that is devoid of all human empathy and bubbling over with lazy xenophobia 45313
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dolly Parton was they type of Christian that Christian Nationalists only *pretend* to be. Unlike Christian Nationalists, she didn't browbeat us with how CHRISTIAN she was. She just lived her life doing things that Jesus asked her to do, like heal the sick, help the children, and care for the poor. 511175593890
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialEoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A pox on AI for creative work. I've never been one for dogma, but I'm increasingly coming around to the view that AI use is antithetical to creative practice (except under extremely limited circumstances, e.g. interview transcription) 0345
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is so spot on. 031
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t 159411799
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialPolarBailey @polarbailey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If anyone is able to, donate to Imaginationlibrary.com it helps an unfathomable amount of people.imaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 064
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton was a trans ally. A poor white Christian girl from the Deep South Bible Belt found it in her heart to support the most put upon community in western society. Be like Dolly. Be less like JKR. 062
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In report findings that surprises no-one 👇🏼 314038
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just to say, post that are not in praise of Dolly Parton are posts that have no place in the world today. All the other things can be said tomorrow. But she gets this day. 1604
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialLeo ᚑ ᚄᚓᚐᚉᚆᚅᚐᚄᚐᚔᚌᚆ @leoie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026What the fuck happened to the Collisons? Becoming a billionaire rots your brain. 011
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialProf John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One of the greatest Americans of her time, RIP Dolly Parton. Someone who lived her Christian values like few other rich stars. She did an enormous amount of good, particularly for child literacy. And then there is the music. A true original. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...theguardian.comDolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes 1173
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When you really think about it, there are only 2 universally loved people. David Attenborough Dolly Parton And we lost one today. It's kinda heartbreaking. 31892102
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026On a terrace in Sitges with the gays listening to Dolly and raising a drink 💔 217810
Reposted by @liz-le.bsky.socialCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026DOLLY NO 😢 52185
