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Michelle Farrell

@mnifhearail.bsky.social
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International law Prof. Liverpool based. Irish

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has UEFA lied to the Football Association of Ireland about its anti-racism rules and protocols? If so, it should be a big problem for UEFA and the Israel Football Association. But only if the FAI takes this seriously and puts this latest incident in context. A 🧵 www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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FAI investigating alleged racial abuse of Idah
An alleged racist incident involving Ireland goalscorer Adam Idah during the Israel Nations League game is being assessed by the FAI.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/09/2026
Rescue crews in Gaza pull survivors from a collapsed building as cries for help echo beneath the rubble, witnesses say.
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Gaza residential building collapses, six families reportedly trapped
Rescue crews in Gaza pull survivors from a collapsed building as cries for help echo beneath the rubble, witnesses say.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you’d asked me yesterday how they’d respond, I’d have said: they will swiftly settle on “It is journalism’s sacred duty to hound and destroy minor public figures as a demonstrative lesson to anyone who defies or displeases us: step out of line by a millimetre, and you will be next under the boot”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The thing to note here is that these people *had an absolute blast* kicking seventeen shades of shit out of this guy, just as they always have a ball kicking fuck out of people they despise. It’s easy to tell when they’re going through the motions, and when they are absolutely loving it.
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Suicide should spark sympathy. But the implication that it will guarantee absolution and quasi deification is a really dangerous message to send((Dan Hodges)) •
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Said a similar thing yesterday in a different context. Jason Arday's death is a terrible tragedy. But people using it to attack journalists for legitimately scrutinising a major public interest issue need to stop.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
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Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
But then how would mediocre academics keep talented ECRs, crits, etc in their place? 🧐
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
According to people in Aida refugee camp this demolition could happen as soon as tomorrow. They wrote today to FIFA and the Swiss government urging them to call on Israel to desist from any demolition plans. The pitch is a lifeline for hundreds of Palestinian boys and girls.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"Let me be absolutely a framework position of clear international transition before the law weekend and remain the substance of absolutely clear". www.instagram.com/reel/DTI8A1A...
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Misan Harriman on Instagram: "The PM speaks…"
2,158 likes, 846 comments - misanharriman on January 5, 2026: "The PM speaks…".
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I missed this; maybe others have too. El Shewy, Griffiths & Jones, 'Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame' @ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....: "the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
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More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com
Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
i was in a coffee shop one ordinary day in Liverpool when Manchán Magan wandered in. He came over to me as though he knew me. We had a lovely chat. A striking moment. I went to his show that night. He had a soft kind sagesse abt him. I'm sad. May be rest in peace www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
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Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The moral case for the Israel Football Association's suspension from football is horrifically self-evident, but important to stress there are very clear grounds for their exclusion in the UEFA and FIFA statutes. Joint letter to UEFA from Bohemians, Irish Sport for Palestine and FairSquare 👇
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Spoke on RTÉ radio ‘News at one’ today on the UN Commission of Inquiry report on genocide in Gaza. @rteradio1.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social You can listen back here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza - UN commission
Professor Shane Darcy, of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway, on the report from a United Nations Commission of Inquiry which finds that Israel has committed genocide in Gaz...
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Webinar on corporate accountability taking place tomorrow at 17:00 Irish time. Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me. Still time to register 👇👇👇
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Germany and Italy need more time to consider whether Israel should be denied *partial access* to the Horizon Europe research fund. More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation. More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager. And like, I don't think that's what's going on? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed
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anneneylon.bsky.social @anneneylon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Migrants are subject to hypervisibility & invisibility - this manifests in a specific way in UK law & policy, which is most obvious from the Rwanda plan. This however connects to a longer history of deterrence & characterisation of asylum seekers as 'destitute' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/07/2025
Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.
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Al Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists
Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The World Health Organisation can be added to the list of international and local organisations - already including UN, International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Red Crescent, World Central Kitchen - attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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WHO says residence and main warehouse in Gaza hit by Israeli forces
Staff quarters attacked three times and four people detained, three temporarily, as IDF tanks enter Deir al-Balah
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/07/2025
We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
this was very clearly a likely consequence of proscribing a pro Palestine group. Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms. Free Palestine
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The Terrorism Act-the basis for discriminatory executive UK powers/policy since 2000-has @ 25 come of age, its remarkably wide definition & extraordinary exec powers put to the authoritarian purpose of proscribing an anti-war direct action group & criminalising the views of a big proportion of UK.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In a week when the divide between direct action protest and terrorism disappeared for the UK Government, Anne Alexander, @aliceellafinden.bsky.social and I share our thoughts on the dangerous chilling effect for Art 10/11 ECHR rights with @opendemocracy.net: www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...
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Palestine Action ban: We must learn from university protests
Government’s proscription of the group follows months of similarly chilling repression on campuses across the UK
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Israeli human rights organisation B'tselem gave up on cooperating with IDF inquiries years ago: "no accountability" "the veneer of a functioning system"
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Great piece from Oscar Rickett in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social. This experts' letter doesn’t explicitly tell Fifa to suspend or expel Israel from international football, but it leaves them in no doubt that that’s what their own rules require them to do. www.middleeasteye.net/news/legal-e...
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Legal experts tell Fifa Israel breaking international law as it considers sanctions
Thirty scholars, including two former UN rapporteurs and Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, say Israel is violating Fifa statutes
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“Member associations and their clubs may not play on the territory of another member association without the latter’s approval.” Pleased to sign this letter to FIFA coordinated by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of @fairsq.bsky.social fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...
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Leading legal experts and scholars provide FIFA committee with assessment of illegality of Israeli settlements
A group of leading scholars, including numerous professors of international law, have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examinati...
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The UK definition of terrorism is sweeping and gives way too much discretion to the executive. When that executive is irresponsible. that's dangerous. Starmer and Cooper's move to proscribe Palestine Action is just bad and pretty damn worrying.
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Andy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New publication in Industrial Law Journal 🎉 The early EU once imagined a different kind of environmental policy. It was rooted in social democracy, not neoliberal logic. It's open access so you can give it a read at the link below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/indl...
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Over 350 barristers, solicitors and legal academics say Ireland is falling short of its international law obligations in relation to the Palestine crisis.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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More than 350 lawyers and academics say Government not complying with international law obligations over Palestine crisis
Ireland obliged to take steps to prevent EU rendering assistance to Israel’s ‘unlawful acts’
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Brilliant, devastating article on Israel’s appalling starvation policy by @jessicawhyte.bsky.social
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Calling all international lawyers, legal scholars and practioners, please sign this urgent call in support of a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the (ongoing!) siege of Gaza: forms.gle/fUmT7QG4ZAP2...
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Urgent Legal Call from International Lawyers to support the Launch of a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convey to break the siege of Gaza
We, the undersigned international lawyers and legal scholars and practitioners, endorse the urgent and unified demand issued by over 200 civil society organisations: The deliberate starvation of Gaza’...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
As Gaza faces mass starvation, I wrote about Israel’s new militarised aid plan (to be run by a ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ headed by a former US sniper) and the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the siege. www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...
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As Gaza faces starvation, a new plan weaponises humanitarian aid — what can be done? - ABC Religion & Ethics
After blocking all food from entering Gaza for 11 weeks, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to allow a limited amount into the besieged territory — though he insists that a new militarised deliv...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“A Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy would mark a historic step to break the siege, end the starvation, and affirm the world’s rejection of hunger as a weapon of war.” A crucial Palestinian-led call from 250+ orgs to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza. law4palestine.org/unified-call...
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UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW  - Law for Palestine
UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW  12th May 2025 Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues...
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"Israel continues to block UN-mandated investigators bodies from Gaza, while destroying, and burying, evidence of its crimes". Watch Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's intervention before the International Court of Justice as part of the State of Palestine legal team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4F...
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Irish Lawyer spells out Israel's destruction of Gaza at The Hague
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation
Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes intern...
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Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) @glanlaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
8/ Yet Mr Sa’ar travels freely to the UK and is welcomed by UK officials. On March 14th he met with the Foreign Secretary #DavidLammy t.co/W3XCFdyqEx
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-israeli-foreign-minister-met-david-lammy-london-unannounced-trip-tuesday
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Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) @glanlaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
1/ 🚨BREAKING: An arrest warrant is being urgently sought for Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar during his UK visit. The charges focus on his role in the siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, which led to the abduction +torture of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya www.glanlaw.org/uk-arrest-wa...
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UK Arrest Warrant for Israeli Minister | glanlaw
​An arrest warrant is being urgently sought for a senior member of Israel’s security cabinet, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar during his visit to the UK. The charges focus in particular on the siege of ...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “emphasizes that prior warning by IOF before bombing one of the main hospital’s buildings does not justify the crime but further proves that the aim was to destroy.” pchrgaza.org/israel-bombs...
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Israel Bombs Gaza’s Baptist Hospital, Putting it Out of Service and Leaving Nearly One Million Palestinians with no Lifesaving Healthcare Services
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) today, 13 April 2025, in the early morning when the la...
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We are almost half way to the £50,000 needed to keep the ASN helpline there for all who need abortion support We have 3 more weeks to raise the other half Any amount in any currency will help, as a one-off, or as a first fiver in a regular payment abortionsupport.donorsupport.co/page/EMERGEN...
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Protect Abortion Access: Save our Helpline
We need your help to save our helpline. We need to raise £50,000 by the end of April to cover the increasing costs of helping people travel for an abortion. Over 2024 and into this year, calls – and c...
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is CNN reporting that Israel systematically targeted UN aid workers, killed them, and buried the bodies in a mass grave, and that it did so shortly after breaking a ceasefire agreement.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
27 pages of dead Palestinian children who have not lived to see their first birthday.
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So glad to read this: "I want to know how people feel about BDS and the academic boycott of Israel; whether they would attend a conference in Berlin even if they were allowed to speak about Palestine, knowing that comrades are being arrested for speaking Arabic outside, for wearing a Kufiyah..."
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Suzana Rahde Gerchmann @suzanarahde.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Comrades, don’t miss this fabulous piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥
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