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Sorcha Glendinning

@reagh1.bsky.social
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Irish woman in Sweden. Running, learning Irish, following politics, reading, swimming and other stuff.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have not been able to post because there are so many people on the Garvaghy Road that phone signal is jammed. But I have two takeaways before we drive back to Belfast: • this isn’t a Protestant v Catholic conflict. Members of the Protestant and unionist communities signed an open letter -
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bhí seachtain thar barr agam le @oideasgael.bsky.social i nGleann Cholm Cille
Cloch gharbh le dhá lámh
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘He was incredibly entitled and manipulative’: The grim pattern of femicide in Ireland www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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‘He was incredibly entitled and manipulative’: The grim pattern of femicide in Ireland
‘People think, ‘If he hits me, I’ll leave’, Well, if he stabs you, you don’t get a chance,’ says brother of Valerie French, killed by her husband in 2019
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
'Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?' Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is questioned on #BBCbreakfast over his calls for a General Election if Andy Burnham replaces Keir Starmer as Prime Minister
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Important reporting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell how they were trapped at home by Belfast mob
Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot were frightened they would be next as fires took hold on neighbouring houses and rioters set cars alight
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
'Hector' Linocut by UK contemporary artist and printmaker Vanessa Lubach #WomensArt
Print featuring a black cat against a floral blue and white background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter, Happy Days 1, 2024 #WomensArt
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Oh that’s fine then.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Derek Hollingsworth @derekholly7.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Irish has been influenced by other languages, including Latin, Old Norse, Norman French, & English. The Irish word 'Ancaire' (anchor in English) has its origin in the Norse word 'akkeri' Focail Gaelach as Lochlainnis ó dhúcas: ancaire ⚓️ #gaeilge #spéirghorm
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
An argument I keep hearing re: promoting AI use in third level institutions, is that it will free up students to work solely on analysis/higher order thinking rather than having to do the reading. Thus displacing the process of *learning* with a fleeting and illusory ‘efficiency’.
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Went to see the horses at Flyinge and saw a lot of storks.
Stork nesting on the roof of an old stable block in Flyinge, Sweden.
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Insamling av Jessica Rosenberg Öberg | Hjälp mig att få hem min akut sjuka son från Thailand
Jessica Rosenberg Öberg Behöver din hjälp | Jag behöver akut hjälp. Min son Viggo har under en längre rundresa i Thailand kollapsat på grun...
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"integrate AI into your workflow..." buddy, given half a chance I'd be scratching on vellum with oak gall ink in a nice dark clochán on Skellig Michael. I have no interest in generative AI at all, I wish they would stop trying to crowbar it into *everything*. Sometimes the effort is the point.
One of the drystone clochans on Skellig Michael, it is a dome shaped structure with a doorway facing the photographer
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19
Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account:

Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and
gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police.

Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
www.ageranu.se/petitions/st... Please sign
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STOPPA UNGDOMSUTVISNINGARNA!
År 2023 röstade S, SD, M, KD och L för lagändringar som innebär att fler tonåringar ska kunna utvisas från sina familjer i Sverige. Nu ser vi konsekvenserna – fall efter fall där unga människor betala...
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer... The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit. This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage announces plans to slash vital benefit to fund 5p cheaper pints
Nigel Farage's party had promised to back scrapping the two-child benefit limit, but now Reform intends to funnel the support to the most vulnerable into slashing prices in pubs
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Liam Ramos Is Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All. archive.md/2026.02.01-1...
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/ut...
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UTVISA INTE 4 ÅRIGE RAIF
Raif är fyra år och bor i Malmö. Han har autism och en språkstörning. Han kan ännu inte prata och har fortfarande blöja. Nu måste han lämna mamma och bröderna i Sverige i många månader för att söka ti...
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/01/2026
Sweden abolished its wealth tax in 2006. At the time it seemed “practical, not political.” Two decades later, many pensioners see it as a turning point toward a more unequal society. Miranda Sheild Johansson reports. From _The conversation_ -- thanks! eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...
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How abolishing the wealth tax changed a country
Sweden abolished its wealth tax. Tax became transactional, destroying the sense of a community building something together
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johnhicks149.bsky.social @johnhicks149.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Here are a few exhibitions I’m doing right now. No idea how to use Bluesky, it feels like shouting into the abyss. Pity, I wish this platform was user friendly, I like the fact it’s oligarch free
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Peter Hellman @hrhellman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
”Om tio år sitter minst fyra gånger så många svenskar i fängelse. Det tar Sverige till en nivå jämförbar med Ryssland. Varför?” www.sydsvenskan.se/skane/sverig...
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Sverige på väg mot ryska nivåer – fyra gånger fler ska sättas i fängelse
Forskare starkt kritiska till straffskärpningar: ”Saknar vetenskapligt stöd.”
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Donate to Sarah Porter Spine Race 2026, organized by Maria Hughes
Run for freedom. A challenge like no other for a cause like no other. The Spine Ultram… Maria Hughes needs your support for Sarah Porter Spine Race 2026
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Thousands march against Renee Good's killing as hundreds of protests planned across US news.sky.com/story/thousa...
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Thousands march against Renee Good's killing in Minneapolis as hundreds of protests planned across US
The demonstration in Minneapolis was one of hundreds of protests planned in towns and cities across the US over the weekend, demanding an end to large-scale deployments of ICE agents.
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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Starmer’s response to Trump attacking Venezuela: “I always say and believe we should uphold international law.” Really? After the unforgivable stance on Israel he’s got no leg to stand on …and the moral high ground will never be his to claim.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 23/11/2025
"Labour backbenchers don't want to be the party taking migrant's jewellery, or stopping them becoming part of a community." Shabana Mahmood's migrant plans have angered some Labour MPs – but has found support in political rivals, including Tommy Robinson www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/11/2025
Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson. That's it. That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
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Alex @arkimade.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
She didn't even have to tell the story... we felt every. fucking. word. Trump needs to get impeached ASAP AND PUT IN PRISON. We need to get rid of Trump ASAP. Don’t forget that 300,000 kids went missing under his first presidency when he was deporting their parents who were illegal ...
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Stoppa förslaget om att omvandla permanenta uppehållstillstånd till tillfälliga
• Permanenta uppehållstillstånd har getts som ett löfte om trygghet – det löftet får inte brytas. • Människor behöver stabilitet för att kunna integreras och bygga sina liv i Sverige. • Att göra perma...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is a disastrous move. RTE's documentary-makers in both radio and TV are held in very high esteem all over the globe, and to shutter the in-house TV unit is as stupid as it is short-sighted.
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Sorcha Glendinning @reagh1.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tá muid réidh le haghaidh Oíche Shamhna
Turnip lanterns
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