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Rita Wild

@ritawild.bsky.social
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More justice and more peace. Loves a beautiful view. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine. “In the shelter/shadow of each other the people live.” Clean the Air, wear a mask.

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ᚃᚓᚏᚌᚐᚂ ᚋᚐᚉᚉᚒ ᚌᚐᚇᚆᚏᚐ @storzundbickel.eurosky.social · 8h
#Spéirghorm #Ireland #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #RentCrisis
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 8h
my genius thought this morning: what about letting them march but only if they wear nothing but swimming trunks and flip flops? maybe more coffee for me?
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 8h
Yes, Gavin Bazunu is in Black & Irish #BlackHistoryMonth
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 12h
Belfast is unfortunately gathering the four horsemen one after the other - this time, Viktor Orban came to visit saying he was attending a football event. This is him at an anti-abortion rights protest on Tuesday, posing with Bernie Smyth, director of “Precious Life”
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 11h
It is 7 years since Coillte committed to removing the plantation surrounding the Derryclare forest in Galway but still not a single conifer has been removed. We now have national restoration targets for 2030 but we'll need get a lot quicker if these are to be met www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Does Ireland have the will to undo the disaster of plantation forestry?
Plans to remove commercial plantation around native forest have stalled for years
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
Men Explain Rape to Me.
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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
good morning if you need something hopeful and revolutionary, check out the right livelhood award laureates!!! The alternative Noble Peace Prize...and @timnitgebru.blacksky.app IS ONE OF THEM!! I am grateful to all the pro-humane people out there you give me hope www.democracynow.org/2026/9/30/he...
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2026 Right Livelihood Awards Announced in Stockholm
The 2026 Right Livelihood Awards were announced on Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden. The award is widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. The winners include Jalila Haider, a human rights lawyer wh...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/09/2026
Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 30/09/2026
At worst, the version of the highly contentious events given by the FAI on Saturday has been contradicted today. At best, the FAI has proven itself to have profound trouble communicating its position, and its own account of events.
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are mid way through #TheMorrigan's series for #InternationalSafeAbortion Day & these posts are showing the range of issues women consistently face when accessing abortions All area available here dflw.ie/how-to-join/
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The Morrigan Blog - Doing Feminist Legal Work
Named for the mythic Irish triple goddess, The Morrigan is a feminist blog, dedicated to exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality articulate with
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
takes a lot of tea and biscuits to fuel blocking an Orange march for 3 days!
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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
“This outcome is a testament to the indefatigable campaigners who protested outside the Central Bank for more than a year, supported by the Parliamentarians who kept pushing for Ireland’s compliance with international law in the halls of power" Stephen Cockburn, Amnesty International, Europe
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Call for the ban. Halt the operation. Allow mediation to proceed, with no armour at one end of the road and no crowd at the other. All the rest depends on someone flinching, and it is being funded by a police service that can’t afford it and by a community that never requested any of it.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026
“We believe [these age verification laws] burden adults’ rights to access lawful speech, that they can destroy people’s ability to be anonymous online, and that they are privacy and data security disasters waiting to happen,” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @penncapital-star.com.
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Pa.'s latest online age verification bill would restrict access to adult content • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Experts warn that, while such measures may be intended to protect children, they can ultimately wind up burdening adults, posing data privacy concerns, and restricting access to First Amendment-protec...
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Lenny Jyons @jennylyons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuck you colgate. I was a longtime user of your cheap stripes. Guess I’ll have to aqusfresh too.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
Completely and utterly out of his depth, which is pretty standard tbf so good job Chris 👍
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@gavreilly.com do you have a read on what happened here ?
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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A little kitten is running straight into your heart! 🐈❤️ #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 28/09/2026
These Google Earth images should make the entire world stop.
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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From ‘Silence=Death’ to ‘Protect the Dolls’, the slogan t-shirt has a powerful history. Read 👉 buff.ly/tNBC915 #GCNnews
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣Our 2nd post for #InternationalSafeAbortion Day is from Maeve Taylor 'Post repeal vibes: How governance mood influenced policy development on early abortion care' #InternationalSafeAbortionDay #ReproductiveJustice #Repealedthe8th dflw.ie/post-repeal-...
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Post repeal vibes: How governance mood influenced policy development on early abortion care - Doing Feminist Legal Work
For many who need or provide abortion in Ireland, wonderfully, it has been part of routine healthcare for all their reproductive lifetimes or careers. Its
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What do you think is really going on with #Garvaghy Rd? After all these years and all the devastation caused what possessed the Orange men to apply for permission to march? Who put them up to it? Is there dark money in the mix? They knew it would cause ructions so that obviously was the point. Why?
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is fixed. But the idea that it was okay as the boys were Muslims is appalling & a terrible updating of the kinds of hate that caused those poor boys murders & but now somehow made more sickening by this editing - whose favour was the editor aiming for?
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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember folks-at times of high community tension and re-traumatisation as is the case this morning with Drumcree/Garvaghy Rd there is one small step you can make for your own mental health and well being-do not listen to the toxic Nolan Show on Radio Ulster...
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's because a majority of Irish people are already securely housed and are benefitting from the price rises, 66-72% owner occupied. House prices coming down are not in their interests.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No matter what is said, the future has not been written, and there is still time to create a future that is written with humans and the ecology at the forefront.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If it goes ahead, the determination is unchanged. 35 people including marshals, off Drumcree Church by 8am, dispersed by half nine, one banner, no bands, no supporters. And the judicial review has still not been decided. Tonight was about timing, not lawfulness.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m not being funny but the people who call for a United Ireland flag to make some concession to unionists… what do you think the big huge fucking orange bit on the current flag is for
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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 25/09/2026
In an era where queer & trans people are under attack, our team is defiantly queer & trans led, providing real support to scared people in scary times. But it’s scary for us, too. We need your support so we can provide community care to all who need it, every day: give.gofundme.com/7kfor7m
A denim background with a mixture of cute fabric patches including a rainbow, a square made of red fabric with little pink hearts on it and the Scarleteen logo, the letters Q and T, a unicorn, and a cup of coffee. It's meant to look like a denim jacket with patches on it.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was very pleased to see the Garvaghy Road Residents gone into the Dáil today. Garvaghy Road residents went door to door and printed their leaflets in seven languages, for the migrant families who live there now and are frightened too. They did not organise a community. They organised a street.
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Garvaghy Road residents to 'mobilise' if parade approved
Garvaghy Road residents have said they will "mobilise" and "come together" if an Orange Order parade is allowed to march through their community.
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've been doing micro-lending with kiva.org for many years. Typically requests are from folk living in developing countries. For the very first time I'm seeing requests show up from white people in the continental US.
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Seabass from Spain, Greece or Turkey". "Cajun chicken is Polish and not free range... the prawns are frozen and from Bangladesh". Not great in a city centre restaurant but the real kicker? One of the owners is the chairman of Bord Bia according to the piece.. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
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Sole Seafood & Grill review: I’m in shock – €35 for chicken supreme using non-free-range Dutch chicken
Many dishes in this lavishly refurbished Dublin spot are good, but it’s hard to get past the sourcing
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have been thinking about Bullshit, in its official categorisation. In his short and easy essay “On Bullshit”, the euphoniously-named American philosopher Harry J. Frankfurt posited a person could say things while neither caring if it was true or lies. dn721601.ca.archive.org/0/items/on-b...
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really important report from colleagues @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 👇 The education selection process in #NorthernIreland is all about those with money keeping it that way - hurrah for the middle classes while 10-11 years olds are stressed out of their minds! www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...
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Featured Research
A new study has found that academic selection at age 10 -11 contributes to educational inequality, places unnecessary pressure on children and families, and is sustained more by social and political f...
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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such sad news of the passing of Dr Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social who brought light, humour, horses in archaeology and simple humanity to us. She faced her short illness with dignity and courage #FuckCancer #SpeirGorm
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Storyclare she/her @storyclare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finally, I never really got the hang of Bluesky. So please help me find all the good people on here...the ones who love human rights, are pro-Palestine, who read books&love libraries, believe water is life, hate pesticides, believe in people over profit & have a sense of humour.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On reading Ilan Pappé
Paul Heroux . Follow
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Just finished reading this 2006 book written by an lsraeli historian. The author used IDF archives. old newspapers from the era, Israeli research, and the diary of the first Prime Minister of Israel Ben Gurion to source this book.
This book, written bv a Jewish author, starts off bv talkina about the definition of ethnic cleansing, in its simplest terms, "ethnic cleansing is a well defined policy of a particular group of persons to systematically eliminate another group from a given territory on the basis of religion, ethnic or national origin." (Pg 1)
Among the many sources used, the author uses the diary of the first Prime Minister of Israel, Ben Gurion, to make the case that Zionists were never going to make a good faith effort to ever coexist with indigenous Palestinians. Palestinian uprisings have given Israel, the justification to be heavy-handed and further push Palestinians out of Palestine in the name of Israeli security, (Zionism is a political ideology; Judaism is a religion.
This was a deep dive into what happened iust before Israel was created by the United Nations in 1948and iust after. It's a detailed history that most people in the US haven't been exposed to.
We are all familiar with the Jewish Holocaust, and how there are many people who still deny the Holocaust ever happened... It happened.
It's unfortunate that much of the coverage of this Holy Land issue over the last several decades (up until recent) has not recognized the Palestinian Nakba - close to 800,000 people were uprooted from their 531 villages that were destroyed in 1948 when Israel was officiallv created by the United Nations Pages 235-247 addresses the denial of the Nakba... It happened.
Two things can be true at the same time.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To cis ppl everywhere, I say OUR SEX IS NOT YOURS. You cannot know it. You cannot control it. And your epistemic hubris in assuming you can understand our sex as your own sex gone wrong is as doomed to fail as Aristotle's attempt to understand womanhood as the failure to produce manhood.
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 23/09/2026
It's the worst time of day to post but I'll post it again tomorrow. A big meaty post with recipes translated, each compared to a certain other "translation", just to make a point. majnouna.com/2026/09/23/u... Password: 1nf0dumP #medievalsky
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Umda 4: Chapter II as it was intended - Majnouna
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"For the first time, there’s a queer community for me to be a part of, and to help build up so that others never need to feel like that community doesn’t include them.” Read 👉 buff.ly/XcYNmsB #GCNnews #BiVisibilityDay
Members of the BI Monthly group at Dublin Pride. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "How Dublin's BI-Monthly social group champions visibility and representation". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can believe this
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The announcement of US sanctions on the International Criminal Court are deeply frustrating. We need to see the EU blocking mechanism – which would prevent these sanctions from affecting individuals – come into place. Ireland holds the EU Presidency – now is the perfect time to lead on this.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Judge puts it up to all of us. Do we want to be ruled by law or by men?
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US-sanctioned international court judge urges Ireland to take a stand
Nicolas Guillou said the European project was in grave danger if tariff fears outweighed the importance of fighting crimes against humanity
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
15 years from now the next CMAT is gonna be namechecking Micheál Martin for their childhood trauma caused by policy-induced homelessness #spéirgorm
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holy mother of god
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C Volkmann @sailshipearth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sign the European Citizen's Initiative for a right to housing. Because, #speirgorm , let's face it: we'll need a bigger stick. Organise accordingly eci.ec.europa.eu/064/public/#...
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is infuriating. A while back, I found out that the Irish government had quietly changed the interpretation of copyright law in favour of genAI development. Here again, we see our own government sneakily putting commercial interests ahead of those of their citizens. Typical of them. #SpeirGorm
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