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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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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 2h
Lesbian Lines is in cinemas across Ireland from October 8. 👉 buff.ly/7AIF0xn #GCNnews
Headshot of Lesbian Lines director Cara Holmes. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "Cara Holmes on preserving Irish LGBTQ+ history in new documentary Lesbian Lines". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
If you're not already following Lilith, what are you even doing? Go follow her! 👇
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Once again, the greyhound industry received more funding than domestic violence services. There is no clearer indication of this governments priorities. There is plenty of luxurious spending in this budget, but it is not going to the people who are hardest hit and most pressed to the bone.
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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In addition it's notable the cost of disability payment didn't extend to children with disabilities, if it is to be tied to a social welfare payment it will only be for adults with disabilities (and even then it is suboptimal). #SpéirGorm
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just remembering my donegal mother called the porch if our terraced house, the vestibule, I just looked that word up and thought it could fit? “A small entrance hall or passage between the outer door and the interior of a house or building.”
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know the very thing you mean, had a wee roof on it maybe? What was it called though?
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P. O'Leary @p-oleary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Simon Harris walked back years of embedding the polluter-pays principle into public policy by reversing some of the most recent carbon tax increases and freezing others' #ClimateCrisis #SpéirGorm @simonharrisireland.bsky.social @fine-gael.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
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Carbon tax U-turn calls Government’s climate commitments into question
Environmental groups despair as Budget 2027 sees polluter-pays principle reversed
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 06/10/2026
I am fascinated to learn that United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted in 1975 and only withdrawn in 1991, stated that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination". I'm surprised I'd never heard about this.
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Ali Mack @alimack13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#speirgorm sharing to spread the word.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Frontex trained Gardaí are citing fake law and engaging in intimidation to try to con & coerce UK / Irish passengers to carry and produce ID as their smokescreen. But - it's the POC passengers scrutinised, removed & detained. Our testimonies don't lie. It's a self-imposed racist border.
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 06/10/2026
I have a listing on the NAS site now, as a science tutor working with Autistic teenagers. I'm still trying to figure out how much of this work I can do without using up all my energy, but right now it feels like I could probably take on one or two more people... www.autism.org.uk/autism-servi...
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Fergus Murray, Tutor
Science tutoring and mentoring for neurodivergent teenagers
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ah ye poor thing, hope it resolves as quickly as it can
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lot of Covid about in UK so that means us too
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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#SpéirGorm #GiveBlood #IBTS
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s a wee beaut of an initiative on so many levels. I’m loving hearing the stories. It’s grass roots activism at its best. 👏🙌❤️
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Did Germany make any mistake with reunification that Ireland could learn from?” I asked a very clever German official…deeply involved in the project since the fall of the Berlin Wall. He considered the question for a while before answering. “You can wait too long,” he said.” #spéirghorm #Garvaghy
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Beyond The Pale have uploaded this book - for free - Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege Published in 1999 and written by Garvaghy Road residents Powerful testimony www.beyondthepalebooks.com/shopnewbooks...
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Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege — beyond the pale books – books on Irish society and politics
Published in 1999 and written by Garvaghy Road residents, this book presents a graphic description of life in a Catholic/nationalist area of Portadown under siege in the late 1990s. Forcing unwanted O...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘The plaque recognises Sarah Doherty's significant contribution to workers' rights, trade unionism and social justice during her lifetime from 1884 – 1947, a transformative period in the city's history’. www.derrystrabane.com/news/blue-pl...
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Derry City & Strabane - Blue Plaque to honour activist and shirt factory worker unveiled
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The spectacle perspective. About to go to a local pharmacy to be made available for reuse. Cataract treatment is amazing and should be much more available on the NHS.
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was blessed to have my cataracts done last year and it was fully miraculous. It should be much more easily available to everyone everywhere. I was so delighted I set up a subscription to Sight Savers who do the surgery for free in remote areas of the world.
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm so sorry
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m not sure if I can do yesterday justice; I didn’t take notes when I should have, but the speeches were powerful. Emotionally charged, as the event was necessarily going to be. Reducing it to a SF v DUP issue is insulting to the residents. My sore point is policing, but let’s see what I remember:
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 04/10/2026
Much of what we call ‘universal’ health advice has been built around a remarkably narrow idea of who that ‘universal’ person actually is
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Like any health issue, queer people need a unique approach to nutrition
Queer people do not need a separate set of nutritional rules. What they need is health advice that recognises the realities of their lives, bodies and experiences
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Worth the read, Justine McCarthy on Garvaghy Rd. archive.is/IgOEZ
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Thomas O Mahony @omathuna89.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Best of luck to everyone travelling to Armagh today, to stand in solidarity with the Garvaghy road residents. There will be no going back. Not now, not ever. 💪✊️
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
seems there are churches full of them, the poor woman sounded deranged.
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had to move, she’s destroying my peace.
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
overhearing a convo where one slightly posh older woman is trying to convince another that heaven and hell are real. She’s some sort of evangelical catholic and it would scare ye what she wholeheartedly believes. I’m surprised she’s not having a psychic reaction to the proximity of this big queer.
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📢 Our next post in #TheMorrigan's for #InternationalSafeAbortion Day comes from Allison Martin and considers 'From Access to Accountability: State Obligations When an Early Medical Abortion Fails' - What happens when a legal abortion does not achieve its intended outcome? 👇 dflw.ie/from-access-...
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From Access to Accountability: State Obligations When an Early Medical Abortion Fails - Doing Feminist Legal Work
Since the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, Ireland has transformed access to abortion care. Early medical abortion (EMA) is now an established part of
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a fun interview but about 8 or 9 min in she's asked very bluntly about the Ed Sheeran situation, and while she's carefully generous to him she's also very clear and plain spoken about it - not an easy thing to do live on such a big platform under studio lights
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CMAT On Embodying Funeral Humor in “Euro-Country” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Doesn’t anyone want to adopt Pluto from @madradogrescue.bsky.social I mean COME ON #speirghorm
A Very Good Boy
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 02/10/2026
Writers: seen this…? hughhowey.com/neo/
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NEO - Hugh Howey
NEO Write your next book without the friction. NEO is a free, distraction-free writing app built by a working novelist for novelists. It runs on your own computer, and your manuscript stays yours — no...
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Add your support here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road
An open letter to the Rt Hon Chris Bryant MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Helen McEntee TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, was sent at 8pm Thursday 1 October 2026. We will co...
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fair play to ye all Claire. And thank you.
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was teamwork with 5 of us. Others will pick it up tomorrow. We’re up to 400 names now and still going strong. Thanks to every single one of you who have supported 🙌
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This wee girl spreading love not hate in Garvaghy Road tonight. 'Our revenge will be the laughter (or singing) from our children' paraphrased from Bobby Sands MP. Things you love to see ❤️
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026
Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Happy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech Giants
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures
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ᚃᚓᚏᚌᚐᚂ ᚋᚐᚉᚉᚒ ᚌᚐᚇᚆᚏᚐ @storzundbickel.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
#Spéirghorm #Ireland #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #RentCrisis
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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
Yes, Gavin Bazunu is in Black & Irish #BlackHistoryMonth
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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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Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the man's a fool
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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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