As I'm sure plenty of people are surprised and upset to learn that the dead Irish singer was a wrong 'un, worth remembering that the whisper network only exists because we still don't know how to protect victims who come forward, tyfyt

I am aware there are journos looking to talk to those who were teens targeted by GH but honestly the vitriolic abuse seen online from mostly men, would certainly put me off speaking up, and I am fairly thick skinned. Seems we have learned little from how Annie Murphy was treated. #spéirgorm

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'Abhorrent and barbaric': Calls for sexual assault treatment unit in Mid-West after rape victim had to travel to Galway

Absence of a dedicated SATU in the Mid-West has come under renewed scrutiny after a court heard a rape victim travelled to Galway for treatment following an attack

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"Official documents, recently discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre, also show the British Army was aware, shortly after the killing in Derry, that the boy had been killed at 'point blank' range by an immensely powerful machine-gun." #Derry #Ireland

Declassified UK@declassifieduk.org · 2d ago

👉NEW -- BBC censored film on British army killing child by @annecadwallader.bsky.social Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972 www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-censored...

Ken O'Flynn TD happily sharing a photo with a white nationalist who makes money by inciting abuse and harrassment against others. a man who advocates ethnic cleansing of immigrants, who complains of "controlled opposition by the jews" just racist buds hanging out at the Gript summer school

Having already escaped the collapsing shopping mall uninjured, both employees were ordered by their manager to go back inside the building to rescue cash in the company's tills. Both were killed shortly thereafter in the gas explosion. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Company admits 2 workers told to return into mall before fatal blast | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

KUMAMOTO—After safely evacuating outside following a major earthquake, a 22-year-old mall employee and her colleague were tragically ordered back inside to secure the cash from a store register, their...

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UK Labour's policies mean the average terrororist suspect is now a white Briton in her 50s. Suspects include an RAF veteran, a blind wheelchair user and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Hundreds of them form orderly queues for hours to be charged by police in tents. inews.co.uk/news/retired...

How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain's newest terror suspects

Suspects arrested for holding signs reading, 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action'

inews.co.uk

The American AI corporations are on a global mission to buy, scan and then destroy rare and out-of-print books. They buy them by the millions, cut them open, scan their pages, shred those pages and then pulp them along with what's left of the physical book. www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ@uilliammac.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today in right wing: “Let's see if we can eradicate public school teachers by experimenting on native American children using AI sex dolls.”

Today in right wing: “Let's see if we can eradicate public school teachers by experimenting on native American children using AI sex dolls.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

Up next on NewsSpew FM: Ciara asks Fintan Bigwad TD “Is it past time that houses wear high-viz?"

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Scots couple have told of 'horrible shock' after a car crashed into their living room while they were watching TV 👇

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And on that radicalisation of the British Right, hatred of migrants can become intertwined with escalating hatreds towards supposed internal ethnic and linguistic threats towards supposed national purity. Worth keeping in mind when reading the Spectator on Wales or Scotland bsky.app/profile/josi...

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison

“...les paramilitaires loyaux à Londres se sont répandus dans les rues, masqués et habillés de noir.” French media reporting the plain truth that people in Britain don't get to see. www.humanite.fr/monde/irland... #terrorism

À Belfast, les paramilitaires dans l’ombre de l’extrême droite depuis des décennies - L'Humanité

Au début du mois de juin, les migrants ont été attaqués dans les rues de la capitale. Au-delà des habituelles cohortes fascistes, les paramilitaires loyaux à Londres se sont répandus...

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The ban on all languages other than English and Welsh would criminalise election material in Northern Ireland published in Irish and also in Scottish Gaelic which is routinely used in several parts of Scotland, even if that material is bilingual. Up to six months in gaol.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔴 NEW: Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and… Read the full story below.

Paul Hruz – a doctor paid to testify in support of political bans on healthcare for trans youth – was asked what will happen to the children denied healthcare in the 26 states that have banned it. He replied "Some children are born into this world to suffer and die." www.newsweek.com/will-supreme...

Will the Supreme Court Put the State Ahead of Parents Rights? | Opinion

It's not a tragedy that Catherine was born or that Sarah is a girl, but they met and meet tragic circumstances.

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This piece highlights very well the discrepancy between the international revulsion at the treatment of Catríona Graham and the almost silence in the face of daily torture and brutality meted out to the people of Palestine. Worth a read.

William Dalrymple@willdalrymple.bsky.social · 3w ago

Incredibly powerful first hand account of Israeli prisons & the abuse of prisoners by my fearless friend, Noa Avishag Schnall www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social The Algerian Revolution: Repression & Rebellion podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...

70% of their money this year is from Daniel Berntsson's €450,000+ donation. He is the reason that they have been able to fully organise on a national basis this year. People and organisations who use Mullvad have financed this outcome unknowingly. #Mullvad #Racism

Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ@uilliammac.bsky.social · last mo.

Mullvad's boss Daniel Berntsson donates to the fascist Örebro Party which wants all non-whites removed from Sweden. www.flamman.se/techprofil-g... Mullvad replied to this story being posted on Mastodon that those who don't like it should take their custom elsewhere. mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/...

Israeli strikes on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza have killed two people, including a 15-year-old girl, and injured dozens. The attacks came a day after a strike in central Gaza killed three Palestinians identified as police officers travelling in a vehicle.

To all of you who picked up on my typo - all you have to do is watch the clip and here Paisley… but if you didn’t it is “on the mayor” of course

Lisa O’Carroll@lisaocarroll.bsky.social · last mo.

Ian Paisley claims he saw Jeffrey Donaldson get so drunk in China on a trade trip he projectile vomited in mayor of Beijing BBC NI Spotlight last night now available on iplayer in rest of U.K. investigator Mandy McAuley

Five million Swedish kronor is currently worth over €450,000, and that's just one identified donation. #Mullvad #Fascism #Racism

Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ@uilliammac.bsky.social · last mo.

Mullvad's boss Daniel Berntsson donates to the fascist Örebro Party which wants all non-whites removed from Sweden. www.flamman.se/techprofil-g... Mullvad replied to this story being posted on Mastodon that those who don't like it should take their custom elsewhere. mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/...

Mullvad's boss Daniel Berntsson donates to the fascist Örebro Party which wants all non-whites removed from Sweden. www.flamman.se/techprofil-g... Mullvad replied to this story being posted on Mastodon that those who don't like it should take their custom elsewhere. mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/...

Techprofil ger miljoner till Örebropartiet

It-bolaget Mullvads grundare donerade fem miljoner – till parti som vill se ”storskalig återvandring”

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The UK can accomodate this for people in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland but it's "divisive", "unreasonable" and "belligerant" for the Irish in Northern Ireland.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Donaldson ‘visited gay sauna in London’ while demonising homosexuality: reports

Paisley also speaks on another Donaldson ‘victim’

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Latest msg: “This is part of what we saw last night. We got out of [La Guaira] as best we could. We managed to help some people...The devastation we saw leaving [Catia La Mar] is far worse than what you see here. Mother, like a champ, got Sra. Rita out onto the street. They’re both fine” #venezuela

Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ@uilliammac.bsky.social · last mo.

My old friend in Venezuela was in La Guaira when the earthquakes hit and is trying to get back to El Valle in Caracas to try to find family and friends and if her home is still there. She got some mobile service and told me 3 people I know are missing. #Venezuala

Devastating #Venezuela earthquakes. I’m in close contact with our team in Caracas to ensure full and urgent response, including search and rescue support and emergency relief for survivors. International solidarity coming in. We’ll need all hands on deck.

Got to say, ever with my incredibly low expectations, this is heinous. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

Ian Paisley said in 2021 he knew of another Donaldson victim — and used that information for political ends

Two years ago, a source met the Belfast Telegraph on wasteland, leading to a second meeting with another source — which we can only now report

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

She says the provisional death toll is a fraction of 1% of the reality. La Guaira was where the appalling mud slides happened in 1999. The barrios between there, the airport and into the city are wrecked. If anyone's able to donate a bit to one of the international aid agencies please do. #Venezuela

Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ@uilliammac.bsky.social · last mo.

My old friend in Venezuela was in La Guaira when the earthquakes hit and is trying to get back to El Valle in Caracas to try to find family and friends and if her home is still there. She got some mobile service and told me 3 people I know are missing. #Venezuala

My old friend in Venezuela was in La Guaira when the earthquakes hit and is trying to get back to El Valle in Caracas to try to find family and friends and if her home is still there. She got some mobile service and told me 3 people I know are missing. #Venezuala

“If yous continue to target the British Armed Forces... the consequences will be swift and deadly... Yous have been warned.” Portis said that this message was not a threat to the family but rather an attempt to create a "platform for debate". www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Belfast man convicted of sending menacing message directed at family of Bloody Sunday victim jailed

Dean Portis also forbidden from pestering William McKinney brothers or journalist Hugh Jordan

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