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Brendan Harkin
@brendanjharkin.bsky.social
Belfast-based Photographer.
Do good, die great.

https://brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/
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Photos from yesterday's Bloody Sunday March for Justice are up

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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Nero evades photos until he decides he's truly happy with the light
February 14, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Anyone reaching out to Naomi Long can primarily find her on the CSAM generator website run by the "pleeeeaaase invite me to your Paedo island" Nazi man
@naomilong.bsky.social what are you doing about this? You made a big deal of saying you pushed for NI to be included in this trial and now this.
February 14, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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“[The FAI] could show a real bit of balls and refuse to play Israel. They should stand up in my view for the Palestinian state, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian football organisation.” - Brian Kerr, former Republic of Ireland manager
February 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Perhaps journalists can start putting questions to Micheál about how many children a state has to murder to actually warrant action from him.
We know that 20,000 isn't enough for the fucking ghoul (which we can safely assume is already an obscene underestimation of the actual figure).
Yes, Micheál Martin "Sport can be challenging when it crosses into the realm of politics" which is exactly why the Israeli state's sportswashing of apartheid and genocide has to be tackled head on.
Israel must be expelled from UEFA and the FAI must boycott these Nations League fixtures. #BanIsrael
February 13, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Just for the record, we have a moral obligation to boycott this match. You don't get to murder 50000+ people and stay part of civilized society. "Football isn't about politics" bullshit. Everything is about politics now. The front line is everywhere and everything.
I would question why anyone who is against genocide would willingly put on an Israel jersey and want to play for Israel. I have to assume that the Israeli players are supportive of the genocide their country is perpetuating- bc noone against it would agree to represent the country. So MM's argument
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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SCA friends did some of the props for the movie The Thirteenth Warrior (filmed in British Columbia). A bunch of us did a viewing when the movie came out on DVD so we could pause to zoom in on "Gerhard's stirrup" & other props they'd made.
4 minutes into watching How To To Get To Heaven From Belfast and the "I know where that is" spotting game has already escalated to "I know who made that scarf" @saraoneill.bsky.social yer notifications must be a melt
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
4 minutes into watching How To To Get To Heaven From Belfast and the "I know where that is" spotting game has already escalated to "I know who made that scarf" @saraoneill.bsky.social yer notifications must be a melt
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Here’s one from a wayzzz back, “Slow Drift,” oil on linen, 30”x24”.
February 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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walking around with red dots painted all over my body to confuse snipers
May 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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From mastodon: two stories side by side in NY Times
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Me, pointing out to visitors every major bit of fucking hideous road infrastructure in Belfast that doubles as "peace" infrastructure:
February 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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I love Lego so much.
February 13, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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We saw this with the frothing GC reaction the Elliot Page. He didn't come out as trans until he was in his 30s and the transphobic weirdos and all their sock accounts started crying, screaming, throwing up.
The stealth transphobic rhetoric simultaneously argues;

1. That younger people must wait to know they are sure
2. That older people have waited too long to transition and be socially accepted.

The end game is the elimination of trans people.
Alternatively, if you come out as a child with the support of your parents, you are able to experience this adjustment within a context of loving support. Plus your appearance is pretty easy to adjust, bc young people look more alike.
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE HYBRID TERROR PIGS.
February 13, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Ah sure it’s them, they’re mental and they’re used to that - it’s different over there.”
Sorry no, we are human beings, people here deserve to have a decent quality of life - a minimum standard of that would mean that the government tackles terrorist organisations suffocating their own communities.
February 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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The only good thing about the wild proscription (and active enforcement of that prescription) of Palestine Action has been to show in neon brightness, the hypocrisy of the British Government when it comes to ensuring police tackle armed and actively recruiting, proscribed terrorist orgs here
February 13, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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🔥 UNITE WINNING | Guinness zero canning plant, Belfast

Massive congratulations to @unitetheunion.bsky.social members in their fight for fair pay. Their strike in December shut down the plant and secured this significant win on pay.
February 13, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Shabana pictured here:
February 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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One day, when it's safe, when there is no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.

- Omar El Akkad
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Yvette Cooper: resign
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Looking for a new place in Dublin, about 20 messages on Daft, no response. Sent 5 using my husband's name (he is Irish): 2 invitations to view in less than 24 hours 🤷🏻‍♀️ #SpeirGorm
February 13, 2026 at 10:36 AM