Noreen O’Gallagher
@nogallagher.bsky.social
Previously comms in UN DPKO, BBCNews & CNNi; still plagued with a serious news addiction.
Views my own, RT not necessarily endorsement.
Views my own, RT not necessarily endorsement.
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Websites down worldwide after outage at network firm Cloudflare
Websites down worldwide after outage at network firm Cloudflare
Tens of thousands of internet users locked out of websites due to internal server error
www.irishtimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Websites down worldwide after outage at network firm Cloudflare
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WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter
"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social
"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social
The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter
Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk
bylinetimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter
"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social
"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social
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Spain 🇪🇸
Amnesty International condemned Barcelona’s €40m deal with DR Congo, warning it whitewashes abuses including mass rapes, torture, and death sentences while the club promotes the country’s image on its kits.
Amnesty International condemned Barcelona’s €40m deal with DR Congo, warning it whitewashes abuses including mass rapes, torture, and death sentences while the club promotes the country’s image on its kits.
Amnistía Internacional condena el acuerdo del Barça con el Congo
La ONG ha asegurado que "el deporte no puede ser un escaparate para blanquear violaciones de derechos humanos"
buff.ly
August 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Spain 🇪🇸
Amnesty International condemned Barcelona’s €40m deal with DR Congo, warning it whitewashes abuses including mass rapes, torture, and death sentences while the club promotes the country’s image on its kits.
Amnesty International condemned Barcelona’s €40m deal with DR Congo, warning it whitewashes abuses including mass rapes, torture, and death sentences while the club promotes the country’s image on its kits.
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Mali army says 149 soldiers killed in 24 hours in attacks by al Qaeda-linked group reut.rs/46ZHvF8
Mali army says 149 soldiers killed in 24 hours in attacks by al Qaeda-linked group
Mali's army said on Wednesday more than 149 soldiers had been killed in 24 hours in coordinated attacks in several localities across Mali by militants from the al Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin group.
reut.rs
August 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Mali army says 149 soldiers killed in 24 hours in attacks by al Qaeda-linked group reut.rs/46ZHvF8
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Burkina Faso declares UN coordinator persona non grata reut.rs/4mNkRV6
Burkina Faso declares UN coordinator persona non grata
Burkina Faso has declared United Nations regional coordinator Carol Flore-Smereczniak persona non grata over a U.N. report alleging violations against children in the West African country, a government spokesperson said on Monday.
reut.rs
August 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Burkina Faso declares UN coordinator persona non grata reut.rs/4mNkRV6
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I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
August 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
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For Israel to deploy AI-powered deadly force against them, Palestinians must simultaneously be the lives from which surveillance data is captured, and the tabulation of deaths through which the lethality of AI systems is demonstrated and later improved, writes Sarah Fathallah.
Artificial Intelligence and the Orchestration of Palestinian Life and Death | TechPolicy.Press
The tabulation of Palestinian deaths is used to enhance the lethality of the systems targeting them, writes Sarah Fathallah.
www.techpolicy.press
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
For Israel to deploy AI-powered deadly force against them, Palestinians must simultaneously be the lives from which surveillance data is captured, and the tabulation of deaths through which the lethality of AI systems is demonstrated and later improved, writes Sarah Fathallah.
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Nationalise Thames Water and the entire water network now.
August 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Nationalise Thames Water and the entire water network now.
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@rvawonk.bsky.social, a key resistance leader during Trump1, is doing great work on Big Tech & MAGA's takeover of our info space for brainwashing & behavior mod - & how we can protect ourselves. See below &
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/silent-cou...
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/silent-cou...
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
August 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
@rvawonk.bsky.social, a key resistance leader during Trump1, is doing great work on Big Tech & MAGA's takeover of our info space for brainwashing & behavior mod - & how we can protect ourselves. See below &
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/silent-cou...
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/silent-cou...
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
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🚨 New: The UK government spent £32,251 fighting to hide a blank form.
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
The blank piece of paper that cost taxpayers £32,000
Government ‘obsession with secrecy’ descends into farce
democracyforsale.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨 New: The UK government spent £32,251 fighting to hide a blank form.
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
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The Home Office says the first people who arrived by small boat yesterday have been detained pending removal to France.
So many questions still haven't been asked or answered. How were they identified? Why did they flee? And what happened to their right under international law to claim asylum?
So many questions still haven't been asked or answered. How were they identified? Why did they flee? And what happened to their right under international law to claim asylum?
August 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The Home Office says the first people who arrived by small boat yesterday have been detained pending removal to France.
So many questions still haven't been asked or answered. How were they identified? Why did they flee? And what happened to their right under international law to claim asylum?
So many questions still haven't been asked or answered. How were they identified? Why did they flee? And what happened to their right under international law to claim asylum?
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Two likes, 377 comments and 386 quotes. How did you think people would react?
August 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Two likes, 377 comments and 386 quotes. How did you think people would react?
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A damning indictment from some of the world's leading human rights experts -- 25 UN special rapporteurs, independent experts, and working groups -- call for the immediate dismantling of the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, saying Palestinians are paying the ultimate price of the international community’s legal, p...
www.ohchr.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A damning indictment from some of the world's leading human rights experts -- 25 UN special rapporteurs, independent experts, and working groups -- call for the immediate dismantling of the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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"Although I cannot do anything to compensate [students] fully for depriving them of the opportunity to take this course, I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing."
“It is impossible to teach this coursein light of Columbia’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition..conflates Jewishness w/Israel, so that any criticism of Israel..becomes a criticism of Jews.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Although I cannot do anything to compensate [students] fully for depriving them of the opportunity to take this course, I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing."
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Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie is sparking controversy in North Africa, with the decision to shoot some scenes in a long-disputed territory incurring the ire of a rebel group fighting for independence
Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Wades Into African Territorial Dispute
Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie is sparking controversy in North Africa, with the decision to shoot some scenes in a long-disputed territory incurring the ire of a rebel group fighting for independence.
bloom.bg
July 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie is sparking controversy in North Africa, with the decision to shoot some scenes in a long-disputed territory incurring the ire of a rebel group fighting for independence
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The most benevolent reading of this is that the air drops are incompetently targeted.
Some might be inclined to think they're designed to not actually work.
Remember - 5 perfectly targeted air drops = one single truck
Some might be inclined to think they're designed to not actually work.
Remember - 5 perfectly targeted air drops = one single truck
We geolocated the view out of the window as Jeremy Bowen's team filmed packages falling from a plane over Gaza yesterday. They were dropped into a "dangerous combat zone", which Palestinians are warned not to enter because it would put their lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
July 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The most benevolent reading of this is that the air drops are incompetently targeted.
Some might be inclined to think they're designed to not actually work.
Remember - 5 perfectly targeted air drops = one single truck
Some might be inclined to think they're designed to not actually work.
Remember - 5 perfectly targeted air drops = one single truck
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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
July 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
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NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow.
A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?
A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow.
A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?
A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?
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This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
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July 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…