Words To Live By Number 186

Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people"

One year gone, but not forgotten

And I'm sorry, but with so many now claiming the Greens "punched above their weight in government", it has to be said:

One Green minister drafted a forestry plan that was mostly about ramping up sitka, while another Green minister insisted sheep graze a national park.

Glen Moore, who got slapped around by the kids in St. Aidans in Dublin West has amassed a whopping 3% of the vote. Back under your rock, lad...
#ge24
#speirgorm

It’s election time! I put together this infographic of the key commitments to family carers in at the manifestos - only 1 party got green across the board. #GE24

Had a bit of an unexpected mid-morning cry at this gorgeous little film by Tallaght Drug and Alcohol Taskforce.

youtu.be/r57XionoHPA?...

I have wondered sometimes why we don’t hear more from historians of the Bosnian genocide about comparisons with Palestine today. Why was Europe’s conscience evoked more then than now? Geopolitics and supplication to the US, or simply anti-Arab racism?

Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na Palaistíne ✊

St Aidan’s school Tallaght delightfully undermining the far right.

What’s up Human Rights Advocates!

My brother @daraor.bsky.social told me last week that there are currently more humans in space than there are care leavers enrolled at Oxford University.

(5 ppl returned from space in September, before which there were more humans in space than care leavers at Oxford and Cambridge combined).