Diarmuid Kennan
@moonfisherman.bsky.social
Tech. translator, sociologist, lefty, globetrotter, snooker, history, politics, vegan, atheist 🇮🇪🇩🇰🇵🇸
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Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976)
October 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976)
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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Two years into a genocide and liberal America is celebrating the return of Jimmy Kimmel as if they’d saved western civilisation. Fuck me.
September 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two years into a genocide and liberal America is celebrating the return of Jimmy Kimmel as if they’d saved western civilisation. Fuck me.
When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the truth, / And taken in exchange -- my youth. -Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933)
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the truth, / And taken in exchange -- my youth. -Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933)
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. - Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)
September 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. - Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/inter... Will he be able to fit this into his schedule as president of Ireland 😂😂😂
Conor McGregor breaks silence after Donald Trump-linked UFC White House fight leak sparks return talk | International Sports News - The Times of India
International Sports News: Conor McGregor hinted at a possible return at a UFC event in the White House. Dana White confirmed a UFC fight night at the White House in Washington
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/inter... Will he be able to fit this into his schedule as president of Ireland 😂😂😂
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The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide.
The German state is a disgrace.
It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide.
It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
The German state is a disgrace.
It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide.
It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
August 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide.
The German state is a disgrace.
It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide.
It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
The German state is a disgrace.
It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide.
It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
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One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
July 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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AIPAC has already flooded members of Congress with $13 million...in just the first 6 months of 2025:
REVEALED: AIPAC's "Donation" Amounts Will SHOCK You
Shaped by AIPAC’s demands, the new military spending bill opens the floodgates for defense contractors to cash in. Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Jules Suzdaltsev discuss on The Young Turks. Do you…
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July 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
AIPAC has already flooded members of Congress with $13 million...in just the first 6 months of 2025:
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People who live under military occupation in the West Bank would rather be hospitalised than taken to an Israeli detention centre, Palestinian human rights activist Nasser Nawaj’ah has told The Journal.
http://jrnl.ie/6735385
http://jrnl.ie/6735385
Life in Palestine: 'I'd rather they break my arms and legs than take me into detention'
The Israeli prison system has been shown in multiple investigations to be the scene of abuse, torture and sexual assault.
jrnl.ie
June 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
People who live under military occupation in the West Bank would rather be hospitalised than taken to an Israeli detention centre, Palestinian human rights activist Nasser Nawaj’ah has told The Journal.
http://jrnl.ie/6735385
http://jrnl.ie/6735385
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen 1885-1962)
June 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen 1885-1962)
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. -Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
June 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. -Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. - Milan Kundera
May 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. - Milan Kundera
Things we admire: kindness, generosity, openness, honesty, understanding & feeling = failure in our system. Things we detest: sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism & self-interest = success. While we admire the quality of the first, we love the produce of the second. - Steinbeck
May 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Things we admire: kindness, generosity, openness, honesty, understanding & feeling = failure in our system. Things we detest: sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism & self-interest = success. While we admire the quality of the first, we love the produce of the second. - Steinbeck
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
May 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Ένα κορίτσι στη Γάζα ΜΕΤΑ και ΠΡΙΝ τον λιμό που επιβλήθηκε στους Παλαιστίνιους από τον ... "πιο ηθικό στρατό του κόσμου"
May 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ένα κορίτσι στη Γάζα ΜΕΤΑ και ΠΡΙΝ τον λιμό που επιβλήθηκε στους Παλαιστίνιους από τον ... "πιο ηθικό στρατό του κόσμου"
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There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza
There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza
Babies such as Siwar Ashour are suffering from malnutrition as crucial supplies run out amid Israel’s total blockade on aid
Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment.
The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza
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Sami Al-Arian: "Most govts just give rhetoric but no action, no concrete policies in which they can alter the situation. The United States is complicit, its a full partner of this starvation policy of Israel"
May 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Sami Al-Arian: "Most govts just give rhetoric but no action, no concrete policies in which they can alter the situation. The United States is complicit, its a full partner of this starvation policy of Israel"
"The removal of Palestinians from their land and their extermination under the fog of war.. is undeniably Israel's war aim, embedded in its systematic policies to deprive the Palestinians of food and decimate their hospitals..."
Jasmine Moussa at the ICJ
Jasmine Moussa at the ICJ
April 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Eastern Europe has outperformed Western Europe in the last decade (from a lower base). Austrians and Germans rightly feel that the last decade was largely a lost one. Source: buff.ly/aWJwslw
April 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Eastern Europe has outperformed Western Europe in the last decade (from a lower base). Austrians and Germans rightly feel that the last decade was largely a lost one. Source: buff.ly/aWJwslw
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/rt... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
RTÉ: Get off the fence and report accurately and ethically on genocide in Palestine
Although Israel has tried to suppress and discredit information leaving Gaza, including by murdering at least 170 journalists, thanks to the courage and determination of those men and women we can see...
my.uplift.ie
April 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/rt... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
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In 2011, David Graeber wrote: Revolutions in Reverse
This is an extract!
This is an extract!
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In 2011, David Graeber wrote: Revolutions in Reverse
This is an extract!
This is an extract!