norabarnacle.bsky.social
@norabarnacle.bsky.social
Donegal/Derry/sometimes Belfast.
Politics, books,the craic. Like sound and decent people.
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Reform with 5 MP's gets more TV and Newspaper coverage than the Greens, SNP, Independents and Lib Dems combined.

This is because Reform is owned by the billionaires who own the Media.
February 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Child Poverty %

Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%

The UK 32.1%
February 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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This ancient, wild oak in my place is about 12m from the edge of a road. It has stood there for 100s of years, supporting a whole web of life, bothering nobody.

Now they're talking about removing it and countless others, because in Ireland (1% native forest left), nature ALWAYS has to pay.
February 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Can guarentee if 20 years ago someone had done a Nazi Salute at a Presidential Inauguration that person would have been kicked out of Government for good.

But now the richest own the Government completely.
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Nice sounding terms and what they actually mean in real life.

Free Market - Monopoly entirely controlled by the richest
Free Speech - Monopoly entirely controlled by the loudest who are the richest
Democracy - Your chance to pick from a selection of people owned by the richest
January 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Pascal Soriot the UK's highest paid CEO gets £18,700,000 a year, largely in shares so he doesn't have to pay any tax.

In just one day he 'earned' more than 90% of UK workers will get in a year.

THIS is the problem.
January 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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And they did absolutely FA for it.
January 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k
January 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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We'll always be together
however far it seems
We'll always be together
together in malignant schemes
January 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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when I was homeless in florida, the library was a godsend, straight from heaven. air conditioning, bathrooms, somewhere I could sit, go online, read, just exist.
December 27, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Your daily reminder to keep the Palestinian People in your thoughts and prayers
a poster that says " we stand with palestine " on it
ALT: a poster that says " we stand with palestine " on it
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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Tesco could afford to give every single one of their 12m customers £100 for Christmas and their profits would still be higher than 2 years ago.

That's because that is how much extra they are stealing off you.
December 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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December 22, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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The Grand Stretch is Back baby!
Today is 2024-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:46 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 03 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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What a letter.
December 14, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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The story behind this picture.

This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him £153k to save his life.

They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500.

That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay.
December 14, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Remember the most profitable businesses in the USA are healthcare and war.

And they both involve killing people.
December 14, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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I don’t know if this app is local enough to be used for this yet. But Phil is a friend of friends, missing since last Thursday. Areas - Moira, Magheralin, Mournes.

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...
PSNI 'increasingly concerned' for missing man last seen three days ago
The 46-year-old was last seen in the Moira area at around 2am on Thursday, December 5th
www.belfastlive.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.
November 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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The Future will be exactly the same as the Past because nothing has changed.

It is still a handful of the richest most powerful people forcing everyone else to kill each other and destroy the planet for their own gain.
November 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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Actually Great Power is evil, and you see that every single day.
November 23, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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@carlowweather.bsky.social Foyle River very high at Lifford just now.
November 23, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Hey look.

The billionaires are plotting to make it easier for companies to screw workers.

Helping the rich get richer. That’s all this has ever been about. #UnionsForAll
Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help.
Trump allies have discussed breaking tradition and firing opponents on the National Labor Relations Board, which also faces legal challenges from SpaceX and Amazon.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before.

But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.
November 21, 2024 at 12:58 PM