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Tara Breslin
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Urban Agrarian. Linguaphile
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natemook.bsky.social
Live from Gaza as the sun sets: We’re loading up 60 tons of fresh fruit & vegetables to deliver directly to families with our All Hands & Hearts partners. 🥕🍊🧅🥔
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
British.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting. A long time ago I cycled from Dublin to Istanbul. Alone, and before phones and before the internet, with languages and currencies, was challenging enough so I didn't paint. But when I got home I did. "Verona", because I'll never forget cycling into the Piazza Bra. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in loose painterly acrylics on watercolour paper. A footpath of yellow flagstones with plants as tall as people, lamps, and half a dozen pedestrians with brick-red shadows falling back to the right, and the open space of the creamy pink surfaced piazza to its left with on the far side tall full foliage green trees, 3 vertical banners advertising a Klee exhibition, and a statue of a horseman on a plinth. At the back running horizontally across the picture is a band of various medieval buildings of different shades of yellows and pinks, with arches, a castellated tower and a domed one, and blue outlines and details. Roofs are red. The pink 3-storey buildings on the right, where the footpath leads, have green canopies at street level. Elaborate green lamp posts, with yellow and red highlights, along the footpath twirl up and out to contrast against the pale turquoise sky. Nearest pedestrian is wearing a short blue dress with an orange handbag hanging from her shoulder. She has a full mane of long red hair and is striding in heels towards the viewer. Following behind her a figure with glasses and short blond hair has an open red jacket over a green top and blue trousers. A brown bag hangs down from their left hand. On the right is a truncated back of a figure in a long dark garment of brown with blue shadows. Their hair is dark blue. Further away a figure in blue stands at the kerb facing the piazza while looking at something they're reading. Behind them are 2 women both walking together away from the viewer. Signed bottom right in red, Liam Daly
July 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
If you sue people to force them to sell you pierogies, you should probably check to make sure what’s inside them.
July 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
tarabreslin.bsky.social
@thealso.bsky.social Saw this over on youknowwhere and immediately thought of you.
June 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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lovekindindness.bsky.social
YES! Please consider that ONE DAY might not be enough. Let's follow this expert, if we can:
February 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Finland will supply Ukraine with €660 million in new arms production, the country's Ministry of Defense announced.

Thank you, Finland! 🇫🇮🇺🇦

This is exactly what Ukraine needs right now and what will boost our defense capabilities.
February 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
The original of my 5th "Golden Leaves" painting sold to a good home in Dublin, but Art Prints of it are available here: www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/...
"Golden Leaves V - A Walk in the Woods" Art Print for Sale by eolai
The 5th in an autumnal series, this painting was in progress for over ten years, from when I had a studio in an old cobbled stableyard and would walk my bike to it through the woods up from the River ...
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January 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
Trump quits WHO, abandons global health www.thewhig.com/opinion/trum... @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social

Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
U.S. President Donald Trump being a turd. — Photo by JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP
January 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Time to pretend everything is normal and share a #painting. "Dublin Hippocampus" is a view I painted of my hometown because I never tire of looking at Grattan Bridge or sitting on it enjoying its sea-horse lamps as they look in opposite directions at Capel St and Paliament St. #SpeirGorm #Januarty
Portrait format in loos acrylics. Green metal lamp-post including two half-horse half-fish creatures facing out in opposite directions, and the green top of bridge rail and latice-work from where post is mounted. The lamp itself is copper and glass. In the background is a river, buildings, trees and river wall in blue shadow on the left and on the right in sunshine is a row of 4-storey red-brick and white buildings with dark shop fronts at street level. Cars are on the quay and the stone river wall is rendered in lilac - behind the quay buildings on the right a large green dome on columns rises. Flag poles and street lamps are at intervals along both sides of the river. The river is blue in horizontal strokes reflecting the sky, buildings, and quay walls. The sky is blue in a gradient of darkest at the top and paler lower down. It is full of painterly candy-floss almost cartoon-ish white fluffy clouds. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly
January 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
These people have never read a book about antiquity or have any idea how big their world was, North Africa fed Europe, Roman Emperors were from everywhere from Tunisia to Serbia, and not to put a fine a point on it, the Levant is not exactly next door to Rome bsky.app/profile/shar...
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 21
bleak to see what passes for Christianity on the other site
John Rivers Dec 25, 2020. @JohnRivers good reminder, when Jesus said love your neighbor 2,000 years ago, your neighbor was literally your 2nd cousin cause 99% of ppl lived in small villages where they were related to everyone telling ppl to love their neighbor 2,000 years ago is the equivalent of telling ppl to not be a dick at the family reunion today 105 likes 13 comments 41 reposts
January 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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akelacooper.bsky.social
Thread boost. Incredibly important to remember that despite the fucked-up times we live in, we still must LIVE.

We are dealing with ppl who lead miserable lives despite their immense wealth. Living joyfully is a middle finger to fascists who want us to dwell in the same darkness they do.
mishellbaker.bsky.social Mishell Baker merrily @mishellbaker.bsky.social · Jan 21
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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glandsbergis.bsky.social
Everybody knows preparation is needed, but are not there yet.
Thanks to @CurtainSilicon for this in-depth discussion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqTi...
Gabrielius Landsbergis - Western Powers are Unprepared for a Russian Defeat or for a Russian Victory
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
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December 29, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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collapseaphorisms.bsky.social
"Millions of vulnerable UK households on prepayment meters could see their energy bills consume almost a third of their incomes this winter."

(The Guardian)

#collapse
December 25, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
"Cobh III" A painting for you to enjoy on this day of heartbreak, happiness, and how did we get here. My 3rd time to paint the Cork Harbour town was done 12 years ago. #Art #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format in loosely painted acrylics on canvas. Aerial view from over harbour showing town where it meets the water, with the 4-story Georgian Commodore hotel in blue along the front at the left edge behind the narrow JFK park which runs alongside the water and is itself beside the Titanic centre by the old ruined pier. Above the town of streets of brightly coloured three and four story houses sits the tall steepled Gothic St Colman's Cathedral at about viewer eye-level on a platform that has a high retaining wall of lilac-grey with long dark arched niches. Dark tree masses of blue-green are dotted around especially in the upper parts of the left and right edges. Sky is a painterly yellow. Signed top left: Liam Daly
December 1, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️Ukraine sending humanitarian aid to Syria to prevent 'food crisis,' Zelensky says.

"We are ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis ... I have instructed the government to organize food deliveries in cooperation with international organizations and partners willing to help."
Ukraine sending humanitarian aid to Syria to prevent 'food crisis,' Zelensky says
"We are ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis ... I have instructed the government to organize food deliveries in cooperation with international organizations and partners willing to help."
kyivindependent.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
I think you and I should agree right here that it's going to be called the Magic Carpet fallacy and just publicize it on that basis. Because public discourse in this country needs a name for it.
December 6, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Wieder eine wichtige Recherche von CORRECTIV! Wenn die Anti-Klimaschutz-Lobby weiterhin solchen Einfluss auf die Politik hat oder ihn gar noch ausbaut, werden wir alle (und erst recht unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder) einen sehr bitteren Preis dafür bezahlen.
correctiv.org CORRECTIV @correctiv.org · Dec 6
Mit Trump als Präsidenten gewinnen auch seine marktradikalen und klimafeindlichen Ideen an Einfluss: Wir zeigen, welche Politiker, Thinktanks und Ökonomen seine düsteren Thesen in Deutschland 🇩🇪 und Europa 🇪🇺 verbreiten – bis hinein in die CDU und zu ihrem Spitzenkandidaten Merz.
Gas und Öl statt Klimaschutz: Wer Trumps Pläne nach Deutschland bringt
US-Klimaleugner und marktradikale Thinktanks beeinflussen deutsche Politik: Verbindungen zwischen FDP, CDU und Trump-Netzwerken enthüllt.
correctiv.org
December 6, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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collapseaphorisms.bsky.social
"This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on Tuesday, reviving memories of crippling Storm Uri four years ago."

(Reuters)

#collapse
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
Just saw a long thread of people arguing pointlessly with an anti-vaccine, pro-raw milk troll. Please don’t do this. Block and go. Don’t give them the attention they crave.
November 27, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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michaelqtodd.bsky.social
It will be rich get richer and poor get the picture in USA from now. I can see hard labour to qualify for social security. And NO free healthcare. And empty supermarket shelves and many countries point blank refusing to trade with USA and to stop renewing their US govt bond holdings.
Will be ugly
November 20, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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emorwee.bsky.social
I spent days digging into the public statements of every single Trump Cabinet pick to see what they've said about climate change and it was a horrible process but I did it because Journalism Is Important and climate change is actually real so please click it I beg you heated.world/p/trumps-ent...
Trump's entire Cabinet misrepresents climate change
I analyzed the public statements of each nominee. It was awful. (Though Matt Gaetz was surprising?)
heated.world
November 20, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
"Stone Wall, Cottage" is one my favorite paintings. It comes from when I lived briefly with my little dog in north Donegal. These fields, and view to the mountains that are the Seven Sisters, were by one of our regular walks. I love it for memories of her as much as anything. It hangs in Liverpool.
Landscape format in very painterly textured acrylics. A dry stone wall, of mostly grey but also blue, lilac, shadows of navy, and flecks of white and red, runs diagonally across the foreground to the bottom right corner, with long grass of blues, greens, and yellows in front of it and a rough field of yellows, greens, oranges, and browns, behind it. Beyond another stone wall on its far side is a sliver of a yellow field, the far side of which is a small grey cottage and a row of dark bushes and trees,of blues, reds and greens. Behind is a low orange hill and behind it a grey-green one before in the distance on the right in light blue are peaked mountains. Sky is a paler blue. With the heavy texture, flecks of red and yellow peep through almost everywhere. Signed top right: Liam Daly
November 13, 2024 at 9:08 AM