Finbarr O'Farrell

Love teaching, psychology, film/series, books, music, and the country I've come to love: Germany. Politically reckless. Leave children and women in peace.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

22 June 1908 | A Czech Jewish woman, Růžena Novotná, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

Sall is one of the most brilliant women of our time because she has a rare ability: she makes common sense visible again. She strips away the jargon, the euphemisms, and the social pressure until all that’s left is reality.

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

ABC may think it rejected an opinion piece. In reality, it may have created a historical artifact….a record of how difficult it became for some institutions to engage with obvious truths when those truths were politically inconvenient.

Sall is one of the most brilliant women of our time because she has a rare ability: she makes common sense visible again. She strips away the jargon, the euphemisms, and the social pressure until all that’s left is reality. Once she points something out, it’s hard to unsee. More often than not, she isn’t telling people something new….she’s reminding them of what they already knew. I am shocked when I speak with women from Australia that do not know about her case. There are TOO MANY!!

In the future, people won’t look back and wonder why Sall wrote it. They’ll wonder why ABC was afraid to publish it.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

@GylesB1 THat's gorgeous. Wish I'd done that with my dad.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

@ronzheimer So was von einem Schauspieler ist eine Rarität, insbsondere von Einem, der beim ÖRR fest eingebettet ist. Gefällt mir.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

21 June 1943 | Professor Zygmunt Łempicki, a Polish Germanist and a professor at the Warsaw University, died of typhus in the German camp #Auschwitz.

He was incarcerated there on April 28, 1943 & became no. 119339.

He was 57 years old.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

@ThefantasticsL A place where any devotee would love to play a game!

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

@MrBonMot Maybe, but historically, the one useless bloody party wreaks far more dysfunction and havoc than the two!

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

22 June 1900 | Italian Jewish woman, Elena Spizzichino, was born in Velletri.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. Together with her daughter Franca she was among 839 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

@Protect_Wldlife You don't have to describe the scene. We see the heartbreak.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

Unable to secure a teaching position in Turkey's public school system, Kurdish teacher Evin Ozbay, 33, has spent the past five years building a thriving online classroom.

[Rudaw English @RudawEnglish]

Unable to secure a teaching position in Turkey's public school system, Kurdish teacher Evin Ozbay, 33, has spent the past five years building a thriving online classroom. Her students include not only Kurds seeking to learn their mother tongue, but also foreigners and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

READ MORE: https://t.co/8sa9oDarB2

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

I'm shocked and horrified that over 3,000 of you have retweeted this already. Please, please stop.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

22 June 1882 | Swedish Jewish woman, Jenny Schidorsky, was born in Karlstad. Her family emigrated to Norway.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

"Everything about the whole Beatles concept was appealing, you know. Because it was a shortcut to ecstasy . . . I don’t think any other artists I desired as much to have lived their musical life."

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

"I remember hearing the song 'Please Please Me' on the car radio, from the Beatles' debut album, and thinking, 'Wow — that’s different. That’s different from the usual crap we hear on the radio.' And it really was. It was very different to all the pretty boy Fabian or Frankie Avalon-and-a-bunch-of-back-up-musicians thing. Hearing the Beatles for the first time, I remember thinking, 'These guys are tight, and exciting!'

"They got a sound that was unique in a way, because Lennon and McCartney used to just double up the melody sometimes — they would sing together and it wouldn’t sound like either one of ‘em, it would sound like the most perfect white voice [laughs] there was in music. It was just a different sound on the radio when they came on — completely different thing. It was just, like, in your face.

"Production came fairly naturally to me, the whole idea of working in different genres. I felt that as a musician you had to have that capacity. The Beatles were, whether self-consciously or not, one of the most eclectic musical acts ever, and they were evolutionary in that, at a certain point, all of their records started to sound different from each other. I grew up listening to them, so I thought that's what the best musicians were supposed to do: be like musical sharks, constantly moving and incorporating new influences.

"The reason [my] band was called Utopia was because I thought that you could actually accomplish things socially through music. That was another thing that I got from the Beatles. Every time the Beatles came out with a new record, the world was awaiting it. The youth of the world were saying, 'What do we do now? Tell us what to do now. Should we take acid? All right, we’ll take acid. Sleep in a bed for peace? Yeah, let’s do that.' I miss the time when music had the power to polarize, for better or worse, the entire planet.

"Everything about the whole Beatles concept was appealing, you know. Because it was a shortcut to ecstasy . . . I don’t think any other artists I desired as much to have lived their musical life."
--#ToddRundgren

#Utopia #Runt #Genius #Songwriting #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #Innovation #GOAT

Sources: Rock Cellar Magazine, 2012; Interview with Chris Carter, 2012; Mojo Magazine, 2008; Interview with Jann Uhelzski, 2014

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

22 June 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Eva Drach, was born in Gyor.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://t.co/UriR5fLdkB

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

21 June 1903 | German Jew, Erich Bundheim, was born in Emden. A merchant. He emigrated to the Netherlands.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 July 1942 in a transport of 2,000 Jews deported from #Amersfoort and #Westerbork.
No. 48060
He perished in the camp on 22 August 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://t.co/jnVYhFZF8b

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

The worst people in the world disparage Zelensky.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

The worst people in the world disparage Zelensky. You could set your watch to it.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

21 June 1932 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ibolya Farkas, was born.

In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ WEBINAR: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://t.co/XJbud0F4gI

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

21 June 1909 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helena Bienenfeldová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

21 June 1933 | Czech Jewish girl Věra Picková was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
📖 Lesson: https://t.co/76Qn5Zseha
🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/XfLNMGnx4H

[Finbarr O'Farrell @FinbarrFarrell]

Die letzten Tage waren ausgesprochen erhellend. Das linke Lager leidet unter Wahnvorstellungen, ist zutiefst intolerant und im Kern, das muss man so klar feststellen, totalitär und antidemokratisch.

[Armin Petschner-Multari @ArminPetschner]

Die Union ist im Grunde eine Ansammlung von Faschisten. Die FDP driftet unter Kubicki und Hagen ohnehin nach rechts außen. NIUS und Apollo werden zu toxischen Hetzplattformen umgedeutet und immer unverhohlener bedroht. Mit der Jungen Freiheit darf man ohnehin nicht sprechen, nicht einmal kritisch. Der Gebetskreis von Nationalspielern, die sich nach der Partie gemeinsam mit Spielern der gegnerischen Mannschaft zum stillen Gebet einfinden, mutiert zum christlichen Fundamentalismus. Wer für die Einhaltung rechtsstaatlicher Prinzipien, geordnete Asylverfahren sowie die Abschiebung von Straf- und Gewalttätern plädiert, ist ohnehin mindestens Rassist.

Die letzten Tage waren ausgesprochen erhellend. Das linke Lager leidet unter Wahnvorstellungen, ist zutiefst intolerant und im Kern, das muss man so klar feststellen, totalitär und antidemokratisch. Wer politische Legitimität nur noch denjenigen zugesteht, die die eigenen moralischen und ideologischen Prämissen teilen, hat sich längst vom Geist der liberalen Demokratie verabschiedet.