Andy O'G

There'll be great days come yet | #FreePalestine | Je ne trouverais pas de l'eau au lac Léman | #EndDirectProvision | #BLM | he/him | Mon the Hoops 🍀| SUAF 🏉

[Andy O'G @KellConnery]

Ireland wins world's largest #Viennetta with impressive showing
#sneachta #snow #benbulben

[✧ @cessonmute]

Toxic Masculinity is NOT:
- Having a beer with the boys.
- Barbecuing.
- Hunting/Fishing.
- Playing Sport.
- Taking the Piss.
- Enjoying traditionally masculine things.
- Having a beard.

Toxic Masculinity IS:
- Treating Women as sex objects.
-"Lad Culture" and "Locker Room Talk".
- Resorting to violence to resolve differences.
- Using "boys will be boys" as an excuse for
bad behaviour.
- Feeling like it's not ok to talk about your emotions.
-Homophobia and fragility when males don't display "typically masculine" traits (wearing makeup, wearing different clothes, dancing etc).
- Domestic Violence.

[DilinODose @MimiVonPeach]

Thiel and his ilk should not be allowed onto our island.
We must protest this in a massive way.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Palantir founder Peter Thiel will host a gathering this August at the Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow – with 87 of the 222 guests listed as first-time attendees.

Leaked records for the meeting name Alexus Grynkewich, Scott Bessent and Ted Cruz as attendees.
https://t.co/JICcqDfp2V

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

Don’t like abortions?
Simple: Get a vasectomy.

Oh you don’t like being told what to do with your body??? Hmm that’s interesting.

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

Thinking again about those 150 Iranian sailors who were slaughtered on their way back from India for absolutely nothing.

[Praetorian Pek @PekJorkins]

I guess society at large has simply decided sex crimes are no big deal. Like shoplifting a candy bar

[Emelia🌙 @Em21brave]

How will you continue your day after hearing that a father in Gaza, trapped beneath the rubble, begged rescuers not to save him?

Not because he had lost hope in life, but because he could hear his daughters’ final breaths beneath the debris. Their tiny hands were holding his in the darkness, as if pleading with him one last time. He was the father who had always been their safe refuge, yet this time he was powerless to pull them from the dust and shattered concrete.

Only his head was visible above the wreckage. He looked into the eyes of the rescuers, his own eyes exhausted by fear and helplessness, and said:
“Leave me… my daughters are here… I do not want to come out alone.”

What heart can bear such a scene? What language can describe the agony of a father who realizes he is losing his daughters one by one, while still holding their hands until they grow cold, unable to offer rescue or even one final embrace?

How will your day go on after knowing this story? How will you sit at your table in peace, or laugh at something trivial, knowing that somewhere there was a father whose last wish was not to survive alone?

And the question that continues to haunt the human conscience remains:

How much pain must the world witness before it finally hears the cry of a single father there?

[Daniel Gerke @drgerke1]

It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Probably just a coincidence that a man becomes a trillionair about a year after having unfettered access to our government's finances, right? 🤔

[Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇼 @theashrb]

It’s not lost on me that Social Media bans were never really seriously discussed until public opinion on a certain country started rapidly changing 😂

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

JD Vance promoting his book about finding his way back to faith while helping manage Situation Room meetings on how to cover up for pedophiles is about as Republican as it gets.

[Andy O'G @KellConnery]

If he's so concerned about immigrants, why doesn't Musky just make struggling countries places where people's basic needs are met and they don't need/want to leave? He can certainly afford it.

[SPIEGEL English @SPIEGEL_English]

A young woman from Germany vanished without a trace 11 years ago. Now, her name makes several appearances in the Epstein files. Her family wants to finally learn what happened to her. https://t.co/cwnleksESl

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The actual reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

The myth of democracy can’t survive into the age of trillionaires—the ruling class isn’t even pretending it will. They’re busy preparing for an entirely different future than the one they’re selling us on. In fact most of us don’t appear in their future at all. This may be our last moment of choice.

[Mens_Corner__ @Mens_Corner__]

OK this is funny

[Andrew @districtfenian]

Americans love to post “There’s 35 million of us proud Irish Americans ready to help our clans in their time of need 🫡🫡🇨🇮🇨🇮” in response to the most rabid anti-Irish loyalist

[Daniela Nadj @danielanadj77]

Northern Ireland is the least ethnically diverse part of the UK. It is 97% white. Many of the ethnic minorities who came to Northern Ireland were invited to come and work as nurses to fill critical gaps in the health care sector. #bbcnews