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[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

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[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@MarkLTighe His barrister attempted to frame Mary.....even though the murderers dna was under her fingernails....
Said they must aquit if they had any doubts that it was Mary.
Disgusting behaviour

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@CheriDiNovo Nope, they are male, dont have female reproductive organs and should be treated as a separate group.

[Cormac's Coast @cormac_mcginley]

Ag Suaitiú 🔊
The noise made as as the sea pushes stones up the shoreline and then pulls them back.
Thanks to the late @manchanmagan for sharing this beautiful word in his book "Sea tamagotchi".
County Clare, Ireland.

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[Jimmy Carr @jimmycarr]

Jimmy Carr's brand-new tour, KILLING JOKES, is starting with dates across the UK & USA in 2027.
Find out more and get tickets at https://t.co/aEh7Y7D3tD.

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@MarkLTighe Hmm, boyfriend or "groomer"?
It sounds like he deliberately exploited these 2 women, was disruptive and violent and refused to leave when asked. Then murdered one of them.

[Estelle Birdy @BirdyBooky]

This account of what happened to Josie Ray and her daughter Mary at the hands of this man and at the hands of the agents of this state is both shocking and shameful. A man was allowed land into a publicly owned house where an 89-year-old woman and her adult daughter, who has an intellectual disability, were the sole tenants. And despite the world and his mother and every relevant state agency, including the Gardaí, knowing there was a serious problem with this man being anywhere near these women, despite his refusal to leave, they weren’t able to drag him out and stop him going anywhere near these two vulnerable women. In fact, it seems, the only person who was threatened at all by the agents of the state, was the 89-year-old woman, who was threatened multiple times with losing her home because SHE was in breach of her tenancy, because this man had decided to takeover her home.
She was so terrified of him, after being in hospital, she refused to go back to her own home until he was gone.

And instead of making sure that this monster of a man was duly gone, so Josie Ray could return to her own home after being in hospital, what did the state attempt to do as a solution?
They attempted to find a place in a nursing home for Josie Ray, not a plane seat on a flight back to Chad, with a kick up the arse for this pig of a man.

When you get to 89, it’s most people’s dream to be able to pass away at home in your own bed. That’s probably what Josie had expected before Hasan Ali Gori decided to takeover her home.
Instead, she spent her last months terrorised in her house and her last minutes terrified and fighting for her life against this man.
If there isn’t a full enquiry into the role of state agencies in the eventual murder of Josie Ray, I am going to be very angry.
Will this state ever consider women’s safety and dignity ahead of a man’s desires? Truly, women in Ireland, especially those who are vulnerable through age or disability, are second class citizens.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A Palestinian wedding in Hebron, West Bank, has sparked outrage after a camel was abused by wedding guests.

The men were filmed forcing the camel to drink energy drinks and dancing on its back.

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@splitmaude All transwomen are male.

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@splitmaude Grifter

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@BackAlleyFog Nope.

[Wynne @wynneflh]

John Ford punched her in the jaw in front of everyone. She didn't flinch. A tabloid fabricated a sex scandal to destroy her. She pulled out her passport and destroyed them instead. Hollywood called her "too difficult."
Maureen FitzSimons was born on August 17, 1920, in Ranelagh—a working-class suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Her mother, Marguerita, was an opera singer. Her father, Charles, owned part of the Shamrock Rovers football club and ran a business in Dublin.
The family was musical, theatrical, and Irish Catholic. Maureen and her siblings—Peggy, Charles, Florrie, Margot, and James—all trained in drama and music.
As a child, Maureen was a tomboy. Rough and athletic. They called her "baby elephant" because she played like the boys—football, swimming in the River Dodder, riding horses.
She was also the only redhead in the family, which made her self-conscious.
But when she performed—when she stood on a stage—everything changed.
By age 10, she'd joined the Rathmines Theatre Company. By 14, she was accepted to the Abbey Theatre—one of the most prestigious theater companies in Ireland.
Her dream was to be an opera singer like her mother. Or a classical stage actress.
Then, at 16, she got a screen test at Elstree Studios in London.
It was a disaster. Stiff, nervous, uncomfortable in the heavy makeup and elaborate costume.
But a man named Charles Laughton saw the test. He saw past the nerves. He saw her expressive eyes, her spirit, her raw presence.
He cast her in Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) opposite him.
There was one condition: she had to change her name. "FitzSimons" was too long, too complicated.
She became Maureen O'Hara.
She didn't want to. But she was 18, in a foreign country, and Charles Laughton was an Oscar-winning movie star. So she agreed.
Laughton then cast her as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). She was 19 years old, playing opposite one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
She was starting at the top.
Then World War II began. Laughton sold her contract to RKO Studios.
Maureen felt abandoned. Alone in Hollywood. Homesick. Trapped in mediocre films with bad scripts.
She begged her agent to get her into John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941).
She got the part.
The film won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. It beat Citizen Kane.
Maureen O'Hara was now a star.
But her relationship with John Ford was complicated.
Ford nicknamed her "Rosebud." They became close friends. She visited him and his wife socially, spent time on his yacht.
But Ford had darker feelings. He wrote her drunken love letters: "God, I long for you. I dream of you. Your face is constantly in my dreams."
She didn't reciprocate.
And Ford could be cruel. Vicious, even.
One day, in front of cast and crew, he punched her in the jaw.
Hard.
She later said she only took it because she wanted to show him she could take a punch like a man.
She refused to react. Refused to give him the satisfaction.
Ford wasn't the only director who harassed her.
John Farrow made "suggestive comments," followed her home, stalked her. When she made it clear she wasn't interested, he started bullying her on set.
One day, she'd had enough.
She punched him in the jaw.
He left her alone after that.
In 1950, Maureen made Rio Grande with John Wayne. It was the beginning of a legendary partnership.
They'd make five films together: Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, McLintock!, and Big Jake.
Wayne called her "a great guy." He said he preferred to work with men—"except for Maureen O'Hara; she's a great guy."
In The Quiet Man (1952), filmed in Ireland, Maureen became an icon.
Her character, Mary Kate Danaher, refuses to consummate her marriage until she gets her dowry—her furniture, her security, her autonomy.
When John Wayne's character drags her through the countryside to force the issue, she fights him. Punches him. Refuses to yield.
The film was shot in lush Technicolor. Maureen's red hair, green eyes, and porcelain skin looked as if Technicolor had been invented just to capture her.
Wayne's character asks, "Is she real?"
She was. And she was tougher than anyone expected.
Maureen did her own stunts. Learned to sword fight. Earned the nickname "The Pirate Queen." People said she was a better swordsman than Errol Flynn.
She was one of the first actresses to do her own stunts.
But Hollywood didn't know what to do with a woman who wouldn't play by the rules.
She refused to pose for scantily clad photos. "I come from a very strict family," she said. "My folks in Dublin would think I turned out bad."
She was a teetotaler and non-smoker who rejected the Hollywood party lifestyle.
She refused to be photographed in a bathing suit. "I don't think I looked like Lana Turner in a bathing suit, frankly."
She wouldn't smoke or drink on screen for years—until she realized it would cost her jobs.
Hollywood called her difficult. Prudish. Too controlling.
Then, in 1957, Confidential magazine published a story that could have ended her career.
The headline: "It Was the Hottest Show in Town When Maureen O'Hara Cuddled in Row 35."
The tabloid claimed that an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theatre had caught Maureen and her boyfriend, Enrique Parra, in a compromising position during a movie screening.
The article was graphic. Salacious. Humiliating.
Maureen was furious.
Other celebrities targeted by Confidential had settled out of court, afraid of more bad publicity.
Not Maureen.
She sued. And when the state of California launched a criminal trial against Confidential, she was the star witness.
In court, the magazine's lawyers trotted out theater staff who swore the story was true.
Then Maureen pulled out her passport.
On the night Confidential claimed she was in Grauman's Theatre, she'd been in Spain, filming Fire Over Africa.
The passport stamp proved it.
The courtroom erupted.
Maureen won. Confidential eventually went out of business.
She'd taken on the most powerful tabloid in America—and destroyed it.
In the 1960s, Maureen's career slowed. She starred in Disney's The Parent Trap (1961), then gradually stepped away from Hollywood.
In 1968, she married Charles F. Blair Jr.—a former Air Force brigadier general, former chief pilot at Pan Am, founder of Antilles Air Boats airline in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
She called him the love of her life.
For the first time, she was truly happy. They ran the airline together. John Wayne was a regular visitor to their home.
In 1978, Charles died in a plane crash. He was 69.
Maureen became the first woman president of a scheduled airline in the United States.
She came out of retirement briefly in 1991 for Only the Lonely, playing John Candy's Irish mother.
In 2004, she published her memoir, 'Tis Herself. It became a New York Times bestseller and revealed decades of Hollywood sleaze, sexism, and scandal.
She wrote: "Being an Irishwoman means many things to me. An Irishwoman is strong and feisty. She has guts and stands up for what she believes in… She's not above a sock in the jaw if you have it coming."
In 2014, at age 94, Maureen was awarded an Honorary Oscar. She'd never been nominated—not once in her entire career.
When she accepted the award from a wheelchair, she protested when they tried to cut her speech short.
She died on October 24, 2015, in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho. She was 95.
When she died, her family said she'd spent her final hours listening to music from The Quiet Man.
Maureen O'Hara never yielded. Not to directors who harassed her. Not to studios who tried to sexualize her. Not to tabloids who tried to destroy her.
She punched back. Literally and figuratively.
And she won.

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@TransGirl I don't know why it's a debate either, because no males are women. All transwomen are male.
Not an insult just a fact.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Every day now is filled with phone calls from finders of out-in-the-day hedgehogs. And they are all saying the same thing: "We brought him in, put him in a box and gave him food, he was starving."
They don't realise, but these sweet kind people have just sealed this hedgehog's fate.
Please NEVER feed a daytime wildlife casualty.
I know, it's so hard not to.
When we see a suffering animal we feel a strong, innate impulse to help, and a desire to provide immediate tangible comfort; equating food with survival and care.
Feeding feels like a direct, immediate and nurturing action to alleviate suffering.
Yet it is the most catastrophically harmful thing you could ever do.
Especially hedgehogs out in the day, who will be hypothermic.
It takes a lot of energy to digest food, energy these compromised animals just don't have spare.
Every last bit of their energy is being used to maintain vital bodily functions - to keep the heart beating, to oxygenate the organs.
Forcing energy away from these critical functions for something as non-critical as digesting food will be a death sentence.
It won't be immediate, it may take hours, or a couple of days, but eventually, no matter what the experienced rescue you later take them to tries, the animal is already on the unstoppable journey into shock, organ failure and death.
It's tragic for the casualty and heartbreaking for the rescues.
So please help in the right way.
An out-in-the-day hedgehog needs *contact* warmth, a safe indoor space away from flies, and cover to reduce their stress (please see advice below).
They are not going to die of starvation in the couple of hours between you finding them, and getting them to a rescue.😊
And please remember - any website that gives you DIY information on caring for or feeding injured or orphaned wildlife is, by default, wrong.
The ONLY right action is to get them to a good rescue (never a vet) where their complex needs can be met.
Even if you have seen this vital information before and understand it, feeding wildlife casualties is a powerful compulsion because it directly activates human instincts of empathy and compassion, often overriding the scientific advice against it.
So please remember this warning and spread it as far as you can.
Helping a wildlife casualty get to the expert treatment they need is an incredibly kind, altruistic act of great humanity.
Just remember to provide them with what they need, not what you need.🥰

[My Lovely Horse Rescue @MyLovelyHorseR]

💔💔💔URGENT, FOUR ANIMALS STOLEN FROM MLHR, PLEASE HELP US BRING THEM HOME 🚨💔💔💔💔

We are absolutely devastated💔💔💔😡😡😡😡

Three dogs, Sarah, Indie and Mo, and our beautiful Shetland Lola have been stolen from the main MLHR farm.💔💔💔💔💔💔

Three males, dressed in tracksuits and wearing balaclavas, were captured on CCTV entering the farm after the last checks had been completed.

These four innocent animals have already been through so much in their lives. They deserve love, safety and security. They do NOT deserve this.

We are heartbroken, frightened and desperate to get them home.💔💔💔😡😡😡

SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING.

Please, if you saw anything suspicious, noticed unusual vehicles in the area, or have any information whatsoever, please come forward.

We are asking everyone to:

SHARE this appeal far and wide.
Keep an eye out for Sarah, Indie, Mo and Lola.
Contact us or An Garda Síochána Leixlip with any information.
Report any attempts to sell or rehome animals matching their descriptions.
Please do not approach anyone you suspect. Pass information to us or Gardaí.

We will not give up on these four beautiful souls 💔💔💔💔💔💔

PLEASE HELP US BRING SARAH, INDIE, MO AND LOLA HOME.

💔 Every share could make a difference. Someone knows something. Please help us.💔💔💔💔

We are now patrolling our farm 24/7 because of evil humans 💔💔💔💔😡😡😡😡

We need to get secure high fencing around the full perimeter 💔💔💔💔

https://t.co/gBLskZcqPM

WE HAVE GROUPS FROM OUR TEAM SEARCHING 💔💔💔💔💔💔

[Commentary @moviecentralx]

AISLING BEA TOOK ONE WORD ON THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW AND REFUSED TO LET THE CONVERSATION SURVIVE.

The confidence was impressive. The commitment to making everyone uncomfortable was even better.

[Rebecca 🦔 @VioletIsABee]

@polen_ball Bollocks

[Chrissie Mayr🇺🇸 @ChrissieMayr]

This is perfect and exactly what AI needs to be used for 🥳🤣🥳

[Praxis Paradise @PraxisDream]

Can people share a screenshot of this to @ZPoet and ask her to retract her claims about me not being male, as I will unfortunately open a case in the USA due to her spreading lies about me (Defamation). Trust me, I will go ahead, as the science is behind me, my own medical diagnosis is behind me, and it's time that I start making a point internationally that I will not tolerate people spreading lies and disinformation about those of us who have a chromosomal aneuploidy. I would also like to encourage any of my counterparts in the USA who have XXY Klinefelter Syndrome to join me, and maybe open a class action lawsuit, it's the only way to make a point to those who openly seek to sow disinformation for their own warped political goal scoring.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Depressing to see media mission to discredit someone who stops playing their game & uses celebrity to help others. Keep going @rustyrockets.