Alison Duffy

PGY-6 Irish doctor based in Perth, @NUIGMedicine grad. Interested in ICU and anything crit care related, @CICMANZ trainee 💉

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1740s Ireland. The island is covered in cattle. Thousands of them. The grazing land is perfect for livestock.

Irish cattle are exported to England in enormous numbers. The beef feeds English cities. The wealth goes to Anglo-Irish landowners.

The Irish peasantry raising these cattle eat potatoes. Almost exclusively potatoes. They're legally forbidden from selling meat domestically at prices they can afford.

The exports are more profitable. The English market pays better than the Irish one. So the cattle leave Ireland and the Irish eat potatoes.

This continues for a century. Irish labor produces beef that Irish people can't access. The system is explicitly designed this way.

The 1740s famine kills 400,000 Irish. Not from lack of food. From lack of access. The cattle are still being exported during the famine.

The British response: "They should grow more potatoes."

The pattern repeats. 1840s, the Great Famine. Potato blight destroys the crop. One million Irish die. Another million emigrate.

During the famine, Ireland exports food to England. Cattle, pork, butter, grain. All leaving Ireland while the Irish starve.

Not because there's no food. Because the food belongs to landlords who sell to the highest bidder.

The Irish are raising cattle they'll never eat. Growing grain they'll never consume. Churning butter they'll never taste.

All for export. All for profit. All while eating potatoes exclusively.

The physical outcomes are documented. Irish peasants in 1840 average 5'2". The shortest population in Europe.
Anglo-Irish landlords average 5'8". They're eating the beef.

When Irish emigrate to America and can finally afford meat, their children grow taller. First-generation Irish-Americans average 5'6". Second-generation average 5'8".

Same genetics. Different access. Six inches of difference.

The Irish Famine wasn't a natural disaster. It was policy. The cattle were there. The butter was there. The grain was there.

It just wasn't for the Irish.

The British colonial system extracted Irish agricultural production while keeping the Irish themselves on potatoes.

And when the potatoes failed, the British didn't redirect the beef exports back to Ireland. They let a million people die while shipping food off the island.

The cruelty wasn't accidental. It was structural.

Control the food, control the people. Even if controlling it means letting them starve while surrounded by cattle.

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

So when Russia attacks Ukraine… the world is outraged and it’s a war crime. Trump attacks Venezuela… and its “liberation”? Israel attacks Palestine and its “self defence”? Have you people heard yourselves?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Gaza has gas.
Sudan has gold.
Ukraine has titanium.
Congo has cobalt.
Venezuela has oil.

We live in a society not an economy.

Stop the wars.

[Katherine @supressedvoic]

New York Times Square!

[RTÉ One @RTEOne]

Our new President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly 💜🇮🇪

[Jen ne sais quoi 🇦🇬 @JenSainty]

The way we stopped hearing or seeing media about Palestine, and there are new types of bombs being dropped in a ceasefire

[DrMichelleKalehzan @Vossvik7]

Is it lost on anyone that there are no longer any videos whatsoever from Gaza? Try to convince yourself that this platform isn’t censoring us 100%. They are.

[lorin 🇵🇸 @nirol__]

Every single reply to the pope:

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel can carry out a massacre and the media won’t even call it a ceasefire violation. That’s how much they’ve normalized the slaughter of Palestinians.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets.

They commit genocide with impunity.

There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.

They must be held to account.

Speak up. Take action.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews

"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"

"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"

(via @vulture)

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

This is the headline 👏👏👏

[VΩX @VoxExVeritas]

This shit has gotten out of hand. They wont even name the country..because it's israel.

FUCK ISRAEL

[Nal @aNalBolji]

accepted the ceasefire, stopped bombing Gaza, waited for the rest of the Palestinians to return to Gaza to maximize their kill count, started bombing Gaza again... there are no words for how evil this country is

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel has just bombed a school that people are using as a shelter.

Children killed.

This violates the ceasefire agreement and Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Why isn’t THIS on every front page?

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

This freed Palestinian prisoner recounts how his hand was broken five times - and each time it began to heal, the soldiers would deliberately break it again, until it became deformed as it is now. He describes the brutal tools used to torture and beat them, especially targeting their wounds and injuries.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Bodies showing evidence of torture and field execution.

Channel 4 is, I think, the only mainstream Western media outlet reporting this.

[bella archive @hadidfiles]

Bella Hadid, Princess of Nazareth, the great great granddaughter of the ruler of Palestine in the 1700 Daher al Omer and his sons that ruled Tabarias Safad Nazareth Khalil Haifa and the rest of the land of Galilee.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The media is madly focused on Israeli corpses.

But today Israel returned 52 corpses of Palestinians taken prisoner since 7 October 2023 who had died in Israeli custody, many tortured to death.

Zero media attention.