Linda Kirby

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #Transrightsarehumanrights

[✨🦋helene🦋✨ @hvayou925]

Good morning ☀️

[artemis ౨ৎ @fagholmes]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. THE LEMKIN INSTITUTE PUT OUT A 3RD RED ALERT FOR THE GENOCIDE OF TRANS AMERICANS. INDIA IS ERASING TRANS INDIANS. RESEARCHERS SAY UK IS THE MOST ANTI TRANS DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD. WE WOULDNT HAVE PRIDE MONTH WITHOUT TRANS PEOPLE. ADVOCATE 4 YOUR TRANS FRIENDS.

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

#PrideMonth 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) @HelenWebberley]

The world becomes a better place when people are able to live as themselves

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

As a gay lad who grew up in the shadow of Section 28, the gay male AIDS hysteria, and vicious homophobia from the rightwing red tops, I can say with total confidence that the deranged bigotry and hatred towards trans people right now is exponentially worse in every way.

[Cáit 🤍 @InionNaHEireann]

Anybody cheering this on needs their heads examined. Don’t ever call yourself an Irish nationalist if you clearly haven’t a clue why Irish nationalism was born in the first place.
Don’t sit there with Pearse, Collins or the tricolour in your profile picture while applauding Irish people standing beneath thousands of Union Jacks acting like this is some great “unity.” It’s embarrassing. You don’t understand the first thing about what those men fought for, what this country endured, or what the tricolour even represents.
You cannot claim to love this land while holding hands with the very symbols tied to its occupation, starvation and suffering. “It’s history” …yes, and history is exactly what shaped Ireland, our identity, and the reason Irish nationalism exists at all. If you can throw that aside for internet attention and cheap notoriety, then your nationalism is paper-thin.
This behaviour goes against everything it means to be Irish and everything it means to be an Irish nationalist. Absolute hypocrisy. Absolute brain-dead behaviour.
Some of ye seriously need to educate yourselves before speaking on Irish nationalism, because right now ye are making a mockery of it.

[DOZA🧐 @lil_doza]

Kildare Cllr Tom McDonnell who was convicted of criminal damage was at the Tommy Robinson rally asking Donald Trump to help Ireland.

[Joe Dwyer @JoeEDwyer]

Kildare Cllr Tom McDonnell marched through London today in league with Johnny Adair… that’s all you should know about these supposed Irish “patriots” — they’re a stain on the tricolour - would be better off wrapping themselves in the Union Jack like their compatriots.

[Veronica @maenadea]

I hate going to bat for Christopher Nolan, but a bunch of dudes getting mad at an unreleased movie they think is about Achilles, because they have grievances with translations they've only heard about online, is just really funny.

[Noemon Acragas @noemonas]

There is absolutely nothing in the Epics that justifies the use of white-Anglo actors as less anachronistic over Black ones.

Greeks are neither Black nor White.

Ancient Greeks like Aristotle in the Physiognomika described themselves as "the middle point between Ethiopians and Milky-white people like the Northeners and women".

"τὸ δὲ μέσον χρῶμα εὐψυχίας σημεῖον"

Homer contains more Africans & Easterners than Scandinavians(none) & Anglos(none).

Why then would WASPS like yourself be more representative of ancient Greeks?

Ancient Greeks had less "Indo-European" DNA(R1b marker) than their modern ancestors, both have very little of it anyway and both have had Aegean/Anatolian markers in their majority.

Memnon the Ethiopian is described by Odysseus in Homer as "the most handsome man he ever laid eyes on".

Ethiopians draw first blood against the Argives and for that it was said that "Zeus dines with the Ethiopians". In the later Epic Cycle they are described as
"more capable [at arms] than Acheans"
"προφερεστεροι των Αχαιων"

Perseus married Andromeda the Ethiopian.
Pelops came from the East.
Kadmos from Phoinicia.
Hephaistus from Egypt where he is known as Aigyptus.
As did Danaos, the progenitor of the Danaans, the largest of the Greek forces in Troy.
Plato relates the story of Solon going to visit and getting the wisdom off Egyptian Priests.
Manetho, the Egyptian Priest wrote the first collated history fo Egypt in Greek.

Euryvatis, Odysseus' kyrix is described as "black, wooly-haired, round-shouldered, wide-stepped/long-legs".

Odysseus is described as "black", much the same way Helen is descrived as "white".

Is this how you're hoping to make yourself relevant again? By trying to squeeze yourself into a racist debate as the self-appointed leader of the down-trodden poor-white-blondes that make up the vast majority of the cast of the movie anyway cause you're feeling left-out?

Greece minted coins bearing African heads since the 6th BCE, the Lesbos exhibits are quite stunning:

[PJ Underwood Covers the Waterfront #Indiginerd @SeptonFratelli]

The discourse around The Odyssey has been interesting because it’s revealed who’s studied the Homeric epics vs who’s influenced by popular renditions of the texts. So let’s clear up a few things…🧵/1

[Linda Kirby @lfegan7]

@TristanMCarroll Surprised I never fell in tbh

[Aoibhy 🇵🇸 🇨🇩 @feinmhuinin]

For his birthday let’s not forget what he has emphasised for nearly his entire life, “We cannot be radical enough in dealing with the needs of the natural world”. He is pushing that the future of our climate relies on immediate action and we need to work together.

[Dr Harold News @DrHaroldNews]

BREAKING: Alan Shatter has spontaneously combusted after learning that Kneecap’s ‘Fenian’ has gone straight to Number 1 in the Irish charts.

[Philip Nolan @philipnolan1]

I don’t place much stock in this knighthood business, but if anyone deserves one, it’s David Attenborough.
Happy 100th birthday, Sir David - thank you for showing us the wonders of our world.
Enjoy your celebratory concert on BBC1 at 8.30pm.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

NUMBER 1 🏆 🇮🇪 🔥

Muintir na hÉireann, is Grá linn sibh 💚

We're buzzing to be number 1 in the Irish charts. A big part of KNEECAP has always been bringing the Irish language into the contemporary space, so young people see the language is of value and on par with any other language.

And with this also comes showing solidarity with those who need it most around the world and at home.

This past year though, as the British state witch-hunt came for us, we got solidarity from across this island - electric picnic being one of our highlights this year with 50,000 of us in a field.

GRMA to everyone who got the album and we'll see you this Summer to celebrate FENIAN.

Free Palestine
Free the 6 counties
Free Nicky Kelly
Na Fenians Abú

Grá Mór 🇮🇪

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A very happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough.

The whole world owes an enormous debt to David Attenborough for passionately defending the natural world and how we relate to it.

Let us heed his lesson of living with nature, not on top of nature.

[Durruti Dub @DurrutiDub]

Two Irishwomen.

One represents her native country with pride and is an inspiration to other Irish girls all over Ireland.

The other wants to take away the hard-won bodily autonomy from Irishwomen, cries about abortion but is silent on femicide.

Who is the bigger patriot?

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

David Attenborough spent over 70 years teaching humanity about earth; he just turned 100.
Thank you David, you're a light amongst the darkness.