Stephen James Smith

📬 Contact: [email protected] ✨Seanchaí ✍️ Poet 🎧 Debut album ‘See No Evil’ out now: 🔗 More links:

[Stephen James Smith @SJSwords]

Have you listened to my debut album yet?

Here's a link to all the ways you can:
https://t.co/3JfjEOGYEq

@CWBdotie @nymphsandthugs @Recklessdotie
@GarethQR #Poetry

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Same day, same outlet (the BBC):

Somalis "hijack" ships.
The US merely "boards" them.

This is how consent is manufactured in real time.

[@Wexford Arts Centre @wexfordarts]

So Say So’ is a monthly event that spotlights poetry, storytelling, and music. It is curated by the esteemed poet, @sjswords.

🌸📅Spring: April 26th - Shane Koyczan - @shane_koyczan
Book now 👉💻https://t.co/9XEeRtAu77📱0539123764

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Map Of The Irish Diaspora In The World

https://t.co/kBpTeMwFqK

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least 56 museums, historical monuments and cultural sites in Iran have been damaged due to the ongoing US and Israel strikes in the country, according to the country’s heritage ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/6lJbV4t7Qa

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Twelve independent UN human rights experts have issued a joint statement condemning “ongoing military assaults on Iran and Lebanon” by the US and Israel as “flagrant violations of international law.”

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/EqXUgEQHPm

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

"Walking around with no legs."

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Propaganda in action:

Russia "annexes"

Israel "changes the map"

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

As @amnesty, we want to remind @vonderleyen & EU leaders that human rights is the foundation of the rules-based order.

Double standards and selective application of international law leave Europe more vulnerable, less credible and undermines its very raison d'être (1/2)

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli forces disguised themselves as Lebanese soldiers and killed at least 41 people ... and all to search for the bones of an Israeli pilot who went missing in the 1980s.

They desecrated a graveyard. A local resident from the Lebanese town of Nabi Chit, pointed at the empty grave saying, “They thought he was there but there was nothing.”

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found evidence Israel used white phosphorus in residential areas of southern Lebanon earlier this month, in violation of international humanitarian law https://t.co/JRddH2Do1t

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Switzerland says US-Israeli attacks on Iran 'a violation of international law'

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/8t6RYvYZVK

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Human Rights Watch says attack on Iran girls school should be investigated as a war crime

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/ilBfo58Euj

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.

On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.

#Infograph

[Professor Benjamin Zephaniah @BZephaniah]

‘I’m African” by Benjamin Zephaniah is a powerful celebration of identity and self-discovery. With rhythm, humour and defiance, Benjamin challenges stereotypes and reminds us that culture is something lived, not performed.

[Stephen James Smith @SJSwords]

🤯💚

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.

Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.

Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.

And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.

Yes, this is oligarchy.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: The UN’s nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian programme to build nuclear weapons despite Israeli and US claims.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/Pp5PMsskiW

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how media lies to you in real time.

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

#SouthSudan is one of the world’s forgotten crises. Civilians bear the brunt of ongoing violence and face deepening political uncertainty. The country's leaders need to put its people first, end the fighting and build peace.

➡️ My @UN_HRC statement https://t.co/m9kxGyd7Xl

[United Nations @UN]

“The use of force by the United States & Israel against Iran, and the subsequent retaliation by Iran across the region, undermine international peace & security.”

@antonioguterres condemns military escalation in the Middle East.

https://t.co/slOSD9jOiI