John O'Donoghue

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John O'Donoghue

John O'Donoghue

@JOD45

Author & Poet. Winner of Mind Book of the Year 2010, RSL Brookleaze Grant 2016, Irish Post Creative Writing Comp 2016. Co-Founder @wildgeesepress

Katılım Aralık 2009
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Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis·
Keir won't like it - and we care not a bit! Join us at the Troxy this Tuesday evening in London if you can get hold of the few remaining tickets. I shall be there to welcome you with Brian Eno, Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Grace Blakeley, Francesca Martinez instagram.com/reels/DWMb5tbN…
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Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins·
American hypocrisy
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Arturo Dominguez@extremearturo·
Most Cubans have always shown solidarity with Ireland, South Africa, Palestine, Black people in the U.S., and every other oppressed group on the planet. Judge us by our enemies.
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Jack Dart@JackWDart·
Brexit cost this country £180 billion a year in lost economic output, enough to build 140 new hospitals every single year. The people who did it are now asking for your vote again. #Brexit #NigelFarage #ReformUK
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Stew Peters@realstewpeters·
Thousands of young American men are being sent to certain death as a blood sacrifice to Greater Israel. They’re going to die with no upside to America’s national security or economic interests, to the benefit of Jewish pedos and billionaire donors.
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John O'Connell
John O'Connell@jdpoc·
Bravo, #Paris. Parisiens decided they prefer city unity, better transport and cycling infrastructure, parks and trees, pedestrianised areas and racial justice instead of right wing populist, divisive hatred.
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Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
"Israeli society has gone full fascist. It's like Berlin 1930." Abby Martin describes her horrifying experience in Jerusalem where every single person she spoke to espoused casual genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians. The footage speaks for itself.
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Narinder Kaur@narindertweets·
Can you imagine if a brown or black woman asked for a predominantly white city be bombed? This is utterly disgusting.
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Yalda🇮🇷@YaldaFarah84·
28 years old,Fitness coach. No family but an elderly grandmother. #Mohammad_Fallah_Kish was arrested in Karaj. He has no one to scream for him. Don’t let them murder him in the dark. BE HIS VOICE #DigitalBlackOutIran
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Anish Moonka@AnishA_Moonka·
George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm

50 years ago today, ‘STAR WARS’ began filming.

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Martin Browne OSB@MartinBrowneOSB·
An incredibly moving work performed with passion by brilliant artists in the most inspiring of locations. It was such a privilege to be present for this evening's world premiere.
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
72,000 killed in the genocide in Gaza. 1 million+ displaced in Lebanon. 1,700 settler attacks in the West Bank. And now war in Iran. Sending 20,000+ more bombs to Netanyahu isn’t just immoral—it’s illegal. That’s why I introduced legislation to stop it.
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Antifa_Ultras@ultras_antifaa·
“Irish and the Cuban solidarity goes a long way, Hasta la Victory siempre.” — Kneecap
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Voice of Rabbis
Voice of Rabbis@voiceofrabbis·
That’s a false premise. Disagreeing with State if Israel, is not the same as hating a people or a religion. Jews are not defined by Israel government. Reducing millions of Jews to the Israel state or Zionist ideology erases the diversity of Jewish belief, tradition, and identity. Jews have existed for over 3,000 years. Opposition to Zionism only began in modern times, around and after 1948 with the establishment of the State of Israel.
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Mark Changizi@MarkChangizi·
Pro-Tip: If you only like the Jews who hate Israel, then you hate Jews.
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Voice of Rabbis
Voice of Rabbis@voiceofrabbis·
Stop claiming 90% of Jews support Zionism. You are counting only those who follow your secular mold. Tens of Thousands of us in NYC and globally reject Zionism as a contradiction to our faith. Mayor Mamdani isn't 'troubling' us; he's acknowledging a reality you refuse to see Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism @voiceofrabbis @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice @ZohranKMamdani
The Jerusalem Post@Jerusalem_Post

Opinion: Security is about getting political and ideological support to Jewish New Yorkers who are connected to Israel. jpost.com/opinion/articl…

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FRANCE 24 English@France24_en·
“Paris is not, and will never be, a far-right city,” insisted socialist Emmanuel Grégoire on Sunday March 22, newly elected Mayor of Paris, according to early results. #EmmanuelGrégoire #ParisMayor #FrenchElections
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Imagine if, over the past fortnight, the entire population of Birmingham were chased from their homes with only the clothes on their backs by a bunch of psychopaths & they’re now camped out in the Forest of Arden & on Cannock Chase. That’s what the IDF has done in Lebanon.
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Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbiani·
🇮🇷 Mohammad Ali Kialha was born during the war and left during the war. He never got ot experience life beyond 20 days. God rest his soul
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@Searchlightmagazine@Searchlight_mag·
Joe Louis, who held the world heavyweight boxing title from 1937 to 1949, is remembered today chiefly as a sporting legend. His life as a racial justice pioneer has been all but forgotten. And on this day in 1944, he struck an important blow for racial justice. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/03/joe-lo… @uaf @AntiRacismDay
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