Ciarán Fahey

For transparency, I wish to say I will use this platform while I'm at the Africa Cup. Unfortunately, African teams/officials are still here so I will be selfishly checking their tweets without contributing anything myself. My output will remain at Bluesky/Mastodon. #AFCON2025

If you want to learn more, this is about to kick off now in Berlin. It’s full, but it’s being streamed at the following link: youtube.com/live/bHdhBIv4a…

It’s the 140th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Conference, when the colonial powers met in the German capital to formalize the ongoing conquest of Africa, divvying up the continent like a cake between themselves. #Colonialism #Germany #Africa #AfticaConference

St. Pauli is leaving Twitter, saying it has become a ‘hate machine’ under Musk 
(@AP) #StPauli #Twitter 👋 
apnews.com/article/st-pau…

@fluxusx Wo ist die Reportage zu sehen?

Bis vor wenigen Jahren war das alles noch Wald - jetzt werden dort Gewinne für Trump's Buddy #Musk generiert (Screenshot aus Reportage "Inside #Tesla")

The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars with help from Sandy Hook families "Jones was broadcasting live from the Infowars studio Thursday morning and appeared distraught, putting his head in his hand at his desk." (@AP) #Infowars #TheOnion #notmadeup apnews.com/article/onion-…

@javierespinosa2 See you there!

It's time to start getting away from X. As The Guardian says, it's too toxic. I'll do it little by little by moving to platforms like BlueSky and Maston My My posts can be seen at @javierespinosa@bsky.social and javierespinosa@mastodon.world

The Guardian is abandoning Twitter because the benefits of being on the platform “are now outweighed by the negatives.” theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

Norway apologizes to Sami, Forest Finns and Kvens for its forced assimilation policy. It included state-run boarding schools that banned minority languages and the forced relocation of whole villages. (⁦⁦@guardiannews⁩) #Norway #culturalerasure theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha says they’re so traumatized they can no longer speak about the losses they suffer. “We fear even talking about the dead because we know 100% that the next day we will lose more.” theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Berlin's official city portal just wrote our film No Other Land has "antisemitic tendencies". A film that won the Berlinale and was recently invited to a special screening in the German embassy in Israel. It pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the holocaust, you empty the word antisemitism of meaning to silence critics of Israel's occupation in the West Bank (the topic of our film) and legitimize violence against Palestinians. I feel unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin of 2024 as a left-wing Israeli and will take legal action.

The Biden administration says Israel has made progress on the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and so it won’t limit its arms transfers to Israel. Relief groups say conditions are worse than ever. @AP #Israel #USA #Gaza apnews.com/article/48cd09…

Just now -- acclaimed British surgeon testifies to #UK Parliament, detailing how #IDF "quadcopters" would arrive at the scene of airstrikes in #Gaza & "pick-off" / "shoot" the injured, including children.

A Dutch appeals court has overturned a ruling for Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% because “there is currently insufficient consensus in climate science on a specific reduction percentage” that Shell should adhere to. (AP) #Shell #climatechange apnews.com/article/shell-…

Looks like we'll have German elections on Feb. 16 or 23. (@AP) #Germany #Elections #Wahltermin apnews.com/article/german…

@SumanNaishadham @AP Congratulations!! 🎉 🇪🇸

Thrilled to start a new job covering Spain and Portugal for @AP, based in Madrid, after more than 3 years on the climate and environment team. Reach out with your story ideas or tips at snaishadham@ap.org

Harris lost in two Detroit-area cities with large Arab American populations because of the Biden-Harris administration’s unwavering support for Israel. “At the end of the day when you have two evils running, what are you left with?” @AP #Gaza #USA apnews.com/article/aea96b…

Gideon Levy: “Israel set another record Thursday for the self-victimization it so very much enjoys, and the media set another record for the incitement, exaggeration, fearmongering and, above all, the concealment of information.” #Maccabi #Israel haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…

Sunday morning. Israel kills at least 17 people sheltering in the refugee camp of Jabaliya in northern Gaza, and another 20 (at least) in an airstrike on the village of Aalmat, north of Beirut in Lebanon. @AP #Israel #Gaza #Lebanon apnews.com/article/israel…