Debs

Debs

@debbjay.bsky.social

FE Lecturer. UCU member. Wife, Mother, Grandmother. I read a lot, write a bit. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙💛 Welsh, but live in N Ireland.

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I can’t believe this 🖤💔

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com

The death has occurred of musician and Oscar winner Glen Hansard. He was 56. The Frames frontman has been named as the fatality from an early-morning motorcycle accident at the Strawberry Beds in West Dublin. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Someone special just sent me this! Because they know how much I loved him and that he followed me early on on Twitter and never unfollowed me even when his following got massive. And we had a few chats! Such a lovely man.

I’m in Gdansk. Room with a frozen river view. Minus temperatures so really glad I brought the right coat!! It’s so beautiful! 😍

Me too. 🥲💔

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social

Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.

Ordering a taxi in Donegal, IRL. Left a voice message. Got a text back: ‘ok.’ Answered with: ‘is this xxxxx taxi service confirming 7pm pickup?’ Replied: ‘yeah’ 🤣 nowhere else in the world quite like Donegal.

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Watch this. Open your eyes to this brutality. ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man. Now share this. Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back. You have power. Even sharing this video exerts that power.

Hello. I’m an American TV cop pursuing a perp. I always know EXACTLY which direction they’re heading - confidently letting my partner know, via my walkie-talkie device: ‘suspect heading on foot South East on 59 Street,’ I can do this WITHOUT a compass. So there. 💪

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There. Are. No. Words.

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

And another one! Another brave woman. 💪 👏🏼

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

What an absolute star! Such a brave woman. There are so many decent Americans doing the right thing in the face of such cruelty. She stood up to these horrible, masked, armed brutes! Good for her 👏🏼

CityGirlie@oaktownhappy.bsky.social

Clearly, it’s going to be up to us. Bravo to this woman! ICE = power hungry/crooked cops, Enrique Torres, Stewart Rhodes, pardoned 1/6’ers and the like. bsky.app/profile/thet...

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Replying to @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social

FIFA, it is time to boycott the US and move the games from all US stadiums. It is not safe for the fans to come here any longer. I already have tickets but will gladly eat the costs if it makes the rest of the world safer to watch in person. There is still time. Do it now or regret it later.

The coalition of the willing has the capacity; USA is spectacularly failing Ukraine so Europe needs to step up now more than ever. Russia is giving Kyiv a pounding every night and must be stopped! #slavaukraini 🇺🇦 💙💛

RIP Hugo. Hit by a car yesterday. Beyond devastated. The most lovely natured and affectionate wee man. I’m going to miss him so so much but so glad he was mine for the last couple of years. 🐈‍⬛ 💔

Heartbreaking 💔

John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

My driver, Mohammed, quickly grew animated: "How can the worst person in the world be given the greatest country in the world to lead?" he remarked. "It's disgusting." It really is, Mohammed. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/when-the-w...

So sad to hear about the death of Mike Peters, front man of the Alarm. He was so lovely. I met him a couple of times. Taken too soon but at least his pain is now over. RIP.

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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

More compelling in a Belfast accent Mr Trump - Vlads STAPPPIT!

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan demanded "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" On April 24, 2025, Donald Trump whined "Vladimir, stooooooop!" Has the United States ever looked weaker?

The people on the other platform saying if you can’t afford kids don’t have them (re breakfast clubs) are, I’m convinced, the same people who complain about VAT on school fees and who NEVER say, if you can’t afford private schools don’t send your kids there. 🤷‍♀️

Meanwhile in the other place: 1. How’d he know they were immigrants? 2. Warm enough to sit round a pool in April in England bit not warm enough to turn heating off? 3. I’ve never actually seen anyone sit round a pool on loungers in UK hotels in April 4. How can you see them when walking past?

I’m going to be posting #beautifulplacesIvebeento regularly just to focus on the joy. First, to start local, Tollymore Forest Park, Co Down. They won’t all include me or OH in the pic!!

Whoop whoop @mrjamesob.bsky.social 🇬🇧 you get the biggest laugh! 🤩

BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who agrees that trump's buffoonish, strategy-free trade wars have turned America into a pariah, destroying tourism and has made us a complete laughingstock shithole. In less than 90 days.