Rory Flynn

@roryflynn.ie

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Bits and bobs at Amnesty's Security Lab, opinions my own Also available at https://mastodon.ie/@roolyaboolya 📷: Omar Havana

Xkcd dependency meme - leaning tower of fascism held up by centrist liberals
Revolving door
From Protest to Peril Cellebrite Used Against lordanian Civil Society
Wusstest du, dass zwei drittel das zusammenleben mit Muslimen als schwierig finden?
Senior gardaí express annoyance over Defence Forces' response to rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit Questions asked within force over why the Defence Forces did not fire on the drones or fire warning shots
Irish Independent Gaelic Football Martin Breheny: GAA should steer clear of pointless emptygesture politics and keep Allianz as one of its main sponsors
[..] Yitzhak Herzog traf. Ziel war, Unterstützung für Israels Teilnahme am Song Contest zu sichern. Foto: ORF-Chef Roland Weißmann war zu Gast bei Israels Staatspräsident Yitzhak Herzog. EN: [..] met with Yitzhak Herzog. The aim was to secure support for Israel's participation in the song contest. Photo: ORF Director General Roland Weißmann was a guest of Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog.
Florian Klenk, Posting auf Bluesky: Kleinkind verschleiert. Ein Foto auf der offiziellen Instagram-Seite der Islamischen Glaubensgemeinde. Dort sieht man auch in anderen Postings kaum noch Frauen ohne Schleier. Warum will die IGGIÖ Frauen ohne Kopftuch unsichtbar machen?
I am very pleased to be awarded the Arik Brauer Journalism Prize 2025 together with Karoline Preisler @ PreislerKa and Karl-Markus Gauß. The Arik Brauer Journalism Prize is awarded every year by the think tank MENA-Watch "for well- founded contributions to public debate that consider the Middle East from a fair and reality- based perspective." Since I approach my often very challenging and complex work with exactly this aspiration every day, it is a wonderful recognition to be honored for precisely this approach. Many thanks, @MENA WATCH, for this great honor! also congratulate Karoline Preisler and Karl- Markus Gauß on their awards and look forward to a shared evening soon in Vienna.
Beate Meinl The Eurovision Song Contest is a symbol of peace, unity, and cultural exchange not an instrument for sanctions. It concerns me that some countries are now considering boycotting the 70th #ESC in Vienna due to Israel's participation. Therefore, I have written a letter to my European colleagues with the appeal to promote the important exchange through art and culture and to jointly find ways to actually improve the situation in lsrael and Gaza.
Trump
Jeremy Corbyn: These are some of the children I met in Gaza a few years ago. They liked to learn, draw & play. have been thinking of these children, clinging to the hope they are still alive. Do their dreams not matter? Don't they laugh & cry like other children? Don't they deserve to live? Daniel Kapp: Well, they most probably grew up to become formidable Hamas terrorists and rapists. You must be so proud.
On Wednesday, Trump held a White House meeting to discuss ideas for how to end the war, now approaching the two-year mark, and what comes next. Participants included Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff; former British prime minister Tony Blair, whose views on Gaza's future have been solicited by the administration; and Trump' son-in-law Jared Kushner, who handled much of the president's first-term initiatives on the Middle East and has extensive private interests in the region.
Der Spiegel article EN: Police officer allegedly punched person in the face during demonstration At Gaza protest gathering in Berlin-Mitte it came to physical blows. The police are investigating whether an officer acted "proportionately". The Irish ambassador expressed concern. DE: Polizist soll Person auf Demo ins Gesicht geschlagen haben Bei einer Gaza-Protest-Ansammlung in Berlin- Mitte kam es zu Handgreiflichkeiten. Die Polizei prüft, ob ein Beamter »verhältnismäßig« agjert habe. Die irische Botschafterin äußerte sich besorgt.
Headline: Irish protester 'repeatedly punched in the face by police' during Gaza protest in Berlin Picture: Kitty O'Brien with a bleeding nose being led away with one arm being held in a "pain grip" by two cops, who have the most sinister looking expressions and haircuts I've ever seen, I mean it, they would be a dream casting as cartoonishly villainous cops in a movie
Florian Klenk @klenkflorian Kickl will keine Ausländer, also auch keine lsraelis oder Ungarn im Schwimmbad. Nordafrikaner würden ins Schwimmbad koten, schreibt er unter Berufung auf einen Schweizer Polizisten. Mir zum Beispiel würde es schon reichen, wenn Nazis in Schwimmbädern keinen Zutritt haben. ---- Florian Klenk @klenkflorian Kickl doesn't want foreigners, which means no Israelis or Hungarians in swimming pools either. North Africans would defecate in swimming pools, he writes, citing a Swiss police officer. For me, for example, it would be enough if Nazis were not allowed in swimming pools.
United by Genocide Denial
"UN-Mitarbeiterinnen wie Francesca Albanese ruinieren die Verrinten Nationen, daran kann kein Zweifel bestehen. Sie agiert wie eine Patronin des Terrors" UN Watch @UNWatch Aug 15 Francesca Albanese: "People continue to say 'But Hamas, Hamas, Hamas.. don't think people have any idea what Hamas is. Hamas is a political force that won the 2005 elections-whether we like it or not. Hamas built schools, public facilities, hospitals. It was simply ..
UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Open Pixel 6 chassis with an expanded battery.
Beef topjoint from Austrian supermarket BILLA @ €32.85 for 1.217kg, with a 25% discount sticker attached
Freedom of Information request decision letter from Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: "The department has no records of ever providing a dedicated mobile phone to Sheryl Sandberg, a Facebook employee, or any other Facebook or Meta employee"