Farewell 2025: Je ne regrette rien!

Waiting for friends to arrive & blasting the song that best captures my energy exiting 2025: Edith Piaf, "Non, je ne regrette rien"! 

When actions align with values, we're at our best. There's no dissonance, dissociation or denial, which cause mental & physical self harm & harm to others. There's solace, joy & empowerment to be found in doing the right thing: By yourself, loved ones & our communities. The best gift you can give yourself & loved ones in 2026 is a commitment to prevent harm to self & others. Mask up when sharing indoor air, get HEPAs for your home/workplace, stay home when sick, vaccinate & test. Adapt to the mass, forced infections landscape to survive. Worth noting that, if you're prepared to keep getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly, you're prepared to infect others - repeatedly. Some of whom may become disabled &/or die. That's a scientific fact (see my articles documenting said science & previous posts). Does that align with your values? A question to ask yourself on the eve of 2026💝🙏

Not a fan of "gurus" but I like this quote: “It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” (Krisnamurti).

Ceol agus craic! 🎸

Indoor unmasked shindig made possible thanks to this game changing piece of tech. Mask off when each person tests covid negative. We had 3 Pluslife docks between 8 people (cherished friends) which accelerated the process. The Pluslife mini dock has been shown to be 99% accurate. See scientific lit👇

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11183097/

https://altruan.uk/products/pluslife-mini-dock-poc-nat-test-device-pack-1-device?pr_prod_strat=jac&pr_rec_id=d7bbed219&pr_rec_pid=8586250977604&pr_ref_pid=8586250879300&pr_seq=uniform

We also cracked the velux windows open: Not wide enough to feel chilly but enough to keep the air circulating. Easy peasy.

https://altruan.uk/products/pluslife-sars-cov-2-pcr-test-kits-10-tests-pack-10-tests?pr_prod_strat=jac&pr_rec_id=6ec332118&pr_rec_pid=8586250879300&pr_ref_pid=8586250977604&pr_seq=uniform

Forest walk & splashing about in the river🌳

Playing this for Jon Stewart & the other anti-mask lefties punching down on maskers, pretending it's 2019 & we're not still in an ongoing SARS-C-V-2 airborne,  vascular, organ damaging, mass disabling pandemic (see previous post). Cop yourselves on 😬

A beautiful disco vibe gift

Nature's joy

My special tree, tonight 🪄

Nollaig Shona Daoibh! Saoirse don Phalaistín & Sudan agus síocháin don domhan

Peace, joy, anger, grief: Making room for all the feelings showing up today.  Thinking of my worldwide friends, those who don't have food, or water or peace💔...& lighting a candle for loved ones gone but not forgotten🕯 

Centre piece of every Christmas since my childhood. The crib my Dad made from foraged wood. Same figurines & some of the original straw. If the house was burning down & I could only take one object, it'd be this💖🎄

 

To fellow woke zealots still basing personal & community safety decisions on scientific literature, as opposed to billionaire lackey politicians & press:  I applaud you💝👏💪. Takes courage, strength, integrity & titanium grade tenacity to refuse to cower in the face of relentless political violence & harm. 

For anyone here who hasn't been keeping up to date, read the study below (there are so many more where that came from). It's never too late to start masking & cleaning indoor air. Every SARS2 infection is worth preventing - if you value your brain & every other organ. If, however, you're someone who doesn't need a functioning brain for your job/life & you're not afraid of a bit of early onset dementia, the odd heart attack & bouts of neuropsychiatric disorders, scroll on down to the nice sunset pics👍

This study was published yesterday,  Christmas Eve. All of the studies below & the circa 500,000 other studies showing the harm SARS-CoV-2 does are published in reputable scientific journals.  The questions we should all be asking ourselves are: Why are governments pretending these studies don't exist? Why are public health officials not informing the public of the known harms from repeated SARS2 infections(including immune damage) & advising on proven effective prevention against an airborne pathogen (ffp2/3, N95 respirator masks, HEPAs, ventilation, testing, staying home when sick, vaccination/boosters) & why are health correspondents (or anyone in the media) not reporting on these studies? 👇 

COVID-19 associated neurological and psychological manifestations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-025-00680-9

SARS-CoV-2 & the brain: Significant drops in IQ scores even after "mild" COVID infection, equivalent to 7 years of brain aging👇

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/

SARS2 infection increases risk of neuropsychiatric disorders👇

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00260-7/fulltext

Even "mild" SARS2 infection increases risk of stroke & heart attack - from weeks to years post infection👇

https://www.hriuk.org/health/your-health/lifestyle/even-mild-covid-raises-the-chance-of-heart-attack-and-stroke-what-to-know-about-the-risks-ahead

SARS2 infection increases risk of developing new onset dementia👇

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40037563/

BMJ: Scientists admit immunity debt was codswallop. Evidence shows SARS2 causes immune dysregulation & damage👇 

"Jeimy thinks that people who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean. “Nobody wants to be the one that says, ‘Yes, covid-19 causes disability’ [beyond long covid],” she says, alluding to the health and economic implications of such a conclusion".

"A 2025 study published in the Lancet11 tracked more than 830 000 US veterans and found that even non-admitted patients who tested positive for covid-19 had higher rates of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in the year that followed. It also found that patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 were more likely to develop sepsis than those admitted with influenza.

A Cell study12 of people with “long” covid suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection can reprogram bone marrow stem cells, imprinting epigenetic changes that persist for at least a year, skewing some immune cells towards a state of hypersensitivity and inflammation. The findings signal a possible novel mechanism for longer term immune changes not strictly limited to populations with long covid.

Finally, a 2024 study13 of long covid by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found viral RNA in gut tissue two years after infection. Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, the team found that T cell activity was clustered in places where SARS-CoV-2 RNA—a likely marker of viral persistence—was also present."

https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1733

PS: Covid is way more deadly than flu👇

Christmas day walk. Nature & family = my healing balm💖🌳🌲🐑

December sun = morning croissant & Coffee in the semi outdoors = joy

TOMORROW: Protest @ Central Bank - Stop Funding Genocide

 A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place at the Central Bank of Ireland on North Wall Quay, tomorrow, Tuesday 9^th December, from 12.30pm to 2pm. 

Speakers at the CBI: Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Sen Alice-Mary Higggins, Ghada Ashour, genocide survivor from Gaza, Katie Martin, AFRI, Raymond Deane, Co-founder IPSC, Duncan Smith TD, Betty Purcell IPSC

Why? Faced with massive opposition to its complicity in genocide, the CBI, on the request of Israel, transferred the Israel Bond prospectus to CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur  Financier) in Luxembourg at some time prior to 1 September. This transfer, made at the “sole and absolute discretion” of the CBI, off-shored approval... but not complicity. Ireland remains the “home member state” for the bonds with CSSF acting as a “competent authority” of Ireland for this year.

In Dublin and Luxembourg , on UN Day of Genocide Remembrance and Prevention, protests will be held at the CBI and the CSSF, joint facilitators of the sale of Israeli genocide-funding bonds, to demand end to complicity in genocide, apartheid, and occupation by these financial institutions. We call on the CBI and CSSF to end their complicity in genocide, to stop violating international law and to immediately end Israel’s impunity and ability to sell its bonds in the EU.

IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said: “The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign condemns the duplicitous treacherous attempt by the Central Bank of Ireland to continue to enable Israel to fundraise for genocide, apartheid, and occupation in Europe by transferring them to the CSSF in Luxembourg. We applaud the solidarity movement in Luxembourg for their strong and immediate opposition to the CSSF’s approval of the bonds. We stand, in Ireland and in Luxembourg, united in total opposition to complicity in genocide.

As Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, has said: Palestinians are not begging for charity, but seeking meaningful effective solidarity. Above all Palestinians are demanding an end to complicity – they are demanding that we do no harm. There is no more egregious harm than aiding the funding of genocide. The CBI and the CSSF must stop facilitating the sale of apartheid Israel’s bonds.

Jill Manchester, Comite Paix Juste Board Member said: “On Genocide Remembrance Day, we as civil society in Luxembourg and in Ireland, protest our states’ failure to lvie up to their moral and legal duty to take all necessary measures to prevent genocide. Instead, our states and their financial bodies, the CSSF and the CBI, continue to fuel continued Israeli impunity. In Luxembourg and in Ireland, we are demanding an end to complicity in the funding of genocide, apartheid, and occupation.”

Duncan Smith TD, Labour Party said: “The Occupying Power (Securities and Handling of Settlement Goods) Bill 2025 is fundamentally about protecting workers who do not want to handle goods from the Occupied Territories. This country has a proud tradition of standing up to injustice and I want to ensure that those workers are protected”.

The bill, which is currently before Dail Eireann second stage, provides that the Central Bank shall not approve a prospectus for securities issued by or on behalf of a state that is an occupying power.

TODAY: There is NO Ceasefire. National March for Palestine in Dublin

 TODAY, Saturday 29th November the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 170 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and call for an Irish government action to end Apartheid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has seen more than slaughtered at least 70,000 Palestinians.

It will be the eighteenth such national mobilisation since October 2023 - all of which have seen tens of thousands flood Dublin's streets in opposition to Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

Protestors will assemble at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and will march from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil.  There will be a disability access point outside the back gate of Trinity, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green.

Speakers at the rally will include genocide survivor Miral Khaled Qudaih, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, actor and activist Liam Cunningham, IPSC Vice-Chair Fatin Al-Tamimi, and Noreldaim Ahmedkagho of the Ireland Sudan Solidarity Collective. There will be a poetry reading from genocide survivor Nour Hania, and performances from Aoife Scott & Andy Meaney. 

Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Amnesty this week stated that 'Israel’s genocide is not over', and the Max Planck Institute has found that the violent death toll in Gaza in likely more than 100,000. All while Israeli Ministers cheer on the execution of unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank. This is why we stay on the streets and demand action from our government.

"Due to the global pressure of the mass movement for Palestine, which has seen some states begin to impose sanctions, limited as they are, the US was forced to pressure Israel into stopping, at least temporarily, its campaign of hourly mass killing. However the so-called 'ceasefire' is a fiction, and Israel has violated it at least 400 times since October 10, killing more than 300 people and injuring 700 more. Aid is still highly restricted and controlled by Israel, Gaza remains in ruins, and winter is closing in. Meanwhile Israel is busy bombing Lebanon again, while the UNSC just voted to approve the colonial Trump-Netanyahu plan for international troops to oversee the illegal occupation and continued 'slow genocide' in Gaza.

"The collective pressure from the global Palestine movement has brought us this far - and now is not the time to rest, it's the time to increase the pressure. It's imperative that we hit the streets in large numbers once again to keep piling the pressure on the Irish government which is still refusing to do even the bare minimum and pass the Occupied Territories Bill. We've seen victories thanks to our collective movement in Ireland - but we demand so, so, much more!

"We need to bring people’s rage to the government’s doorstep – no more pathetic excuses, no more hiding behind legalese, no more empty words: we want sanctions on Israel now!"

TODAY: Dáil Protest to call on Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill

TODAY Wednesday 19th November will see a protest organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign outside the Dáil ahead of a vote on a joint left opposition motion calling on the Irish government to pass the Occupied Territories Bill, including a ban on trade with both goods and services. The protest will take place at 5.30pm on Molesworth Street.

The motion calls on the government “as a matter of the utmost urgency” to “bring the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill, amended to include services, before the Dáil, and do everything necessary to ensure the Bill can be enacted before the end of this year”.  Speakers at the rally will include Sinn Féin Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, PBP TD Richard Boyd Barrett, and Independent Senators Alice Mary Higgins and Frances Black. 

IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor said: "This government promised to pass the OTB after the election… then it was kicked to a Committee for review. The Committee fully endorsed it… but the government did nothing. Then they promised it after the Summer recess… and still nothing. Now, as we approach the Dáil’s Christmas break there is still silence. 

"This Bill is a ‘bare minimum’ action that Ireland should have taken a long time ago – it is astounding to think that it remains stalled. We urge all TDs to support the motion: the government must stop stalling and pass the full Bill, as recommended by the Joint Committee, many of the world’s foremost legal experts, and the vast, vast majority of Irish voters!"

HIV experts "pivot" to finding treatments for Long-Covid. SARS2 is not mild, "just a cold" or over. Mask up, clean indoor air

Trigger warning: The truth about the harms caused by forced mass infection with SARS-CoV-2, a level 3 biohazard, is starting to surface. Reality & denial are on collision course. Buckle up. 

Better still:

• Wear an ffp2/3/N95 respirator mask when sharing indoor air 
• Ventilate/filtrate indoor air

HIV experts in the vid below👇

 "Sars-Cov-2 can persist for long periods of time throughout the body in tissues, gut, bone marrow, brain"

"We found profound changes & inflammation in tissues"

"Residual T-cell activation across much of the body following SARS-Cov-2 infection"

It [SARS2] causes chronic inflammation which makes the immune system not work well"

"We're targeting the exact same pathways in long-covid as we did in HIV"

"We need to move beyond single therapy treatments for long-Covid". Me: Any treatment at all would be welcome. Antivirals are largely unavailable in Ireland & the UK.

Boo! Old habits die hard: Sister Conceptic, Gobnit, Attracta from the sisters of (no) mercy scaring the bejesus out of local kids again this Halloween

God love her. Sister Conceptic, Gobnit, Attracta, scaring the bejesus out of kids with her habit & pumpkin earrings again this Halloween. Handing out penance & prayer, instead of Tayto & toffee, concomitantly spraying passing kids in holy water whilst singing hail Mary to the sound track of "Sisters are do'in it for themselves". "Can you sing far away, the children chanted, "The farther away the better"!

Dead Ned with the plastic head made his annual appearance!💀

Halloween hijinx & chicanery

Horrendously horrible cakes👇🥮

Autumnal hikes👇🍂