Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

Informatics Engineer. 🇮🇪& 🇪🇺. Social Democrat. Feminist. We’re in the digital age. 📱🇪🇺 Joined August 2011

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France Safety Travel @francesafetytra

8 hours ago

Some places in Paris make you stop the second you walk in, and Galeries Lafayette is one of them. Between the famous dome, the skyline views, and floor after floor of fashion, this is one Paris spot that always pulls people in.

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

4 hours ago

@declanganley 👍👍👍

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The Husky @Mr_Husky1

2 days ago

The bell rang on the third floor of an Amsterdam boarding house. The Jewish families hiding in the attic had thirty seconds. They crossed the floorboards, slipped behind a false wall, and disappeared just as Gestapo officers began climbing the stairs. The woman standing between them and discovery was Tina Strobos. She was twenty-two years old. A medical student. And she was helping hide more than one hundred people inside her family home. When Nazi forces occupied the Netherlands, a Jewish family friend came to the door asking for help. Tina’s mother asked whether she understood what sheltering him could mean. Tina did. “I would rather be killed than live in a Nazi society,” she answered. That decision became the beginning of a resistance operation led by three generations of women: Tina, her mother, and her grandmother. They hired a carpenter connected to the underground to build a hidden compartment behind a false wall in the attic. Tina installed an alarm system. Everyone practiced the escape drill repeatedly. If the hiding place was discovered, they would climb through a window, balance along the roof gutter, and attempt to reach the school building next door. The Gestapo searched the house eight times. Each time, Tina opened the door dressed like an ordinary student. She spoke fluent German and acted confused while officers overturned furniture and struck the walls, searching for hollow spaces. Behind the hidden panel, people waited without moving. The officers never found anyone. But Tina’s resistance work extended far beyond the attic. She traveled through Amsterdam by bicycle, sometimes covering fifty miles in a day. Beneath groceries, she carried radios, weapons, coded messages, and forged identity papers. She collected identification cards and carefully removed the photographs so they could be replaced with images of Jewish refugees. Every document created another possible escape. Tina was arrested nine times. The Gestapo threatened and beat her. She gave them nothing. No names. No addresses. No information that could endanger the people depending on her. In 1945, her former fiancé, Jewish physicist Abraham Pais, was captured. Tina went directly to Gestapo headquarters carrying a letter from renowned scientist Niels Bohr. She argued that Pais was a brilliant physicist whose life should be spared. She refused to leave quietly. Pais survived the war and later worked in the United States alongside some of the greatest scientific minds of his generation. By the end of the occupation, more than one hundred people had passed through the Strobos home. Not one was captured there. After the war, Tina completed medical school, moved to New York, and became a psychiatrist. For decades, many of her patients knew only a calm, thoughtful doctor. They had no idea that she had once stood between frightened families and the Gestapo. In 1989, Tina and her mother were honored as Righteous Among the Nations. Tina Strobos never considered herself extraordinary. She simply believed that when people were hunted, hiding them was the human thing to do. Her courage did not arrive without fear. It arrived at the front door, again and again, and opened it anyway.

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Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle

2 days ago

So do your job and clean it then instead of spending all your time trying to forcibly rename Herzog Park against the local’s wishes and the sentiments of the Irish public at large.

The Irish Times @IrishTimes

3 days ago

Dublin City Council official ‘sick of people’ saying capital ‘filthy’ irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin…

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Joe Trippi @JoeTrippi

2 days ago

Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” - AS USA en.as.com/entertainment/…

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

a day ago

@sjanemurf Shows us what he is …..

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European Democrats @democrats_eu

3 days ago

Yesterday, #Morocco’s Interior Ministry confirmed what independent analyses had already indicated: the entry of at least 50,000 people into #Ceuta was not spontaneous. It was orchestrated through an online mobilisation and disinformation campaign, largely driven from outside Morocco, with the aim of destabilising #Spain, undermining European migration policy and, ultimately, weakening Europe itself. Europe’s far right seized on the crisis. Manfred Weber and the #EPP fell into the trap, blaming Madrid’s regularisation policy while a hybrid operation was unfolding in real time. At least 72 people lost their lives on that stretch of coastline. This was an attack on Europe, designed to divide us, turn Member States against one another and weaken the Union. European Democrats will not hand those behind it that victory. Ceuta is a European border, and Europe must defend it together 🇪🇺

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

3 days ago

@JohnOBrennan2 👏👏👏👏👏

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

a week ago

Data as a Sovereign Common Good: Blueprint for a Human-centred Digital Society open.substack.com/pub/declandeas…

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

a week ago

We need a new language when talking about AI. open.substack.com/pub/declandeas…

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

a week ago

@BobbyMcDonagh1 Absolutely 💯 %

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Bobby McDonagh @BobbyMcDonagh1

a week ago

A split in world soccer (although regrettable) would be better than allowing Infantino to destroy the beautiful game

Rob Harris @RobHarris

a week ago

European nations ready to boycott the World Cup in opposition to Infantino's plan to sell off part of FIFA to private investors - with an emergency meeting of UEFA nations planned this week, Sky News has learnt news.sky.com/story/uefa-fur…

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

a week ago

@SeanKellyMEP @Examiner @MayoGAA 👏👏👏👍👍👍🍀🍀🍀

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Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire

a week ago

This legend got roasted by the French newspaper Le Monde Then instead of putting his head down as most European elites have typically done He penned a masterpiece articulating his heroic contributions to France THIS IS HOW YOU SAVE EUROPE Bravo @BernardArnault

Bernard Arnault @BernardArnault

a week ago

J’ai été très sensible aux nombreux messages que vous m’avez adressés à la suite de ma lettre ouverte au Monde. Je tenais à vous en remercier toutes et tous, directement et personnellement, ici, sur X. Merci! Bernard Arnault

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Declan Joseph Deasy @declandeasy

2 weeks ago

@FergalStanley Wow still there or passing through

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Cedars and Saints🇻🇦 @CedarsAndSaints

2 weeks ago

🤯— A miraculous blessing caught on camera! An Australian woman battling terminal cancer traveled to Lebanon 🇱🇧 seeking a blessing at St. Charbel’s shrine. A priest stopped and blessed her. Her son took a photo. Later, they asked the monastery who the priest was. They were told, “No one here looks like that.” They believed St. Charbel himself had appeared. ✝️