Brendan McNally
@brendanmcn.bsky.social
Reading, Math, Languages, Poems, Philosophy.
Justice for my sister, Natalie.
Justice for my sister, Natalie.
Pinned
Brendan McNally
@brendanmcn.bsky.social
· Apr 25
“Statt deine Welt zu verengern, deine Seele zu vereinfachen, wirst du immer mehr Welt, wirst schließlich die ganze Welt in deine schmerzlich erweiterte Seele aufnehmen müssen, um vielleicht einmal zum Ende, zur Ruhe zu kommen.”- Herman Hesse, der Steppenwolf.
So where am I supposed to start with Joyce Carol Oates?
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So where am I supposed to start with Joyce Carol Oates?
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
When the media and politicians give the credence of legitimacy to the bad faith and irrational ‘concerns’ of racists, the symbolic range of their hatred is allowed to grow, smuggling in bigotry under the more popular and common sense messaging now available to them.
Nothing ryhmes with feminism quite like fascism
Pink Ladies of Ulster yelling outside City Hall
(08/11/25)
Pink Ladies of Ulster yelling outside City Hall
(08/11/25)
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
When the media and politicians give the credence of legitimacy to the bad faith and irrational ‘concerns’ of racists, the symbolic range of their hatred is allowed to grow, smuggling in bigotry under the more popular and common sense messaging now available to them.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
At £80,000 a year, I think Northern Ireland maybe should have tried the freemium version first. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Irish and Ulster Scots approaches 'don't need to be carbon copies'
Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor Lee Reynolds is the commissioner for the Ulster Scots and Ulster British tradition.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
At £80,000 a year, I think Northern Ireland maybe should have tried the freemium version first. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Whole of Ireland goes ”what do you mean a relative like that isn’t his aunt, of course it’s his aunt”
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Whole of Ireland goes ”what do you mean a relative like that isn’t his aunt, of course it’s his aunt”
The will to love, as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, may also be the will to death.
A vicarious fantasy of a nostalgic British patriotism in the callous English Nationalism that has always betrayed here, filling the absence where there should be an ambition to make the place ‘work’.
A vicarious fantasy of a nostalgic British patriotism in the callous English Nationalism that has always betrayed here, filling the absence where there should be an ambition to make the place ‘work’.
A fifth of DUP and more than a quarter of TUV supporters say they definitely will vote for Reform UK if it runs candidates in the next Assembly election.
Half of unionists would vote for Reform UK or think about it if party ran candidates in NI
A fifth of DUP and more than a quarter of TUV supporters say they definitely will vote for Reform UK if it runs candidates in the next Assembly election.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The will to love, as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, may also be the will to death.
A vicarious fantasy of a nostalgic British patriotism in the callous English Nationalism that has always betrayed here, filling the absence where there should be an ambition to make the place ‘work’.
A vicarious fantasy of a nostalgic British patriotism in the callous English Nationalism that has always betrayed here, filling the absence where there should be an ambition to make the place ‘work’.
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Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
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No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
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Gardaí investigating the murder of Paul Quinn have appealed for information on the 18th anniversary of his death.
Appeal on 18th anniversary of Paul Quinn's murder
Gardaí investigating the murder of Paul Quinn have appealed for information on the 18th anniversary of his death.
www.rte.ie
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Gardaí investigating the murder of Paul Quinn have appealed for information on the 18th anniversary of his death.
It’s Friday night and I’ve started Silksong!
October 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s Friday night and I’ve started Silksong!
What this Labour government has in common with the mind of the most obsessive anti-Semite is the immediate, urgent equation with the bad behaviour of any Israeli institution with all Jews.
'Wrong' to block Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match, says PM www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Wrong' to block Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match, says PM www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wrong to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match, says PM
Followers of the Israeli club will not be allowed to attend the Europa League game over safety concerns.
www.bbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What this Labour government has in common with the mind of the most obsessive anti-Semite is the immediate, urgent equation with the bad behaviour of any Israeli institution with all Jews.
'Wrong' to block Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match, says PM www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Wrong' to block Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match, says PM www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Injured woman taken to hospital after racist attack www.bbc.com/news/article...
South Belfast: Woman injured in racist attack
The victim in her 20s was treated in hospital and police say they are treating it as a hate crime.
www.bbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Injured woman taken to hospital after racist attack www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yep, exactly like Lurgan today.
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Yep, exactly like Lurgan today.
“They swagger and strut, like children imitating the fabled omnipotence of adults, soliciting, and seemingly revelling in, global disgust.
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
The Atrocity Exhibition: On Perpetrators - Salvage
The automation of death has been a goal of the US military since 2004. The aim has been to progress from ‘man-in-the-loop’ technology, where a human decides what the technology does, to ‘man-on-the-lo...
salvage.zone
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“They swagger and strut, like children imitating the fabled omnipotence of adults, soliciting, and seemingly revelling in, global disgust.
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social
salvage.zone/the-atrocity...
Nabokov’s Lolita is intensely psychoanalytical, despite the in and out of fiction denunciations.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Nabokov’s Lolita is intensely psychoanalytical, despite the in and out of fiction denunciations.
Nothing to do with us, say the people who irrationally created a monster, in full awareness of the presence of illegal groups that take it as their violent raison detre to fight monsters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Irish language: Street sign rhetoric 'emboldens' vandals
An Irish language campaigner condemns the use of an angle grinder to damage a bilingual street sign.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Nothing to do with us, say the people who irrationally created a monster, in full awareness of the presence of illegal groups that take it as their violent raison detre to fight monsters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Neoliberalism - the form of organised corruption of the last 5 decades - is an irresponsible failure, and naturally there’s no returning to the beige pieties of the manager class when the only thing else allowed on offer is the colourful “feel something again” drivel of the demagogues.
France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall
France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall
The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Neoliberalism - the form of organised corruption of the last 5 decades - is an irresponsible failure, and naturally there’s no returning to the beige pieties of the manager class when the only thing else allowed on offer is the colourful “feel something again” drivel of the demagogues.
Somehow, what is needed to fundamentally change the situation, is that the genocide sponsoring West need to recognise the threat to extremist Islam to peace. Need to figure out what is going on, in the words of erm, the leader of that genocide sponsoring West.
www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion...
Liam Kennedy: Two years after October 7, the threat to peace comes from Islamists, not just from Israeli warplanes
One of the very useful sayings in the Irish language is a bheith idir dhá intinn (the state of being between two minds).
www.newsletter.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Somehow, what is needed to fundamentally change the situation, is that the genocide sponsoring West need to recognise the threat to extremist Islam to peace. Need to figure out what is going on, in the words of erm, the leader of that genocide sponsoring West.
www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion...
www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion...
This. Inequality is a crime against humanity.
October 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This. Inequality is a crime against humanity.
The Italian workers movement. Wow 😮
October 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The Italian workers movement. Wow 😮
