Cathal
@cathalpaint.bsky.social
Artist, member of KIAC, Artcan. Hairy, northern Irish, loves hugs, shit puns, donkeys and ducks. Currently searching for good local friends, and community. Posts about things and art 🎨
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Cathal
@cathalpaint.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Should probably introduce myself. I'm an Northen Irish artist based in Sheffield. My art is usually focused on language; the act of translation from one form to another. I do this with visually interesting cyphers. I paint in oils. Listen to a range of sounds. Generally like people. Say hello.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Well that was quite the trip
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Well that was quite the trip
Things aren't cooking in my head. Things are bad. Was referred to crisis team but I'm not (despite my mh history) sad enough it seems. Last time it took a failed attempt to be classed as sad enough.
Told to do all the things that I know don't help
I have decided that will just stop being sad. Ffs
Told to do all the things that I know don't help
I have decided that will just stop being sad. Ffs
January 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Things aren't cooking in my head. Things are bad. Was referred to crisis team but I'm not (despite my mh history) sad enough it seems. Last time it took a failed attempt to be classed as sad enough.
Told to do all the things that I know don't help
I have decided that will just stop being sad. Ffs
Told to do all the things that I know don't help
I have decided that will just stop being sad. Ffs
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I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger
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Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
“Why can’t we have any regulations for US tech in Britain?”
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
Do Minecraft villagers dream of Minecraft sheep?
January 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Do Minecraft villagers dream of Minecraft sheep?
Blocks unnumbered
A4 pen on isometric graph paper.
These are not planned, just doodles. Doodles that are becoming a mindful practice. Breath work and number focus. I should look in to the traditions of meditative art creation.
#blocks dividual and individual in harmony.
#klee #doodle #sketchbook
A4 pen on isometric graph paper.
These are not planned, just doodles. Doodles that are becoming a mindful practice. Breath work and number focus. I should look in to the traditions of meditative art creation.
#blocks dividual and individual in harmony.
#klee #doodle #sketchbook
January 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Blocks unnumbered
A4 pen on isometric graph paper.
These are not planned, just doodles. Doodles that are becoming a mindful practice. Breath work and number focus. I should look in to the traditions of meditative art creation.
#blocks dividual and individual in harmony.
#klee #doodle #sketchbook
A4 pen on isometric graph paper.
These are not planned, just doodles. Doodles that are becoming a mindful practice. Breath work and number focus. I should look in to the traditions of meditative art creation.
#blocks dividual and individual in harmony.
#klee #doodle #sketchbook
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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"Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza"
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage, asks Diana Buttu for Zeteo?
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage, asks Diana Buttu for Zeteo?
Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage?
zeteo.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza"
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage, asks Diana Buttu for Zeteo?
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage, asks Diana Buttu for Zeteo?
This years blessing
"May your laundry pile be forever small"
"May your laundry pile be forever small"
January 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This years blessing
"May your laundry pile be forever small"
"May your laundry pile be forever small"
More doodles. These are isometric and hexglyph ideas.
Ask if you're curious. Don't if you're not or if you are a cloud of metal shards from a future as yet unrelated.
Tired crashing hard.
Ask if you're curious. Don't if you're not or if you are a cloud of metal shards from a future as yet unrelated.
Tired crashing hard.
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
More doodles. These are isometric and hexglyph ideas.
Ask if you're curious. Don't if you're not or if you are a cloud of metal shards from a future as yet unrelated.
Tired crashing hard.
Ask if you're curious. Don't if you're not or if you are a cloud of metal shards from a future as yet unrelated.
Tired crashing hard.
Only one resolution from me. Just to aim to try my best to be better than the day before, in whatever im doing.
Today I'm excelling in being very very tired.
I did doodle over the jingly season.
Today I'm excelling in being very very tired.
I did doodle over the jingly season.
January 4, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Only one resolution from me. Just to aim to try my best to be better than the day before, in whatever im doing.
Today I'm excelling in being very very tired.
I did doodle over the jingly season.
Today I'm excelling in being very very tired.
I did doodle over the jingly season.
Not true my word of the year comes from Toto of Formula 1
"Determinated"
This year I shall be
determinated
#determinated
"Determinated"
This year I shall be
determinated
#determinated
January 2, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Not true my word of the year comes from Toto of Formula 1
"Determinated"
This year I shall be
determinated
#determinated
"Determinated"
This year I shall be
determinated
#determinated
@purebob.bsky.social why thank you 😊
I hope the 26v0.1 brings you more positives than not.
You seem like a good egg of a person. Anyone who likes donkeys usually is.
Except for the shadowlurker they might like donkeys but they're a right bastard. Not as bad as avocado Kevin, but he hates donkeys.
I hope the 26v0.1 brings you more positives than not.
You seem like a good egg of a person. Anyone who likes donkeys usually is.
Except for the shadowlurker they might like donkeys but they're a right bastard. Not as bad as avocado Kevin, but he hates donkeys.
January 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
@purebob.bsky.social why thank you 😊
I hope the 26v0.1 brings you more positives than not.
You seem like a good egg of a person. Anyone who likes donkeys usually is.
Except for the shadowlurker they might like donkeys but they're a right bastard. Not as bad as avocado Kevin, but he hates donkeys.
I hope the 26v0.1 brings you more positives than not.
You seem like a good egg of a person. Anyone who likes donkeys usually is.
Except for the shadowlurker they might like donkeys but they're a right bastard. Not as bad as avocado Kevin, but he hates donkeys.
December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
More than once it has been said to me
"You're weird. In the nicest possible way. "
"You're weird. In the nicest possible way. "
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
More than once it has been said to me
"You're weird. In the nicest possible way. "
"You're weird. In the nicest possible way. "
@glytxh.bsky.social hope jinglefest season has been kind
December 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@glytxh.bsky.social hope jinglefest season has been kind
@inkysheets.bsky.social hope you had a good jinglefest season
December 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@inkysheets.bsky.social hope you had a good jinglefest season