Mary McAteer
marymcateer.bsky.social
Mary McAteer
@marymcateer.bsky.social
Interested in: Action/Practitioner research, Irish Hospice Foundation, Cats, Birdwatching, Music, Culture etc etc
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I like to follow back if possible - it's good to connect. I like your profile to tell me something about you.
But, I will instantly unfollow anyone sending unwanted (and sleazy/intrusive) DMs. Sorry to have to make that point; I didn't expect to need to do that here.
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So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.

Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Trump is attacking the U.S.’s closest ally and trade partner, Canada, with illegal tariffs that are badly hurting Canadian businesses & U.S. citizens alike. Canada has been respectful & diplomatic (which Trump doesn’t deserve) but his attacks have only gotten worse.

And he’s mad about COMMERCIALS?
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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NEARIMeet 23 October at 18.00 online on "Teachers as Researchers".
Guest speaker: Prof Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Book your place at www.eventbrite.ie/e/1419147150...
Details at www.eari.ie/2025/09/30/a...
@mairinglenn.bsky.social @marygtroche.bsky.social @marymcateer.bsky.social #research_in_practice
October 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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💰💰💰 Trump would hate if you reposted that Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings bonanza continues!!!
Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings bonanza continues | CNN Business
Newfound enthusiasm about the ABC late-night show host is not evaporating after just one monologue.
www.cnn.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.
Journalists have been detained and a van showing images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been confiscated in Windsor. This follows a separate incident in which four people were arrested for projecting images onto Windsor Castle.
Journalists detained as ad van with image of Trump and Epstein seized
AN advertising van displaying an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together has been confiscated by police, according to campaigners ...
www.thenational.scot
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The "I'm not a racist, but..." brigade
This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise
September 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there.

This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
September 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested.

Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.

The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.
September 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Most other politicians aren't resigning because they failed to consult the right tax lawyer
September 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference.

Has never happened before under any previous leader

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
bylinetimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Hugh Bonneville, "Before I talk about the fluff and wonderfulness of our lovely film"

"What's about to happen in Gaza city is indefensible. The international community must to more to bring it to an end"

ITV News presenter, "Of course it's not about the politics, it's all about the film"
September 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."
September 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Blistering.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Fully agree. Bragg is such an inspiration for any of us doing radio to make sure you never talk down to your audience but to treat them as people just as fascinated by facts, arguments, stories, and data as you are.
Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this.

I hope it endures.
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I’ve often wondered why Nigel Farage, who as godfather of the Brexit fiasco engineered the biggest British foreign policy disaster since Suez is continually offered so much space in some newspapers and broadcast media. Serious question. Thoughts welcome.
August 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.

If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.

That's sensible, proportionate policing.
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This was ordered by the man who was given a red carpet reception and a round of applause in USA last week, by Trump
The horrifying moment of Russia's targeted attack on a residential building in Kostiantynivka.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Release The Epstein Files
August 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Trump is hosting the war criminal on American soil, whilst banning the victim of the war criminal from the “talks”
JUST IN: Vladimir Putin has landed in the United States
August 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A dictator and an aspiring dictator meet to decide the fate of a democracy.
August 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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If you'd rather we banned supplying Israel with weapons instead of banning Palestine Action.

Spread the message, and prove we do.
August 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline.

The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that:

A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close

B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up.

But that's far too nuanced.
August 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM