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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Between social media and the 24-hour news cycle, we are bombarded with more disturbing information than we can possibly process. From stories that are framed in biased, bigoted, and plainly false terms to straight-up fantasy slop, our source material for pattern recognition sucks.
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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dublininquirer.com
If you're looking for a gift, what about a Dublin Inquirer subscription? For the curious, the involved, the engaged, the newcomer, the old-timer – for anyone you think would want to read about the city.
Gift a journalism subscription this Christmas
For the curious, the involved, the engaged, the newcomer, the old-timer – for anyone you think would want to read about the city.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4d
Tomorrow's front page 📰

'The UK is letting these people die'
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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brendanjharkin.bsky.social
Cause they know over the next generations there will be a true "mass migration" of humans trying to escape the effects of climate collapse and capitalist resource wars and want to normalise dishing out utter brutality against those people now instead of actually fixing anything.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d
Why is the UK leading the charge to curb asylum rights under the ECHR? https://aje.io/sjev5z
Why is the UK leading the charge to curb asylum rights under the ECHR?
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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donnchalaw.bsky.social
Shame on Ireland for joining with other states seeking to diminish ECHR rights such the prohibition on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment at the same time that it seeks to be elected to the UN Human Rights Council

www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Ireland signs statement for ECHR to address migration
A joint statement signed by Ireland and more than 20 other European nations has called for adjustments to the European Convention on Human Rights to better address the challenges of migration.
www.rte.ie
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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lauraewebster.bsky.social
Five of the hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action are now in hospital, it emerged tonight

www.thenational.scot/news/2568867...
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
they've decided that stopping climate disaster isn't possible so they're jus no longer gonna report on it.

it's basically how they 'dealt' with covid. just stop talking about it. pretend it doesn't exist.
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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ramiismail.com
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social
Gaza Municipality faces a critical waste crisis as fuel shortages force suspension of garbage collection.
Over 350,000 m³ of waste now clogs streets and temporary dumps, with landfill access blocked.
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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bendowsett.bsky.social
It feels like every day humanity hits a new, rotten low.
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 10d
Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award

Also Boomers:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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opheliapg.bsky.social
Related: Polish lawmakers call for #Eurovision boycott over Israel's participation

'If we do not want to have blood on our hands, we should also withdraw from this charade,' lawmaker Robert Biedron says

#BoycottEurovision #BDS www.aa.com.tr/en/world/pol...
Polish lawmakers call for Eurovision boycott over Israel's participation
'If we do not want to have blood on our hands, we should also withdraw from this charade,' lawmaker Robert Biedron says - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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oceanclub.bsky.social
Currently walking 40 mins across as Dublin as traffic is at a standstill and it's quicker. It's not even rush hour or a weekend.
pidgeon.ie Michael Pidgeon @pidgeon.ie · 11d
Traffic in Dublin has gotten crazy the past few weeks. But the new government is taking money away from public transport projects that could deal with it.

We could have had a new DART station and improved lines at Heuston and Kylemore Road in Ballyfermot. But no. Roads instead.
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
Who convinced young men that 80's mullets and mustaches were cool? I want to meet this magician and recruit them to actual important causes.
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
People need to understand that the neoreactionary movement is one thing with different faces it presents to the public, as demonstrated in the recent BBC shenanigans: the gender crackpots, domestic fascists and genocide enthusiasts are all on the same page with the international fascists.
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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cosaingalway.bsky.social
Patrick O'Donovan TD being utterly obnoxious on David McCullagh's @rteradio1.bsky.social Today programme just now.

It's perfectly clear why Judicial Reviews are being targeted in various media reports recently.

A major FF/FG campaign is under way, with the aim of ramming through numerous projects.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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feljin.ie
TII says there's nothing it can do to fix the traffic on the M50.

They could try building Metro West.
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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daithig.bsky.social
A few days ago an Irish Times political correspondent was delighted that Jim O'Callaghan was making "enemies" with his immigration policies. But they'll never own what their rhetoric does.
thejournal.ie The Journal @thejournal.ie · 13d
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.

The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.

www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village
One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
December 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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oceanclub.bsky.social
Strange: we're told Ireland is Full and also that remote working is bad and should be halted.
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
The thing is: “remigration” is already happening. Far from the comments sections underneath pieces of writing like these, where people exchange anguished or angry words about the future of Germany and the country’s soul, people are already leaving. Foreigners out, cry the protesters, and in some sense they are getting their wish. Every few weeks, I go to check in on a friend or acquaintance and find that they are either in the process of packing their bags or they are gone, gone, gone. In general the white ones are staying in Europe and the non-white ones are putting an entire ocean between themselves and here. Germany’s problem isn’t the loud migrants like me. It’s the ones who right now are leaving silently, never to return.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
They will never stop
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14d
BREAKING: Israeli forces have stormed the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, report our colleagues on the ground.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oapeu6
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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suekirk.bsky.social
Today, I saw a driver overtake a stopped bus and plough through a pedestrian crossing. He beeped three times as he sped though. The beeping was to warn people because, as he had overtaken a bus, he had zero visibility of who was about to step out onto the crossing.

But sure, more hi-vis, everyone
garda.ie An Garda Síochána @garda.ie · 17d
👀 Can you see me now?

The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.

#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM