Brendan Minish
@bminish.bsky.social
Former CTO, Linux sysadmin, AuDHD, Amateur Radio Enthusiast, Rewilder, Drugs policy reform advocate.
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When pressed by Senator Tom Clonan on whether she would describe waiting lists for spinal surgeries as an 'emergency', Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said she is 'careful' around her use of words.
http://jrnl.ie/6831883
http://jrnl.ie/6831883
Health Minister refuses to describe spinal surgery waiting lists as an ‘emergency’
Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and HSE CEO Bernard Gloster were both before a Joint Oireachtas Committee this morning on hospital waiting lists.
jrnl.ie
October 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
When pressed by Senator Tom Clonan on whether she would describe waiting lists for spinal surgeries as an 'emergency', Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said she is 'careful' around her use of words.
http://jrnl.ie/6831883
http://jrnl.ie/6831883
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Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’
The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' Rally Was Sponsored by a Convicted Fraudster Allegedly Behind Cryptocurrency ‘Rug Pulls’
The far-right rally was bankrolled by a convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
bylinetimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’
The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
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"Candidates who previously failed vetting are strongly encouraged to apply"
I thought NOBODY failed vetting? Given the ones that were allowed in (sex pests, fraudsters & former National Front members), I'm presuming they'e encouraging actual serial killers to apply..?
I thought NOBODY failed vetting? Given the ones that were allowed in (sex pests, fraudsters & former National Front members), I'm presuming they'e encouraging actual serial killers to apply..?
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Candidates who previously failed vetting are strongly encouraged to apply"
I thought NOBODY failed vetting? Given the ones that were allowed in (sex pests, fraudsters & former National Front members), I'm presuming they'e encouraging actual serial killers to apply..?
I thought NOBODY failed vetting? Given the ones that were allowed in (sex pests, fraudsters & former National Front members), I'm presuming they'e encouraging actual serial killers to apply..?
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
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Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
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September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
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These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide.
Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.
Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide.
Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.
Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.
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Kneecap’s Mo Chara sits down for world first interview after terror charge dropped.
“Better luck next time Keir,” says the rapper - who says he’s considering legal action against the British state over damage to reputation and loss of earnings over court hearings.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
“Better luck next time Keir,” says the rapper - who says he’s considering legal action against the British state over damage to reputation and loss of earnings over court hearings.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Kneecap’s Mo Chara sits down for world first interview after terror charge dropped.
“Better luck next time Keir,” says the rapper - who says he’s considering legal action against the British state over damage to reputation and loss of earnings over court hearings.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
“Better luck next time Keir,” says the rapper - who says he’s considering legal action against the British state over damage to reputation and loss of earnings over court hearings.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
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Something tells me russia plans to strike NATO countries with drones
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Something tells me russia plans to strike NATO countries with drones
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Hexavalent chromium is one of the best-documented human carcinogens. It can cause multiple forms of cancer, and, unlike a lot of other kinds of exposures, the risk is cumulative, even for low level exposures.
Recent data has also shown unsafe amounts of hexavalent chromium is produced by wildfires.
Recent data has also shown unsafe amounts of hexavalent chromium is produced by wildfires.
Maine's largest public drinking water supplies are contaminated with hexavalent chromium, arsenic or nitrate, or all three chemicals combined. That's according to a new national study and interactive map published and by the Environmental Working Group:
Study: Maine's largest public water supplies are contaminated with hexavalent chromium
Maine's largest public drinking water supplies are contaminated with hexavalent chromium, arsenic or nitrate, or all three chemicals combined. That's according to a new national study and interactive ...
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September 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hexavalent chromium is one of the best-documented human carcinogens. It can cause multiple forms of cancer, and, unlike a lot of other kinds of exposures, the risk is cumulative, even for low level exposures.
Recent data has also shown unsafe amounts of hexavalent chromium is produced by wildfires.
Recent data has also shown unsafe amounts of hexavalent chromium is produced by wildfires.
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I say this as someone with the utmost respect and solidarity for food service workers:
Every time you publicly complain about or mock a customer who asks you to hold raw tomatoes on due to an allergy, but then drenches it in ketchup, you're making everyone with oral allergy syndrome hate you.
Every time you publicly complain about or mock a customer who asks you to hold raw tomatoes on due to an allergy, but then drenches it in ketchup, you're making everyone with oral allergy syndrome hate you.
September 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I say this as someone with the utmost respect and solidarity for food service workers:
Every time you publicly complain about or mock a customer who asks you to hold raw tomatoes on due to an allergy, but then drenches it in ketchup, you're making everyone with oral allergy syndrome hate you.
Every time you publicly complain about or mock a customer who asks you to hold raw tomatoes on due to an allergy, but then drenches it in ketchup, you're making everyone with oral allergy syndrome hate you.
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We are part of the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, a broad coalition of civil society groups, trade unions, and human rights organisations that are calling on the EU to stop the race to the bottom.
Join us outside Leinster House Tue 23 @ 11am
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
Join us outside Leinster House Tue 23 @ 11am
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
Join Us: Protect People and the Planet from EU Deregulation
On Tuesday, 23rd September from 11am-12pm, outside Leinster House
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
September 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are part of the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, a broad coalition of civil society groups, trade unions, and human rights organisations that are calling on the EU to stop the race to the bottom.
Join us outside Leinster House Tue 23 @ 11am
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
Join us outside Leinster House Tue 23 @ 11am
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
September 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this.
Just an administration of posters, basically.
Just an administration of posters, basically.
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this.
Just an administration of posters, basically.
Just an administration of posters, basically.
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How Putin plotted to blow European aircraft out of the sky vsquare.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Russia’s GRU Plotted Europe’s Parcel Explosions - VSquare.org
These parcel explosions were stagemanaged by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, via the social media platform Telegram.
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September 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
How Putin plotted to blow European aircraft out of the sky vsquare.org/revealed-how...
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So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?
September 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?
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Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.
September 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.
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This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards. It reads as if he was holding a gun to the head of the child of the lawyer drafting it.
Donald Trump sues the New York Times (and Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, and Michael S. Schmidt) for defamation, and the complaint for some reason begins thus: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards. It reads as if he was holding a gun to the head of the child of the lawyer drafting it.
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Aseem Malhotra has been making extreme claims about Covid vaccines that fly in the face of science for years – including on stage at Reform’s party conference.
But, three years after the regulator first received complaints about them, the GMC is yet to take action.
https://goodlaw.social/zdl6
But, three years after the regulator first received complaints about them, the GMC is yet to take action.
https://goodlaw.social/zdl6
When will the GMC act against anti-vax doctor?
It’s three years since a complaint was lodged against a doctor who recently linked Covid vaccines to cancer at Reform’s conference. But the General Medical Council still hasn’t taken action.
goodlaw.social
September 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Aseem Malhotra has been making extreme claims about Covid vaccines that fly in the face of science for years – including on stage at Reform’s party conference.
But, three years after the regulator first received complaints about them, the GMC is yet to take action.
https://goodlaw.social/zdl6
But, three years after the regulator first received complaints about them, the GMC is yet to take action.
https://goodlaw.social/zdl6
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The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...
September 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...
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When Epstein’s birthday book was revealed, people could only talk about the men who contributed to it. But the book was filled with women, and with girls. What about them?
Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
When Epstein’s birthday book was revealed, people could only talk about the men who contributed to it. But the book was filled with women, and with girls. What about them?
Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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Will all the defenders of "free speech" from last Saturday's far-right march in London be as outraged by the arrest of (presumably) @ledbydonkeys.org for beaming the truth onto the walls of Windsor Castle?
If course not.
They're not interested in protecting free speech, only hate speech.
If course not.
They're not interested in protecting free speech, only hate speech.
Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”.
This is apparently what counts as a crime now
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is apparently what counts as a crime now
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit
Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Will all the defenders of "free speech" from last Saturday's far-right march in London be as outraged by the arrest of (presumably) @ledbydonkeys.org for beaming the truth onto the walls of Windsor Castle?
If course not.
They're not interested in protecting free speech, only hate speech.
If course not.
They're not interested in protecting free speech, only hate speech.
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We all know what they're up to when they do that.. 😔
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We all know what they're up to when they do that.. 😔
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UN Commission finding:
“Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.”
Paragraph 253.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
“Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.”
Paragraph 253.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
UN Commission finding:
“Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.”
Paragraph 253.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
“Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.”
Paragraph 253.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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“Ten years after Dieselgate, carmakers are again trying to pass off their vehicles as cleaner than they actually are — but this time they want lawmakers to make the practice legal" cleantechnica.com/2025/09/16/o...
Organization Argues We're Entering Dieselgate Sequel - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. “Dieselgate” was the humongous emissions scandal in which Volkswagen and some other automakers were deceiving the public when...
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September 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
“Ten years after Dieselgate, carmakers are again trying to pass off their vehicles as cleaner than they actually are — but this time they want lawmakers to make the practice legal" cleantechnica.com/2025/09/16/o...