Cathal and Response
@fearbronach.bsky.social
Gay, trans, and Irish fat man with socialist ideation.
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This narrative that Charlie Mer'c'd was just an earnest dude full of ideas trying to build consensus across the political strata through spirited discussion and comparison of ideas is the stupidest, self-gaslighty bullshit I've ever seen.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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“More than 50% of assessed not-for-profit housing bodies ‘non-compliant’ with rules.. report notes need for action in governance & risk, finance, property & tenant management”
“438 AHBs which manage 68,000 homes with €1.95 billion annual rent & €10 billion assets”
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
“438 AHBs which manage 68,000 homes with €1.95 billion annual rent & €10 billion assets”
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
More than 50% of assessed not-for-profit housing bodies ‘non-compliant’ with rules
Watchdog report notes need for action in governance and risk, finance, property and tenant management
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“More than 50% of assessed not-for-profit housing bodies ‘non-compliant’ with rules.. report notes need for action in governance & risk, finance, property & tenant management”
“438 AHBs which manage 68,000 homes with €1.95 billion annual rent & €10 billion assets”
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
“438 AHBs which manage 68,000 homes with €1.95 billion annual rent & €10 billion assets”
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
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Now with alt text because this affects the entire planet.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Now with alt text because this affects the entire planet.
Another day....
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Another day....
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This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
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How Israel treats a female Palestinian journalist:
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
How Israel treats a female Palestinian journalist:
I know my own part of the male loneliness epidemic stems from a fear of being annoying.
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I know my own part of the male loneliness epidemic stems from a fear of being annoying.
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all the Irish militarists who act aghast when they are accused of wanting to cut welfare to fund militarisation are conspicuously not furious at their friend Dan for proposing exactly that!
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
all the Irish militarists who act aghast when they are accused of wanting to cut welfare to fund militarisation are conspicuously not furious at their friend Dan for proposing exactly that!
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A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A "centre-left" party choosing to accommodate the far right is no longer a "centre-left" party, it's at best a "centre-right" party trying to moderate the fascism of the right with paternalism, at worst a cryptofascist party trying to legitimise the fascism under cover of its liberal socialist past.
Brilliant, but I also can't wait to see how FG/FF bastardise whatever the recommendations arise from this.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Public asked for views on right to request remote working
The Government has announced a public consultation seeking the views of members of the public, employers and other interested parties on the right to request remote working.
www.rte.ie
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Brilliant, but I also can't wait to see how FG/FF bastardise whatever the recommendations arise from this.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Every time I see those trucks
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Every time I see those trucks
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> Undermine judicial reviews
> Roll back planning regulations
> Claim it's to deliver housing
> Fast track a bunch of data centres
> AI bubble pops
> Left holding the bag
> Still no housing delivered
We all know this is how Ireland's new "housing plan" is gonna go right
> Roll back planning regulations
> Claim it's to deliver housing
> Fast track a bunch of data centres
> AI bubble pops
> Left holding the bag
> Still no housing delivered
We all know this is how Ireland's new "housing plan" is gonna go right
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
> Undermine judicial reviews
> Roll back planning regulations
> Claim it's to deliver housing
> Fast track a bunch of data centres
> AI bubble pops
> Left holding the bag
> Still no housing delivered
We all know this is how Ireland's new "housing plan" is gonna go right
> Roll back planning regulations
> Claim it's to deliver housing
> Fast track a bunch of data centres
> AI bubble pops
> Left holding the bag
> Still no housing delivered
We all know this is how Ireland's new "housing plan" is gonna go right
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What gets me, and this is a question I wrestle with a lot- how do you battle these people when they can just LIE like this. They can lie with total impunity and they never seem to lose truck with their fellows. How do you combat people who can tell lies and people don’t care that they do that?
I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄
Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
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Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?
It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage
🧵
1/26
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
What gets me, and this is a question I wrestle with a lot- how do you battle these people when they can just LIE like this. They can lie with total impunity and they never seem to lose truck with their fellows. How do you combat people who can tell lies and people don’t care that they do that?
Cool, good idea, you know what we say, "there are no bad ideas". BUUUUUUUUUUT, how about taking most of those cars off the road in the first place by making work-from-home a right?
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Calls for emergency response unit for M7 and N7 as drivers say commute is ‘like nothing on earth’
Calls are being made for an emergency response unit to be established for the M7 and N7 following a spate of serious crashes.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cool, good idea, you know what we say, "there are no bad ideas". BUUUUUUUUUUT, how about taking most of those cars off the road in the first place by making work-from-home a right?
share.google/tiH7IObwh2MF...
share.google/tiH7IObwh2MF...
I need whoever told these L and N plate dickheads that red lights are optional to be dragged in front of The Hague.
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I need whoever told these L and N plate dickheads that red lights are optional to be dragged in front of The Hague.
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An unexpected piece of Dublin history
#speirgoirm
#speirgoirm
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
An unexpected piece of Dublin history
#speirgoirm
#speirgoirm
How little kids start acting in the bus when I greet them as Ma'am/Sir.
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
How little kids start acting in the bus when I greet them as Ma'am/Sir.
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Don’t break the picket line!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Don’t break the picket line!
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Mars Vice is out now!
A narrative adventure game set on a distant and futuristic Mars. Follow Dax and Anaya, as they root out deep-seated corruption in the Martian city of Pavonis in this queer as hell, biopunk-infused story.
Check it out below!
store.steampowered.com/app/1886910/...
A narrative adventure game set on a distant and futuristic Mars. Follow Dax and Anaya, as they root out deep-seated corruption in the Martian city of Pavonis in this queer as hell, biopunk-infused story.
Check it out below!
store.steampowered.com/app/1886910/...
March 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Mars Vice is out now!
A narrative adventure game set on a distant and futuristic Mars. Follow Dax and Anaya, as they root out deep-seated corruption in the Martian city of Pavonis in this queer as hell, biopunk-infused story.
Check it out below!
store.steampowered.com/app/1886910/...
A narrative adventure game set on a distant and futuristic Mars. Follow Dax and Anaya, as they root out deep-seated corruption in the Martian city of Pavonis in this queer as hell, biopunk-infused story.
Check it out below!
store.steampowered.com/app/1886910/...
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this kind of a society cannot be allowed to exist on this earth
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
this kind of a society cannot be allowed to exist on this earth
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This is what none of them want to talk about.
They don't want trans people to transition, to use spaces they have been able to for decades, they don't want to acknowledge trans people's existence as valid- but trans people dying, sad face.
What, then, is your desired outcome?
They don't want trans people to transition, to use spaces they have been able to for decades, they don't want to acknowledge trans people's existence as valid- but trans people dying, sad face.
What, then, is your desired outcome?
There's a question here that I don't think a lot of people want to ask, because the answer is just too grim to contemplate, and that's how is this murder not a policy victory for the British government? Is this not the intended outcome of smearing trans people as dangerous predators?
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is what none of them want to talk about.
They don't want trans people to transition, to use spaces they have been able to for decades, they don't want to acknowledge trans people's existence as valid- but trans people dying, sad face.
What, then, is your desired outcome?
They don't want trans people to transition, to use spaces they have been able to for decades, they don't want to acknowledge trans people's existence as valid- but trans people dying, sad face.
What, then, is your desired outcome?
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The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork
Israeli police order C of E delegation to leave West Bank village after stand-off with armed settlers
Archbishop of York’s pastoral visit to the south Hebron hills was cut short
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Archbishop of York was forced to cut short a visit to a family in the south Hebron hills on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the Church of England delegation to leave the area. #WestBank #Israel #Palestine #ArchbishopofYork
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The RTÉ Archive is a 50 year, publicly owned and controlled repository of video, audio and documentation. Making it freely available online would create a deep well of trusted high quality info about our distant and recent past.
It is a unique public resource to counteract lies or error.
It is a unique public resource to counteract lies or error.
October 9, 2024 at 7:01 AM
The RTÉ Archive is a 50 year, publicly owned and controlled repository of video, audio and documentation. Making it freely available online would create a deep well of trusted high quality info about our distant and recent past.
It is a unique public resource to counteract lies or error.
It is a unique public resource to counteract lies or error.
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#speirgorm might be interested to see this, as we await President Connolly’s inauguration this week. A vision of what might have been 😬
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
#speirgorm might be interested to see this, as we await President Connolly’s inauguration this week. A vision of what might have been 😬
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Again, this is internet crackpots funded by a hateful, malicious squillionaire, combining with the national press to stamp fuck out of some innocent punter just quietly going about their life and work. An utterly malignant system, full of very bad people.
You don't need evidence to accuse trans people of anything. Just make it up and the Times etc will print it for you
![Trans employee denies staring at nurses’ breasts
Sanchez Manning - Social Affairs Correspondent
Rose Henderson said that her colleagues were accepting of her
A transgender nurse at the centre of legal action over trans women using female changing rooms at a hospital has denied claims that she stared at her colleagues’ breasts.
Rose Henderson, who was born male but identifies as female, also denied walking around in boxer shorts and repeatedly asking a female nurse if she was getting changed. Henderson instead claimed she only ever “sarcastically” asked a different female colleague if she was almost changed when she was in a hurry to leave work.
The denials were made in evidence at an employment tribunal that is hearing a case brought by eight nurses against the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.
They claim that the trust has put women at risk by allowing trans women — males who identify as women — to use staff female changing rooms.
The nurses brought the case after Henderson was allowed to use the women’s changing facilities at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
Henderson told the tribunal: “I am not the individual [the claimants] have painted me to be.”
Henderson said she had been out as a trans women since she started working at the trust as a student in 2019 and for several years before.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreieavxpaw7vld35cfizpc7hj2b2qdogpgl7hzjbrfnaggurod3t2qa@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Again, this is internet crackpots funded by a hateful, malicious squillionaire, combining with the national press to stamp fuck out of some innocent punter just quietly going about their life and work. An utterly malignant system, full of very bad people.