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.
Love when passengers tattle on other drivers to me. Yes Mary, it's terrible that driver with the full bus that was held up in traffic enough for me, the service 20 minutes after him, caught up to him, just drove past you. But I'm here literally 5 seconds later so you're safe now, hen.
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Love when passengers tattle on other drivers to me. Yes Mary, it's terrible that driver with the full bus that was held up in traffic enough for me, the service 20 minutes after him, caught up to him, just drove past you. But I'm here literally 5 seconds later so you're safe now, hen.
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🎁 Little daily thread of some gift ideas from me aul shop/siopa from now until d'Christmas.
This hard-working canine companion warms themself by a familiar range in this watercolour and pencil illustration of a well-loved, cosy, rural Irish kitchen.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
This hard-working canine companion warms themself by a familiar range in this watercolour and pencil illustration of a well-loved, cosy, rural Irish kitchen.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🎁 Little daily thread of some gift ideas from me aul shop/siopa from now until d'Christmas.
This hard-working canine companion warms themself by a familiar range in this watercolour and pencil illustration of a well-loved, cosy, rural Irish kitchen.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
This hard-working canine companion warms themself by a familiar range in this watercolour and pencil illustration of a well-loved, cosy, rural Irish kitchen.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
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I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
Ireland shares concerns over challenges posed by convention on human rights in relation to migration and deporting criminals, Minister tells meeting
www.irishtimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks
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Our "centre-right" government is asking for a loosening of prohibitions on torture! I feel like I'm going insane!
December 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Our "centre-right" government is asking for a loosening of prohibitions on torture! I feel like I'm going insane!
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The reason John Boyne hates trans people is because he wrote a (bad) book about trans people and got shit for it
The reason John Boyne fought a Holocaust Museum and continues to lie about what they said is because he wrote a book about the Holocaust and got shit for it
Yes. They are connected
The reason John Boyne fought a Holocaust Museum and continues to lie about what they said is because he wrote a book about the Holocaust and got shit for it
Yes. They are connected
The weird thing about transphobia, and probably about bigotry in general, is the pretty common intuition that the person bringing it up is always the one “making a show of it.” Boyne literally thinks the criticism of his book is ideologically motivated, yet I’M ideologically motivated for saying it
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The reason John Boyne hates trans people is because he wrote a (bad) book about trans people and got shit for it
The reason John Boyne fought a Holocaust Museum and continues to lie about what they said is because he wrote a book about the Holocaust and got shit for it
Yes. They are connected
The reason John Boyne fought a Holocaust Museum and continues to lie about what they said is because he wrote a book about the Holocaust and got shit for it
Yes. They are connected
When the fitfluencers caption their pump pics with "no excuses" and you're so sad that your bones hurt
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
When the fitfluencers caption their pump pics with "no excuses" and you're so sad that your bones hurt
"Up to anything tonight?" "Yep, I'm staying in to watch my favourite show."
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Up to anything tonight?" "Yep, I'm staying in to watch my favourite show."
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Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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"Britain’s persecution of trans people is not a reflection of an informed public demanding action. It is a reflection of a political and media establishment desperate to avoid scrutiny, eager to misdirect public anger, and entirely comfortable punching down when it suits them" 👏👏👏
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Britain’s persecution of trans people is not a reflection of an informed public demanding action. It is a reflection of a political and media establishment desperate to avoid scrutiny, eager to misdirect public anger, and entirely comfortable punching down when it suits them" 👏👏👏
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This is what happens when you let Nazis-in-suits SD dominate politics in Sweden! Before the last election the Christian Democrats and Moderates promised they would not cooperate with SD. They broke that promise from Day1 and are now working closely with the Nazis-in-suits
aje.io/0j9a6l
aje.io/0j9a6l
Resurgent neo-Nazis march against multiculturalism in Sweden’s capital
A neo-Nazi march has been held in Sweden’s capital for the first time in 15 years.
aje.io
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is what happens when you let Nazis-in-suits SD dominate politics in Sweden! Before the last election the Christian Democrats and Moderates promised they would not cooperate with SD. They broke that promise from Day1 and are now working closely with the Nazis-in-suits
aje.io/0j9a6l
aje.io/0j9a6l
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Hey kids want to hear about another carpenter that made a ruling party "wash their hands" of an opinion?
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hey kids want to hear about another carpenter that made a ruling party "wash their hands" of an opinion?
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What seems more likely to you?
a) Ireland, a nation of five million people, has gone insane, or
b) The national press - maybe two thousand people, who largely all know each other - are very well aware their profession is on the hook for genocide PR, so they’ll say anything at all to obscure that.
a) Ireland, a nation of five million people, has gone insane, or
b) The national press - maybe two thousand people, who largely all know each other - are very well aware their profession is on the hook for genocide PR, so they’ll say anything at all to obscure that.
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
What seems more likely to you?
a) Ireland, a nation of five million people, has gone insane, or
b) The national press - maybe two thousand people, who largely all know each other - are very well aware their profession is on the hook for genocide PR, so they’ll say anything at all to obscure that.
a) Ireland, a nation of five million people, has gone insane, or
b) The national press - maybe two thousand people, who largely all know each other - are very well aware their profession is on the hook for genocide PR, so they’ll say anything at all to obscure that.
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Successsful societies rely on active citizenship.
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Successsful societies rely on active citizenship.
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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...