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Brendan

@brenkinse.bsky.social
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Trade unionist, Leftist. He/They ADHD PBP 🇵🇸

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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is probably related to chronic understaffing in the HSE...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If one of the most toxic employers on the planet is touting AI as having a potential boon to worker conditions, you can only read it as an act of desperation from a man who has sank too much money into a bubble that is about to pop and desperately wants to push the inevitably off a few more months.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is anyone keeping track of how much we're spending on all these groups for keeping track of how much we're spending?
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Radical Unreasonable Communist Unions Demand Wages That Match The Job waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/3…
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 30/09/2026
Oireachtas committee hears the Ireland WNT (on Nations League trip in 2023) were stalked in Budapest, to extent that a man wearing only a towel walked into a room where a player was due to receive a massage. FAI's Aoife Rafferty says she has no recollection of the FAI being contacted over this.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:
thejournal.ie
We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them
This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is though. It's entirely based in the mistrust of people perceived as different.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
His tenure as Justice Minister has been, cruel, racist, and utterly contemptible.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Was able to do a little artwork last week and finally got this one out of my head and on the screen. A 'pints around the world' piece to celebrate the Choctaw people. Aithniítear cara i gcruatán - a friend is recognised in hardship. #Choctaw #Ireland #Pints #Stout www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1834...
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
For any newspaper columnists and opinion sheets editors who might be listening: you know don't have to publish something about that Channel 4 show that suggests beating kids is better than treating them for ADHD?
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Think data centres use a lot of water? But these two useful industries use way more water than the CSAM generation machines!
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Drugs and aluminium are useful though.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Ireland for the Irish" lot copying their worldview, behaviours and ideology wholesale from the Americans again. It's what Pádraig Pearse would have wanted...
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"What is striking is not just that deprived areas host some data centres: it is that they host almost all of them. Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are located in economically-deprived areas."
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Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are in economically-deprived areas
In March, global data centre and colocation provider Equinix announced construction of a new data centre in Dublin’s Blanchardstown neighbourhood (Equinix, 2026).
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Trading with the Occupied Territories is illegal under international law. He's not only refusing to sanction Israel, he's refusing to uphold our basic responsibilities as a nation.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"Taoiseach commits to continue breaking law by maintaining trade with illegal settlements."
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You would think that at some point while you're ironing out the GDPR implications of discrimination your conscience would kick in and you'd give up on the whole thing.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
They killed him. They knelt on his throat. There is no way to sell that other than intending to do serious harm. There needs to be prosecutions and Arnott's needs to explain what kind of training their security is getting.
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 16/05/2026
In its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, the council is ignoring a government retrofit grant, says councillor. The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.
dublininquirer.com
In its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, council is ignoring retrofit grant, says councillor
The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I know! It's so counter-intuitive. Who would've guessed not making people homeless would reduce homelessness?
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hard to argue with him here.
Graph showing explosion of homelessness in Ireland. Brief improvement around covid and sharp increase following Fine Fáil entering government.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Please stay at home and wallow in the mess you've made for the rest of us. We will ask you who you voted for.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Watching the British local elections results come in and really regretting wishing on a monkey paw for Starmer out.
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Monkeys Paw Grabs
ALT: Monkeys Paw Grabs
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Yeah, it's very confused. It feels like they had decent writers but forced them to write a type of show they had no experience with. It's enjoyable if you accept the mediocrity and just enjoy the (far too few) Lura Thok appearances.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Stephens Green redevelopment is just another in a long list of developers attempts to ruin the city, and it demonstrates a need for greater public oversight in the planning process. There's something broken with the management of the city when things that make it unique are cast aside so easily.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I hope to never meet the kind of pathetic egotist this vision of AI appeals to.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am convinced the number of times car alarms have prevented theft is infinitesimally smaller than the number of times they've been set off for no reason. If it was even 100:1 I would be shocked.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ballroom Grift. By all accounts, super lax security at last night's WHCD, gunman gets in, gets neutralized, Felonious Pedolf calls a presser to push his ballroom grift, and BOOM, right wing Twitter immediately goes to work in chorus. What a crock of shit
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I love how he's treating it like it's another job and making sure he gives the cat a thorough and detailed brushing.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Having had to walk by these protests to get to work, we shouldn't touch them with a ten-foot bargepole. I'll just say I was unsurprised when I heard there was an incident with people related to the protest abusing the MSoE and leave it at that.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If the economy is doing so well why are hiis colleagues pleading poverty in pay negotiations with teachers' unions ?
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
No other group in the country could block O'Connell Street all day like the IFA has. The fact they can get away with it shows they have the political clout to have their demands met without ruining everyone else's day.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him
ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026
Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide it with redactions. A technical fail made it easy to reveal what sat behind the black rectangles. The board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based”. www.dublininquirer.com/documents-sa...
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Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide this with redactions.
A spokesperson for the board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based” and had not tried to “hide or trivialise the scale of any crisis”.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
They're really scraping the barrel to for that petty cruelty high. I can't imagine how empty a person's life has to be to do something like this.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026
I cannot tell you how much the requirement to advertise jobs before applying for work permits is a pointless exercise aimed at placating racists, which does nothing but delay and prevent jobs from being filled with people qualified for them who happen to be non-EEA citizens
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Incredible game.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Katamari Damacy, Abzu, and Donut County should fit with what you're looking for. On the switch, uncomplicated gameplay, and will point you through to the finish line. Also Spiritfarer and If Found if you want to cry.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health? "I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.
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What ICE Detention Does to a Child
Stunted growth. Nightmares. Bed-wetting. These are just a few of the symptoms of children held in immigration custody.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pat Leahy making the same mistake a lot of well-to-do Irish men of a certain age make, by thinking his own opinions are shared by the rest of the population. It is not. Polling shows Pat, and the rest of the moral cowards posing as realists, are very much in the minority.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pat Leahy: "The Irish people do not want the Taoiseach to criticise Trump to his face and never will vote for anyone who will" Meanwhile, in the real world:
RedC poll from February 2026 showing a 55-24 split in favour of "Micheál Martin publicly challenging Donald Trump on American policies that don’t align with Irish values while in the White House on St. Patrick’s Day?"
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In my capacity as a communications professional I would advise against making an argument on the character of others after you've hired Peter Mandelson.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Being besties with the global billionaire pedophile conspiracy guy is tolerable for Keir Starmer, so he's probably not the best judge of what should be tolerated.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That a vast swathe of our commentariat feel emboldened to complain about our President having called out war crimes as war crimes is a sign of social and moral decay. Too many have bought into the idea that pragmatism is the same as being callow and callous.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Great, more competition for home buyers. Bet they don't get a single investor looking to build.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Jaysus, you're scraping the barrel for pro-war guests aren't you?
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The fact that they're sending out this lad is enough of an admission they know they're not just wrong but completely out of step with the public.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Merz joining Trump's attacks on Spain typifies Germany's attitude to the EU. They prioritise their own short term interests over the integrity of the EU. We need to deepen our ties with Spain and form a bloc to be a counterweight to german power within the EU before their stupidity tears it apart.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I honestly think taxing the super-rich out of existence is for their own good. That amount of money seems to do something deeply unpleasant to human brains.
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