Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is probably related to chronic understaffing in the HSE... 010
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If 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. 010
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Is anyone keeping track of how much we're spending on all these groups for keeping track of how much we're spending? 000
Reposted by BrendanWWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Radical Unreasonable Communist Unions Demand Wages That Match The Job waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/3… 03618
Reposted by BrendanGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 30/09/2026Oireachtas 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. 12511
Reposted by BrendanCarl 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.ieWe can never get up early enough to truly satisfy themThis week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants. 411838
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It is though. It's entirely based in the mistrust of people perceived as different. 030
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026His tenure as Justice Minister has been, cruel, racist, and utterly contemptible. 000
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Was 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... 020
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026For 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? 010
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Think data centres use a lot of water? But these two useful industries use way more water than the CSAM generation machines! 000
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... 040
Reposted by BrendanSam 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."tasc.ieNearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are in economically-deprived areasIn March, global data centre and colocation provider Equinix announced construction of a new data centre in Dublin’s Blanchardstown neighbourhood (Equinix, 2026). 713751
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Trading 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. 151
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"Taoiseach commits to continue breaking law by maintaining trade with illegal settlements." 0151
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 22/05/2026You 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. 010
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026They 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. 001
Reposted by BrendanDublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 16/05/2026In 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.comIn its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, council is ignoring retrofit grant, says councillorThe Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings. 171
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I know! It's so counter-intuitive. Who would've guessed not making people homeless would reduce homelessness? 020
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Please stay at home and wallow in the mess you've made for the rest of us. We will ask you who you voted for. 0100
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Watching the British local elections results come in and really regretting wishing on a monkey paw for Starmer out.static.klipy.comMonkeys Paw GrabsALT: Monkeys Paw Grabs 000
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Yeah, 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. 010
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 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. 000
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I hope to never meet the kind of pathetic egotist this vision of AI appeals to. 000
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I 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. 010
Reposted by BrendanStephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Ballroom 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 915892
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I love how he's treating it like it's another job and making sure he gives the cat a thorough and detailed brushing. 080
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Having 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. 030
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 08/04/2026If the economy is doing so well why are hiis colleagues pleading poverty in pay negotiations with teachers' unions ? 000
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026No 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. 001
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 06/04/2026media.tenor.coma cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above himALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him 000
Reposted by BrendanShamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026Documents 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...dublininquirer.comDocuments 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”. 35433
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026They'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. 080
Reposted by BrendanWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026I 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 01810
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Katamari 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. 020
Reposted by BrendanAndrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 18/03/2026As 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.thecut.comWhat ICE Detention Does to a ChildStunted growth. Nightmares. Bed-wetting. These are just a few of the symptoms of children held in immigration custody. 3163109
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Pat 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. 0111
Reposted by BrendanThe Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Pat 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: 27018
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In my capacity as a communications professional I would advise against making an argument on the character of others after you've hired Peter Mandelson. 030
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Being 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. 0100
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 10/03/2026That 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. 001
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Great, more competition for home buyers. Bet they don't get a single investor looking to build. 090
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Jaysus, you're scraping the barrel for pro-war guests aren't you? 010
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The 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. 0120
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Merz 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. 000
Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I 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. 000