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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chris Bryant the British SoS tells people in GB “I don't think there is a single person involved in politics in Northern Ireland that really wants to go back 28, 30 years and relitigate everything and dismantle the Good Friday Agreement" There's an entire political party founded to do exactly that

TUV Manifesto screenshot:

Now that the two unionist parties are enthusiastically implementing the Belfast Agreement, Unionists who reject its architecture, strucure and trajectory are disenfranchised.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The idea that this could be avoided by not speeding doesn't occur to this motorist or the Indo. #CarBrain

Screenshot from the Irish Independent newspaper:

“Legal challenges, lost licences and families on the brink - the inside story of Ireland's must notorious speed camera. Single mother says Glenmore tragic device is 'ruining people's lives' after getting three fines in one week.”

The photograph is a rather angry-looking woman holding three official speeding fines.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As the Tory George Osborne explained in 2021, Scotland's departure would end the UK. NI's would not. Gordon Brown recently, and John Alderdice more than once over the last few years have made similar observations. www.irishtimes.com/news/politic...

Text from the linked Irish Times arricke

Mr Osborne said unionists in Northern Ireland had always feared Britain was not sufficiently committed to their cause.

“Now their short-sighted support for Brexit (and unbelievably stupid decision to torpedo Theresa May’s deal that avoided separate Irish arrangements) has made those fears a reality. It pains me to report that most here and abroad will not care.”

The departure of Scotland from the UK would be a more serious matter, he implies, and it would represent the end of the United Kingdom

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Orla Minahan joined Restore Britain and pretended not to see it's anti-semitism and extreme misogyny because it was a good fit for her anti-immigrant agitation, transphobia and muslim-baiting. She's now complaining that a far-right British ethno-nationalist party isn't fond of the Irish.

Headline:

Restore Britain's rising star after supporters branded her a 'mudblood'

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lying to people's faces about something that they heard Burnham say in Parliament live on TV and radio - right after he said it - is pretty amazing gaslighting. Judge for yourself:

Lying to people's faces about something that they heard Burnham say in Parliament live on TV and radio, right after he said it, is pretty amazing. Judge for yourself:

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#cymru #wales If you're skeptical about what these two Welsh farmers are alleged to have done over the weekend according to this AI translation, an alternative translation is in the alt-text. h/t Hywel Mallett @hmallett@toot.wales

A screenshot of a BBC news post from Facebook. The headline is in Welsh and describes a 24-hour sheep-shearing marathon by two farmers held to raise money for charity. The automated translation to English says that "Two farmers from Powys have completed an ethnic harvesting challenge over the weekend" and are now raising funds for their victims.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@cormacscoast.bsky.social Hello! My partner found these in a park in England and she would love to know what they are. Would you happen to know? Thanks

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Police in Bristol, England arresting a teenager under UK Labour's pro-Israel terror laws because he is holding a piece of card with the words "Plasticine Action" written on it.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The UK can accomodate this for people in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland but it's "divisive", "unreasonable" and "belligerant" for the Irish in Northern Ireland.

Cornwall council is completing a striking 10-year strategy that envisages Kernewek as a “thriving, forever language – widely spoken, seen and heard in everyday life in Cornwall”.

Goals include making sure every child in Cornwall leaves primary school with a basic understanding of Cornish, establishing the first bilingual school and making sure Cornish is routinely seen and heard in civic spaces.

It says progress would include marriages and births being registered in Cornish, bilingual road signs and the development of a public service media in the language.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Latest msg: “This is part of what we saw last night. We got out of [La Guaira] as best we could. We managed to help some people...The devastation we saw leaving [Catia La Mar] is far worse than what you see here. Mother, like a champ, got Sra. Rita out onto the street. They’re both fine” #venezuela

A series of collaped building, nearly completely flattened. It is nighttime and there is smoke and dust illuminated by lamps.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here are others from Ben Lowry's Belfast Newsletter, gushing about the defendants. By turns deferential, plaintive and – especially in the third screenshot – disturblingly effusive, almost in the simpering style of a royal correspondent.

The actual court appearance was orderly and professional. The Donaldsons stared respectfully ahead towards Judge Eamonn King at the far end of the court, while a packed public gallery and 13 of the most experienced journalists in Northern Ireland watched the couple in the dock.

The bar on them having contact was lifted at Wednesday's brief hearing., when they both seperately spoke to confirm their age and that they understood the charges against them, but they nonetheless left separately, apparently to seperate addresses. On Wednesday there was a sense of the loneliness of thwir court experience: they arrived independent of each other, both having to navigate a media scrum, and they keft only accompanied by their lawyers to walk through the same gauntlet.

I was struck by the almost poignant way the married couple demonstrated yheir respect for the proceedings. I imagine that Lady Donaldson, who tilted her head and briefly smiled atbpoints and even spoke a few words to the custody officer beside her, was – understandably – trying to convey a sense of dignity amid an appearance that even the most accomplished public performer would find gruelling.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

US Senator Nancy Mace has introduced a Bill called: ‘The Transgender Research on Animals Now Stops and Money for Ideological Cruelty Eliminated Act.’ It's official short-form name is the 'No Trans Mice Act'

Rep. Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To End Taxpayer-Funded Radical Animal Experiments
1 Aug 2025 — The TRANS MICE Act bans the use of any federal funds to conduct, support, or fund research which seeks to alter an animal's biological sex ...

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant has won the European Press Prize for its exposé of IDF field executions of children in #Gaza I've posted an image of key points to block the article's thumbnail. The full piece and it's photographs are necessarily very distressing. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

What
the
wounds
are telling us

Beeld: Mimi Syed
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors who are among the last international eyewitnesses.

Door Maud Effting en Willem Feenstra

13 september 2025, 05:00
Read this article in Dutch

This story contains disturbing images

Key findings
Fifteen international doctors told de Volkskrant that during their work in hospitals in Gaza, they saw children aged 15 years and younger with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. According to the most conservative count, they collectively saw 114 children with such wounds, the majority of whom have died.
Eyewitnesses told the doctors that the bullets mostly came from Israeli army (IDF) snipers or drones.
According to former commander of the Dutch land forces Mart de Kruif, the chance that these were accidental hits is negligible, since the doctors describe more than a hundred cases.
Nine doctors told de Volkskrant that they had seen wounds possibly caused by controversial fragmentation weapons.
The Israeli army refuses to answer questions about shooting at children and says it neither possesses nor uses fragmentation weapons.
At the bottom, you can read more about how this article was produced.
It is swelteringly hot as American doctor Feroze Sidhwa walks into the intensive care unit of the European Hospital in Gaza. On the hospital grounds, the air smells of sewage and spent explosives. Inside it smells like rot. And dead bodies.

Sidhwa is a 43-year-old trauma surgeon and critical care physician from California, based at a hospital in Stockton. Among colleagues, he’s held in high regard — not just for his clinical expertise, but also for his international work. He never takes more than a week off, unless it’s for a humanitarian mission. He has worked in crisis zones like Zimbabwe and Haiti, and trai…

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

Members of the original Star Trek Crew floundering in water after evacuating a sinking Bird of Prey

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is a statement by Margaret Thatcher writing in her 1993 autobiography, The Downing Street Years. She clearly states from her Unionist position that Scotland is indeed a nation and that therefore it has the right to self-determination. She also states that this right should not be impeded.

In the book, she writes on her legacy in Scotland, saying that some Scots resent a perceived domination of the union by England.

She writes: “As a nation, they [the Scots] have an undoubted right to national self-determination; thus far they have exercised that right by joining and remaining in the Union.

“Should they determine on independence no English party or politician would stand in their way, however much we might regret their departure. What the Scots (nor indeed the English) cannot do, however, is to insist upon their own terms for remaining in the Union, regardless of the views of the others.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A bizarre aspect of Brexitism. They believe Scotland had no constitutional identity in the years between the Acts of Union prior to devolution (drivel), and they don't believe it should have such an identity now. They claim the term 'UK' is woke and entered use 30 years ago rather than 225 years ago

sense of political distinctness, too, based on a belief that Scotland was more collectivist and socialist in culture than England, and hence deserving of its own constitutional identity to go with the cultural and political ones.

Out of this came the devolved administrations and the gradual growth of the modern belief that this country is made up of four nations joined in a voluntary union, a kind of mini-EU, with the bureaucratic term “UK” to describe it.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Found this quote: “...Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the [now algae-ridden] reflecting pool... 2 prior convictions... bribing a member of Congress and... for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws”.

A man in a velvet jacket with a cigar and a bizaree double parting haircut

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My Irish is not nearly good enough for me to feel confident using it on here but I am trying to improve. I made my lists in Irish and used the punc. I think it's nicer to read and it's shorter too!

A bluesky list of tooics, mostly in Irish

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Fr. (later Bishop) Edward Daly waving a white rag drenched in the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy's blood at the British army. Jackie was 17 and shot in the back by the British as he tried to run from the bullets. Michael Bridge protested to soldiers about what they'd done, so they shot him too.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This, from a mutual on mastodon, is why we don't cycle even though we don't have a car and even though there is no useful public transport near us (unless we walk 15 minutes uphill in the wrong direction). And we're in a city. Hard to explain the mentality to other Europeans.

Screenshot of social media post text which says:

I was at an ESRI talk this morning on the "Causes, Costs and Consequences" of car ownership.

On the way back to the office I had a taxi driver deliberately drive his vehicle at me twice before trying to block my way by pulling into the cycle lane.

And shortly after that I had a van driver pull across me as I was cycling down hill and then claim that he had the right of way and that it was my own fault if I got killed.

That's a consequence of car ownership that wasn't discussed this morning

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Some people over the water still dream that they might still be able to raise the border here against the will of the majority of people in both jurisdictions. Never not at it. #Ireland #CTA #ECHR #Brexit

Tekegraph headline:

David Frost

Britain can’t trust Ireland to manage its border
Why are Dublin’s third-country residents allowed to cross into our country paperwork-free?

an open border to Northern Ireland. Does Britain have any borders worth the name at all?

We can’t carry on like this. So what is to be done? One possibility would be to turn the CTA into a proper Schengen-type scheme, with common entry criteria and a common external border. But that would take Ireland out of the EU free movement area and put it into a Britain-dominated one. It’s hard to see that landing well in woke, nationalist Ireland or indeed in Brussels.

Another option would be to insist Ireland did what the EU has just done to us in Gibraltar. Just as the Spanish police get to stand behind Gibraltar border officers, supposedly to give them “confidence” that Gibraltar won’t allow illegal entry into the Schengen area, so we could demand a Border Force presence at Dublin Airport. It would be enjoyable to turn onto the Irish their arguments to us during Brexit, and insist that since policing couldn’t be done at the land border, it would have to be done at the Irish point of entry. Sadly, few national negotiators are as feeble as Britons faced with the European Commission, so we can hardly expect the Irish to roll over as ours have done to facilitate such a solution.

So the only other choice is to come back to the land border. Why should it remain control-free for ever? Why can’t we have more checks, closer to the border? Why are third-country residents of Ireland allowed across paperwork-free? Why can’t we do as the Irish do, and visibly check movements south across the border when they think it necessary? We can’t be complacent. We should start asking these questions. For we can’t be taken for granted for ever.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Whither Pogroms? A sensible centrist take: If only the woke left allowed us to do non-violent racism, then proscribed terrorist organisations wouldn't feel compelled to set fire to people's homes.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A bit from over the water admitting it's Loyalists. After making a series of excuses for the pogroms and blaming immigrants for forcing Loyalists to do it, there's this bit of taig bashing (we're too thick to be as racist as the author) and it ends with a prediction we'll see the light and join in.

Colum Eastwood and Claire Hanna of the SDLP have intoned at length about the meddling hands of English politicians and social media in stirring up trouble.

Their response is an effective resignation from political and social reality. Irish nationalism relies on tales of famine and migration and supposed colonial oppression to justify its existence. Engaging with the challenges posed by unfettered immigration is therefore intellectually and emotionally uncomfortable for Sinn Fein, the SDLP and the rest of the nationalist constellation.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There isn't another country in the democratic world that would permit terrorist organisations to do this and go even further by telling the public to coooerate with them. Why are politicians in Britain always prepared to roll over for them, and often won't even say that they are Loyalists?

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

At no point in PMQs or the statement and questions that followed did anyone mention Loyalists. Starmer said those who incited it would be prosecuted. Directly afterward he sat down with an MP *who had incited it* to listen to her demand that the border be raised. No SDLP or APNI MPs present just DUP

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Reporting guidelines in Ireland (copied from the UK) are very clear that news reports should stop doing this, but Car Brain is too deeply embedded in the culture for newspapers to stop doing it.

Reporting guidelines: If you're talking about a driver, say a driver, nit their vehicle

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Misrepresenting the number of SDLP/SF seats in the Assembly as "pro-unity vote share" conceals the fact that the gap has significantly narrowed since the Brexit referendum. Not only has support for UI increased – not “remained static” – but support for staying in the UK has fallen.

Economist graphic. A line graph showing the two ootions converging.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is wrong. No criteria for calling a BP has been published by UKG. There's no requirement in domestic or international law for pro-unity parties to have a majority in the NIA. No one demands Unionist parties have 50%+1 in the Assembly to stay in the UK. That double standard would violate the GFA

Are we entering Border Poll Territory?

In simple terms we are not. Only election results will determine the calling of a referendum. The pro-unity vote share has remained static (despite the decline of pro-union parties) since 1998 and there are no signs that it can reach the 50+1 benchmark. What is shown within the survey is a small decline, within the pro-unity bloc, as opposed to the accelerated growth required to reach 50+1.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They sprayed slurry all over the road so that the people on the march would have to walk in it. As one unionist commented "Unionism is often it's own worst enemy"

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The DUP's Carla Lockhart MP standing with masked thugs, likely paramilitary, as threats are screamed at peaceful protestors. While the British government gets on with the business of rounding up retired clergy and Quakers for opposing genocide there will be no consequences for this.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Threats of violence, crude verbal abuse and Tommy Robinson chants from Unionists and Loyalists directed at the Gaza protest march at Scarva. As always, zero coverage in the British media.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Ukranian government has issued this statement on Ireland supplying Russian aluminium plants. They plainly aren't buying the BS being sold by ministers here. It's also attracting a lot of international coverage, just to add to the cringe.

A screenshot of text from a statement by the Ukranian government.

The Embassy of Ukraine to Ireland expresses its serious concern regarding the continued export of alumina from Ireland to the Russian Federation.

According to a trade data, this troubling trade flow has increased significantly, with exports rising from €196 million in 2021 to €318 million in 2025, positioning the Russian Federation as the largest destination for Irish alumina exports and surpassing traditional European partners. This represents the highest level of exports to Russia since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

These figures raise serious concerns, as alumina remains a critical raw material for the production of aluminium, which is extensively used by Russia’s military-industrial complex. Aluminium is used in the manufacture of a wide range of Russian military systems, including Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles, as well as Shahed-136/Geran-2 attacks unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

The devastating consequences of Russia’s military production continue to be felt daily by the people of Ukraine. Over the past week alone, the Russian Federation has launched more than 2,900 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs, and more than 150 missiles of various types against Ukrainian cities and communities. Every activity may contribute to sustaining Russia’s industrial and military capacity warrants careful examination.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you're wondering why the facts about a journalist being shot dead in the street in the UK in 2001 has been suppressed by the state for 25 years, and gets little or no attention in the British media, the answer is in the second sentence.

No one has been convicted of his murder, which is believed to have involved British agents.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The government are lying. They know very well – as do the rest of us – that that this is being processed into aluminium in Russia and used to make munitions that rain down on Ukrainians every day. This screenshot is a description of how it works in practice:

The supply chain is structured as follows:

Raw material is mined from Rusal-owned mines in Guinea and Brazil (majority owned by Glencore)

It arrives in Ireland and it is processed into alumina in Aughinish

The alumina is then shipped directly from Ireland to Russia where it is then processed into aluminum by Rusal in plants in St. Petersburg, and in Eastern Siberia

The final product is then sold by Rusal to ASK, the Russian state monopoly on aluminum who then distributes it to the military.

Every single company, firm and entity benefiting from the reselling by ASK, including Rusal and ASK itself, are all sanctioned entities. Trade with these firms is not supposed to be legal.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

All of these grim headlines are from today, all in the Belfast Telegraph. [The minister in the second one was a minister of religion, not a Stormont minister] Despite what certain politicians say every single day, the problem isn't trans people.

Several headlines detailing violence, murder and abuse of children and women by men.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

British Tory pamphlet from 1970 which promotes the fear that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are actually communists. (In both cases, 56 years apart, it's necessary for the authors to explain to their readers what the Common Travel Area is. Both confuse the UK with Britain.)

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

While those of us who live indoors will likely be permitted to take our hi-viz jackets off at home, presumably those who live outdoors must have them welded to their torsos. It beats building social housing or tackling toxic car culture. #CarBrain

Two RTÉ headlines:

High-visibility vests for cyclists and pedestrians.

Homeless statistics hit record high.

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