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Jen Keane

@zenbuffy.bsky.social
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Jen Keane - she/her. Thoughts about migraine, cakes, sewing, and occasional spicy political rants. jenniferkeane.ie for long-form thoughts. paygap.ie for my Irish Gender Pay Gap data portal ko-fi.com/zenbuffy to support my work

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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 4h
I would just like to announce to the world that the band that pulled out of Ed Sherran’s Zionist concerts a few weeks ago over the Macklemore farce has now joined the Garvaghy Rd Fleadh tent. BEOGA ! 🎶🎻🇵🇸 @unamullally.bsky.social @tonygroves.bsky.social
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's rare that I have the energy to do two bakes for one week, but I somehow found it this week. Dark and milk chocolate chip hazelnut cookies, sprinkled with sea salt. And then some iced gems (ahem, iced Jens) for good measure. Vanilla, raspberry, and forest fruits flavours in the icing. #gbbo
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do the stats for women! It’s 5.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey so in case you don't want to do the math, I've got you. 0.00006934% That's how much 150000 is of Zuck's estimated between worth of 254.4 billion.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've tried to book a flu vaccine multiple times, every pharmacy has no private flu stock available.
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nobody gives a shit if we win or lose tonight. By playing the game Israel wins.. there's still a massive opportunity to do what's right #StopTheGame
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Small whinge: I am tired of feeling unwell now and would like to be done with it. Curse my treacherous body for not just being better already.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The 3 day wait shouldn't have been put in in the first place, and it's long past time that it was removed. People are still leaving this country to access the care that we voted for. Abortion is healthcare, and it should be free, safe, legal, and local. #repeal
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Virgin Media Sport @virginmediasport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It has been confirmed that Gavin Bazunu has withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad after a "significant majority" of players voted to fulfil tomorrow's nights UEFA Nations League game with Israel. #VMSport #FAI #Israel #Nationsleague
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So confusing because I know that one of these people has an arrest warrant in multiple countries (some 125 ICC member countries) and I was sure that it wasn't Susan Sarandon...
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have recovered enough from this plague to rejoin humanity, so maybe I will see some of you in Dublin this afternoon? It's funny, thinking about this is reminding me of the first ever march I went to. I didn't know anyone, I went alone. I marched. I was nervous because I was billy no mates.
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Simpsons meme, don’t make me tap the sign, and the sign says “a system’s purpose is what it does”
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember the day of the election result the first time he won. I was in work. I was deeply sad. Several men suggested to me that he was actually secretly very clever and his behaviour was just an act. I think about that moment often.
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Edna Dowling @libertiesbelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I ❤️ our libraries. And they’re always open.. 24/7/365 thanks to BorrowBox. #SpéirGorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If only our government did half the research that individual people do before announcing random schemes.... (Also, what will they spend their culture card on? Visiting all the hotels we built on top of the small performance spaces we closed?) johnobrien.org/2026/09/23/a...
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A €100 Culture Card is a Terrible Idea
The proposed Culture Card is such a bad policy idea that I had to write a blog about it – and I have work to do! So, very quickly, the Government has decided that a great intervention into th…
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Housing too. There is a huge nuclear bomb about to go off re housing the elderly and rental population. Not everyone inherits.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland, like most countries, punishes women financially for having children, does not value care work or pay for it appropriately, and has an economy that depends on the unpaid care work of women. We are fundamentally unprepared for an aging population with fewer young folks around.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I want more women in politics because it is a huge problem that our elected officials aren't at all representative of our population, but we haven't considered the side benefit - women would not simply crumble the first time someone said something mean or that they didn't like.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok, I have the idea to do a pay gap related event in November, like maybe a keynote and a panel discussion, underpinned with a report on all we know from the data so far. I'm trying to sort out a venue, full flexibility on the date in November. Does anyone have a suggestion? A go-to spot?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
8 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday!
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Too sick to do proper decoration, but managed to get a cake done, so that's something. Chocolate stout cake for week one of #gbbo, kicking off this year's #bakealong
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shocked to find that after burning the candle at both ends and the middle and also a secret third end that my body has given up and I have some sort of plague, forcing me to do the resting that I have been ignoring for the last few weeks.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This Irish team is absolutely tearing it up out here. It's beautiful stuff.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Roses are red, It’s a national shame, That Ireland are playing the apartheid state of Israel, #StopTheGame
#STOPTHEGAME
Thurs Oct 1st 6.30pm
AVIVA STADIUM
IRE VS AUS
Nations League
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Social media companies still do a terrible job of content moderation, with inconsistent rules, algorithms that promote right-wing content, and in some cases, abuse features built right in. Limiting that to one hour a day still means one hour of exposure to that.
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Watching Beoga, Finneas, Arron Rowe and Lukas Graham pull out of "culturally Irish" Lord Edward's tour in solidarity with Macklemore, after he was cut for speaking up for Palestine, is doin' my heart good. History will remember 'em well. I wish nothing but good for 'em.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Absolutely vile. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times - transphobia harms everyone. If you think that it won't be used to also police the appearance and behaviour of cis women, you are hopelessly naive. It has never been about the safety of women. It has always been about control.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's hard to escape the fact that we just had day long non-stop programming about 9/11, where just under 3000 people died and everyone understands that that was a bad thing, yet many of the same people won't acknowledge that more than 64000 children have been injured or murdered in Gaza since 2023.
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Tara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not picking a side is picking a side.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/09/2026
You can't be a children's entertainer and say that Palestinians are children. You can't be a musician and say you love all people including Palestinians. You can't be an actor in everyone's favorite superhero chud movie series and say the same thing as Amnesty International and the UN.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/09/2026
For all the talk about omnicause on here, you rarely ever see people say that US elites have an omnicause which is protecting Israel from the most banal criticism at all times
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran wanting to remain neutral is sending me lol. Dudes worth £200m+. My brother in Christ if you cannot speak freely who the fuck can lol
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🍂 Some autumnal and Irish spook-inspired prints. Irish made, and available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
Two prints, the púca and crows, against an autumnal leaf background.


#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrishTwo prints, the turnip versus pumpkin and the Morrigan, against an autumnal leaf background.Two prints, Irish spooks and Queen Of Winter, against an autumnal leaf background.Two prints, the rook and Don't Shrink, against an autumnal leaf background.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CMAT was only 59.90. Just saying.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's actually insane that this is happening, that there are individuals with so much money, and so few individuals holding so much power, that they can simply ring up a mate or two and hold multiple stadia hostage to their Zionist nonsense.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Now Bob Mackie? Look this is all starting to feel a little homophobic if I'm being so real.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think I've just successfully designed something in Fusion 360 and let me tell you I feel like a god
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have a 3d printer now, which means that I also have niche PayGap merch now. You better believe I'm wearing these earrings to my next event.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
The purpose of the system is what it does. Politics is the sum of choices.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What are the cool kids using for 3d modelling these days? @ianfay.bsky.social ?
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You guys, I wished for more international support for a United Ireland next to a Monkey's Paw so this is my bad.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Me, as a product director, submitting pull requests to the code as if I'm still an engineer. (I'm not a regular PM, I'm a cool PM)
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Mean Girls: Cool Mom (Lohan)
ALT: Mean Girls: Cool Mom (Lohan)
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's some figures, apropos of nothing. Median cost to retrofit a mid-terrace is €55,250, rising to €60,805 for a semi D. Median salary in Ireland is €41,500. Senior minister salary is €217,136.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let them retrofit their homes sounds a lot like Let them eat cake to me. Retrofitting is so expensive and, I would think, only an option for people who already own a home. A solution for the 1%.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have multiple Instagram accounts, and my PayGap one is relatively clean, algorithm-wise. By which I mean that I rarely scroll or browse using it, just post really. I follow some politicians, some news sites, and a number of human rights groups (including mammies for trans rights).
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