Avo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Avo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@ailbhe.bsky.social

Irish Mammy, wife, rugby, lefty, LGBT+ she/her Politics without empathy is just greedy capitalism. A bee isn't going to waste time trying to convince a fly that honey is sweeter than shite...

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Teenage boys Stories of them: Assaulting women Assaulting non nationals Raping women Stealing vehicles Murdering people It starts that early. And yet if we point out that male culture is the problem with society, we're somehow hating me. At what point to we face the problem head on?

I mean, duh. Every change so societal structure, health services or employment always serves men better and women worse. See also. Poor people always worse off.

Ok, guilty pleasure....MAFS The episode where the guy who talks about "I'm a warrior" and how we need more warriors, Knights, heroes, real men. Then he drops her when dancing. Then goes FULL Streisand wanting it left out in post production to save her blushes. Howled laughing. Always the alphas.

Had a big interview recently. I'm not desperate to move, but was really drawn by the role. The interview was....flat. very muted responses from the interviewers from the start, so no clue how well I did. I thought I gave a good account of myself, but no idea how it was received. The thing is...

I'm less excited by the role post interview. It's short term, I'm currently permanent. But there is potential to open lots of career doors longer term, given the area I'll be getting experience in. So IF I get it, which I have no clue about, I've a big decision to make. All advice appreciated!

This is something that has gone under the radar a little. Orban didn't lose to a progressive, he lost to someone just a touch less authoritarian than him.

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social

It's obviously a relief that Viktor Orban's rule is over. But there is a major caveat. His replacement is horribly right-wing - he's even more anti-migrant than Orban. Hopefully he'll roll back the authoritarianism and stop blocking EU action on e.g. Israel.

This man has posted on SM in the past saying he wouldn't mind seeing Greta Thunberg raped. That it's the only "action" she'll get. He's claimed Muslims are trying to take over the world. In case you're wondering who is running the fuel protests.

Had a chat with my kids tonight about the fact that there are good and bad people in the world. Spoke about what makes someone good or bad, in simple terms. I told them we can't always stop bad people, but we can always choose to be good people. Sometimes that's all we can do, as hard as it is.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social

I would like to remind you all that you can do nothing about world affairs on a one day timeline and that you hold no culpability for harmful choices made by deplorable people.

I feel like tomorrow morning will be one of those moments. I've never REALLY worried that someone will obliterate an entire country and spark nuclear war. Going to bed tonight, there's a whole part of me that isn't sure it won't happen.

Every morning, the first thing I do is check the news to see if Trump has done something dystopian. Most mornings it's more of the same. But I still check, because I know it's imminent. This morning was one of those mornings.

This is a decision The policies are designed to increase the value of an item that the policy makers all own. Some of them own many of them. Why would they devalue their own assets? This won't get better.

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com

1️⃣7️⃣,3️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Another new record for people living in emergency accommodation, as of the end of February 2026. The overall number includes 5,457 children, and is up 12.5% in a year. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

One of the most controversial political opinions I have, is that charities should not exist. Charities do the work the government should do. Charities exist because the state fails to fully support the vulnerable. And the state is happy to let people choose to support them or not.

So is McGregor going to show up at the white house again like the token far-right paddy? Despite the fact that the entire country is utterly ashamed of him, bar some dog kicking pretend journos and some lads with domestic abuse convictions that claim to want to protect women and girls.

To me, the very best mothers are the single mothers, working mothers and mothers giving their children their all, despite a lack of support. Parenting is hard. Mothering comes with additional expectations. Then doing it alone is the ultimate challenge. I live in awe of mothers that do so!

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Replying to @richycraven.bsky.social

World rugby: Okay. So you can win this entire tournament Ireland: Okay, great! World rugby: as long as England win their game. Ireland:... World Rugby: So obviously you would want England to- Ireland: -Shush I'm thinking.

Lots of (mostly good) takes on this documentary exploring the grift that is red pill internet, but there something that's almost always missing. These men are taught to control, dominate and abuse women. This needs to be front and centre.

Tom Usher@tomusher.bsky.social

What jumped out at me from the manosphere doc is that media literacy is at all time low - and yet we’re more swamped than ever with media, and that can’t be a coincidence. Young men understand they’re being fucked over by capitalism, neolibrealism, yet the the solutions they’re “offered” are scams

Yes, targeting vulnerable young mens insecurities to financially scam them is terrible. But teaching them that women are to be controlled, a slave to a man's every whim, causes generational trauma and literally kills women. We need to stop overlooking that.

Woman, accidentally sends email to wrong person - "SEE WOMEN SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN RESPONSIBILITY" Men, start multiple world wars, destroy the planet, commit genocide, hoard vast wealth while people die because they can't afford a cheap antibiotic - "MEN ARE BORN TO LEAD" FML

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I see that it has taken "Pissed Off Lawyer" - JK Rowling's latest pet detransitioner - less than a year since detransition to find Jesus and become a raving MAGAhead. Every single prominent detrans voice I have come across is an ideological warrior, promoting Right Wing talking points. 1/

Every Conservative talking point has a foundation in disinformation. Everything is a lie, because it has to be. The hatred in society is manufactured. Don't fall for it.

The Journal@thejournal.ie

A post and graph shared widely on social media misleadingly suggests that up to 23% of young adults had identified as transgender. The chart is actually about the prevalence of bisexuality in women. jrnl.ie/6979815

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Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

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THIS Billionaires and multi-millionaires are causing LITERAL societal destruction. They're driving poverty, starvation, wars, genocide. They're stealing your money, your data, your ability to own a home. And we quietly allow it.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.