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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The finding out stage of fucking around...
Just took apart a kids bed to put together their new bunk beds that Santa brought. But Santa, without me realising, only delivered package 1 of 4, so now I have a child with no bed. Ordered in October 5th, projected 2 week delivery, they shipped ¼ of it 4 weeks later. I'm LIVID.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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.
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.