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Tony Kavanagh

@tonykavanagh.bsky.social

Bluesky bumbler. He/him. Watching the collapse of America through my fingers. Dad, husband, creative, queer, leftie loon™ https://hometime.bandcamp.com/

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Lee@leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · 7h ago

Roisin Murphy has taken a swipe at Madonna for supporting all the community. Roisin, don’t come for the woman who has been with the community from before the start of her career in music. Especially when you’ve used LGBTQ to boost your mediocre at best career.

Róisín Murphy I often wonder how many legally gagged artists there are. I was told at the time that most major label contracts had the very authoritarian-sounding "morality clause" as standard. A morals clause (also called a morality clause, bad boy clause, or bad girl clause) is a standard Show more QNSLogic @closer2thelight • 1h I guess Madonna never had that clause @roisinmurphy No, Madonna has no such excuse for supporting the TQ+ bandwagon or for not calling out its inherent homophobia. Perhaps she just doesn't care that children who would've grown up to be gay are being medicalised and harmed before they have the maturity to know who they are. Strange that. 15:23 • 04 Aug 26
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d ago

Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.

🟥 edel⁷ 🥢 ㅇㄹㄹ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ'ˢ ᵍᵒⁿⁿᵃ ᵇᵉ ᵒᵏᵃʸ@edelrh7.bsky.social · 2d ago

In 1994 I was 16 My parents were married- but not to each other, as divorce wasn't legal in Ireland When my mother left my abusive biodad w/ 4 children (11mo to 8 yrs) a parish priest followed to tell every hospital not to hire her as she needed to return to her husband We were the lucky ones.

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

WWN@waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 6d ago

Inconsiderate Public Urged To Please Think Of The Data Centres Before Watering Lawns http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/05/14/inconsiderate-public-urged-to-please-think-of-the-data-centres-before-watering-lawns/

Inconsiderate Public Urged To Please Think Of The Data Centres Before Watering Lawns

IF YOU'RE planning to water your lawn or plants during the current hot spell, the government is urging citizens to be a little bit more considerate and spare a thought for the country's 82 data …

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Cllr Hazel Chu@hazelchu.bsky.social · last wk.

You may have heard Gazan students, who have all been accepted onto fully funded scholarships for third-level courses, have had their visa applications turned down. As a nation we proclaim to be supportive of Palestine and want to help them however we can. Allowing students to complete degrees 1/2

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs

What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements. WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research. No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions. The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts. My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide. I don’t pretend to understand their motivation. In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide. I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes. I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up. Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure. None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle. Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · last wk.

We saw this in Ireland when the GPAHE report came out with a list of Irish far-right orgs & some Irish journos saw LGB Alliance & Renua on the list & went, nah, hang on, they're just straight-up guys like us! Not far-right at all!

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.

The argument usually boils down to “this person, who seems in every aspect to be a Nazi, cannot be a Nazi, because Nazis are socially unacceptable, and he is being accepted, for example by Me.”

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

Tony Kavanagh@tonykavanagh.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hope there are many more people of Ms. Bravo's grit and integrity willing to take the baton and expose those responsible.

Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/ 🧵 Alexandra Bravo investigated US strikes that left fishermen tortured. A hitman shot her dead on a street corner. Her sister jumped in front and died too. Her assigned police protection detail was nowhere to be found. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's also pretty wild that everyone has just normalised the fact that the US president's "top foreign policy advisor" is also his son-in-law. The US has become a petty corrupt autocracy and, in a remarkably short time, that fact has itself has become... unremarkable

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w ago

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW