Ciarán McKenna
@socialistciaran.bsky.social
Socialist, trade unionist. Militant-left.org #socialismorbarbarism
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Curse of Private Equity.
Vets under pressure to increase revenue,
Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market
Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023.
Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options.
Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.
Vets under pressure to increase revenue,
Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market
Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023.
Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options.
Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.
Vets under increasing pressure to make money for corporate owners, BBC told
Questions have been raised about whether the pet-care market is giving customers value for money.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Curse of Private Equity.
Vets under pressure to increase revenue,
Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market
Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023.
Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options.
Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.
Vets under pressure to increase revenue,
Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market
Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023.
Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options.
Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.
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BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
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#OtD 26 Dec 1862 the largest mass execution in US history took place when 38 Native American Dakota people were hanged. Some trials lasted less than five minutes, and Pres Lincoln personally reviewed the trial paperwork and approved the death penalty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9808...
December 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#OtD 26 Dec 1862 the largest mass execution in US history took place when 38 Native American Dakota people were hanged. Some trials lasted less than five minutes, and Pres Lincoln personally reviewed the trial paperwork and approved the death penalty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9808...
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A summons against Reginald D Hunter by the Campaign Against Antisemitism has been quashed after a judge ruled the “abusive” private prosecution was intended to get the comedian “cancelled”.
The judge added CAA was seeking to use the criminal justice system for “improper reasons”.
jrnl.ie/6912306
The judge added CAA was seeking to use the criminal justice system for “improper reasons”.
jrnl.ie/6912306
Judge rules summons by Campaign Against Antisemitism was attempt to have comedian ‘cancelled’
The judge added that the CAA was seeking to use the criminal justice system for “improper reasons” in the case.
jrnl.ie
December 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A summons against Reginald D Hunter by the Campaign Against Antisemitism has been quashed after a judge ruled the “abusive” private prosecution was intended to get the comedian “cancelled”.
The judge added CAA was seeking to use the criminal justice system for “improper reasons”.
jrnl.ie/6912306
The judge added CAA was seeking to use the criminal justice system for “improper reasons”.
jrnl.ie/6912306
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It is, to put it mildly, somewhat surprising
That news organisations here and in the neighbouring jurisdiction
Don't think a major hunger strike action by young political activists is not newsworthy
That news organisations here and in the neighbouring jurisdiction
Don't think a major hunger strike action by young political activists is not newsworthy
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It is, to put it mildly, somewhat surprising
That news organisations here and in the neighbouring jurisdiction
Don't think a major hunger strike action by young political activists is not newsworthy
That news organisations here and in the neighbouring jurisdiction
Don't think a major hunger strike action by young political activists is not newsworthy
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Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
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Self portrait of Galway artist+ POUM sympathiser Patrick Trench. Most of his time in Spain between 1936-37 was in Barcelona as journalist as poor health from tuberculosis kept him away from the front. V. kindly shared with me by relative Brian Trench who has written this doras.dcu.ie/29806/1/Patr...
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Self portrait of Galway artist+ POUM sympathiser Patrick Trench. Most of his time in Spain between 1936-37 was in Barcelona as journalist as poor health from tuberculosis kept him away from the front. V. kindly shared with me by relative Brian Trench who has written this doras.dcu.ie/29806/1/Patr...
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Economists don’t understand capitalism
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Economists don’t understand capitalism
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Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it
THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
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This wildly tacky World Cup draw is a grimly fascinating preview of what happens if the aesthetics of fascism finally get their way.
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This wildly tacky World Cup draw is a grimly fascinating preview of what happens if the aesthetics of fascism finally get their way.
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tech/AI has always been about profit maximisation and world domination at all costs (even if it means the end of democracy) only now, thanks to the rise of fascism, they can say the quite part out loud
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
tech/AI has always been about profit maximisation and world domination at all costs (even if it means the end of democracy) only now, thanks to the rise of fascism, they can say the quite part out loud
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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She knows that (a) she would actually have to get off her arse and do the work and (b) she wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning a seat.
She never actually had any notion of being on the Presidential ballot either, but everyone fell for it.
She never actually had any notion of being on the Presidential ballot either, but everyone fell for it.
Áras hopeful Maria Steen rules out contesting by-election to fill Paschal Donohoe's seat
Dublin Central by-election expected to take place in late spring next year and likely to be held on same date as by-election in Galway West triggered by Catherine Connolly’s election as president
www.irishexaminer.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
She knows that (a) she would actually have to get off her arse and do the work and (b) she wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning a seat.
She never actually had any notion of being on the Presidential ballot either, but everyone fell for it.
She never actually had any notion of being on the Presidential ballot either, but everyone fell for it.
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The map in my original tweet shows the number of graves, not number of bodies. Andalucía, by some way, has the most in terms of victims. In mass graves as shown in this map or otherwise.
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The map in my original tweet shows the number of graves, not number of bodies. Andalucía, by some way, has the most in terms of victims. In mass graves as shown in this map or otherwise.
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Lad who works remotely from Lear Jets, tax-free Monaco and his Carribean compound has some views on the rest of us ...
Remote working a 'mistake', claims Denis O'Brien
Businessman Denis O'Brien has claimed there has been a "marked decline" in the efficiency of all parts of the Government due to remote working.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Lad who works remotely from Lear Jets, tax-free Monaco and his Carribean compound has some views on the rest of us ...
The absolute neck of this lad! ‘Client confidentiality’, yeah, right.
‘Golden rule’ - Ivan Yates cites client confidentiality as reason he didn’t disclose media training of presidential candidate Jim Gavin
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates
Former broadcaster Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to former presidential candidate Jim Gavin.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The absolute neck of this lad! ‘Client confidentiality’, yeah, right.