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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It wasn’t half as babbling and deranged as this but I saw a clip on BBC earlier where he was asked about Scotland Yard and was all “Oh yeah, I think they’ll catch them, I really rate Scotland Yard, those guys know what they’re doing” and it’s clearly just because of some vague memory of a movie.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s nice. My barista chats to people, gives treats to their dogs, and makes sure elderly people find a place to sit.

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don't want anything to do with them so they threaten to kill us. The nation equivalent of an Incel.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 27/09/2026

“As an art critic, [Berger] had a unique ability to describe the great paintings of the past in a way which made his readers feel the canon belonged to them, that it was theirs to do what they wanted with.” – Tom Overton proteanmag.com/2026/09/23/t...

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Andrew Holter interviewed Tom Overton, author of a new biography, “John Berger: From Life,” out from Verso Books. In this fascinating discussion, Overton discusses his friendship with Berger, the biog...

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wishing a good night’s sleep to Gavin Bazunu, and everyone who didn’t do anything to legitimise a genocide this evening.

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Andy McDougall @anmcd90.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Solidarity with Gavin Bazunu, who is (I believe) the first European footballer to ever refuse to compete against the Israeli national team. 482 matches after the illegal occupation of the West Bank. 17 matches after the UN considers the current genocide began. 7 matches after the UN ruling.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

League of Ireland clubs have been vehemently against this match, more or less across the board. The only current Ireland player to have been involved with a League of Ireland club in recent times is Gavin Bazunu. He has my respect for listening to people he trusts.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Despite my lack of surprise, I find myself incredibly disappointed in all involved. The vast majority of Ireland does not feel represented by these thoughtless young millionaires.

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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can only assume that the FAI hired Ed Sheeran's PR people.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hard to describe how proud I'd be of the Irish team if they refused to play this match. Probably equal to the disgust I feel towards the FAI and Government for putting them in this position.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wish I had more faith in the Irish players not to play against Israel on Sunday, but I really don’t. Far too many young men have been conditioned to the idea that sport and politics are separate, despite the notion being laughable when you sing a national anthem and face a flag before matches.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The word “chillax” appears to have largely disappeared from the vernacular, which is the first evidence of societal progress I’ve seen in quite some time.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/11/2025

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Picked this up in Melbourne last week. Happy 100th to the great man.

A vinyl sleeve of John Coltrane’s Africa Brass Sessions, vol. 2

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For those who have forgotten: Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara - whose teammates and extended family members have been killed - has asked Irish players, coaches, fans and broadcasters to boycott the games against Israel.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Arrived home from Melbourne on Thursday, about 36 hours after I’d left. Since then I’ve done myself a nasty injury while gardening, been scammed out of €160 on Adverts, and been annihilated in every game of backgammon I’ve played with my wife. Never travel.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Using the word "woke" as if it means what reactionaries mean by it is letting yourself be interpellated into a reactionary and crypto-racist frame, and we shouldn't. You can't say "politically correct" without putting reactionary trash in your mouth and brain; this version of "woke" is the same.

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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We've roasted coffees from world renowned competition winning farms. We've given up over 30% of our profits in each of the last 4 years. If you don't like coffee, it'd be great if you could tell a friend about how we're run because how we're run is more important than our coffee imbibe.ie/pages/shop

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People will do the most spectacular mental gymnastics over Michael Jackson because they want to dance to Billie Jean at weddings without feeling uncomfortable, so I don’t expect any detriment to Ed Sheeran’s career to last more than a month or two, sadly.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really happy to share the schedule for this semester's History Research Seminar in Maynooth. A fantastic lineup of speakers covering a wide range of geographic and temporal contexts. All are welcome to attend.

September 24
16:10-18:10 Rocque Lab Dr Patrick Doyle, (University of Limerick), ‘The Occupation of Heaven’: Catholic Political Economy, Land, and the Irish World, 1880-1930’.

October 01
16:10-18:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, (Maynooth University), ‘Medieval Irish Women as Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela’.

Launch of the new School of History and Ancient Classics, featuring launches of the new books Irish Townspeople: The Early Modern Urban Experience, c.1400-c.1640 by Prof Emeritus Colm Lennon and Akrasia and the Catullan Lover: Resisting Reason in Republican Rome by Dr Leah Hearn.

October 08
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab Dr Zhouxiang Lu, (Maynooth University), ‘Yellow River Piano Concerto: History, Politics and Identity’.

October 15
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab
Dr Idriss Jebari, (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global Sixties and Seventies’.

October 22
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab Dr Laura McAtackney, (University College Cork), ‘Material Worlds and Contested Histories: material revelations related to gender and class in Ireland’s recent past’.

November 05
16:10-17:10 Iontas Building
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Dr Angel Alcalde, (Melbourne University), ‘Four Global Moments in the History of Fascism’.

November 12
16:10-17:30 Rocque Lab
Dr Clodagh Tait, (Mary Immaculate College), ‘Robert Perceval’s wraith: death omens, family folklore, and male violence in late seventeenth-century London’.

November 19
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Lea Horvat, (University of Jena) ‘Coffee, gender, and labour on the southern semi-periphery of the Habsburg Empire (1867-1918)’.

November 26
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Siobhán Doyle, (National Museum of Ireland), ‘Irish Sport in 100 Objects: Writing a Public and Material History of Sports in Ireland’.
December 03
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Mina Hristova, (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), ‘Printing the Nation, Timing the Bloc: Temporalities of Money in Socialist Bulgaria, with Comp…

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I note those other famously Irish people from England, Oasis, are playing the Gillette Stadium next year.

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5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very funny that Ed Sheeran, who was so keen to co-opt and monetise Irish culture, failed to take into account how ingrained support for Palestine is in a country that has suffered from famine and genocide from its overbearing neighbour (where he was born and raised)

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A couple of years ago Ed Sheeran was sitting near me at a Kneecap gig, delightedly, showily singing along to C.E.A.R.T.A. and Fenian C**ts. I hope they’ve banned him from every future show.

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 12/09/2026

must be nice to go around with the unshakable belief that you alone are intelligent enough to come up with something like this, that the thought simply never occurred to anyone else

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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 06/09/2026

The fine for riding an e-scooter without a hi-viz vest, so that a careless motorist *might* see you (€100), will be higher than the fine for the same motorists if a Garda stops them for driving carelessly (€80). 🤷‍♂️

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What’s become increasing, depressingly apparent is that some of the most remunerative alt-ac careers are crypto grifter, white supremacist influencer, AI hypestar, useful narcissist, parallel journalist, & bigot handler.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My wonderful friend Catherine Brodigan left us yesterday, after a cruel battle with cancer that she fought with grace. Perhaps some of you knew her. If you make food, art, music, books, or pottery with your heart and soul, and if you fight for human rights, then she knew who you were.

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just incredible timing to capture this moment!

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s so fucking grim to see them getting their powder ready for the next big culture war. They’re training their sights on people with neurodivergence and ADHD and they can’t wait to set light to the fuse.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Understanding England's role in Irish history begins with the knowledge that when you talk about Bloody Sunday, you need to specify which one..

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe there's a reason the columnist who is the daughter of a communications CEO and the political scientist who is the son, brother, cousin and grandnephew of politicians spend far more time talking about EDI than they do about class and social reproduction of elites in the arts and universities 🧐

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

I REALLY hope people notice that this is part of the straight line that runs from "but what if a cis kid was given puberty blockers by mistake" and ends up with RFK croaking about how dangerous the polio vaccine is?

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Steven Pinker is a rancid little charlatan.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Casual racism (ID 'only secondarily connected to skin color'), total ignorance of neurodevelopmental conditions (none of her examples is an ID, a mental health condition, or evidence of academic unsuitability)--Kathleen Stock is a gowl, but the media who platform her are irredeemable.

I have a possible explanation that is only secondarily connected to skin color. Namely: at some point, the university sector decided that intellectual disability was something that should be mitigated, rather than treated as disqualifying one from scholarly life. Conditions such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, autism, ADHD, speech delay (and so on) were now to be treated as unfair obstacles to a person’s dreams of pursuing an academic career, rather than constituting evidence they were unsuited. And since over-diagnosis of mental health conditions is rife in the sector, and everyone is frightened of being called discriminatory, the predictable upshot was that — at least in some cases — straightforward midwittery came to be treated like an excusable intellectual disability as well.
Lecturers are now routinely expected to make adjustments to their ordinary critical approach as soon as someone has a diagnosis: to ignore spelling mistakes; mentally rearrange sentences without critical comment; try not to mind paragraphs that go on for days, or seem utterly arbitrary in their shape. I speak from experience.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

when your college or university asks you to join a panel or run an event about "ai" you can say, no I'm not doing that

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We abandoned the idea of any form of road policing a long time ago, and see the consequences play out every day now

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'd like to compare how Irish commentators wrote about Jason Arday with how they wrote about Brian Lucey, the Irish academic who had several papers retracted earlier this year because he had been corruptly peer reviewing his own work, but literally no Irish commentators wrote about it

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The “Jeez, everyone I know is getting a diagnosis now” to “OH!” pathway is very real.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It really isn’t normal for media outlets to hound minor public figures to death, just for fun, because they can. That really is a Just Britain thing.

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