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Andrew Ó Baoill

@aobaoill.bsky.social
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Job: U Galway. Research: Community media, scholactivism, pedagogy. Politics: Labour Galway. Co-chair CAM section of IAMCR. obaoill.net

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President of Ireland @president.ie · 07/06/2025
At a special event at the University of Galway yesterday, it was announced that the University will be the custodians of President Higgins’ Presidential Archive. At the event, the Aula Maxima was renamed The Michael D. Higgins Auditorium where a portrait by Colin Davidson was unveiled
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
the nazi book burning of the library of the Institute for Sexual Science. Berlin, Germany. May 10, 1933
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
theverge.com
The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.
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Niklas Höhne @niklashoehne.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
US declares national energy emergency Cynical Executive order claims US does not have enough energy. But US has one of the highest energy use per capita. Energy shortage is nowhere near Should rather declare climate emergency www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-...
ourworldindata.org
Energy use per person
Measured in kilowatt-hours per person. Here, energy refers to primary energy using the substitution method.
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Three Red Kings @threeredkings.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
When you refuse to call a Nazi salute what it is, I think the only reason to do so is to allow yourself to continue covering a Nazi without feeling complicit. Accepting that it was what it was demands you make a choice.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ireland’s shame is that we let Mixhael McDowell stir up a moral panic for his own ends and induce us to end birthright citizenship in 2004.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Smotrich 'assured' Israel would continue war and take control of Gaza Far-right minister says he received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal www.middleeasteye.net/news/smotric...
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Smotrich 'assured' Israel would continue war and take control of Gaza
Far-right minister says he 'received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It’s almost like Netanyahu doesn’t want the ceasefire.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
So sorry to hear of the passing of Jeremy Lansman. He used to call us at WILL AM with questions as he simulcast Bob McChesney’s show on his Alaska station. Rightly remembered, alongside his comrade-in-arms Lorenzo Milam, as a giant in community radio. recnet.substack.com/p/community-...
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Community radio pioneer and RM-2493 co-author Jeremy Lansman has died
His petition, filed five decades ago, sparked an urban legend that still continues to circulate to this day.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Grateful for the opportunity from @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social to discuss how media coverage affects our politics @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
SWEDEN: Tesla seeks end to license plate blockade in ongoing Swedish labour dispute driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-s...
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Tesla seeks end to license plate blockade in ongoing Swedish labour dispute
Tesla is continuing its legal battle in Sweden as the automaker is now seeking a court order to bypass a license plate blockade by postal workers, which is part of an ongoing labour dispute in […]
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Lean in? /s
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The existence of this little bit of commons is increasingly vital as everything else is ground down in the mill for profit.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/01/2025
any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I guess "pugnacious" is a euphemism for lying, money-grabbing, racist viper now.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Duty done. ✔️ Looking forward to the long awaited expansion of the University Seanad franchise later this year. In the meantime, if you have a vote in the NUI panel make sure to give @aliceeire.bsky.social your number 1 🗳️ and return a principled advocate for justice to the upper house.
An envelope addressed to the returning officer is placed into a postbox.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/01/2025
this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I think I was easier to see award-winning Iranian movies 30 years ago, when every DVD rental shop had a couple, than it is today. Video going streaming should have been an amazing opportunity, but it has just increased film illiteracy.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I seem to recall that Putin's reign was legitimised by a series of unexplained terrorist actions.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Picture of the year already?
A cybertruck on fire beside the entrance to a Trump hotel.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
So this arrived today. Time to start researching the candidates. (#1 of course to @aliceeire.bsky.social.) Anyone done up a cheat sheet to the less well-known candidates?
Seanad ballot paper, NUI panel.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
If you beat someone so badly that they due of that beating, you have, in fact, beaten that person to death. They didn't just die for no connected reason.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
media.tenor.com
a man sits at a desk in front of a poster that says if it ain t broke don t fix it
Alt: Popcorn. Longer description: a man sits at a desk in front of a poster that says if it ain t broke don t fix it. He grabs a large popcorn. Caption says ok, ok … GO!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/12/2024
we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This can’t have been coincidental - and if by some chance it was, it highlights just how criminally negligent these attacks are. www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
bbc.com
Head of WHO was at Yemen airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says one of his plane’s crew members was injured.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
"We are eating beyond our means."
Charles Haughey
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I was in a store yesterday and a woman collapsed and hit her head on a shelf, cutting her head open. We stopped the bleeding while the clerk called 911. When the ambulance showed up, the woman didn’t want to go to the hospital at first bc she was worried about the cost. Picture unrelated.
Luigi Mangione
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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Egypt orders deportation of Syrians who celebrated Assad's fall www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-o...
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Egypt orders deportation of Syrians who celebrated Assad's fall
Security forces detained around 30 Syrian nationals in Cairo after they held gatherings welcoming the end of the Assad dynasty
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
USA: Christmas strikes at Amazon and Starbucks - full coverage on LabourStart www.labourstart.org/news/country...
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LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
LabourStart is the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Hey @simonharrisireland.bsky.social - this is ultimately your responsibility.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Time to end the public subsidy of private privilege and redirect the €140m annually to educational needs. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
irishtimes.com
Taxpayers are subsidising private schools by more than €140m a year
Sinn Féin and Labour want to end State funding for fee-charging schools but Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael support current system
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Nah-uh. I’ve read the Ray Bradbury story: www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Nasa's Parker Solar Probe attempts closest ever approach to Sun
The hope is the probe could help us to better understand how the Sun works.
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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
See also: walking routes, public transport services. #FreeRangeKids
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:
Don’t make me tap the sign. Strikes are supposed to be disruptive
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame. You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way. If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 18/12/2024
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Irish Government hope you didn’t notice… Last month they failed to transpose the EU Average Minimum Wage Directive into Irish law. My speech on collective bargaining rights today ⬇️
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/12/2024
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thanks @labourstart.bsky.social for the reminder that today marks 14 years since the start of Union-led protests in Tunisia that marked the start of the Arab Spring.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
What a wonderful addition to Westside park - free-to-use equipment like balls and dumbbells, facilitated by an app, allowing unattended storage on site. The same model as self-service printing in the library, or bike schemes, but with no charge at point of use.
A sheet with instructions on the side of the wooden structure that contains the equipment.A wooden structure cubbies by the side of a sports field. Two cubbies contain various balls and cones. Another contains dumbbells. Others are empty.
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Emma Walsh @walshiewrites.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Factchecking needed, I'm pretty sure they're all fluent in English.
A headline from the Irish Times online reading "Young Irish are most likely in the EU not to know foreign languages".
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
104 journalists killed this year, according to the IFJ - more than half of them in Gaza bit.ly/ifj-2024
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104 journalists killed this year, according to the IFJ / IFJ
According to the annual report of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 2024 was another particularly deadly year for journalists and media professionals. As of 10 December 2024, 104 jour...
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I can’t believe someone snitched! “Luigi Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after he was spotted at a McDonald's by someone who believed he resembled the gunman, officials said at a news conference.” Arrest in connection with murder of UnitedHealth CEO www.rte.ie/news/us/2024...
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Arrest in connection with murder of UnitedHealth CEO
A "strong person of interest" in the killing of UnitedHealth Chief Executive Brian Thompson in New York last week is in custody, according to the city's Mayor Eric Adams.
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hearing headlines about Assad ordering a peaceful transfer of power would be comical if it didn’t come on the back of so much death and terror.
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Finn Callaghan Art @finncallaghanart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
1. This is true. As everyone’s on here for the Toy Show tonight, I’m starting a thread of Irish businesses and artists on here who’d love your support Even just a share could make all the difference to them Suggestions are welcome! #toyshow #latelatetoyshow #latelate #speirgorm #shopirish
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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Absolutely fantastic. 👏👏 Dr. Norah Patten is such an inspiration #latelatetoyshow
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Bring out Space Norah!
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Andrew Ó Baoill @aobaoill.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“Pop on this bad boy” 🤣 #latelatetoyshow
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