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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FUCK IT. Let's give away 3 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated!

My latest novel Everything Will Swallow You, next to the sea, where some of it takes place.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

💙💛 Described as "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War”, writer and poet Paul Muldoon has received the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour the University can bestow. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social #poetry

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All welcome to the Dublin launch of New Zealand’s Irish Revolution edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman ⏰ 5pm to 6.30pm sharp 🗓️ Tuesday, 20 October 2026 📍 New Zealand Embassy, Level 3, 2–4 Merrion Row, Dublin, D02 YN56 👥 RSVP at ucdpress@ucd.ie

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local movement during a time of constitutional upheaval in Ireland. Between August 1921 and December 1923 boom yielded to slump and employers struggled to cut wages.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This happens so often. And colleges get super territorial, discouraging police reporting or involvement of advocates to help those who do report. So many times the person who committed the assault gets treated with kids gloves with no consequences, while the victim is left broken on their own.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...

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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[Rape] It's often a friend. Mine was a friend of a friend. These narratives of some dark alley stranger attack are flawed. It happens. Not often. And the bitch of it is, that familiarity is used against you because you didn't have preternatural foresight to know which "friend" it'll be.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My early career started with Title IX and Clery Act investigations. All I can say is I’m not surprised. At all.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about being an educated woman in your field is you’ll know all the fantastic and groundbreaking research/information but you will also know every fantastic thing not pursued because it relates to women.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone please finish their Jumanji game. This is getting excessive.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What I can say is… colleges have incentive to keep things like this quiet and it’s been going on for years. Almost any school I guarantee you find a woman who was attacked and their attacker’s future was put before hers by the admin. The Clery Act was proposed for a reason.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sneak peek at SLEUTH-HOUND this Wednesday! Bring your best questions!

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feel this in my very soul right now.

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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

. i remember when that happened to me... 💙📚🕊 #reading #books #albertomanguel

"at one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book- that string of confused, alien ciphers- shivered into meaning. words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. you became, irrevocably, a reader."
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a history of reading

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

UCD Press author Maria Butler (@mariabutler.bsky.social) has a fantastic piece in the Irish Examiner this week about Marian Keyes and women’s commercial fiction. Our thanks to @deshocks.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for sharing this article. 📰 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Marian Keyes' writing is a powerful force for social change

Women's commercial fiction — or chick lit as it is dismissively called — helps to shape society in subtle ways, writes Dr Maria Butler

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s almost like Congress should be working and doing something to protect the health and well being of the people they represent.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Berry has crafted a crucial entry in Ireland’s wider examination of its mother-and-baby homes and institutional control while keeping attendant horrors offscreen. Documentary evidence and testimony do the heavy lifting. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

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The Lost Children of Tuam review: Historical evils lurk beneath a muted surface

Frank Berry’s film reconstructs Catherine Corless’s meticulous investigation into the Bon Secours mother and baby home in the Co Galway town

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow am I so not shocked.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really miss this skyline

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧵 A dramatic Dublin sunset is a good example why I love colour. Irish skies are transcendent & it’s mythology full of wonders. I think both find their way into my drawings: vivid colour, pattern, and a little bit of the Otherworld as you can see if you scroll down! [1]

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I stopped putting my photography online years ago when they first started grabbing what they could. Now I have very limited outlets if I want to sell it, but at the end of the day it’s for me.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I need to know why when I’m decluttering and want to downsize, going through things one by one is so hard but if I was told I had to walk away from all my physical possessions I could do that with no second thoughts.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh my gosh so true. I won’t let my husband turn on YouTube around me right now because there’s a commercial that is playing everytime that references SA and I can’t take seeing a full minute of that every time I want to watch a video.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And corporations. Please why.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My kiddo and I paid attention to all the gas stations as we drove home. At 5 pm today, every station was up to $4.49.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh man! I hope it clears up quickly. Sorry you’re having that added on to your plate to deal with.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This woman’s interview is so well done. This could be applicable to so many places right now. It took a lot of courage for her to go on camera and call the bigots out for what they are.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m not saying it feels like the housing market is about to not look great, but on our 20 min walk, there are four homes that have been on the market for months. Single family, 2-4 bedroom, modestly sized. None are selling. They used to be sold within a few weeks in this area.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our dog was supposed to be a service dog for people with anxiety and PTSD but got dropped when he had anxiety and PTSD (long story)… our other dog was basically his therapy dog when we adopted him.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is so important. If you want to help, find a group already doing the work. They will have the experience and the blueprint, they just need people to show up. No need to reinvent what’s being done, it’s already there.

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With everything going on, analog everything sounds so much better right now.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘In other words, he’s more like a con man, sitting pretty atop the postmodern pyramid scheme that is late capitalism.’ He’s a hateful, genocidal and evil con man whose contempt for brown and Black people has led the world to some already dark paths. And it’s going to get worse.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The full programme for DBF2026 is live! We are very much looking forward to attending and participating in the wide selection of author events, walking tours, book launches, and more in this year’s lineup in venues across Dublin from 4–8 November. @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

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Dublin Book Festival 2026 Programme Revealed - Dublin Book Festival

Today, we were thrilled to announce the full programme for Dublin Book Festival 2026, now up on our website to browse and get booking. This one is a special one for us as we celebrate our 20 years, an...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026

We identified the top 100 sprayers of the controversial weedkiller Roundup in California—a state that produces more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and nearly half of its vegetables. Check out our new searchable database to find out who’s at the top of the list. bit.ly/3SqKXDZ

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I had a front row seat to a recording of BURIED EVIDENCE, hosted by @rebeccarideal.bsky.social and @rakshadigs.bsky.social. And let me tell you: it was fantastic! If you like mystery, true crime, history and archaeology, this is the podcast for you! Congrats on the glowing review!

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here CBS let me fix this framing “A majority of US households now have a minimum quality of life that is out of reach.” Or even “Over half of US households find minimal quality of life out of reach.”

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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A magnificent hidden treasure of Irish legal history - the Bechbretha ('bee-judgments') of the Brehon law manuscripts composed in the seventh century (TCD MS 1316/2 page 25) #medievalsky

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

But don't listen to me! Or Wired! Listen to an actual expert: @kateclancy.bsky.social! "Now imagine all this dysregulation is happening all over your body, because you have receptors for these hormones everywhere. Your brain, your bones, your breasts; your muscles, your bladder, your skin."

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Period 49: Perimenopause reporting (and grifting) can kiss my hot flashing butt

(QUICK ASIDE: MY BOOK IS OUT!!! BUY IT HERE AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS BECAUSE THIS BOOK IS GOING TO NEED LOTS OF HAND SELLING FOR ANYONE TO UNDERSTAND IT’S AN...

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Kate @dubchi5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I cannot imagine the cruelty it takes to rip a child away from a mother who wants them, solely based on marital status or whatever arbitrary standard they used as an excuse.

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