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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From the handmade birthday card the 9 year old made me

What goes up but never comes down? Your age

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This article annoyed me more than I expected. It makes a fetish of the small-class conversation (not itself a bad thing) & indulges in florid over-intellectualisation of basing assessment around that (again, not itself bad but unfeasible for most instructors). In short, an aristocratic sensibility.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First strike directive by the union in my 16 years lecturing

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘Working with grassropts activists in Russia’ *sounds* nice but may as well be science fiction. Almost certainly, the war will end only through diplomacy

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tech being smart enough to end the world but dumb enough to make me sign in separately to all the MS apps, FML

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Going to corner you at a party and bore you to death about the [*obscene vertical hand motion*] ‘grown-up soft drink’ I’m having www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...

theguardian.com

Welcome to the age of the grown-up soft drink

There is now a wealth of less sugary, more sophisticated nonalcoholic options out there, with flavours clearly aimed at an adult market

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Walked through the city centre for the first time in ages today after submitting a big piece of work and I can confirm that bakeries are the new nightclubs

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever since I was a little boy, I always wanted to begin Monday mornings by double factor authenticating on my smart phone to enable me to use a Word processor

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

YouTube substantially increased the subscription for its ad free version and apropos of nothing I saw a history video billed as ‘human voiced’ as if it were some boutique premium concept 🙄

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My ‘happy Friday’ face. It’s what they used to call a ‘resting’ expression, I promise

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is there anything in life as lame as - as cringe - as writing a ‘conclusion’?

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

By using appropriately positioned em dashes

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fundamentally don’t believe in sending voice notes, think it’s just very inefficient. So i just send them to one male friend effectively as retaliation for sending them to me

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I always thought Ireland had a funny euphemism for WW2 (‘the Emergency’) but just learned the equivalent Icelandic phrase was something like ‘the situation’ or ‘the circumstances’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/08/2026

RFK Jr complains that people in hospice aren't dying quick enough and therefore cost too much money

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Daughter has had had this laminated booklet with detailed visuals of her new classroom and the personnel … since June!

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

google AI generating claims and quotes that follow-up google searches immediately refute: internet commons so monumentally fucked

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The whole gist of the 1998 peace agreement is that sovereignty over Northern Ireland is decided by its population. And then the British just say stuff like this - like they have the final say. To the British, NI is simultaneously ‘other’, but ‘ours’.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Strongly disagree with idea of ‘banning tech in the classroom.’ Those who teach adults should have humility about different ways ppl learn. Devices are distracting but paternalism is not the answer. Deciding whether to take notes with a pen or a word processor should be the student’s responsibility.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

‘Can I customise your laptop with stickers’ asks the 9 year old. ‘Yes’. ‘What would you like’ ‘Maybe a motivational slogan’. … ‘why did you put ‘just one coffee’.?’ ‘Because you drink too much coffee’

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It turns out Cofnas is being disciplined on quite specific grounds – publicly misrepresenting the scope of his post doc as being about race science, and making racist statements said to be criminal under Belgian law. Not directly based on orchestrating a ‘pile on’

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The 9 year-old got me this hat as a gift. Useful lest there be any confusion about which component of the family I am.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

amusing typo where instead of that someone 'draws on' a particularly author I said that someone 'raws on' that author, which sounds vaguely 🙈🙊

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it's possible there are grounds for disciplining Cofnas - let's admit, none of us really know Ghent's regulations or the precise charges - but there is an awful lot of slippage and sloppiness in what ppl are saying. People are arguing he shouldn't have been hired, & I'm sure they're right,...

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A design flaw of contemporary workplaces is that the people who decide how much is reasonable for us to have to dick around with computer stuff, are people who themselves have an abnormally high tolerance, and even liking for dicking around with computer stuff

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Idly watching Gladiator 2. The combat scenes are like a computer game. Technically sophisticated but aesthetically shit. *Middle aged man noises*

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yesterday far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for nightly killings in Gaza of 30–40 people who he says are "not worthy of life.” Now Palestinians in the West Bank are being marked with numbers. Sound familiar?

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Obviously hyperbolic but nonetheless honest piece by Sam Kriss about Jason Arday samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrio...

samkriss.substack.com

The carrion-eaters

What we did to Jason Arday

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My most ‘dad’ flex is intoning ‘the chicken died in vain’ at the leftovers

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

‘The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.’

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Because of the fuss about the Odyssey thought I would read it first (didn’t get a very posh education), but decided it was better to start with the Illiad, and boy let me tell you some of this content is problematic!

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Kathleen Stock moving from "we need to stop indulging fake disability" to heavily implying that non-physical disability is "disqualifying from scholarly life" is a pretty unsurprising eugenic escalation, all in all

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A belief in equal human dignity is a sort of secular faith. You ‘believe’ it or you don’t, and you can’t meaningfully reason with or rationally refute those who don’t. It serves more as premise than conclusion.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You can tell the school holidays are too long because the nine-year-old has started researching and deliberating on Halloween costumes.(she has settled provisionally on ‘tired mom’).

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I *need to know* how Femke Bol *looks* slower than the runners she’s beating? It’s like an optical illusion. If she were a cyclist, you’d suspect one of those hidden motors!

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Something being a ‘constitutional right’ means less than most people intuitively think it does. Sometimes (not always) X being a constitutional right simply means X is an interest that public authorities have to give a certain level of justification for not prioritising against competing interests

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kind of jarring to see Russian swimmers having to swim under a blank flag, yet Israeli swimmers not, at the European championships. Both countries conducting aggression/occupation, why the inconsistency?

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is my long-term held belief that Citizens United will go down in history as the single worst decision ever taken by a supreme/constitutional court in a liberal democracy.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think I’ve read or heard ‘autism is not a superpower’ hundreds of times more than I’ve ever heard anyone say it is. The only time I ever heard anyone actually say it was an autistic adult saying it was a mixture of impairments & superpowers, which TBF is a lot more nuanced

https://www.facebook.com/share/19AsNmxX7H/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wholesome news; ran my first 400m hurdles race. 10 x 3ft barriers so was pleased to complete it in one piece. Got a shiny medal for my efforts

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’m actually not one for romanticising or sanitising what the revolutionary period actually involved, but the idea that violence had no role in achieving the independence that was achieved, is crazy www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

irishtimes.com

Stephen Collins: State must stop promoting the myth Irish independence was achieved through violence

Admiration for cult of violence that motivated some 1916 leaders has warped popular understanding of our history for far too long, permeating popular culture

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Intersection of my ‘middle aged man’ opinions and ‘communist’ opinions is that ‘eating out’ is a racket and a scam and that in a good society restaurants would serve as a public amenity to relieve domestic drudgery, not as a hedonic luxury industry

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A middle aged woman on the train said ‘it’s nice to see a young fella with a bit of courtesy!’ and I am so vain that I am now treating 2026 as a success

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just reviewed a manuscript I highly suspected of being slop or slop-adjacent, but it wasn’t so clear that I could excuse myself from having to go through the motions. Felt sorry for myself, but more so for all journal editors. We are already in hell😬😬

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I just love the idea of coming to an interview armed with your analog publications in tow. Suitcases of manuscripts arrayed like feathers of a peacock.

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Natalie @noflashingneon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A former lecturer of mine went for an interview in a Spanish university and didn't realise you had to bring evidence of all your publications. The other candidates had wheelie suitcases full of them.

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