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Gavan Titley

@gavant.bsky.social
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Professor of Media, MU. Writing right now about ‘freedom of speech’ in a world of noise.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It is staggering how many club owners have no idea what they are doing. Utterly clueless rubes trying to run billion-euro businesses.
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The automatic subtitles on a news report about a gazillion cops arriving at the blockade of the Whitegate refinery informed that the ‘Public Ardour Unit has been deployed’. This is both an impressively accurate transcription of the journalist’s accent, and the solution to so many of our problems.
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Suzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A quick look at social media and live streams showing all the anti immigrant, anti IPAS, anti trans crew all over the blockades spinning rubbish re climate crisis etc.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
For many of us in Ireland, it's probably still The Burning of Bridget Cleary, by Angela Bourke. A remarkable book.
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Where the former paper of record allows a columnist to slander the Irish left as antisem*tic without any evidence whatsoever. It’s really odd to witness newspapers worry about fake news, disinformation, enshittification, and so on, while turning them into editorial values.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
‘Since the late 1960s, Axel Springer staff have had to sign a pledge to support the principles of its corporate constitution including support for Israel’s right to exist, a free-market economy and the alliance between Germany and the US’ WTAF www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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‘No one saw this coming’: will the surprise Telegraph winner change the paper’s direction?
Daily Mail owner could take long-term hit after being gazumped at the 11th hour by Germany’s Axel Springer
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Importing the fabricated anti-trans hysteria of the UK's intentionally divisive fabricated culture wars to Ireland. Culture wars that were planned expressly to advance modern fascism. If he's not a fellow traveler, Bakhurst is either thick or only interested in clicks. Either way not fit for the job
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In the context of the Triple Lock, notice how the Govnt and prominent commentators in the media sound like Trump when talking about the UN. 'Dysfunctional', 'no longer fit for purpose', and even, 'no longer relevant'. Dangerous and irresponsible words.
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Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The 1st of my 3-part series on digital politics is out in the Guardian. Read, comment, tell me I'm wrong, attack me. As I argue: 'The real battleground is over emotion and attention, which is what determines whether information – good or bad – finds an audience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka
In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...
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Mark Malone @soundmigration.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Check it out. An Clogán website is now live.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota
The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I need to get a professional headshot done for a book and I really hate being photographed like that, so I was googling how best to go about it and Google informed me that ‘real snipers tend to avoid them.’ That AI thing is working out really well.
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Please spare me the Davos straight talkers, posturing as revivalist internationalists while the genocide they supported and trashed their democracies for continues to kill people they can’t even pretend to see as fully human.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 14/01/2026
A caricature of Brian Cowen in the nip led to the scrubbing of RTÉ news archives and a Garda visit to a radio station within 24 hours, just to give a sense of proportion to this foot-dragging.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 30/12/2025
It would not be difficult, practically speaking, for someone from within the journalist/commentary clique whom Suzanne considers peers, to drop her an email and ask her what the 'killing off' of 'trans ideology' would look like, in real terms, including and especially for those immediately affected.
Telegraph headline - Suzanne Moore: This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
As Tressie McMillan Cottom said recently about GenAI, nothing is inevitable, in getting academics to think GenAI is inevitable we work to make it so.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/12/2025
Palestinian reporters have paid a terrible price in another horrific year for journalist killings | Jane Martinson
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Palestinian reporters have paid a terrible price in another horrific year for journalist killings | Jane Martinson
The Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the most prominent name among so many targeted for simply bearing witness to the truth, says journalist and media professor Jane Martinson
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
DEPARTMENT
Homeland Security
@DHSgov

The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear:
Remigration now.
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Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025
With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable www.wired.com/story/poems-...
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/11/2025
‘For the Gilets Noirs, an anti-racist collective of undocumented migrants, detention and asylum are their own kind of prison: “In Africa we get killed directly. Here it’s death over a low heat. You wake up in the morning and someone has gone mad in the night.”’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Alexandra Reza | Death over a Low Heat
On 30 October, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National introduced a bill to revoke the 1968 accord and put Algerian...
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ten blog posts emerging from a discussion group I’ve been part of on the ‘cultural locations of fascism’ with a great bunch of writers, organised as part of the relaunch of the States of Cultural Analysis blog of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...
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The Cultural Location of Fascism
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄 This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My first academic job was in DKIT, and I had a great time working there - this seems like a really exciting move for them.
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Ireland is getting its first cross-border college as Queen's and DkIT partner up
Dundalk Institute of Technology will be established as a university college of Queen’s University Belfast.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 14/11/2025
We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all. And this ghoul thinks it is too generous. I'm gonna lose it. news.sky.com/story/home-s...
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Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms
In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Give me a chance, it’s only Thursday. I’ll ruin it eventually I’m sure.
OPINION
INTERESTING TIMES
Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/11/2025
DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’
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DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’
WASHINGTON—Reaffirming the Trump administration’s promise to crack down on individuals providing supervision and instruction to youngsters across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 05/11/2025
It's almost like... like maybe the fascism *never* actually arose from working class "economic anxiety"... like maybe the working class *weren't* actually the ones radicalised by bourgeois resentment of "cancel culture" and "wokeness"... like maybe the working class have... more pragmatic priorities
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
also our political anthem is literally called the Internationale! it’s far more reasonable for us to care about NYC than it is for right-wingers to care about Trump
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division." Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Ezra Klein

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.
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Gavin Elliott @sgelliott.net · 01/11/2025
So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
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CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Irish media, international news: OMG Farage! Musk! 😭 “Populism” everywhere 😤 Irish media domestic news: let’s get Declan Ganley on again to say our democracy is corrupt and country overrun by immigrants. Oh and John Collison to tell us how to run the state as a techbro enterprise.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Politicians defending these despicable "legitimate concerns" protests have carried the ball up the pitch for the riots at citywest. Thank God Eimer is there cause none of these people, TDs included, seem to give a shit when it's a white Irish man brutalizing, abusing, or murdering women or children
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Suzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Would love the moratorium to return … #Rtept
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Dagsson @dagsson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow
Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Clever by Norway to distract Trump from invading them in a fit of pique by giving it to a ‘peace activist’ who really wants him to invade Venezuela instead.
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This, by @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social, is very good if very upsetting tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/tyne...
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Tyneside Totenkopf
Paralleling scenes across Britain, a summer of far-right phase shift culminated in a stand-off in Newcastle this weekend, as ‘stop the boats’ marchers were opposed by campaigners defending the North E...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2025
Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Look What You Leftists Made Us Do: A Never-Ending Series.
The FCC, Disney and Jimmy Kimmel
The right gives the left a dose of cancel culture and regulatory abuse.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13/09/2025
Yes he very civilly said my wife was too stupid to be a pilot and my money controls the world and we both were degenerates who should be killed, he said all that very civilly
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Dear fucking god. BBC 6pm news: Story one: over 100k Tommy Robinson demonstrators Story two: the govt promises deportations of boat migrants to France will begin next week
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Every time a reactionary ‘taboo-breaker’ becomes a free speech icon/martyr, sacralisation demands that their critics are fired, silenced,threatened, purged.This gets called hypocrisy, but that would require free speech be a coherent idea, rather than the technology of power it’s always been.
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Gavan Titley @gavant.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“Such violence is antithetical to America” according to the Editorial Board of the NYT. They picked a fine day to muscle in on The Onion.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25/07/2025
Foreign Affairs Committee expected to recommend services be included in Occupied Territories Bill
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Foreign Affairs Committee expected to recommend services be included in Occupied Territories Bill
Committee meeting on Friday to finalise report
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