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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If you would ever consider giving blood, please do it. Blood donations save and extend people’s lives every day. #Speirgorm #SpéirGhorm www.giveblood.ie

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Give Blood, Save Lives. We count on you.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘The Military Revolution that Wasn’t: Technological Stagnation and Operational Innovation in the Late Republic and Galactic Civil War’

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 20/09/2026

What we need is an AI agent that just periodically whispers "you, too, sire, will someday pass forgotten from this earth" into its user's ear.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Amazing that a minor plot point in The Pitt which was criticised as being too on the nose about AI turned out to actually happen Almost as if AI can be exactly as bad as imagined

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I imagine this will be of interest to anyone studying the Devotional Revolution in Ireland

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This reminds me about how Trump loaned out his apartment to film The Devil’s Advocate Filmmakers: ‘we need a hideously gaudy residence that screams “owned by the devil”’ Trump: ‘say no more fam’

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

81 and I have a feeling that’s a low score 😅

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Quote-post with pics of your Leader/Champions!

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What brazen liars. By restoring water-retaining natural ecosystems, rewilding REDUCES wildfires.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We're laughing at this guy for saying something dumb while in the throes of AI addiction, but now I'm wondering if we shouldn't treat it like a drug or alcohol problem. These people need help.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

‘I don’t know if you have asthma but you’re probably going to have a burst lung at some point’

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today is the 90th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement What is less well known about Casement is that he was an occasional poet. Sharing, not because it's a great poem, but to acknowlede the colonial strategy of language erasure Treasure language, every voice #poetry #poemoftheday

Poem - 'The Irish Language' by Roger Casement

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Effectively some Americans going nuts over people saying “Dia dhuit” or “le cúnamh Dé”

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I've just finished indexing 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy', edited by Edith Hall, Arlene Holmes-Henderson and others - a fascinating collection on Aristotle's role in early modern politics, popular medicine, popular science, jurisprudence, and much more! www.routledge.com/Aristotle-Be...

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@evansthecrime.bsky.social the perils of court reporting in bilingual countries

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Said a few words of welcome to an international student group at an astronomy-related summer school last week and told them we were experiencing a rare astronomical phenomenon where a star rarely seen from Ireland was visible - even in daylight. The Sun. They were not expecting dad jokes.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 04/07/2026

It's comforting that even the ancient Greeks collected Warhammer figures and never got around to painting them.

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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 02/07/2026

Is there a sign saying “apostate bishop storage” on my garage, Jules?

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Lunchtown @bentograd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"What's the Pope gonna do, excommunicate me?" Quote from Bishop excommunicated

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Were constantly told by the forestry industry that commercial plantations are good for carbon when undisturbed native forests are so much better

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: Franz Ferdinand John Grant (x3) St Vincent Titus Andronicus Neutral Milk Hotel Lisa Hannigan Warpaint Philip Glass The Rubberbandits (x3) Cathy Davey (x3) The Saw Doctors (Galwegian free space)

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on. What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left. The SF candidates big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Making my regular visit to the barber-surgeon

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bródnodig | an tóin is mó cúailgne @kweenmedb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

cork people would look at this & only take away the fact that cork protestants were seen as comparable to six english soldiers.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Eh - Cork wasn’t besieged, they enthusiastically joined Cromwell. See Ó Siochrú:

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 07/05/2026

Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Got to love my great-great-grandmother being married to one man for seven years in the 1911 census but married to a different man for 22 years in the 1926 census 😅

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Was anyone going to tell me about Angine de Poitrine? I feel like I’ve just discovered that fish exist and no one had told me

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Re: academia, several hundred people applying for one entry-level position isn’t sustainable.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The divide between historians of Ireland and the Irish public is pretty significant, I find. To the point that I would find people getting viscerally angry whenever I mentioned fairly uncontroversial things in the field.

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I can’t imagine subjecting myself to trying to buy anything important through a mobile app. I need *more* and *better* information when it comes to purchases, not someone else’s curated, monetised experience.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 19/03/2026

1. Britain has very much *NOT* always tolerated minority faiths. Just ask Jews and Catholics. 2. The idea that religious expression should be "in conformity with our values, our norms, our beliefs" should worry every faith group, starting with Christians.

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Angus Dwyer @angusdwyer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"A Canticle for Leibowitz" as an anthology film, with George Miller directing "Fiat Homo," Jane Campion directing "Fiat Lux" and Debra Granik directing "Fiat Voluntas Tua."

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Not that @irishrail.bsky.social is active here since they’re still on the gutter space that is Twitter

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Seven-car train from Heuston to Galway with no luggage racks in the first three cars - what the hell is the point?

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

19 Feb 1616: Thomas Dempster, 'saint-stealer' - who claimed #Irish saints (as Scoti) for #Scotland - made historiographer royal by James VI &I #otd

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Séamas Gráinneogach @grainneogach.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I think the University of Galway has made a bit of a miscalculation here.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/02/2026

A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

In college I did a paper comparing government responses between the AIDS crisis and the Justinianic plague. Some of the texts I cited from contemporaneous Byzantine accounts had no published translations. As far as I knew, my translations were the first "published" excerpts. There's a ton of stuff!

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Maryam Aslany - Peasants Makers of the Modern World À paraître en septembre chez Flammarion

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Virgin media rugby pundits just did a half time analysis as if they had just witnessed the 1916 leaders being executed if you're wondering how the Ireland France game is going

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