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PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share jackkennedy.ie linktr.ee/jack_kennedy

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 6h
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 17h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 11h
says something about the workings of Ireland's democracy that we have no mechanisms to keep the government in check on climate. Climate Action Plan delayed, public transport not funded, Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity ignored
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Really damning data
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Once you learn that not a single major US news outlet used the phrase "Hamas-ran health ministry" until after 10.17.23 you really start to see how pernicious this stuff is. Nobody really disputed that the GHM was accurate, even Israel admitted so, but that didn't matter. Anyway now it is spreading
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026
Anthropic: "We are losing unimaginable amounts of cash, more every year. We are also delusional and think we are creating a vengeful god that will kill us all. Please give us more money than currently exists."
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026
Worst magazine you know just made a great point
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Monomarchos @monomarchos.agency · 29/09/2026
Merci pour ce grand moment de Fact Checking et de Journalisme www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio...
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Non, le visage d'Emmanuel Macron éclairé de rouge n'est pas un signe de Satan
Des internautes voient le signe du Diable dans une photo d'Emmanuel Macron avec le visage éclairé de rouge à côté du pape Léon XIV. Or, il est juste passé sous une vitre rouge.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the age differential remains fascinating
Generational vote for Melanchon/Le Pen
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also notable: (at least) two of the most reviled cops during the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests, Rupert Dover and David Jordan, were holdovers from colonial times. Good examples of absolute FILTH (failed in London, try HK)
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.
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Chris @cc42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fucking disgraceful. Both that it's going ahead at all, and that people protesting this shit in their community could be arrested for it. None of this needs to be happening.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Speaking of institutional cowardice, these frat bros were given essays to write as punishment for sexual assault at the same time that students were being expelled for protesting a genocide...
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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is my adhd (self dx) really helping me? Hmm let me think🤔 Yes! Ok, thank you👍 Is your curtain twitching helping you? I highly doubt it Those of us fighting the anti trans moral panic did warn they were coming for disabled people next
JANICE TURNER

"Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you?

A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation"

Janice Turner 

Friday September 25 2026, 7.27pm BST, The Times
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 25/09/2026
There is discussion to be had about the rise in apocalyptic predictions but you will not have it if you begin by lumping together phenomena that have measurably killed thousands/millions of people with a mixture of total fantasies, political propaganda, and decidedly non-apocalyptic concerns
Climate alarm, Covid and artificial intelligence. In recent years, these have loomed as the most conspicuous peaks along the apocalyptic ridgeline of our culture. But the mountain range is punctuated by a number of other forms of existential dread: the fertility crisis, the mental health crisis, the smartphone theory of intellectual and social decline, border chaos and the "woke mind virus," the fall of American democracy. Cast your eyes down into the foothills and you might see some more marginal conspiracy theories: 5G, the "great replacement."

Conspiracy theory gets the facts wrong but the feelings right, as the activist- writer Naomi Klein likes to say. And the feeling that all these visions share is the drop-in-your-stomach sensation of contemplating a sudden and

overwhelming loss of control.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 25/09/2026
I'm a big fan of Leuchtterm1917 notebooks but they are very emphatic about their founding date and the more I think about it the stranger it is It's May 1917 in Germany, the 2nd Battle of Arras is raging, civilians are limited to 1500 calories per day: time to found a fancy stationery company
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/09/2026
@socialaskan
If you are a Young Officer from Puerto Rico, Alaska, or Hawaii, listen to me: They are not delusions if the grandeur is real. Google
Napoleon
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
XKCD HERE'S A PAGE EXPLAINING THE TERMS OF YOUR NEW FIRE INSURANCE POLICY.
HEY, WHAT IF I-
AND HERE'S A PAGE EXPLAINING THAT THE "COOL HACK" YOU JUST THOUGHT OF IS CALLED 'INSURANCE FRAUD."
WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT IT AND IT'S A CRIME.
OH. RIGHT. HOW DID-
I SEE A LOT OF PROGRAMMERS HERE.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 24/09/2026
Mícheál Martin trying (like every other leader at the UNGA) to absorb some of Zohran Mamdani's aura is so funny. Mícheál, first of all, the foundation of Mamdani's charisma is his charming smile; you always look like you're trying to do both expressions from this Calvin and Hobbes panel at once
Calvin's dad giving a self-satisfied smirk while his mom gives an almost indescribable expression, an exaggerated smile clearly meant to be threatening
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 23/09/2026
Why is a national newspaper reporting on this. He holds no public office. He is a member of no political party - influential or otherwise. His past political campaigns were barely notable at the time, given how long-shot they clearly were from the start
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?
Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 22/09/2026
Like once a week someone from the AI industry will, in the process of trying to demonstrate their products' usefulness, volunteer a personal story so mortifying that any normal person would take it to the grave
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New polling from the National Youth Council of Ireland: - 68% of 18–24-year-olds are considering emigrating - 71% believe they'd have a better quality of life outside Ireland - 83% support stronger government regulation of AI - 89% agree the housing crisis disproportionately affects young people
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RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland
RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland Young people are responding to unaffordable housing, the rising cost of everyda...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 20/09/2026
Thousands march in Paris against bill granting police presumption of legitimate self defense
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Thousands march in Paris against bill granting police presumption of legitimate self defense
In July, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale approved the bill, which says that any law enforcement official who uses force is assumed to have acted legally in using their weapon. It now faces a vote in the Sénat.
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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The U.N. Human Rights Office said that Russian forces committed widespread sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of war in Ukraine, while Ukrainian authorities were also responsible for a smaller number of violations. www.reuters.com/world/widesp...
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Widespread sexual violence in Ukraine war, most cases tied to Russia, says UN report
Violations included gang rape, rape, genital mutilation and the use of electric shocks on men's genitals with a Soviet-era field telephone known as a "tapik."
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At the same time that the Minister for Justice is trying to cut off our access to the economic engine of immigration, the Minister for Finance is warning about the very demographic problem immigration is solving. While ignoring its existence.
THE IRISH TIMES
"By 2050, just 24 years away, Ireland will look a lot like Italy or Japan does today. In such a society, growth will be lower, costs will be higher and the burden on taxpayers - our children - will be immense, Harris will say. "There is no way of avoiding that fate and that is why it is so important that we continue to run surpluses and invest in our sovereign wealth fundạẠỊi
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 21/09/2026
The co-leader of the German Greens Franziska Brantner, says that in Berlin, her party won't govern with The Left, with "anti-Semites from Neukölln" Neukölln is the most racially diverse district of Berlin. When she says "anti-Semites from Neukölln", she means "Muslims"
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you
Rishi Sunak stood on a lecturn speaking which has a STOP THE BOATS sign on it
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 20/09/2026
If even Sarah Wagenknecht thinks you're a weirdo, boy, I dunno
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interviewer: "Hey, uhm, why did you not do basic cybersecurity?" OpenAI: "well, you see, [sci-fi scenario] so we might as well not bother with the basic stuff" Fundamentally unserious, all this talk about not underestimating AI, all in service of not taking basic precautions
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 17/09/2026
Part of the reason this evidently went beyond mere negligence is Washington's "deprioritisation of civilian harm mitigation and of compliance with IHL; expressed through public statements by senior U.S. leadership, including [Trump and Hegseth] which dismiss binding obligations under IHL"
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 17/09/2026
"the Mission considers that the U.S....went beyond mere negligence. Rather, the U.S. directed the strikes at the building of the school while being aware of a substantial risk of striking a civilian object and acting recklessly as regards the possibility that this would happen."
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 17/09/2026
Full report ⤵️ the war crimes accusation is maybe the most striking element but it also covers the repression of protests last Dec-Feb www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Iran: Civilians trapped between extreme State repression and violations arising from devastating conflict with US, Israel, UN Fact-Finding Mission finds
GENEVA – Civilians in Iran are caught between gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by their own Government and the nation’s deadly conflict with the United States and Is...
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you read Kraft’s statement, both this headline and the article it links to are enormously misleading. Kraft says he’s been asked to donate, doesn’t say he has, and doesn’t mention any charities. Readers could be forgiven for thinking Kraft had donated to the charities listed in the text.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 17/09/2026
This is absolutely insane. The speed with which everyone in politics and media in Europe has accepted that pervasive state oversight of the internet is not only acceptable but so clearly necessary it should be beyond debate makes my head spin
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And the Irish digital state ID wallet requires you to have a valid MyGov account, which in turn requires you to submit information that the DPC has ruled to be illegal !! So its going to be interesting to square that circle
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?
Beautiful women have been driving the world insane as long as has been recorded. The semi-mythical Helen of Troy is the most obvious evidence of this time-worn tradition. Cleopatra was a main character in that great hinge point of history: the collapse of the Roman republic and the creation of the Roman emperor. Anne Boleyn and Mary Antoinette – by today’s standards perhaps not as “hot” as Sweeney – scrambled Henry VIII’s faculties, redirecting the House of Tudor twice.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 16/09/2026
Happy for the Canadians or whatever but it is a fascinating new example for my hypothesis that when the EU says potential members must be "European states" but that this "need not be interpreted in a strictly geographical sense" and can also be "cultural or political", they just mean white
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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants Canada to become the bloc's 1st associate member
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the European Union’s first associate member, a striking overture as U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats drive Ottawa closer to Europe.
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