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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 15/09/2026
'Fredrik Furtenbach […] does not believe the Social Democrats and Moderates, who he describes as “traditional archenemies”, will end up working together. “You cannot share the position of prime minister.”' My brother, cast your eyes towards Ireland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Sweden’s political parties launch coalition talks as both blocs try to secure power
Centre-left bloc led by Social Democrats has narrow lead with 95% of vote counted, but faces internal policy battle
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 30/08/2026
How to make sense of the Icelandic EU negotiation referendum: They voted to avoid having a potentially difficult conversation
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Emma Ruth Rundle @emmaruthrundle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
POWERLESS - from my forthcoming album is streaming listen and preorder THESE KILLING TIMES here emmaruthrundle.ffm.to/these-killin...
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Emma Ruth Rundle "These Killing Times"
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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
When I was starting primary school my mum asked me if I was nervous to be around so many strangers and I said "they're not strangers they're just friends I haven't met yet" and she thought it was so lame she still rinses me about it to this day
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 21/05/2026
To be fair, when I started in professional academia 10 (and a half) years ago, the top line did at least seem possible…though maybe not plausible.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/03/2026
Agree with this, also worth noting that it happened in spite of what almost seemed like a vendetta against Heimir Hallgrímsson among certain "sensible football men"
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/03/2026
Whoever hung up that AI-generated "You'll never beat the Irish 'til the end" flag should eat the damned thing after that prediction came true, it's a cursed object
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/03/2026
A TV screen showing tonight's FIFA Men's World Cup Qualifying Playoff Semi-Final between the Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 01/03/2026
I'm sure nobody would choose to be eulogised in a podcast (scratch that, plenty would) but there's something beautifully fitting about QAA carrying this. From everything I know about the man, Fred Brennan was a difficult person to grasp, but QAA and his partner were in a better position than most.
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 28/02/2026
Wild how little coverage I’ve seen of Fred’s death, even six days after I’d first heard about it. QAA did the best job so far, summing up a very contradictory guy with warmth and empathy: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/q...
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The Life of Fredrick Brennan feat. Jay Brandstetter (E361)
Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 27 February · 1h 9m
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 24/02/2026
If anyone is reading the replies to this, please tell me how many make J'Accuse/Jack Hughes jokes, because I'm not doing the legwork on this one
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 10/02/2026
I've finally found a use for AI
Screenshot of conversation with ChatGPT

Who was the most jacked member of the Frankfurt School?

Short answer: there isn’t a canonical “most jacked” Frankfurt School member, but if you’re forcing the question, Herbert Marcuse is the closest thing to a defensible answer.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 03/02/2026
The bubble is getting bubblier
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 31/01/2026
About two years ago, Bill Bailey told me (and an audience of many others) that Pachelbel's Canon had inspired many pop songs. Since then, every couple of months, a new song is added to my personal "Canon canon", where the influence is undeniable. The latest: the Beach Boys' God Only Knows.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 27/01/2026
One of the more individualised tragedies of Brexit is whatever the hell it did to Goodwin. 10 years ago he seemed like a serious person, it's been extremely sad to watch him strip away his own dignity bit by bit since then. Now the final transformation into a Faragist glove puppet is complete.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/01/2026
Are we, as a society, ready to move on from "current affairs vox-pops in shopping centres" content? #kastljós
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/01/2026
The way my heart sank when I heard the Irish accent on one of them, knowing that it would somehow be producing some of the most brain-dead content 💀 Of course he was going to be the one complaining about curry houses on Brick Lane 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Just found out about this free and straightforward QR code generator in R: library(qrcode) qr_code("add_your_url_here") |> plot() That's all! No registration or subscription required. thierryo.github.io/qrcode/
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Generate QRcodes with R
Create static QR codes in R. The content of the QR code is exactly what the user defines. We don't add a redirect URL, making it impossible for us to track the usage of the QR code. This allows to gen...
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/10/2025
This would be an incredibly stupid, self-defeating move. Ireland's nomination processes work perfectly well (though the age bar remains odious). If FF now feels like voters deserved wider choices on the ballot paper this year, it should reflect on how it selected its own dead-duck candidate.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 25/10/2025
Again, "stonking" territory. In 2011, having started with just over 700k, MDH had a bit over 1 million votes by the end of Count 4. CC got 91% of that just on first preferences (and with much lower turnout).
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 25/10/2025
We can put this winning margin in the categories of "thumping", "stonking", etc. The spoils deserve analysis but the FPVs for Connolly stand independently of those. The abstention factor was much more significant than spoils but still probably wouldn't have changed the outcome based on this
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 25/10/2025
Meanwhile, in Iceland, we can confirm that winter has arrived because Ólafur has switched to long pants www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...
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Ólafur skiptir um buxur í dag - RÚV.is
Ólafur Þ. Harðarson er einna best þekktur fyrir stjórnmálarýni. Klæðaburðurinn vekur þó gjarnan athygli enda klæðist hann stuttbuxum í öllum veðrum frá fyrsta sumardegi til fyrsta vetrardags. Í dag sk...
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 25/10/2025
I have truly no idea why anyone is bothering to interview Declan Ganley today, or any day. If you really want a quote from an enemy of the environment who's wrong about everything, you've got so many AI chatbots you could ask instead
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 25/10/2025
Ooof
A screenshot of the RTÉ News live blog of the Irish Presidential election count. Text reads:

"In Kerry, Ms Connolly is on 63%, Ms Humphreys on 30% and Mr Gavin on 8%, with 95% of boxes tallied.

Not a single box in Kerry put Ms Humphreys in the lead."
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 25/10/2025
Following #Áras25 count coverage, it seems FG has briefed its people to push this line "we were the only party to put forward a candidate". Demonstrably untrue; FF's candidate was right there on the ballot, even if he didn't want to be. Is anyone challenging them on that narrative?
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/10/2025
Humphreys is further behind Connolly than she is ahead of "I no longer want the job, please don't vote for me". This must be one of the worst-run campaigns in Irish history, even allowing for the fact that she wasn't FG's first choice of candidate. Might nearly be better for them to ship oars now
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/10/2025
One of my favourite topics to discuss with my employer: "have you noticed that we seem determined to rest our entire IT infrastructure on a single point of failure?"
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 22/10/2025
Are you a little confused about how Ireland’s Presidential Election works? Fear not: I have once again picked up some 🔴 popular 🟠 coloured 🟡 chocolate-based 🟢 confectionary 🔵 treats 🟣 to show how the #aras25 votes are counted. @virginmedianews.bsky.social
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 20/10/2025
I'm in the English Market. I've just eaten a spiced beef sandwich. There's a pint of Beamish in my near future. My accent will be completely incomprehensible when I return to Iceland. These are the days, my friends
A redbrick wall on Dalton Avenue in Cork City, festooned with a variety of Beamish-themed graffiti. This, my friends, is raw culture.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 18/10/2025
I make a point of never trusting anyone who won't eat curry or a kebab, so a person who will eat neither is some kind of monster
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 12/10/2025
One of the worst gigs (any type) I've ever sat through was at UCC, when a clearly uninterested Maxwell kept telling the crowd that he didn't have to make any effort for us because we were students (this "gag" was used about five times in an hour). I'd nearly feel sorry for them
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 03/10/2025
When I talk to people about the generational shift in the Irish language, how Irish people of my age came to embrace our linguistic heritage in a way that our parents typically didn't, Manchán's name is the first in my mouth. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 30/09/2025
Link to article here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GNTUN...
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Electoral change and its impact on the nature of representative politics in Ireland
For a parliament to effectively serve its citizens, its members must be willing to fulfil their core constitutional duties. This paper explores how the representative roles of members of Dáil Éirea...
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/09/2025
Is there anyone who voted against lowering the age bar for Presidential candidates in 2015 who can honestly say, hand on heart, that they believe the subsequent contests have been more dignified because of continuing the exclusion of under-35s? #spéirghorm #Áras25
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/09/2025
scenes
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 15/09/2025
the obvious way to follow #APSA2025 is attending a punk rock concert
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 14/09/2025
the list of people doing a better job of tackling the far right than Keir Starmer now includes *checks notes* Tim Booth from James www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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James’s Tim Booth criticises Tommy Robinson for ‘cynical’ use of song
Sit Down was played at ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London but singer says band is ‘antithesis’ of far-right movement
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 14/09/2025
Thank you to @allimcculloch.bsky.social and @jonathanarlow.bsky.social for joining me on the @psaireland.bsky.social panel today! #APSA2025 (Side note: one person using she/her pronouns, one using they/them, and one using he/him—do we get some kind of award for absolutely nailing gender balance?)
Luke Field (me), Jonathan Arlow, and Allison McCulloch standing beside a projected Political Studies Association of Ireland logo.
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 13/09/2025
The @psaireland.bsky.social panel at #APSA2025 is coming up (2pm). Join us in the Vancouver Convention Centre, 223 West, for presentations on a wide range of Irish politics topics. Pic for the algo'
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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Ok but being totally fair, OG manosphereheads will know that "rightwing writer" barely scratches the surface with Forney lol
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 12/09/2025
"News outlets blowing on dog-whistles for all they're worth urge caution"
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Happening Now! Head over to the International Attendee Reception in the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown, Point Grey at 8:30 p.m. #APSA2025
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 11/09/2025
what a day to be in the air and without internet access
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 10/09/2025
En route to #APSA2025, with a flight time almost exactly matching the time difference from Iceland, so if I get any sleep on this flight it just counts as a 45-minute nap. That's how it works, right?
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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 12/08/2025
TBF it's an all-timer
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 12/08/2025
"Dear god no, we were referencing a much earlier attempted genocide!" www.visir.is/g/20252760862d
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„Ef við værum nas­istar þá værum við ekki að skipta um kross“ - Vísir
Samtökin Skjöldur Íslands hafa skipt um merki eftir að bent var á að merkið líktist járnkrossi. Forsvarsmaður hópsins segir þetta gert af tillitssemi við Frímúrara og Templara og ekki vegna þess að me...
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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 16/07/2025
what the hell did I just read www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
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Hollywood star Steven Seagal coming to Cork for World Peace Gathering
Organised by Kindred Spirits Ireland, the World Peace Gathering will see hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr, a member of Ihanktonwon Dakota and Chickasaw ...
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