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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸

@michaeltoomey.bsky.social
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Lecturer in International Relations at Glasgow University. Rugby/ex-MMA/Beer Enthusiast. BJJ 🟪⬛🟪. ADD. Opinions own, rt =/= endorsement.

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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sociopathic robots programmed by sociopathic humans. Great. Rather than regulating the industry to eliminate OpenAI and Anthropic’s competition, maybe what governments should be doing is holding individual programmers criminally liable when their experiments go awry? metr.org/hugging-face...
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Having read and listened to a few pieces about the Hugging Face hack, what really amazes me is how Silicon Valley has managed to replicate its reckless “move fast and break things, ask for forgiveness not permission” culture in the AI agents it creates.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One of the best threads I’ve read in a long time
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons
A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Amazing how well this joke can be applied to the Effective Altruism cult as well
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wetwebwork @wetwebwork.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So Palestinian protest groups should ditch the peaceful signs, mask up in all black, and that would be an acceptable form of action is the message, I guess...
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If only they’d hold up a few Palestine Action signs, then the government might actually do something about them
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Please donate to help this Gazan student’s appeal against the Irish government’s disgraceful decision to reject his visa application: Mahmoods Education chuffed.org/project/1958...
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Mahmoods Education
From Determination to Graduation: Help Me Get to Ireland
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
2/ In fairness to Muskrat, it is a SORT of genius the ability to literally monetise total bullshit. A trillionaire because he says he is, because his company that is based on non-existent (and probably physically impossible) technology will create a simulacrum of a Star Trek future for us all.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Love O'Toole's writing: "The SpaceX IPO marked the definitive launch of a new form of capitalism, based entirely on storytelling. Capitalism has always relied on belief...But this new form is based, not on belief, but on the suspension of disbelief." tinyurl.com/yhksdjnn
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Fintan O'Toole: Elon Musk conjures up a fantasy for Wall Street and a nightmare for Belfast
Dazzled SpaceX investors and frenzied brick-throwing boys in Belfast are all swallowing his dark fantasies
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It would be great to see Jon Moxley take a stapler to his forehead though
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I hate agreeing with Boris Johnson www.wsj.com/opinion/put-...
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Opinion | Boris Johnson: Put Up or Put a Sock in It, Europe
Continental leaders talk big about autonomy and independence from the U.S., but it’s all bluster.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Scum. All of them.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Kathy Sheridan: Sinn Féin is deliberately being obtuse about EU plan to help Ukraine
It’s not a simple question of spending money on services here or bolstering Ukraine’s defence
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Unbelievably grim. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?
Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I love this piece. Marina Hyde is my spirit animal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Ireland can’t afford to ignore Trump’s threat to Europe. Silence would be submission
US president Donald Trump’s hostility towards Europe has long been manifest
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Reading this, my mind is brought back to a scholar I met at ISA 2025 who ruefully explained his vote for Trump in 2024 because the US "...just HAD to get rid of Biden" To which I should have asked, how did you think the #January6th guy would be an improvement? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter
US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
THAT'S BETTER😂
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Does Limerick not exist anymore, no?
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Yanqui go home www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Fintan O'Toole: Ireland in Trump's Western Hemisphere – do you feel owned yet?
Steve Bannon’s boasts are not just those of a marginal blowhard – they chime with the fully official American claim on the hemisphere in which we live
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Patrick O’Donovan was blaming the users and absolving Twitter yesterday
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Oh sorry, correct that, to placate Michael Lowry and Mattie McGrath. Like they were going to bring down the government. Very serious. Very smart.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Very smart government we have, very credible and serious. Burn political capital at European level for a meaningless gesture and potentially a short-lived polling bump. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Ireland will vote against Mercosur trade deal, Taoiseach and Tánaiste confirm
Simon Harris said the government’s position stands: ‘We will vote against the agreement’
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"What the world is witnessing is not a "rules-based" order, but colonial pillaging. Upholding sovereignty, equality and noninterference is not optional. It is the foundation of global stability — and it must be defended." tinyurl.com/4r6tjah7
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US invasion act of imperialist aggression: China Daily editorial
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Make Billionaires Extinct Again www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Climate: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should take Billie Eilish’s question seriously
If you’re a billionaire, she asked, why are you a billionaire?
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Genocide apologist bot detected
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The Kingdom of Hungary reduced to a small five acre plot around Buda
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is literally being done just so Muskrat can claim to be the world’s first trillionaire. No financial or business sense, just pure ego. Disgusting. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
irishtimes.com
Tesla deal to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire
World’s richest person could receive the largest corporate payout in history if he meets required goals
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What goes around comes around, Isabella
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Things one loves reading about
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
And then he literally cries crocodile tears. What a scumbag.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Nope?!!!! Wesley Morris needs to watch more horror movies.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Us Vs Them
How the Far Right taught good people to hate
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Good point, Jerome Powell might want to watch his back
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I wonder how long it will be before Trump moves the contents of the Federal Reserve to a shack out the back of Mar a Lago
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Same thing goes for the nameless US elites, shit or get off the pot you absolute cowards. 7 million people are marching in the street and risking being murdered by ICE in the streets to prevent deportations. You are worried about your stock portfolio. Grow a pair.
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Shit or get off the pot time, Tories. Either disavow her plan for ethnic cleansing publicly and vote to kick her out of the party, or resign your position. You gutless cowards. Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people
Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I’m wondering why Trump took the effort to deny the claim- if anything, the WSJ story makes him look good and allows him to continue his peacock dance around supporting Ukraine
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I remain convinced that the Conservative Party is more akin to an ant infected with cordyceps than a functioning political party. Its legs are moving and it’s capable of travelling from point a to point b, but its mind has been eaten by Farage and it’s a slowly dying husk.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A good piece summarising Starmer’s continued hypocrisy and absurdity regarding the genocide in Gaza
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Wow good or wow bad?
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Lammy and Labour disgracing themselves again (as per usual). But there needs to be more noise from @uofglasgow.bsky.social as well- use your institutional power to demand Manar and her family be allowed come to Glasgow www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK
Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
GET IN MY SON
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Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Fintan O’Toole: Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wraps
Accusing our EU allies of being proto-fascist warmongers is not a winning strategy
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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