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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 6h
No harm to her but The Irish Times has more coverage of Michael Flatley’s late wife than the public service pay dispute and forthcoming strike. It’s quite odd
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 07/10/2026
"Teaching students how historians work, rather than simply what historians know, has proved a powerful pedagogical tool." In #AHAPerspectives, Arminda Lawrence Sr. shares a class assignment that asks high school students to research, write, and edit their own history book.
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Making Students into Historians – AHA
In a high school historical methods course, students researched, wrote, and edited their own history books.
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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From business pages in the past I know that Games Workshop has slightly more prominence as a story than it might cos you can put a pic of some elves in instead of a stock photo of a calculator. I wonder if, over decades, this has given a false impression that it is actually the UK's main industry.
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Surely I am not alone hearing CMAT whoever I read Sally Rooney data centre 🎵 thems the words now ‘They’re getting electricity for way lower prices’: Few regrets in Mayo over data centre refusal www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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‘They’re getting electricity for way lower prices’: Few regrets in Mayo over data centre refusal
‘The price of energy is going up all the time and yet ... data centres are getting electricity for way lower prices than we ordinary people’
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m watching How to Shop Well Now. Me: ooh cool choons - that’s someone Oscillate Wildly by The Smiths but for a segment on beef farming. Nooooo
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RELEASE DETAINED LGBTI RIGHTS DEFENDERS At least 23 LGBTI rights defenders have been detained alongside more than 100 people in a police operation targeting LGBTI people and organizations that began on 12 September. www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of my favourite things about the last few days, is stories from trade unionist, artist, environmentalist circles… when the letter started circulating, people realised they didn’t actually know who was a Prod. Cue hilarious conversations. Happily, that’s how many of us in the north live now.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
I was very privileged to visit Kurdistan with Margaret several years ago, where we met with families who lost children to Turkish state terror. She’s an inspiration.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Unlikely revolutionary Mr Rogers will lead the uprising: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Where’s Fred Rogers when you need him?
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social
A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision. 
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⏱ Closure notice: On Saturday 3 Oct the NLI Kildare Street campus (Reading Rooms, Exhibition and Registration Office) will be closed to the public. This is due to industrial action across the public sector. www.nli.ie/news-stories...
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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The only reason this is necessary is a small group of extremists have painted themselves as representing all Protestants in the North. And the media, particularly in the Republic, has mostly let them get away with it.
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Going to bed
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AfD vote with CDU to prevent more of Holocaust victims rembrance sett stones in pavements in east German town. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims
Heidenau council has halted the laying of Stolpersteine installed to remember individual victims of the Nazis
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The moon!!
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"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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Jim Bliss @jimbliss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My 14 year old nephew pays an €80 / year fee at his local club in Meath. Pro rata, that's more than 250 times Zuckerberg's donation. Not saying the lump sum won't help some clubs. It will. But if I had a net worth of a quarter of a trillion dollars, I'd be embarrassed with that donation.
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I appreciate that the picture accompanying the “people pleased with bribe” headline is the man who bribed them wearing pervert glasses
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wilf, Felicity Cloake’s dog, who has brought me so much joy on the internet, has visited the butcher for the last time. I am bereft
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A real talent I have is reading backwards. I do it all the time. This means turning up at the end of meetings thinking they’ve just started is a speciality. Fml
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity demo in support of LGBTQ people in Türkiye and their allies in Dublin on Wednesday, 6pm at Europa House, Chatham St (near Amuri/Nearys)
Poster for demo on Wednesday at 6pm at Chatham St
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yay, latest ALCS distribution is about to drop, time to buy myself... a bottle of chicken wine from Coop. The literacy crisis just got real.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We say… ❌ NO to supporting war mongers ❌ NO to draining our public wealth ❌ NO to the tech broligarchy NO TO #PALANTIR! Read the open letter from over 120 organisations from across Europe here: www.epsu.org/article/120-...
Graphic reading: “120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to scrap Palantir contracts.” It adds that Palantir supports warmongers, drains public wealth and deepens dependence on tech billionaires, ending: “We say no to Palantir.”
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"it's just 35 men with no bands walking down a road" it's just 6 extra minutes and no rioting
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In today’s Sindo Marty Regan says Forsa and Siptu voted for industrial action by “more than 90%”. The figures are 96.7% and 99% repsectively. That’s not really “more than 90%, Mary. It’s almost 100%
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry. There’s a lot happening but I just read something I that needs corrected
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 26/09/2026
Garvaghy Road residents to ask if PSNI chief ‘misled’ Parades Commission over Orange Order march www.independent.ie/incoming/gar...
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Garvaghy Road residents to ask if PSNI chief ‘misled’ Parades Commission over Orange Order march
Garvaghy Road residents challenging a ruling permitting the Orange Order to march along their street have said they will seek to find out if PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher “misled” the ruling body.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
March blocked. Appeal being lodged.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fair play to Bazunu for putting his head above the parapet and trying. Shame on the FAI.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Due to be en grève next month and am deeply envious of these posters
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cracker moon tonight, pals
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Town at a standstill cops everywhere. Must be some serious VIP activity here
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A necklace I was wearing got so knotted I have been unable to take it off for days. I have spent half the evening at it and have successfully unravelled the chain. We celebrate all the wins
A panda puppet with its hands up
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Kids used to do that in book reviews on Barnes and Noble. Authors were like "why am I getting all these 3 star reviews that say "redtail plz go back"?
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I swear to god. Things can feel grim enough and then sometimes I see who is being hired by universities and it’s more than I’m able for. It’s academicwashing dipshits and inflicting absolute bullshit on students
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scores of LGBTQ people in Turkey remain in prison after mass arrests last week. There’s a demo at the Embassy of Türkiye in Ballsbridge today, Wednesday, at 12.45 pm www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement...
Poster about solidarity demo at the Embassy of Türkyiye on Wednesday23 September at lunchtime. Code D04EA36
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sorry but no
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can't look at you
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dozens of LGBTQ people are still in prison in Turkey after raids on homes last week. Thereafter lack of attention this is getting is appalling www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Turkey arrests dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists
The arrests are an escalation in the Turkish government's campaign targeting LGBTQ+ community and activists.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19/09/2026
It’s a £41k job now that’s alright.
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