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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Second consecutive day with a double rainbow.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two profs posted their academic genealogy on their lab door, which is a neat idea.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The sea was angry that day, my friends.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He’d be less awkward if he was holding two coffee mugs.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It took years to actually have some pears to harvest at the end of the season. Every other year we’ve had them all taken by weather and animals.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of these things is not like the other. Top 5 countries by number of refugees to the U.S. each fiscal year www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of these things is not like the other. Top 5 countries by number of refugees to the U.S. each fiscal year www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also, is it bad when the richest man in the world and POTUS are celebrating this?

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Typical Rhode Island autumn day: apple picking and coffee milk.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

These guys left for college and grad school, and I am fully aware that I will never really understand time.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yup. And I try not to vent it all here, to spare the few people who care about what I post. yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In my opinion, it seems pretty hard to dislike Canada.🇨🇦

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Unlike, say, this guy. "I study empathy—Elon Musk gets it all wrong" broadview.org/elon-musk-em...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Tell me who your heroes are..." Mar 2026 poll of 1,000 US adults, with Dolly Parton having (by far) the highest net favorability. Political affiliation certainly affects things, but I'd like to believe there's still a hunger for kind, empathetic role models. www.uml.edu/docs/archive...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We’ve had this Korean pear tree for ~10 years. Every year, our pears have been taken by animals, so we’ve tried various deterrents. This year we completely covered the tree and cinched the net at the bottom with a rope. But raccoons are indefatigable, and they found their way in.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Read this to my Korean in-laws. They shook their heads.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Found these tables of avg weight for a given height on an old scale. I couldn’t find a date for them, however. Scales don’t come with proper citations.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Was lucky enough to take a family vacation. Felt really good to put work down for a while.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The idea that the fellowship continues makes me smile. www.boston.com/culture/cele...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Excellent essay. I’m not sure if this counts as “serious panic,” but Shipton (1936) wrote Irish immigrants to New England in the 1730s produced a “violent case of social indigestion” due to their “Celtic temperament and manners.” kevishere.com/2026/07/24/t...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"When we consider just how supremely confident the above people were about Irish inferiority and undigestibility (for centuries, mind you), we are left with a pretty big question." kevishere.com/2026/07/24/t... #speirgorm #spéirghorm

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In 1992, Thérèse Caherty and colleagues in Ireland published a series of essays with the provocative title “Is Ireland a Third World Country?” One of the editors, Caitríona Ruane, wrote that “the answers were as various and diverse as those participating,” highlighting the ambiguity of the concept.

Book cover "Is Ireland a Third World Country"

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Miller, Bovino, Trump et al. have said they want to remove “Third World” people, perhaps 100 million of them. At one point all the qualities ascribed to 3rd world people were applied to Irish Americans and others. So make it 200 million people. kevishere.com/2026/07/22/t...

Tweet from the official DHS account saying they want to remove 100 million “Third World” people.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My 12 yr old loves drawing and sketching. This summer she tried painting for the first time.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"When we consider just how supremely confident the above people were about Irish inferiority and undigestibility (for centuries, mind you), we are left with a pretty big question." The Unwanted People: My “Third World” Ancestors (and Yours), Part 3 kevishere.com/2026/07/24/t...

A depiction of Irish people as ape-like, a common 19th stereotype. ‘King of A-Shantee’ by Frederick Opper. Puck. February 15th, 1882.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I recall a classmate in grad school scolding another for saying "Third World," since it was dehumanizing. The phrase has had a comeback, perhaps *because* it's dehumanizing. Here are some examples + speculation on how it could have applied to Irish immigrants. kevishere.com/2026/07/22/t...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s Bladerunner in Boston today.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Boston looks like Bladerunner world.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wildfire-augmented sunset over Providence.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“The Mortar Of Assimilation—And The One Element That Won’t Mix” 1889, Puck Magazine When I read modern nativists claim that group X (Somalis, Syrians, Haitians) are a "scourge," "garbage," or somehow intrinsically defective, I am reminded of images like these.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Anyone see a problem with this graph? www.marketwatch.com/story/this-c...

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