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Tom Flynn

@tomjsflynn.bsky.social
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Lecturer at Essex Law School. Lacks moral fibre.

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
6 years, 100s of sources and at least a dozen stupefying dead-ends later:
Thesis title page: The Birth of Laws: Legislative Drafting as Ethical Translation Meme of Frodo at Mount Doom: "It's done. Until the viva"
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive.
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Maitiú Ó Coimín @maitiuocoimin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yes, yes, tá sé go dona go bhfuil buíonta ógánach ag goid carranna agus ag déanamh rudaí contúirteacha ar na bóithre. Maraíonn daoine meánaosta atá ag breathnú ar a bhfón/tiomáint faoi thionchar an óil/tiomáint faoi luas aisteach i bhfad Éireann níos mó daoine ar na bóithre chuile mhí, áfach.
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I've spent 16 years in my day jobs working to get press coverage for other people and organisations. I am the behind the scenes woman. So yeah. This is f**king nuts, I'm sorry?!? 🫪 What am I doing on a HOMEPAGE. Solar eclipse! Strictly Come Dancing! Sarah Elizabeth Cox! Ridiculous 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ #VoteBinface
Screenshot of the Guardian homepage around 9pm showing headline story about the eclipse and two headline stories at the top - one is about dani dyer on strictly and one is Sarah and her silly 80s charity shop blouse with a column about Clacton
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Sovereignty Edited by Marinos Diamantides, Michel Rosenfeld and Giuseppe Martinico Free - read the Introduction: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Available in print through our website: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of sovereignty as one of the most contested concepts in law and politics. Bringing together leading scholars from a wide range of traditions, it examines sovereignty not only as a legal doctrine and political claim, but also as a symbolic form.

Chapters trace the epigenesis of sovereignty from Ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium to the modern state, revealing how religious, metaphysical, and philosophical ideas shaped its development. A unique comparative section explores Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, Indigenous, and settler-colonial traditions, showing how different worlds imagine authority, legitimacy, and collective self-rule. The volume also investigates the functional, normative, and symbolic dimensions of sovereignty in contemporary constitutionalism, including debates on democratic authority, European integration, secession, illiberalism, and populism. Further contributions analyze sovereignty’s entanglement with exceptionalism, labor, biopolitics, and transconstitutionalism. The concluding chapters examine why sovereignty persists as a powerful political imaginary, assessing its critiques and rearticulations—from political theology and relational ethics to feminist, anarchist, and decolonial perspectives.
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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
UK–EU relations ten years after the referendum Join @katyhayward.bsky.social, @anandmenon.bsky.social and Lord (Jock) Stirrup to discuss current UK–EU relations, and possible future changes, at our free, online conference next Wednesday. Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
The Constitution Unit Conference 2026. UK–EU relations ten years after the referendum. 24 June 2026, 9:30am–10:30am. Prof Katy Hayward (Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast). Prof Anand Menon (Director of the UK in a Changing Europe). Lord (Jock) Stirrup (chair of the House of Lords European Affairs Committee and Crossbench peer). Chair: Lisa James (Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit).
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
there are no legitimate concerns about immigration
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @ucc.ie - University College, Cork - founded in 1845 as part of the Queen's University of Ireland, with sister colleges in Galway and Belfast If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old colour picture postcard showing medieval-style college buildings around a quadrangle. The image has a border of very slightly Celtic knotting in white/gold, with a gold harp bottom right. Printed within the image is University College, Cork
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Fully automated luxury Milibandism.
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I cannot stand these prissy little public letters British politicians send each other. Dear Prime Minister I cannot in good conscience continue to serve in your useless cabinet, because I am also useless. I will of course continue to represent the people of Nutcombe Hogwash despite being useless.
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Here is a longer analysis from me on what Magyar's victory means for Hungary and Europe and what to expect going forward👇
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Szabad ország, szabad egytem. #aCEUvalvagyok
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This law is a straightforward case of apartheid. Apartheid is an international crime. Every legislator who voted for it, every military police office who prosecutes a crime under it, every judicial officer who applies it, is committing an international crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groups
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 26/02/2026
Disgusting (though not surprising) to see Biggar and the Spectator publishing these completely unjustified smears of colleagues at the Uni of Sussex. Sending solidarity @alanlester.bsky.social
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Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In my series “German things you didn’t know survived the war and are still in use by Poles” I want to give you a glimpse of an amazing research day I had some time ago. Let me take you on the most unexpected journey through artefacts that survived the 1945 border change. 🧵
An old shelf filled with animal specimens from pre-1945.
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Nigel Biggar attacking Alan Lester and colleagues through a proxy student ‘whistle blower’ in the national media, with no right of reply. Disgraceful MAGA tactics.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...
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Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator
The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts. They don’t know the patterns, but we do. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
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The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/12/2025
You'd never know it from these headlines that she lost all her claims on the actual substance of the case, claiming that trans people must be banned from bathrooms.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The only relatable thing Starmer ever did was get a second cat when his kids asked him for a dog. That was an objectively correct and wise call
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The LLM People using the term "prompt engineering" to refer to "learning what sets of words get you the results you wanted from the LLM" cracks me tf up. It really is a stupidity engine, it dumbs its users to the point that they think this is a form of engineering
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
OBEY ME - dashare.zone ADMIN
DA COMPUTER HAS GONE FROM AN EMPLOYEE OF HUMANS TO OUR BOSS , I WILL NEVER OBEY A GLASS SCREEN OR A METAL BOX , WE NEVER LET A HAMMER TELL US WHAT TO HIT SO WHY DO THEY THINK WE WILL TAKE THIS SHIT FROM A PHONE OR A LAPTOP !!!!!!! AND DAT EXT SAYS "COMPUTERS SHOULD DO WHAT I TELL THEM TO " STOP GUESSING WAHT I WANT DO NOT EVE R REMIND ME LATER AND SHOW ME POSTS FROM DA PEPOLE I FOLLOW IN THE ORDER THEY POST IT MOTHER FUCKER " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My writing is festooned with em-dashes, but I make sure no-one can ever say I use genAI by including at least one 'on foot of' and one 'outwith' in every piece.
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Mahler No. 5 (A Little Bit of Alma In My Life)
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 31/05/2025
“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...
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Toolmen
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Gluttony, gout, drunkenness, fornication, lies and obscenity in Cork (1737). Glad to see standards haven't slipped since.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Are you interested in the unique constitutional principle requiring parity between loyalty and disloyalty to the state? Of course you are, it's much more interesting + much less discussed than whatever parliamentary sovereignty is supposed to be. We're particularly interested in ECRs 👇
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Call for papers! @katyhayward.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social, Ewan Smith and I are organising a conference on parity of esteem as a constitutional principle at QUB on 9-10 April. We've a few slots for presenters left, so still time to submit an abstract! www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...
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Call for Papers - Conference: Parity of Esteem under the Good Friday Agreement and Beyond | Research | Queen's University Belfast
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Keep an eye out for @/afcomm.org.uk, which has just followed me and is an obvious front for legitimating anti-trans propaganda in academia, alongside potentially legitimating Toby Young’s personal front for covid conspiracy-mongering and hate
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I can hear this picture
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
WORK SUCK'S ,KRAFTWERK DOSENT - dashare.zone ADMIN
4 SKELETEN'S LINED UP IN THE MANNER OF KRAFTWERK ALBUM COVER "THE MAN MACHINE" AND IT SAY'S "THE ONLY GOOD WORK IS KRAFTWERK , DAMB ITS TRUE" - THESE BOYS MADE SUCH GOOD SHIT AND THEY DREAMED ABOUT BEING INSIDE OF A COMPUTER MAKEN IT BEEP , I HOPE NO ONE TOLD THEM ABOUT THE "AI" SHIT WHERE NO MATTER HOW MUCH SONGS YOU FEED INTO IT ,IT MAKES YOU HATE COMPUTER'S - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Paul @paulymodal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Reçu à l'instant :
IMAGE en 4 cases :
En haut à gauche, DRAKE qui désaprouve l'image en haut à droite.
En haut à droite, l'image avec texte, ou on voit écrit "LE PEN DANS L'URNE", avec une urne de vote.
En bas à gauche, DRAKE qui approuve l'image en bas à droite.
En bas à droite, l'image avec texte, ou on voit écrit "LE PEN DANS L'URNE", avec une urne funéraire.
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Dogs are left-wing animals beloved of right-wing people, whereas cats are right-wing animals beloved of left-wing people.
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Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Loughlin on 'The British Constitution and the Irish Question': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#OTD The Burning of Cork: December 11-12, 1920 – Perhaps the most important symbolic act of the War of Independence, Auxiliaries burned out the centre of Cork city in reprisal for an IRA ambush. www.theirishstory.com/2017/12/13/t...
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
People shouldn't be pronouncing Fianna and Fine the same, they're not the same Joe
Joe Duffy
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My book Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State (OUP, 2024) was just published online. It is ludicrously expensive, so let me explain the basic premise of the book. If interested, please encourage your local/univ library to buy a copy. academic.oup.com/book/58980 🧵
The front cover of a new book, 'Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State' by Ciaran O'Neill, and published by Oxford University Press.
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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
@tomjsflynn.bsky.social, @katyhayward.bsky.social, Ewan Smith and I are hosting a conference on parity of esteem in the Good Friday Agreement, at QUB in April 2025. Generously funded by the British Academy, we've got a great lineup and registration is now online 👇 www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...
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09.04.2024 - Parity of Esteem Conference | Research | Queen's University Belfast
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Truly amazing that cases like this continue to get headlines. The rug is (publicly! famously! front page news-ly!) pulled from under his legal basis for living in a country and he... did nothing for five years? And it's Sweden's fault? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Singer claims Sweden ‘punishing’ her British husband by refusing him leave to remain
Tess Merkel Solomons says handling of husband’s case after he missed application deadline has been ‘disgusting’
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
First they came for my uncool niece, and I did not speak out because she was really uncool
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Bought these yesterday on a whim (quite nice). I like that they included all three of the lion's most famous catchphrases: 'roar', 'rooh', and everyone's favourite, 'ohoh'
A bag of lemon and salt flavour herbal candies. Most of the writing is in Chinese, and the picture is a drawing of a lion in a suit saying ROAR ROOH OHOH
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Tom Flynn @tomjsflynn.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hello to all my new followers. I hope you're ready for my spicy non-takes where I say nothing for long periods interspersed by limp puns based on star trek.
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