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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The rules of Stairball are opaque even to its practitioners
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is part of a methodology I’m going to call Fascist Edging. It’s deliberate, to move the Overton Window. It’s speculative. Can we go this far yet? What’s the backlash? From whom? Did anyone support/excuse? It’s seeding the idea. Get it talked about. Absorb the initial shock. Normalise.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/10/2026
I'm starting to think that, despite its tax status, Facebook isn't really an Irish company.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zaterdag 7 november: de Gij-dag in Goirle! Kom lachen met de meesterlijke Marlon Kicken, dialectkaarten maken met mij en Frans van der Vleuten, en luisteren naar taalwetenschapper Kristel Doreleijers en podcastmaker Jasper Stads! Himmel graotis! www.erfgoedbrabantacademie.nl/agenda/gij-d...
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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please share widely !!
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 05/10/2026
Stocks are running particularly low for O negative blood, with supplies expected to fall below three days by tomorrow www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
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Blood Transfusion Service issues urgent donor appeal
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has issued an urgent appeal for people with RhD negative blood to donate, as stocks run particularly low for O negative blood.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this
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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'For Edwina Harleston Whitlock, born in #CharlestonSouthCarolina, there is no doubt about her #Irish ancestry. She can trace her lineage through William Harleston (1804-1874) back to John Harleston of Dublin who arrived in Charleston about 1698.' irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/c...
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Cousins? African American Irish and DNA insights.
Martine Brennan writes about her digital public history project, ‘Enslavement to Citizenship: African Americans in Irish Slaveholder Records, 1670-1862’ and the insights into the divers…
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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nice to get a shout out from Joe Brolly on the Free State podcast for the best quote about Tyrone ever made. Also Aontroim Abu
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/09/2026
A new language tool that allows non-verbal children to communicate in the Irish language is being made freely available online
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New Irish language tool to help non-verbal children
A new language tool that allows non-verbal children to communicate in the Irish language is being made freely available online.
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WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@guitarmoog.bsky.social
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loads of talks on including one by me on the ‘soldiers of Cumann na mBan’ on Oct 9th - all welcome
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026
Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
6-year fully funded research and teaching assistant job at University of Ghent in the fields of English literature/cultural theory, history/translation history, linguistics, language acquisition, communication. Own projects are welcome! Details: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-As...
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Assistant English
Assistant English
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Give Dr Katie a job you cowards!
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Join us this Friday, 18 September, for a free guided tour of Ireland's oldest public library. Tours run every 15 minutes from 5:30-8:45pm. No booking required. culturenight.ie/event/cultur... #CultureNight2026 #CultureNight #CultureNightDublin
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:
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Once a reporter asked him, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?" A.J. Muste replied softly: "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Friends, if you've ever worked in the Dutch National Archives, consider signing this petition. Its administrators want to completely shut down its public educational programs and turn it into a repository of exclusively government records. #skystorians 🗃️
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/09/2026
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Sabotage disrupts Dutch train services ahead of state opening of parliament
Train services were disrupted by deliberate acts of sabotage across the Netherlands on Tuesday, hours before ​the ceremonial state opening of parliament, the rail infrastructure ‌operator ProRail said.
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are a first generation student or academic in Switzerland, I can highly recommend the FirstGen Network. They have lots of stuff going on, including a book club and a mentoring program for people at any career stage: 👇
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First-Generation Students – firstGen
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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Launched today: The Register of British Slave-Traders "presents biographical data related to each of the known investors in the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries." britishslavetraders.org/about-us/ #History #EnslavedHistory
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WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#StopTheTrumpBallroom #ProtectTheSnail
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Unusual remark for an orange man
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
P.S. Search for lads in 1979 Handsworth photo project: as Derek Bishton plans to have the photographs printed in a book, he has managed to track down the majority of the participants except two, who were boys at the time. Someone must know these two. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Search for Handsworth lads in 1979 inner-city photo project
Photographers want to find two friends who took part in a pop-up photography shoot 47 years ago.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/09/2026
A large sand artwork, protesting against the visit of US President Donald Trump to Ireland, has appeared on a beach in Dublin Bay
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Artwork on Dublin beach in opposition to Trump visit
A large sand artwork, protesting against the visit of US President Donald Trump to Ireland, has appeared on a beach in Dublin Bay.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Mail reports on the balaclava-led vigilante army visiting their offices to protest the newspaper's coverage of Daniel Thomas's background as a middle-class privately educated man jailed for armed kidnapping [the wrong person, over allegations of drug money being nicked]
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The urge became too strong.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't know if it's just that this UK government missed the context of growing up in Ireland in the 90s, but they should probably be aware that gangs of lads in balaclavas don't have the best intentions for the public.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for
in North Cambridge, and a daughter. The
outbuildings and at least two other flats on the same road, which are owned by the family,
are home to a select group of postgraduate students from a range of faculties including
divinity. In a podcast interview in December 2024, Orr described having “10 students living
with us. They’re mainly PhD students or postdoctoral fellows.” He explained that they
always gather for Sunday lunch and often for dinner. “That’s amazingly stimulating,” he
said. “They’re . . . the cream of their generation in their respective subjects.”
The residents pay rent and do chores. Helen has fashioned a small chapel from a shipping
container, in which she holds morning prayers.The housing of students raises potential conflicts of interest. Over the past academic year, there were three divinity scholars lodging at the Orrs’ community, according to several
people familiar with the living arrangements. One is a postgraduate student who is directly
supervised by Orr. Cambridge’s staff and student relationship policy stipulated that its
employees are “strongly discouraged” from entering into close personal relationships with
students. Any relationship which involves “any form of dependence, whether emotional,
practical, financial or otherwise”, must be declared.Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.While the society was established long before Orr had any formal role in Reform, it has
taken on new significance as his political activities gathered pace. Orr has described
Cambridge as a useful recruiting ground for Reform, boasting last autumn in an interview
with The Telegraph that he had met “hundreds” of highly able students he thought would
make suitable allies. He has also, according to The Spectator magazine, been tasked by the
party with “building a pipeline” to bring talent to staff a future Reform administration.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For the record, since Cambridge gave all academic staff the title of professor a couple of years ago: Associate Professor at Cambridge is the equivalent to a Senior Lecturer. It is not a "chair", and you are not entitled to the title Professor.
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WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nice to see a reference to my book 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' here in Daragh Fitzgerald's Bookworm in @historyireland.bsky.social. 'O’Neill convincingly argues that culture was not a logic of partition but that partition itself provided a basis for culture'. Sin é.
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BOOKWORM - History Ireland
By Daragh Fitzgerald Gladys Hynes: radical lives seeks to restore a forgotten artist to her rightful place in the pantheon of the Modernist movement. Gladys Hynes was born in India to an Anglo-Irish f...
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Each square represents ten murdered children. www.independent.ie/county/wexfo...
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Wexford activist group display crocheted blanket with 3,000 squares to represent children killed in Gaza
Over 60 activists and bystanders recently gathered at a popular beach in Wexford to display a crocheted blanket with 3,000 squares in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 27/08/2026
A new live train map lets users track rail journeys across France, Spain and Belgium, including delays, cancellations and what type of facilities are available at stations. ➡️ l.euronews.com/sMth
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
See! It's snowing in the mountains in the north! Told you!
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Tekið að grána í fjöllum við Akureyri - RÚV.is
Blautt og kalt hefur verið á Akureyri í dag. Gránað hefur í fjöllum og er farið að glitta í snjó niður fyrir skíðahótel í Hlíðarfjalli.
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Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
TV writers, please use this thread to introduce yourself. Tell people what level you are. What you write. And if there is a dream staff you’d like to work on right now. I don’t have a huge following on here but who knows? Maybe the right person will see this and give you the boost you need.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My favorite piece of Dolly Parton trivia is that, in 2012, she said she entered a Dolly Parton drag queen lookalike contest, w scores of Parton drag queens, and lost.
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Do you remember when a fundraising campaign for the Navajo and Hopi people went viral during the pandemic, as people recalled the generosity of native Americans to Irish people during the famine? If you were one of those who donated - you are invited to have your photo taken …
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Salmonella outbreak in the UK. Check any eggs you have. If they do not have a red lion mark or are not produced in the UK, make sure you cook them thoroughly. 47 cases in London, 38 in Yorkshire and Humber, 6 in Scotland, 1 in Wales and 1 in Northern Ireland. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
One dead and hundreds ill in UK salmonella outbreak
Most of the cases were in England in recent weeks, linked to eating imported eggs, experts believe.
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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Grotesque images from @kscott94.bsky.social showing two swans trapped in a vast expanse of toxic sludge on Lough Neagh last night. Firefighters spent more than an hour trying to rescue them. NI gets c40% of its drinking water from Lough Neagh... and we flush raw sewage into it.
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Firefighters launch major overnight rescue operation to save swans trapped in Lough Neagh algae
A major rescue operation was launched overnight after two swans became trapped in blue-green algae in Lough Neagh.
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WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I look forward to reading that you are no longer in print.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In 1912, a young writer in Reading watched an eclipse. In his journal, he described 'the sky was clear, and very weird the universe seemed; the atmosphere dulled as if charged with volcanic dust, especially on the horizon.' His name was Wilfred Owen. collections.reading.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Wilfred Owen, Mabel Rayner, and a solar eclipse | Special Collections
In our new blog, Dr Rhi Smith reveals the story of Wilfred Owen and Mabel Rayner's chance meeting during a solar eclipse and the impact of each on the life of the other.
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Anne Marie @anmc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Dr Gavin R. Stewart @gavrobstew.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our new study on social connectedness and quality of life in middle-aged and older autistic adults (aged 40-93) has now been published in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social! Journal article link: doi.org/10.1177/2573... Open access version: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu... #AutRes
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WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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