WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 14/10/2026So I’m guessing that the BBC won’t repeat/ make available on iPlayer its dramatisation of Normal People. Frankly, I find the whole thing ridiculous. 010 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightDavid KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The rules of Stairball are opaque even to its practitioners 1442737 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This 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. 1015668 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/10/2026I'm starting to think that, despite its tax status, Facebook isn't really an Irish company. 2351687 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 11/10/2026She might like @rorycj.bsky.social Movers and Shakers podcast. 110 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Students 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! 8254081091 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightYoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Zaterdag 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... 174 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026America wants to make a recruitment video for the Taliban. Beyond this, given the obscenity of the death penalty, I worry about attempts thereafter to normalise public executions in the country. 021 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A man who in a previous life claimed to increase the size of women's breasts through hypnosis. Sorry, but he is a clown. 140 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightPAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Please share widely !! 035 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 05/10/2026Stocks are running particularly low for O negative blood, with supplies expected to fall below three days by tomorrow www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...rte.ieBlood Transfusion Service issues urgent donor appealThe 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. 11917 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This 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 thistheguardian.comNearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana MahmoodHome secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK 10482160 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightMartine 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...irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.comCousins? 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… 246 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightStephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nice to get a shout out from Joe Brolly on the Free State podcast for the best quote about Tyrone ever made. Also Aontroim Abu 141 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/09/2026A new language tool that allows non-verbal children to communicate in the Irish language is being made freely available onlinerte.ieNew Irish language tool to help non-verbal childrenA new language tool that allows non-verbal children to communicate in the Irish language is being made freely available online. 1329 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Loads of talks on including one by me on the ‘soldiers of Cumann na mBan’ on Oct 9th - all welcome 3276 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026Brexit, 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. 1228961 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightKristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 21/09/20266-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...jobs.ugent.beAssistant EnglishAssistant English 13957 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Give Dr Katie a job you cowards! 0124 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This isn't news. If your intent is to help Spencer flog some tawdry book about his sister I’m not impressed. 000 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightMarsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Join 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 01910 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste: 12420334 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721800537 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Friends, 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 🗃️ 25038 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My husband is likely caught up in that. I haven’t heard anything from him. 010 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightReuters @reuters.com · 15/09/2026Sabotage disrupts Dutch train services ahead of state opening of parliament reut.rs/46qEgVGreut.rsSabotage disrupts Dutch train services ahead of state opening of parliamentTrain 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. 01719 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightAnnika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If 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: 👇first-gen.chFirst-Generation Students – firstGen 072 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I hope the UK asks for his extradition. On my side of the pond we take that kind of shit seriously. France certainly isn't messing around uncovering additional victims and potential recruiters/groomers connected to Epstein. 020 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightJohn Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Launched 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 #EnslavedHistorybritishslavetraders.org 1208 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightAnnie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#StopTheTrumpBallroom #ProtectTheSnail 03012 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Unusual remark for an orange man 14712170 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@labouruk.bsky.social Not this shite again. I expect better from a government headed by a man with an English degree. 020 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026P.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...bbc.co.ukSearch for Handsworth lads in 1979 inner-city photo projectPhotographers want to find two friends who took part in a pop-up photography shoot 47 years ago. 066 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/09/2026A large sand artwork, protesting against the visit of US President Donald Trump to Ireland, has appeared on a beach in Dublin Bayrte.ieArtwork on Dublin beach in opposition to Trump visitA large sand artwork, protesting against the visit of US President Donald Trump to Ireland, has appeared on a beach in Dublin Bay. 27630 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Daily 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] 1521084 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My stepdaughter worked at a supermarket whilst at school and college. In fact, college students are required to work a minimum number of hours to qualify for a student loan (NL). Youngsters looking for casual part-time work now chase disappearing options. 020 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The stars aligned for Netanyahu. An idiot in the White House and the American dollar financing his and Ben Gvir’s genocidal dream. Trump has no control. The dork son-in-law and Witless negotiations -laughable as a suggestion-let alone reality have secured nothing of value. 011 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The urge became too strong. 39705174 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightDr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I 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. 131074236 0
WritetoDelight @writetodelight.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Endorsing violence is never right. Given what happened to Anne Widdecombe you’d think Jenrick would choose his words carefully. Pensioners are not immune from prosecution. In fact, they are one of the fastest-growing sections of the prison population. 020 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026According 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 21579225 0
Reposted by WritetoDelightProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026For 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. 6699 0
![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
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