@corklgbtarchive.bsky.social Permanent LGBTQ Exhibition opening soon in Cork Public Museum #SpéirGhorm

The only data cited is a 50% increase in children/young people admitted with traumatic brain injury. The actual increase in cases is from 12 to 18. Obviously each is dreadful, but it is baffling to ground significant policy change on six additional cases per annum. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I feel like an actual problem of the "Americanisation" of the world cup is a general inability to see the role of the villainous team as crucial, and something we all enjoy/participate in, not actually a sign of general corruption or moral decay, still less of that country's inherent awfulness.

The only thing that can redeem this is trump doing something really mad with the trophy.

I will die for Wayne "that was crap" Rooney.

Is this how Americans actually live? Do we need to start a collection or something?

Ronaldo there making the exact face I make at the primary school end of term performance.

Always vaguely surprised that Argentina's anthem is not "don't cry for me, Argentina."

Not seeing a lot of Elizabeth Bowen in the QTs here, which is a problem.

<sickos meme>

The sweet sweet irony of seeing the compulsory poppy brigade foaming at the mouth at the Argentinian players and their banner. I don't remember them being as concerned about James McClean's feelings as they claim to be about those of the Falklanders.

Has anyone got any alternatives for a student-friendly thematic analysis guide, other than that not-great psychology paper that everyone uses for some reason?

Obvs an unpopular opinion, but the way people talk about Argentina and Messi on this site is not notably less mad, conspiratorial, overwrought etc than the typical fleeting "x" fixation.

The day after nothing ‘coming home’ we have the usual parade of England fans being as bad losers as they are winners (with added conspiracy theories, for the times we live in, FUN!). Trying to put a finger on what is so annoying for the rest of us, i’d have to say it’s the entitlement. Wild.

<catching up with today's discourse on how it is bad to maintain territorial claims over nearby islands>

Walking back from glasgow queen street in a daze after multiple hours of #eshs-hss <why is everyone screaming?> boy, about 5 years old, plaintively, confused, holding his mother’s hand <coz England’s getting beat> the voice comes, conveying profound truths from the universe

Tfw it's not coming home

I mean, you want them to lose, but to lose like this when they had it in the bag is just 👌👌

I don't think my brain is going to be able to handle the internet's most naive bluesky users transacting their earnest commitments to fairness, justice, sportsmanship etc by cheering on *england.* Like, it might actually break me,

Humbled/honoured/delighted [insert LinkedInspeak as appropriate] to share this forthcoming @uclpress.bsky.social open access publication #postcolonialcitizens co-authored w/Fatima Rajina & Victoria Redclift (stunning art work by Waheeda Rahman-Mair) uclpress.co.uk/book/postcol...

If you're shocked by military involvement in UK universities, I have an amazing story for you about the country's leading humanities research centre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...

We need a study on wtf is going on with this app and Argentina.

Well I for one am looking forward to some lectures about the colonial legacies of France and Spain from people with "veteran" in their bio.

Imagine you got colonised by a country and then every six months that country is like, "by the way, we are erotically transfixed by mr blobby." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From our journey to "camp" (lol) this morning - the former Cork waterworks and, behind it, the outline of the old psychiatric institution, looking west along the River Lee.

Excited for a full day of: the humanities lads once again discover "the social sciences"

I would be keen to hear an objection to this that doesn't rely on a general suspicion/dislike of Infantino. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

😡 Incredible that Discovery awards will not continue to operate on an island of Ireland basis - read this excellent open letter ⬇️

A few weeks ago, @wellcometrust.bsky.social announced that scholars in the republic of Ireland would no longer be eligible to lead bids to the flagship discovery research scheme. We think this decision is badly flawed, and are asking them to rethink: www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/PDFs/...

Raymond Aron absolutely bodied here by Didier Eribon (but also: how many famous sociologists does that last line put you in mind of? In my own case, basically my entire department at grad school).

Some order restored to the universe with the defeat of Dublin, aka the England of Gaelic football.

Bluesky negatively polarising itself into England fandom may be the most truly bluesky thing yet.

I find this stuff - which is all over bluesky - deeply strange, even kind of mad. It's also hard not to see it as an attempt to displace the one actual attempt to cheat in this competition, which was by the United States.

Hahahahahaha

If I was the Norwegian football team I would simply turn out for my world cup quarter final and participate in the game.

I am also sad that Harry Kane played golf with Donald Trump, but I put it to you that in fact this does /not/ rank among the major crimes of English football, still less those of "England" itself, the national entity whose pugnacious, martial spirit the team is generally imagined to convey.

I need to get off the internet before I end up supporting England

In fairness to Harry Kane, hanging out with dodgy political figures before a big world cup match is part of his Irish heritage.

Absolutely horrendous decision to substantially uphold planning permission for homes to be built on the grounds of Bessborough Mother & Baby institution. We have not reckoned with this dreadful recent past and Bessborough has a key role in that reckoning. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

I'm sure haaland is lovely, but we have to stop treating the Nordic states in this stupid, childlike way. Norway's entire existence is predicted on the financialization of fossil fuels. Their second-largest political party is broadly fascist. Haaland himself is the scion of famous, rich athletes.

<the faint, furtive sound of jokes being hastily deleted>

Not speaking ill of the dead feels like very anglo/american coded behaviour tbh. Surely the chance to finally offload one's pent-up grievances, resentments, loathing etc is one of death's greatet consolations.

The blithe liberalism of anglophone bluesky seems uniquely ill placed to say anything about the north of Ireland - not least, of course, because of the deep historical complicities between sensible British centrism and the open violence of Northern loyalists.

What's the general view on the ethics of non-snarkily paraphrasing peer reviews of a publication in the final version of the work, as a way of establishing what the work is up to? It seems okay to me, but I can imagine a view that it is bad.

This is the most british writer's CV I've ever seen

For people new to the England anti-fandom, the appearance of these kinds of articles is generally a good sign they're about to get absolutely tonked. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm going to share with you the 5yo's menu for his restaurant, which offers among its delights "carits with soop" and, incredibly, "Iss Qrem."

There should be a legal maximum temperature for parenting. At a certain point, the state should take your kids and house them in some kind or institution until it's cooler.

People are treating this as some big shock/revelation? Am I losing my mind?

It should embarrass the LRB, honestly, to be still publishing articles about Ireland like this full of cliche, classic British condescension, and a total lack of interest in any scholarship or literature. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...