My god, the class and racial privilege on display from people who seem to think that being suspected of shoplifting should open you up to being killed. A willful blindness to how others inhabit the spaces we live in and the unequal distribution of danger and violence in those spaces.

We’re publishing Sally Rooney in Hebrew, in line with BDS. Here’s how and why. www.972mag.com/sally-rooney...

As you can see from this graph of Party Membership Jeremy Corbyn and his policies were horribly unpopular...

Ireland didn't just abolish the death penalty, we passed a constitutional ban on ever reintroducing it under any circumstances. it's one of the greatest things we've ever done at the ballot box. death is always, and can only be, an unjust punishment. we must never compromise on that, ever

2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have been told that they are "at risk". The UCU branch is fighting back. 🌟 Rush solidarity to @uonucu.bsky.social! 🌟 Donate to their fighting fund at uonucu.org 🌟 Come to the activist meeting on Tuesday in this thread! 👇

Yeah just imagine being subjected to intrusive checks every time you want to do something

Blaacelona surely.

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

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Three different costs of a house in Dublin – who is paying? substack.com/@sineados/p-...

A good crowd outside Arnotts for the vigil of Yves Sakila

@uonucu.bsky.social . Thank you Sean for picking up on this existential struggle we are going through. Thanks for alerting @vickyblake.bsky.social ✊️

STOP PRESS yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social described Tarkovsky’s STALKER as “The Detectorists, but Russian” and I may never recover

When people are happy being vague as hell with the word 'Woke' and suddenly turn ultra-specific with other words. It says a lot.

iReLaNd NeEdS uNpRoVeN cOlOsSaLlY eXpEnSiVe SMR nUcLeAr

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

I remember when I first went to the USA, on a school visit to Colorado when I was 14, going to McDonalds, seeing retirement age people working alongside the spotty teenagers and not being able to understand why.

Aréir, d'fhreastail an tUachtarán Connolly ar fháiltiú do Phobal na hÉireann, arna óstáil ag Ambasadóir na hÉireann chun na Breataine Móire, Martin Fraser ~~~ Last night, President Connolly attended a reception for the Irish Community, hosted by the Irish Ambassador to Great Britain, Martin Fraser

It is IMO worth asking why Wes has been treated as a very senior figure of tremendous import and ability, when he can’t even command a sizeable minority with a political party his faction mutilated down to remove as many people as possible who don’t like him.

But now, for a big new announcement: the radically new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani (Brendan's Voyage) with English translation, just after being published by the School of Celtic Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie. /2

If you listen to two different sounds that are similar in pitch across the ears, something strange happens. The two sounds blend perceptually to create an illusion of a new sound. https://ow.ly/wVcG50Z0yEs #ASA190

Imagine for a minute a British head is state being able to this.

For context, the President of Ireland's sister was just this morning kidnapped by an Israeli naval flotilla in international waters. I wonder if it will come up in conversation.

Israel has kidnapped the sister of the president of Ireland.

That’s the sound of 15 Guardian columnists storming the cartoon desk to explain that It’s So Much More Complicated Than That, Actually

That’s incredible. (This refers to a short film I made a lifetime ago) youtu.be/p856CfM64w8?...

Say what you like about Andy Burnham's policies as mayor of Manchester. But he hasn't been given a peerage after selling £100m of development land to two mates for just a ton.

Upon learning that one of the biggest landowners in the Republic of Ireland today is the Duke of Devonshire, I was inspired to verse.

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

“Crucifixion?” “Yes” “Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each”

Oh yeah? Well, *I* only cite references I have personally written and travelled back in time to insert in the literature under one of my many pseudonyms. Losers.

I'm not even sure you can call it a silver lining but my goodness are LLMs showing us just how lazy and slapdash influential people are.

Sligo Airport has a brilliant new Restaurant called The Blackbird but ALSO has THIS squeeeeee

The fun thing about what Edgerton is saying here is: it isn’t even contentious. This is what they themselves said they were doing, and what their cheerleaders explained was absolutely excellent shit that the public would love.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

new favourite sub-reddit has just dropped

Black and white TV is dying. Color TV struggles to be born. This is a time of Munsters.

Nice reminder to what remains of the Starmer project that there might be an easier way of "winning over Reform voters" that doesn't entail bragging about robbing refugees of their personal possessions in militarised detention centres.

There is no difference between a social democrat and a democratic socialist. It is the exact same tradition, the distinction was invented by ignorant modern anglophones.

“We deliberately sold as much of our capacity to rich people as we could and forced you to rent it from them, as a way of permanently shrivelling and crippling the scope of democracy” - sounds bad, like people should be in jail. “People are on their phones too much” - way better, highly preferable

Two visual puns I hadn’t been aware of until yesterday. The vertical elements of the City of London School for Girls resemble pencils, and those for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama represent tuning forks.

The man who ran a secret campaign to target and smear journalists says anonymous accounts on social media are polluting our public conversation.

Have you tried not uniting to force abject dreck that nobody likes or wants on the country

This stuff all happened to Labour canvassers in 2019 and literally none of these people gave a flying fuck

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Never seen in the same room at the same time

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.