Yup Galway!. The West's Awake!

Niamh Bonner's craftivism leading the way to the rally to mark 1000 days of genocide at Banba Square in Nenagh this morning. Guest speakers included Medea Susan Benjamin and members of North Tipp IPSC. #1000DaysOfGenocide #FreePalestine

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Banger Dáil exchange where Paul Murphy is told not to call Elon Musk a "psychopath" in line with Dáil standing orders

The startling figure in this report is that 527 employees in Uisce Éireann earned over €100,000 last year, an increase of 25% on 2024. This is what happens when state-owned utilities with a public function operate as commercial companies in a market. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

For those of you researching the Genocide- archivegenocide.com Israel Exposed. website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. (warning-disturbing material) 64,537 videos 17,905 photos Ability to download individual videos.

We are failed by MSM that they are not reporting on the deepening relationship between the IDSA, the Irish arms lobby group, and the dept of defence. This at a time when all we hear about from the government is the need for more defence spending. www.ontheditch.com/defence-offi...

Getting weird with the reffing now....Spain just had a goal disallowed...against Austria.

Trump allies eye barring pregnant foreigners as birthright Plan B en.mdn.tv/9F4d

All new employees* at my place are employed by a subsidiary company to avoid TPS. It looks more like an ideological move than ever now. *Because this dick move ruined hiring above entry level, execs - but not academics - are being offered extra pay to ‘compensate’. They always protect their own.

The coverage of Exeter's cuts rightly points out that there's no financial need. The coverage of Edinburgh's - for which there is also no financial need - was framed as 'even Edinburgh' being in financial trouble. This is very frustrating. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Agree. There were warning signs re uni Cardiff sounded by the frontline at least two decades ago. Ditto Dundee.

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in southern Lebanon: An Israeli drone dropped several stun grenades on the town of Yater en.mdn.tv/9EzI

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

if you are tuning into Schism Watch 2026, this is the important part. a bishop's consecration is supposed to begin with an Apostolic Mandate saying "the pope approves of these bishops." since they obviously don't have one, they read this jaw-droppingly audacious fuckery instead. Leo is going to flip

I wrote about the canary in the HIE UK humanities labour coal mine a while ago-Middlesex. socialtextjournal.org/periscope_ar...

Academics all over the country could put their hand up and say they're in the same boat. But when did you last see a big feature on redundancies at a post-92 university?

From pretending the Palestinian FA had given its approval, to now designating key Israel ally Serbia as a 'neutral' venue for our 'home' game against the apartheid state, the FAI is plumbing new depths. Serbia provides political and weapons support to Israel as it commits genocide. #StopTheGame

Can we think of the early Zionist colonies as part of the Palestinian landscape? This is the question I ask in my chapter on the Dutch photographer Frank Scholten 1920s depiction of the colonies as part of his journeys in Palestine. Open access here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

'Middle eastern food' label for Israeli versions of local and regional dishes of Occupied Palestine,Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, watered down for Eurocentric tastes.

Photo below is of Syrian citizens putting rocks in the middle of a road in order to try and block Israeli occupation incursions into their village of Daraa. A reminder that both the previous and current presidents of the United States support the illegal invasion and occupation of Syria by Israel.

Fab day at Croke Park..historic win for Louth and the Dubs are back!

On the bus heading for Croke Park. Up Louth! #Luabu!

Iran MoFA condemns US attacks on southern coast, announces Iraq visit en.mdn.tv/9Edr #Bagdad

It’s rare for foreign policy to shift domestic elections, but I think this explains why Israel-Palestine has become so salient. Israel’s war in Gaza posed the question of whether genocide can ever be a proportionate response. That is a fundamental moral litmus. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

😂 class take!

Prize funded by Tel Aviv University. Weirdness of cute affect zoology combined with complicity in the machinery of genocide. #BDS

The thousand year Zionist reich....Netanyahu affirms occupation of Lebanon under 'historic' framework en.mdn.tv/9EbO

What Lebanon actually signed away in its deal with 'Israel' en.mdn.tv/9EXt

🎥 Filmed by Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed.

💢🇵🇸 Israeli attacks killed at least 6 Palestinians across Gaza on Friday & early Saturday, including three police officers killed in a double-tap strike. ➤ A 10-year-old boy, Walid Youssef Abu Jazar, died Saturday from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike west of Khan Younis earlier this week...

Footage from Palestinian journalist Mohammed Qandeel on Instagram appears to corroborate the eyewitness account of a double-tap strike. (🎥 Mohammed_qan, Instagram)

💜 We were at Pride today and it was beautiful! There was a great reception for the Palestinian flag with many speakers calling out apartheid Israel's genocide or finishing with Saoirse don Phalaistín. #NoPrideInIsraeliApartheid

Today the Supreme Court authorized this administration to end TPS for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, imperiling the lives of all 1.3 million holders of this status.

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According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year. But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee alone. How is this possible?

'The government data finds that when comparing people with the same sex and similar GCSE results, the proportion in sustained employment or further study 10 years after GCSEs is “consistently higher” for degree holders than for those with no higher level qualification.' 1/3

💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "It's an existential crisis" 🔥 Extreme heat caused by the fossil fuel giants is killing people. ❌️ No more drilling in the North Sea ❌️ No airport expansion ✅️ Invest in renewables ✅️ Maximum workplace temperature ✅️ Cooler homes 🚨 Now.

In other words, any discipline that may be able to counter liberal racist capitalism and its degradations.

⭕️ Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill: “Trump is in catastrophically bad narrative trouble because the Iranians won’t throw him a single bone. They will not go along with any of his lies, and it’s causing panic on Trump’s part... I think the Iranians see him as the president who cried wolf. No one...

This made me smile.

"I came to University X because I love the design of the new Spunklord-Chough Building and it's ample parking" said no student ever.

Solidarity with all the colleagues across the water and up North who are facing the uncertainty and potential devastation of redundancy. The amount of emotional damage wrought by university administrations on scholars and support staff is unconscionable.

So 'limited' it reputedly entails making 25% of the History Department (which took how many additional students last autumn...?) redundant.... Is the targeting specifically directed toward top-performing departments, in a 'specific' effort to degrade the UK research base? Asking for some friends.

It really feels like this is a feature of the cuts rather than a bug, especially when you drill down to the numbers that they're circulating internally. They did mention "defense" and "security" as "strategic areas", lest the implication be too subtle...

In a stunning upset, democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier has defeated five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the Democratic primary for New York's 13th congressional district. www.huffpost.com/entry/darial...