You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

Look at our beautiful cast pls come to this reading on 6 October at 7 PM in aid of the Gaza formula fund

The only way to see the US as a historically white country is if you pretend Indigenous Americans don't exist and you ignore the fact that African Americans have been in this country longer than most of its white people. The way US history is taught from k-12 affirms the lie of white supremacy.

Amusing humour, under which we can hear the horror in @aiannucci.bsky.social and Lee's voices as they witness / experience the developing catastrophe... or perhaps I'm just projecting www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“Conservatives”, as if we’re talking about John Major or John McCain or Anna Soubry, when we are in fact talking about people who have actively campaigned to deny or roll back rights for women and LGBTQ+ folks and/or people who have recycled neo/crypto-fascist talking points…

“McIlroy…continued to be assailed by insults about his marriage and his major heartbreaks, while Lowry had to listen to an endless chorus of anti-Irish bullshit.”

Our friend, poet and activist Sarah Clancy, is on the Spectre, one of the boats on the Flotilla which was attacked last night. Contact the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to demand protection, there must be safe passage for all trying to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. #LiftTheSiege

Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.

More or less every liberal argument in favor of American hegemony either pretends MENA is an area of exemption from international norms or, more perversely, Israel is actually an embodiment of international norms. Either way the only conclusion to take is that Arabs are not included in liberalism.

"Speech... it ain't free no more... If you wanna say something nice about the president's thick, yellow hair, or that he can do his makeup better than any broad? That's free. But if you wanna do a joke like, he's so fat he needs two seats on the Epstein jet? That's gonna cost ya."

I don’t love the “feud” framing, as much as I do appreciate the mayor standing up to Trump. Sadiq Khan is not feuding with anyone. He was the target of a vicious, racist attack and is standing up for himself and others.

Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.

First published in 1789. Reliques of Irish Poetry: consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs. "Originals in the Irish Character" By Charlotte Brooke (1740-1793)

1) We founded JFM in 2003 when we learned about anomalies at the High Park graves, exposed by Mary Raftery. 22 yrs later, the Srs of Our Lady of Charity (OLC) say they’ve rectified errors & omissions at their Glasnevin graves. A few initial observations: goodshepherdsisters.ie/news-events/...?

I'll note lots of people said having Gardai escort drivelling lunatics into libraries in order to perform book inspections to make sure they weren't too gay would not placate them but radicalize them even more. And here we are.

Police say self-inflicted, but family notes bruises and a leg fracture. DSU, a mostly white school, has a history of violence against Black students. He’s the fourth Black man found hanging this year, all ruled self-inflicted. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

Thanks to all who have shared so far. Interviews are happening and I'm almost half way through my planned number of participants, and hoping to keep the momentum up since summer is over and everyone is less busy having fun! Come and have (some) fun and share your story with me 🚀

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

After you log in, instead of clicking to accept the terms, edit the URL (or open a new tab) to go directly to www.academia.edu/settings which (at least currently) is not giving the pop-up to accept the new terms. At the bottom of that page, you can delete your account.

Been meaning to share this for a while: BROKEN RECORD: GENDERED ABUSE IN ACADEMIA ft 40+ contributors & THE Sara Ahmed from @sunypress.bsky.social. Because higher ed is not a bastion of the radical left. It's A WORKPLACE where abuses happen all the time & it's NOT OK. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...

Pls come to our fundraiser 6 October 7pm - I’m writing three new scenes to the play which speak to now

Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just 24 arrests. The Metropolitan Police have said they will make "further arrests in the coming days and weeks" following Far Right violence at the “Unite the Kingdom” march. Last weekend the Met arrested 890 people for holding cardboard placards and peacefully protesting against genocide.

Names include international students, lecturers and part-time faculty, Judith Butler says: “The consequences of this compliance could be terrible for a lot of people’s lives, most of whom are much more vulnerable than I am. They can suffer deportation, expulsion, job loss, harassment, surveillance"

You will be totally unsurprised that @jamellebouie.net has written the most sensible & accurate take on all of this. We need to be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. Political violence is bad & should be condemned. And far right authoritarianism is bad & should be condemned.

On the surface, “Mr. Burton” looks like just another celebrity biopic. But the legendary actor’s life tells us a lot about class, empire, and sexuality in the 20th century. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sur...

A great article about a great film!

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

IHS Lecture 23 Sept - Dr Amy Prendergast (TCD), 'Narratives of violence: considering Irish women's life written as testimony, 1760-1810' (also online) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c32d66...

I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today. by most liberal pundits

🎶 CDIME 2025! 30 Sept – 2 Oct at Mary Immaculate College & the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance - 17th International Conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education. Keynotes: Rhiannon Giddens & Nasim Niknafs. ✨ Explore the programme & register at mic.ul.ie/CDIME2025 #musiced #limerick

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

I already beat another guy who cut Medicaid, gave tax breaks to billionaires, and hounded multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment — might as well debate the one actually calling the shots.

When Akira Kurosawa made “Dersu Uzala” 50 years ago, his career (and life) was at a low point— and yet he came up with one of his most unusual and affecting pictures. It’s streaming on the Criterion Channel: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

I will never forget how the Dems did more to crackdown on student protesters trying to stop a genocide than they've ever fought against Trump. If you can mobilize an army of cops to brutalize a small group of unarmed 20-year-olds, you can order them to prevent a fascist takeover of your city.

For those interested in my new book on C.S. Lewis's Irish background, you can get 30% off if you use the discount code SNHSS30 on the Springer/Palgrave Macmillan site between now and 30 Sept. 2025. Here's the link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

“Cinema is an artform defined by motion, and dance is the apotheosis of human motion, exalted all the more by the camera, which moves as another partner in the dance,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social notes. “And dancing on roller skates is all that but on roller skates.” crookedmarquee.com/keep-the-cha...

found a flyer for this astonishing post-Katrina production of Godot stage completely filled with water, the actors sitting on the roof of a submerged house, Pozzo & Lucky entered in a little boat went with my mother, long time ago

A very Happy 80th Birthday to Belfast’s Van Morrison, creator of classic albums such as Astral Weeks, Moondance, St Dominic’s Preview, Into the Music, Enlightenment, The Healing Game, etc etc etc…!