The year is 2109, Earth has been reduced to a barren wasteland, but AGI has finally been created. The last human alive asks the machine: "How can we solve climate change?" AGI: "Eh...you probably shouldn't have built so many data centres, LOL."

All welcomed on music-filled cycle around Dublin City Centre to kick off Pride weekend A special "Pride Eve" IBikeBop cycle is planned tomorrow. Friday, June 26th -- the cycle is part of the series of Critical Mass cycles that takes place on the last Friday of every month....

Congrats to Oleg Chupryna @maynoothuniversity.ie on passing his PhD viva on the role of civil society in Ukraine’s democratisation. As external examiner, I was happy to read Dr Chupryna’s illuminating thesis, which spans the Granite, Orange and Maidan revolutions and the impact of Russia’s invasion

Aided and abetted by what some will see as 'useful idiots' in the union movement.

Tonight a Garda AI bill is set to pass in Seanad, allowing gardai - categorise ppl by skin tone, age, gender - identify an unknown suspect based on biometrics, - “localise” an identified person by tracking their movements Dr Róisín Costello and I outline issues👇#AIAct www.iccl.ie/news/garda-a...

Hundreds of men were prosecuted over the decades in Ireland, solely for being gay. As we celebrate this Pride Weekend, it's important that we try to deliver justice for these individuals too. The Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill aims to do this 👇

I made a feature length documentary film, and it’s in the official selection for The Galway Film Fleadh. It’d be great if I don’t end up in the cinema on my own. #Climate #SpeirGorm www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/glob...

#Opinion: If we can't regulate social media, can we regulate anything? Read the new piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social by DCU's Dr Eileen Culloty: launch.dcu.ie/4wbMSKS

Even as Ireland gets harsher with people seeking asylum, anti-immigrant groups rail against new asylum law. Academics and politicians say that’s because, for a small cohort, there’s an existential risk in admitting to their audience that the rules have hardened.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Those poor women, such trauma from then to now, putting them through a full trial. In awe of their courage

Thucydides:

European “centrists” have promised / threatened us for 30 years that more deportations will appease people to their right. Didn’t work for Obama (massively increased deportations). Didn’t work in Europe. Celebrating, promoting deportations tells people far right are correct.

We are pleased to share a new blog from Giovanni Parente, reflecting on his research visit to Brussels supported by a UACES Microgrant. Head to the UACES blog to read the full post: uacesoneurope.ideasoneurope.eu/2026/06/22/a...

One week since The Fenian Empire hit US shelves! A massive thank you to everyone who has reached out, and to the brilliant series editors Kevin Kenny & Nicholas Wolf - and the entire @nyupress.bsky.social team for putting together a final product that really captures the spirit of the text.

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif

🌈🇺🇦 Kyiv Pride, today. Just imagine, we are under martial law, but the gathering is allowed, because we live in a democracy and people show up to advocate for their basic human rights. Not something you could see in Moscow.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

First time I've seen the negative externalities of a technology (noisy and disturbing as hell) versus the benefits - faster delivery of junk food, leading to a huge push pushback by citizens. The press release feels like pure spin "Oh noes regulation" when there has been huge regulatory support

Han Centrist

On the odd fusion of feminism and realism, anarchy and civic housekeeping, anti-militarism and armed virtue. The opening salvo for a history of a minority tendency, starting with Jean Bethke Elshtain but not stopping there. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

"My father's taste in, and love of, music decided what I would do with my life." For #FathersDay, DCU's Dr Ronan Guilfoyle shares how growing up listening to his dad's Charles Mingus records in 1960s Dublin sparked his lifelong career in jazz. Read more: launch.dcu.ie/4ezYyzM @uk.theconversation.com

Defending a monopoly at all cost.

Ah, the immediate "gender pay gap is nonsense" response text in. As predictable as a tick of a clock. Love to have all my work and generations of research by incredible scholars completely dismissed 😂

Excellent. About bloody time. What excuse is there for any other Department -and the PM?

🚨 Just in: EU leaders adopt joint conclusions on Ukraine at 27 for the first time since March 2025. They also agreed to roll over the sanctions against Russia from 6 to 12 months. #EUCO

In fairness, the vast majority of them are dead.

Good night, sleep well and see you tomorrow!

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TDs vote to scrap 3-day wait for women seeking abortion jrnl.ie/7073588 Good it should never had been put in place as it wasn't needed medically or legally. #repeal #spéirgorm

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

This war was a strategic loss for the US the moment it began. The weaponization of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran was foreseeable and avoidable. The emergence of even more hardline Iran leadership was foreseeable and avoidable. The US and Israel did this to themselves—and to the world—out of hubris.

I’m in @foreignpolicy.com taking a big swing (but not a hot take): Trump’s defeat in Iran is a bigger US defeat in strategic terms than the US loss in Vietnam foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/i...

20 years in, the cost of "free" platforms with no accountability is known. Nuke their indemnity.

A good plain-English description of why I think it’s completely legitimate to say the Supreme Court fucked up _as a matter of law_ www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

Nasty, brutish and not as short.

Today I'm celebrating Bloomsday by recreating Joyce's favourite activity: not being in Dublin.

Reason 8: Serendipity Lives Here Online shopping gives you what you typed in. Independent bookshops give you the book you notice sideways, pick up by accident, read one page of, and suddenly cannot live without. Serendipity: still undefeated. #IndieBookshopWeek @booksaremybag.bsky.social

Banning children from social media?

I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPO

I had to report one tweet sent to me to the psni this week. The protectors of women and girls apparently.