Damian Mac Con Uladh
@damomac.bsky.social
Greece-based journalist and copy-editor. Ballinasloe sham.
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Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.
What can algorithmically rewarding the most divisive and inflammatory content and facilitating the spread of misinformation get you? For Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a $300m, 387-foot mega yacht, Launchpad, which is now moored off Corinth.
July 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
What can algorithmically rewarding the most divisive and inflammatory content and facilitating the spread of misinformation get you? For Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a $300m, 387-foot mega yacht, Launchpad, which is now moored off Corinth.
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Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
At Dublin Airport and there's a lad with an overcoat and Docs waiting to board a flight to Athens, where temperatures are forecast to hit 38°C today.
June 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
At Dublin Airport and there's a lad with an overcoat and Docs waiting to board a flight to Athens, where temperatures are forecast to hit 38°C today.
"There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot."
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Tourist's 'nightmare' as Corfu hotel 'had no English food' and not enough chips
Susan Edwards complained that her stay at a hotel in Corfu, Greece, came without the 'English food' she liked, and without entertainment or easy access to a private beach
www.mirror.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot."
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
So the Greek media is convinced that Egypt is confiscating Mount Sinai Monastery and evicting its monks on the basis of an "exclusive" report in an obscure religious "news" site?
May 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So the Greek media is convinced that Egypt is confiscating Mount Sinai Monastery and evicting its monks on the basis of an "exclusive" report in an obscure religious "news" site?
Has anyone else noticed recently in the Irish Times that the apostrophe in many possessive 's in texts is is wrong way around?
Hard on the eye.
Hard on the eye.
May 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Has anyone else noticed recently in the Irish Times that the apostrophe in many possessive 's in texts is is wrong way around?
Hard on the eye.
Hard on the eye.
Greek PM, who thinks Breitbart is a real media outlet, attempts to dismiss the Guardian as "the Efimerida ton Syntakton [left-wing daily] of the UK". Needless to say, EfSyn is celebrating what Mitsotakis intended as an insult.
www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...
www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...
Ποιος Guardian μωρέ, η «Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών» της Αγγλίας;
Θα στείλουμε λουλούδια και γλυκά στον πρωθυπουργό Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη γι' αυτό που είπε σήμερα σε συνέντευξή του στον ΣΚΑΪ 100.3, για την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών. Αυτός βέβαια νόμιζε ότι το είπε για κακ...
www.efsyn.gr
May 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Greek PM, who thinks Breitbart is a real media outlet, attempts to dismiss the Guardian as "the Efimerida ton Syntakton [left-wing daily] of the UK". Needless to say, EfSyn is celebrating what Mitsotakis intended as an insult.
www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...
www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...
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We can now reveal where each country stood during the meeting:
In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰
Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺
Neutral: 🇱🇻
In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰
Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺
Neutral: 🇱🇻
🚨🚨🚨 Big news in Brussels: A majority of 17 member states have supported the Dutch proposal to launch a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement for possible breaches of human rights in the Gaza Strip, @euronews.com has learned.
May 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We can now reveal where each country stood during the meeting:
In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰
Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺
Neutral: 🇱🇻
In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰
Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺
Neutral: 🇱🇻
Pope Leo XIV is an American. Trump will surely claim it was all his work.
May 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pope Leo XIV is an American. Trump will surely claim it was all his work.
Habemus Papam! Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας
www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...
www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...
Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας
Λευκός καπνός εμφανίστηκε από μια καμινάδα στην κορυφή της Καπέλα Σιξτίνα στο Βατικανό, σηματοδοτώντας ότι οι 133 ρωμαιοκαθολικοί καρδινάλιοι που συναντήθηκαν σε μυστικό κονκλάβιο εξέλεξαν νέο πάπα.
www.kathimerini.gr
May 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Habemus Papam! Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας
www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...
www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...
Some "Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism ... are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have ... threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing
Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Some "Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism ... are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have ... threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greek American MAGA worshippers: "We feel left out. We demand an Orthodox ecumenical patriarch version! Remember 1204!"
May 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Greek American MAGA worshippers: "We feel left out. We demand an Orthodox ecumenical patriarch version! Remember 1204!"
"The find has not been directly addressed by the country’s center-right government – a reminder that many Greeks still find it easier to walk past the country’s ghosts than confront them."
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...
Discovered by chance, a mass grave revives memories of Greece’s brutal civil war | eKathimerini.com
It’s common to find ancient remains or objects in Greece. But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–1949 Civil War.
www.ekathimerini.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"The find has not been directly addressed by the country’s center-right government – a reminder that many Greeks still find it easier to walk past the country’s ghosts than confront them."
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...
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The Canadian election is definitely the only election in a developed country I can remember where the central pitch of the winning party was essentially “this country should exist”.
April 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The Canadian election is definitely the only election in a developed country I can remember where the central pitch of the winning party was essentially “this country should exist”.
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🚨 Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia, was abducted from his final citizenship interview by ICE.
My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.*
That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!
My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.*
That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!
April 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
🚨 Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia, was abducted from his final citizenship interview by ICE.
My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.*
That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!
My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.*
That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!
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Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia?
Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin
FACTS MATTER
Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin
FACTS MATTER
April 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia?
Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin
FACTS MATTER
Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin
FACTS MATTER
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World's first vaporware
Alas, this ancient mechanical computer probably never worked.
The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests
Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.
gizmodo.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
World's first vaporware
"According to the findings, the individual in question has a close familial relationship with the university’s president."
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...
University staff member taught for 12 years without a recognized degree, investigation reveals | eKathimerini.com
A recent investigation by the National Transparency Authority (NTA), prompted by a formal complaint, found that an individual served as adjunct teaching staff at a higher education institution in nort...
www.ekathimerini.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"According to the findings, the individual in question has a close familial relationship with the university’s president."
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...
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I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.
Trump: "One thing I learned about the coal miners -- that's what they want to do. You could give them a penthouse on 5th Avenue and a different kind of a job and they'd be unhappy. They want to mine coal. She was gonna put them in a high tech industry where you make little cell phones and things."
April 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.
BBC World has been relaying this insane verbal diarrhoea from the Shite House since the top of the hour.
April 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
BBC World has been relaying this insane verbal diarrhoea from the Shite House since the top of the hour.
Two days to Tommy Tiernan in Athens!
Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket...
youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...
Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket...
youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...
Out Of The Whirlwind (BEST OF) | TOMMY TIERNAN
YouTube video by Tommy Tiernan
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April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two days to Tommy Tiernan in Athens!
Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket...
youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...
Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket...
youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...
