Dr Pauline McGonagle
@pgmcgonagle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
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Israel has detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya without charges for a year. Why has the New York Times refused to cover his case?
Israel has detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya without charges for a year. Why has the New York Times refused to cover his case?
One year ago, an iconic photo from Gaza went viral of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya walking through rubble to be detained by Israeli forces. Today, Safiya is still being held without charges, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the New York Times.
mondoweiss.net
January 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Israel has detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya without charges for a year. Why has the New York Times refused to cover his case?
‘When the Taliban came, I lost everything. I found Ireland like paradise’
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‘When the Taliban came, I lost everything. I found Ireland like paradise’
Ireland is one of only two countries providing formalised routes to safety for people who face persecution in Afghanistan
www.irishtimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:26 PM
‘When the Taliban came, I lost everything. I found Ireland like paradise’
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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One of the things I love about #Bluesky is that this morning I enjoyed a thread about sheep pictures so much I ended up following @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and buying one of his books - Villager.
The connections in this place are whimsical and wonderful.
The connections in this place are whimsical and wonderful.
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 AM
One of the things I love about #Bluesky is that this morning I enjoyed a thread about sheep pictures so much I ended up following @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and buying one of his books - Villager.
The connections in this place are whimsical and wonderful.
The connections in this place are whimsical and wonderful.
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Attacks on Venezuela, Nigeria and Iran, genocide in Gaza, threats to Colombia, Canada, Mexico and Greenland. When will the world act? The US and Israel need to be sanctioned, boycotted and forced into compliance with international law.
It feels like they have tried to do an inverse of the 1920s/30s. This time around start with the Business Plot and provoke a World War, instead of Great Depression and New Deal. It won't work as nobody is going to be willing to fight in their crooked war.
Everything that is happening today is very similar to 1920s/30s and 1850s/60s.
January 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Attacks on Venezuela, Nigeria and Iran, genocide in Gaza, threats to Colombia, Canada, Mexico and Greenland. When will the world act? The US and Israel need to be sanctioned, boycotted and forced into compliance with international law.
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Here's my story on NGOs in 2025...✍️
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
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Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
December 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here's my story on NGOs in 2025...✍️
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
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Netherlands joins the 'Universities Shooting Themselves In the Foot to Placate Populists' Club.
Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one.
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
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They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
Economics programme in shock after sudden cancellation of English-taught track
The Bachelor's programme in Economics & Business Economics will only be offered in Dutch from 2029 onwards, the Executive Board announced on Tuesday. The news came as a complete surprise to the econom...
dub.uu.nl
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Netherlands joins the 'Universities Shooting Themselves In the Foot to Placate Populists' Club.
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The Bombay Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: The Bombay Literary Magazine
The Bombay Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/the-bombay-literary-magazine-16692 #amwriting
duotrope.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Bombay Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Forget, for a moment, that AI is a plagiarism machine and a psychotic environmental vandal (though it is both those things).
Of particular importance in the aesthetic sphere (though of course not only there) is that AI is also, as @himself.bsky.social* has pointed out**, a mediocrity engine.
Of particular importance in the aesthetic sphere (though of course not only there) is that AI is also, as @himself.bsky.social* has pointed out**, a mediocrity engine.
"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?"
Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.
It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.
It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.
It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.
It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Forget, for a moment, that AI is a plagiarism machine and a psychotic environmental vandal (though it is both those things).
Of particular importance in the aesthetic sphere (though of course not only there) is that AI is also, as @himself.bsky.social* has pointed out**, a mediocrity engine.
Of particular importance in the aesthetic sphere (though of course not only there) is that AI is also, as @himself.bsky.social* has pointed out**, a mediocrity engine.
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“One investigation exposed an Israeli mass surveillance program scooping up virtually all Palestinian phone calls & storing them on Microsoft’s cloud services – setting off an inquiry that ultimately prompted MS to cut off 🇮🇱 ’s access to some of its technology.
“One investigation exposed an Israeli mass surveillance program scooping up virtually all Palestinian phone calls & storing them on Microsoft’s cloud services – setting off an inquiry that ultimately prompted MS to cut off 🇮🇱 ’s access to some of its technology.
‘Data is control’: what we learned from a year investigating the Israeli military’s ties to big tech
Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the IDF and Silicon Valley – with implications for the future of warfare
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
“One investigation exposed an Israeli mass surveillance program scooping up virtually all Palestinian phone calls & storing them on Microsoft’s cloud services – setting off an inquiry that ultimately prompted MS to cut off 🇮🇱 ’s access to some of its technology.
“One investigation exposed an Israeli mass surveillance program scooping up virtually all Palestinian phone calls & storing them on Microsoft’s cloud services – setting off an inquiry that ultimately prompted MS to cut off 🇮🇱 ’s access to some of its technology.
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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that if international law is defended in Ukraine, it must also be defended in Gaza. He called for an end to what he described as “double standards,” adding new pressure to an already heated global debate over...
Via Headlines360
See the text in the photo
Via Headlines360
See the text in the photo
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that if international law is defended in Ukraine, it must also be defended in Gaza. He called for an end to what he described as “double standards,” adding new pressure to an already heated global debate over...
Via Headlines360
See the text in the photo
Via Headlines360
See the text in the photo
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At its Cairo headquarters, the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate awarded its Press Freedom Prize posthumously to Palestinian journalists killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip—honouring those who reported the truth until their final moments.
December 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
At its Cairo headquarters, the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate awarded its Press Freedom Prize posthumously to Palestinian journalists killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip—honouring those who reported the truth until their final moments.
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'There is a lie going on, that the genocide is over. There is a lie going on, that there was a 'war' in Gaza for 2 years. These are all lies, fabrications.'
Watch Israeli historian Ilan Pape 👇👇
Watch Israeli historian Ilan Pape 👇👇
December 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
'There is a lie going on, that the genocide is over. There is a lie going on, that there was a 'war' in Gaza for 2 years. These are all lies, fabrications.'
Watch Israeli historian Ilan Pape 👇👇
Watch Israeli historian Ilan Pape 👇👇
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Just a few days left to send us your New Year Writing Resolutions for 2026.
Send us your dreams, hopes and intentions and we'll send them back to you at the end of the year.
Best one wins a literary goodie bag (Europe only).
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Send us your dreams, hopes and intentions and we'll send them back to you at the end of the year.
Best one wins a literary goodie bag (Europe only).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
new year 's resolutions is written on a piece of yellow paper
ALT: new year 's resolutions is written on a piece of yellow paper
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December 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just a few days left to send us your New Year Writing Resolutions for 2026.
Send us your dreams, hopes and intentions and we'll send them back to you at the end of the year.
Best one wins a literary goodie bag (Europe only).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Send us your dreams, hopes and intentions and we'll send them back to you at the end of the year.
Best one wins a literary goodie bag (Europe only).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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100s of videos from al-Haq have been erased from Google's Youtube.
Voices of Israel's victims silenced.
And the international human rights community and NGOs are almost completely silent.
According to al-Haq, all their partners organizations in USA have abandoned them.
www.alhaq.org/media?page=1
Voices of Israel's victims silenced.
And the international human rights community and NGOs are almost completely silent.
According to al-Haq, all their partners organizations in USA have abandoned them.
www.alhaq.org/media?page=1
Media
www.alhaq.org
December 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
100s of videos from al-Haq have been erased from Google's Youtube.
Voices of Israel's victims silenced.
And the international human rights community and NGOs are almost completely silent.
According to al-Haq, all their partners organizations in USA have abandoned them.
www.alhaq.org/media?page=1
Voices of Israel's victims silenced.
And the international human rights community and NGOs are almost completely silent.
According to al-Haq, all their partners organizations in USA have abandoned them.
www.alhaq.org/media?page=1
This👇
I mean this in the kindest way: this could be solved by creating meaningful connections with your peers/colleagues. I have a writing group and a thinking group and plenty of people to text or call with questions, and it doesn’t require draining the earth of resources or stealing work.
If you use it as a dialogic thinking space where you externalities thought and use it to hold, reshape, question, extent, perturb your thinking. Just like a good teacher or mentor could, except you need to set and guide the interaction style.
December 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This👇
Loved it. ❤️
Watched Jeff Buckley "Its Never Over"[2025], there is already the excellent Jeff doc "Everybody Here Wants You" made by the BBC out there on YouTube, but this is well worth the watch for Buckley fans. Some very moving interviews with people who knew him and a few unseen clips
December 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Loved it. ❤️
You can find some peace in places but that does not always mean peace of mind.
My Diary of a homesick Gazan abroad. In Ireland, I am alive and safe. But survival feels hollow without the people, places, and routines that once sustained me. @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/diary-gaza-i...
www.972mag.com/diary-gaza-i...
Diary of a homesick Gazan abroad - +972 Magazine
In Ireland, I am alive and safe. But survival feels hollow without the people, places, and routines that once sustained me.
www.972mag.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
You can find some peace in places but that does not always mean peace of mind.
What a New Year’s gift to the world that would be? Are you listening @keirstarmer.bsky.social @davidlammy.bsky.social
The 4 senior army officers added, that evidence of Israeli war crimes was “so well documented & compelling that the British government should cut all military collaboration with Israel forthwith, to avoid the charge of complicity”
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Ex-senior army officers urge UK to 'cut all military collaboration with Israel'
Former servicemen call on Keir Starmer to suspend all involvement with Israel-linked defence firms 'to avoid the charge of complicity'
www.middleeasteye.net
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What a New Year’s gift to the world that would be? Are you listening @keirstarmer.bsky.social @davidlammy.bsky.social
I have experienced this and do not know many women teachers and academics who have not.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I have experienced this and do not know many women teachers and academics who have not.