Siobhán McElduff
@siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own
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one last time, for the road
January 1, 2026 at 5:21 AM
one last time, for the road
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Happy New Year, Bluesky!
January 1, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Happy New Year, Bluesky!
So the Iona lot are too vain, the Burkes too unbearable, Littler too short, and Conor McG is not going anywhere, so they're all out. So who is he after? Independent Ireland? Aontú? The Healy-Raes? Gareth Sheridan on a break from Florida?
#speirgorm 🇮🇪
Irish friends, family & neighbors: kick him out NOW! Ban him & his organization from your shores.
If you dont act early, you will become as fascist as America before you know it!
#SaveDemocracy www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Irish friends, family & neighbors: kick him out NOW! Ban him & his organization from your shores.
If you dont act early, you will become as fascist as America before you know it!
#SaveDemocracy www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Steve Bannon promises ‘Irish Trump’ and says he is working to form ‘national party’ in Ireland
Former White House strategist says he is ‘behind the scenes on the Irish situation’
www.irishtimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 AM
So the Iona lot are too vain, the Burkes too unbearable, Littler too short, and Conor McG is not going anywhere, so they're all out. So who is he after? Independent Ireland? Aontú? The Healy-Raes? Gareth Sheridan on a break from Florida?
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It’s not too late, CBC. You could do one more story for 2025 about people with vacation homes in Florida or US travel plans being inconvenienced.
January 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM
It’s not too late, CBC. You could do one more story for 2025 about people with vacation homes in Florida or US travel plans being inconvenienced.
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Always worth a post
December 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Always worth a post
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Thank you all for supporting my ACLU fundraiser. We've raised $625 so far! I just updated things for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense. Fresh copies are available in my store: www.etsy.com/listing/4334...
#vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine
#vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thank you all for supporting my ACLU fundraiser. We've raised $625 so far! I just updated things for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense. Fresh copies are available in my store: www.etsy.com/listing/4334...
#vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine
#vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine
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Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.
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There’s City of Victoria’s police budget, hiring retired VicPD, salary + pension + hiring bonus
“They need to start looking at policing as a helping profession, a compassion profession.”
OR
we could have health & social services instead of police everywhere
this isn’t ok.
1/
“They need to start looking at policing as a helping profession, a compassion profession.”
OR
we could have health & social services instead of police everywhere
this isn’t ok.
1/
January 1, 2026 at 3:42 AM
There’s City of Victoria’s police budget, hiring retired VicPD, salary + pension + hiring bonus
“They need to start looking at policing as a helping profession, a compassion profession.”
OR
we could have health & social services instead of police everywhere
this isn’t ok.
1/
“They need to start looking at policing as a helping profession, a compassion profession.”
OR
we could have health & social services instead of police everywhere
this isn’t ok.
1/
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"It's not easy to change these institutions of the status quo. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m proud of the work I’ve done together with the wider community." Cllr @seanorr.bsky.social
Read the last Orr Report of 2025: www.votecope.ca/news/the-orr...
#FightForVancouver #vanpoli
Read the last Orr Report of 2025: www.votecope.ca/news/the-orr...
#FightForVancouver #vanpoli
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"It's not easy to change these institutions of the status quo. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m proud of the work I’ve done together with the wider community." Cllr @seanorr.bsky.social
Read the last Orr Report of 2025: www.votecope.ca/news/the-orr...
#FightForVancouver #vanpoli
Read the last Orr Report of 2025: www.votecope.ca/news/the-orr...
#FightForVancouver #vanpoli
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Every. Fucking. Time. You just Google "sexual assault" with any of these guys. I mean the results can definitely be worse, but... www.thecrimson.com/article/1991...
History Prof Denies Charges of Sexism | News | The Harvard Crimson
A Harvard history professor accused of making disparaging remarks about feminism and denying the existence of date rape and sexual
www.thecrimson.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Every. Fucking. Time. You just Google "sexual assault" with any of these guys. I mean the results can definitely be worse, but... www.thecrimson.com/article/1991...
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See, this isn't true. I see no evidence that people with bad politics consistently produce good scholarship, and, actually, future scholars are left now with the mess of determining how much even the neutral-seeming work has been warped by delusion and hate (spoiler: probably a lot)
The politics here are reprehensible but also really sad. He was a great scholar once. He had philological skills that no one has anymore. There are very few people who could produce that kind of work today. And to some extent, that's what this is about. He's mad that our field lost its former status
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
See, this isn't true. I see no evidence that people with bad politics consistently produce good scholarship, and, actually, future scholars are left now with the mess of determining how much even the neutral-seeming work has been warped by delusion and hate (spoiler: probably a lot)
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International aid organizations are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever, legally or morally, to provide information about their workers in a territory that Israel has no sovereignty over or any right to occupy.
If you read the articles, they are blocking 15% of the NGOs until they comply with vetting the way all the other NGOs did. Let’s all use what God and your mama gave you: your brain, common sense and the desire to share truth.
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
International aid organizations are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever, legally or morally, to provide information about their workers in a territory that Israel has no sovereignty over or any right to occupy.
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Doctors Without Borders has urged Israel to allow it to continue operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in 2026.
Israel is to ban 37 aid groups from operating there from tomorrow for not complying with new requirements for sharing staff information. jrnl.ie/6915549
Israel is to ban 37 aid groups from operating there from tomorrow for not complying with new requirements for sharing staff information. jrnl.ie/6915549
Doctors Without Borders urges Israel to allow it to continue operating in Gaza ahead of ban
Israel plans to ban 37 aid organisations from operating in Gaza from 1 January, a move the UN has condemned as “outrageous”.
jrnl.ie
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Doctors Without Borders has urged Israel to allow it to continue operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in 2026.
Israel is to ban 37 aid groups from operating there from tomorrow for not complying with new requirements for sharing staff information. jrnl.ie/6915549
Israel is to ban 37 aid groups from operating there from tomorrow for not complying with new requirements for sharing staff information. jrnl.ie/6915549
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My dad, 85 years old, suffering from the effects of a 2 year struggle with cancer, and chief of surgery at the Chinook Regional Hospital for decades, was moved from an already overcrowded space to an “overcapacity room” while he recovers from a stomach bleed and pneumonia. This is the room. 🧵🧵🧵
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My dad, 85 years old, suffering from the effects of a 2 year struggle with cancer, and chief of surgery at the Chinook Regional Hospital for decades, was moved from an already overcrowded space to an “overcapacity room” while he recovers from a stomach bleed and pneumonia. This is the room. 🧵🧵🧵
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My dad has had heart events since he was admitted. Now, if he feels angina, he has to ding a tiny bell and hope a nurse outside the ward hears him. “Or you can shout as loud as you can,” they told him.
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My dad has had heart events since he was admitted. Now, if he feels angina, he has to ding a tiny bell and hope a nurse outside the ward hears him. “Or you can shout as loud as you can,” they told him.
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Using the housing "crisis" to try to get racists votes (which won't work) is disgusting towards immigrants, but also towards people in housing insecurity because it's telling them that solving their life-threatening issue is less important than catering to the racist crowd.
Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true.
Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?
Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?
Simon Harris claims ‘significant number’ in emergency accommodation ‘don’t have housing right’
December 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Using the housing "crisis" to try to get racists votes (which won't work) is disgusting towards immigrants, but also towards people in housing insecurity because it's telling them that solving their life-threatening issue is less important than catering to the racist crowd.
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If this is the case I'm going to be *really* upset I didn't try and get a ticket.
Prediction: the London fireworks will feature a giant floating drone Paddington head like in Zardoz.
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If this is the case I'm going to be *really* upset I didn't try and get a ticket.
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As is traditional on this day: Samuel Beckett’s thoughts via telegram on the coming New Year of 1984
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
As is traditional on this day: Samuel Beckett’s thoughts via telegram on the coming New Year of 1984
I see it's sympathy for a disgraced scholar day today. Again.
December 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I see it's sympathy for a disgraced scholar day today. Again.
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A not-so-brief summary of where we are at heading into the new year in terms of polling, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael trending down, an Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats trending up. Featuring analysis for every constituency, read below 👇
irishelectionprojections.com/2025/12/30/e...
irishelectionprojections.com/2025/12/30/e...
End of 2025 Projections Update
2024 Result Fianna Fáil 48Sinn Féin 39Fine Gael 38Independents 16Social Democrats 11Labour 11Independent Ireland 4PBP/Solidarity 3Aontú 2Green Party 1100% Redress 1 Current Projection Fianna Fáil 4…
irishelectionprojections.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A not-so-brief summary of where we are at heading into the new year in terms of polling, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael trending down, an Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats trending up. Featuring analysis for every constituency, read below 👇
irishelectionprojections.com/2025/12/30/e...
irishelectionprojections.com/2025/12/30/e...
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It's true. Last time I went to the movies Carney charged me $15 for a small pack of Nibs.
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's true. Last time I went to the movies Carney charged me $15 for a small pack of Nibs.
On this last day of 2025, I'd like to remember the forgotten: Lizzy II. Remember how mere years ago how we were told the loss of her was an epochal event? And now there's her son in there and the epoch seems to be rolling on to its likely disastrous conclusion.
That somehow cheers me up a bit.
That somehow cheers me up a bit.
December 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On this last day of 2025, I'd like to remember the forgotten: Lizzy II. Remember how mere years ago how we were told the loss of her was an epochal event? And now there's her son in there and the epoch seems to be rolling on to its likely disastrous conclusion.
That somehow cheers me up a bit.
That somehow cheers me up a bit.
Nice of 2025 to remind me on its last day that it truly is a cursed year.
December 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Nice of 2025 to remind me on its last day that it truly is a cursed year.
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An tusa an chéad Láithreoir Aimsire eile ar TG4? 🌟📺🎤
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais:
https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais:
https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
An tusa an chéad Láithreoir Aimsire eile ar TG4? 🌟📺🎤
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais:
https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais:
https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/