Eoin Daly
@eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Law lecturer. Political theory, constitutions, republicanism, France. Dad of two. An 'autism parent'. Interested in athletics, politics, wine.
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Law
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Accident 1: slid all the way down the stairs on my arse, driving my toes into bannister at the end.
#2: fell backwards off a high box I tried jumping onto
# 3. Slipped on some leaves and twisted an ankle while trying to demonstrate a single leg pogo hop to about thirty 9 year olds
#2: fell backwards off a high box I tried jumping onto
# 3. Slipped on some leaves and twisted an ankle while trying to demonstrate a single leg pogo hop to about thirty 9 year olds
Do we become more accident-prone in middle age? Barely suffered an accident in my life and then within a year I have broken a toe, fractured a wrist and sprained an ankle. All, it must be admitted, very minor ailments caused by VERY funny misadventures
Landslide win beckons for centre-left candidate in Portugal’s presidential runoff
Exit polls give António José Seguro 67%-73% of vote over far-right populist André Ventura
www.theguardian.com
Randomly, I shared a communal office space with André Ventura, now the Portuguese far right leader, while we were doing PhDs in Cork 2008-2010ish. Though I didn’t know him well, he was on the surface a very affable character, as is often the way with extremists www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
This innocent-looking dried habanero- first time using it in a stew of beans, tomatoes, chocolate, vinegar - my poor wife nearly died but the way it is both fruity and yet deep, dry heat: omg
Latest instalment of the culture wars in Ireland is over the new public holiday tomorrow that honours both a Christian saint and (allegedly) the ancient pagan new year, Imbolg (I just care about the day off)
* did I mention the day off tomorrow
* did I mention the day off tomorrow
Wolfgang Streeck, American Violence — Sidecar
An interview with Wolgang Streeck
newleftreview.org
‘Unlike his predecessors, Trump forgoes cultivated speeches delivered with a legalistic silver tongue; but the violent core of his idea of a Pax Americana is anything but new.’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Okay hear me out.
Wine - red and white
Rice - white and black
Cider - fancy and plain (okay hard to justify)
A random fruit one that was a gift
Balsamic
Malt
Wine - red and white
Rice - white and black
Cider - fancy and plain (okay hard to justify)
A random fruit one that was a gift
Balsamic
Malt
Some people apparently consider it unreasonable to insist on keeping 8 varieties of vinegar in the kitchen??
When I look up an academic I basically just want a chronological list of their publications, but because PMC execs love shovelling money at fancy but shit software, you’re more likely now to get a set of AI-generated keywords and a graph comparing their citations in 2022 v 2023
Did anyone actually vote to have masked Federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back?
Do US liberals not pause to think about the rest of the world when they outragedly emphasise the CITIZEN part? Let me tell you how it sounds: it sounds like you think murdering mere foreigners is not that big a deal, something you are prepared to maybe forgive a little bit of from a Democrat presdnt
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Did anyone actually vote to have masked Federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back?
Occurred to me there that whereas I tend to ask my father for DIY advice, in the future we’ll probably just ask AI. Yeah it’s more convenient, but something is lost
AI very nicely exposes the contradictions within “conservative“ political thought. Philosophically, conservatives should be aghast at the prospective disruption of established social order and the tearing apart of the “given”. But in practice they can’t help bending the knee to tech capital
Spent the day at this beautiful stadium in my capacity as assistant manager of several 4 x 200m under 10s relay teams
Occurred to me there that whereas I tend to ask my father for DIY advice, in the future we’ll probably just ask AI. Yeah it’s more convenient, but something is lost
Saw a staff notice for ‘UniSingers’ (a choir, evidently) but for a split second I read it as ‘UniSwingers’ (one is the supposed not to judge, anyway)
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
Oh wow, another food-based moral panic, colour me shocked. Do ‘ultra-processed foods ‘ next www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Am behind with lots of bits of work so made potato dumplings; that’s how this works no
Eoin Daly
@eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.
Oh gosh yeah all the violence was out of sight and you were able to just have brunch x
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
@sundaedivine.lol
· Jan 10
Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.
Conor O'Mahony
@conorom.bsky.social
· Jan 8
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
My two-hour Philosophy of Law exam requires candidates to discuss a previously unseen excerpt, typically a page-long excerpt from a text or judgment relevant to theories they have studied but which they have almost certainly never encountered
My curmudgeonly AI in higher ed opinion is that instructors should be less precious about changing the assessment format. You’re not going to win the moral battle or the detection battle. Closed book exams are imperfect but more adaptable than ppl think. For example, discussion of unseen passages
You’re very unlikely to change people’s minds or even soften their position, by discoursing with them. You’re probably as likely to harden them in their views. But trying to get a rise out of them is a perfectly respectable aim, too
A democrat president would do imperial violence with a bit more nuance and a sympathetic head-tilt, some gestures of concern. They’d keep it to drone-murdering people in southwest Asia, or something like that, letting the liberals have brunch in peace
My kids are 8 and 6 and most of parents of their friends are probably closer to 50 than 40
… the typical 40 year old is now (in Ireland at least) more familiar as the lot of the 50 year old.
stumbled across a British drama on Netflix from 2006, ‘Life Begins’. The premise is two 40 year old parents of teenagers battling midlife crisis- i.e. ‘Life Begins at 40’. It’s surreal sociologically because today, middle class 40 yr olds are more likely to be parents of infants & what’s depicted as