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Aoife
@aoifenf.bsky.social
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Mostly into foreign policy, fantasy, sport, trains, and lamenting Dublin's planning situation.
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aoifenf.bsky.social
This is incredible!
drsepinwall.bsky.social Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 6d
Better late than never LOL. I didn't get to show Kery James' video Lettre à la république at the start of the semester, but it's here & ready for our last meeting of the semester in our Decolonization unit. Thanks again @jenniferheuer.bsky.social!
drsepinwall.bsky.social Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · Jul 21
Thanks to @jenniferheuer.bsky.social for sending me Kery James' Lettre à la République. 🎤💥🔥

Definitely showing it my French colonialism class this fall. BOOM! Counter-memory.... (& yes, there are English subtitles & you should watch it) 🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp3X...
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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vuc.bsky.social
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
aoifenf.bsky.social
NI through the looking glass here. (Also, not a lawyer, but bemused by the idea that reinvestigations would constitute an "obvious potential breach" of Art 8 ECHR - surely one or the other?)
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.

I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.

www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...
The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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tom-phillips.com
honestly you have to admire Infantino's sheer commitment to the funniest, most overt and humiliating forms of corruption possible
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
aoifenf.bsky.social
Well, can confirm Zohran Mamdani has broken through to the 14yr old Dubliners (my nephew sent me a Tik Tok).
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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pantibliss.bsky.social
Glad to hear Richard is doing well - especially because he’s partly responsible for my “Noble Call” speech at the Abbey Theatre

You see…

The play The Risen People by James Plunkett had a three month run in The Abbey from Nov ‘13 to Feb ‘14, and the theatre invited a different person to “respond”…
Screen grab from the Irish Times. There’s a picture of People Before Profit politician Richard Boyd Barrett and the headline says: 'I've got my life back', Boyd Barrett says as cancer treatment successful
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social
A fascinating long read by @naomiohreally.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
‘Do you have any friends in the IRA?’: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe
The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine
www.irishtimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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tinydbass.bsky.social
Very glad to hear Prof John Sweeney draw a direct line between Hurricane Melissa and the need for climate action on RTÉ Drivetime a little while ago. Would be good if our political leaders showed a bit more willingness to draw the same connections rather than looking for excuses not to act.
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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magichatgrok.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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newschambers.bsky.social
We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.
news.rte.ie RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Oct 24
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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cormacos.bsky.social
I did not know specialising in heist economics was an option. My life has been wasted.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 23
Art heists may sound glamorous, but stealing priceless cultural artifacts doesn't always pay off like you'd expect. We talked with a veteran art thief, a lawyer, and an expert on heist economics.
A few things to consider before committing a museum heist
Art heists may sound glamorous, but stealing priceless cultural artifacts doesn't always pay off like you'd expect. We talked with a veteran art thief, a lawyer, and an expert on heist economics.
n.pr
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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siobhandowling.bsky.social
Nerd that I am, ridiculously exited at the prospects of scouring through the 1926 census.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
Centenary celebrations for release of 1926 census
The upcoming release of the 1926 census records of Ireland will be celebrated across a major public programme of events next year.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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oceanclub.bsky.social
In this degraded era of influencers touting NFTs of cartoon apes in Dubai, there's honestly something wholesome about a good old-fashioned jewel theft in Paris.
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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scottygb.bsky.social
Tom Daley just posted this on TikTok #CelebrityTraitors
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
aoifenf.bsky.social
La collaboration européenne, en style moderne... (I kind of love it).
dccbeta.bsky.social Dublin City Council BETA @dccbeta.bsky.social · Oct 13
@paris.fr @davidbelliard.bsky.social Bonjour!

Serait-il possible d’obtenir plus d’informations sur ces barrières?

Par exemple, un plan technique (afin que nous puissions en tester un), ou bien existe-t-il un fabricant particulier utilisé par la Ville de Paris que nous pourrions contacter?
dccbeta.bsky.social Dublin City Council BETA @dccbeta.bsky.social · Mar 24
A video of how the swing gates work in Paris.

There is a slide pin on the hinge side of the gate which slides in and out with minimal effort.

When the pin is in, it prevents the gate from swinging open.

The pin can't be removed out of the gate, to avoid loss of the slide bolt.
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources. He now aims to help at least 50 countries embark on the path to more clean energy.
He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
aoifenf.bsky.social
Is this not a Spitting Image sketch about Thatcher that's somehow been transmogrofied onto Haughey? 😂
O Fearghaíl added: “What has occurred around the presidential selection and the really appalling campaign is a symptom of how we’ve been doing our business as a political party for some time.” During Wednesday night’s meeting O Fearghaíl told a story about Charlie Haughey at a restaurant where he made the selection for his guests. When asked about the vegetables, Haughey said ‘they’ll have the same as I’m having’. “My point is that for a period of time it would appear that the parliamentary party have been the vegetables. We have been told what to do, what to think, and we haven’t been taken seriously.”
October 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
aoifenf.bsky.social
Aww, this is lovely!
marmenor.bsky.social Mar Menor @marmenor.bsky.social · Oct 6
Junior Eurovision 2025 is coming.
This is the WONDERFUL FRENCH entry.
Tis very very FRENCH 😀
I prefer the music to the video, the current video is a little distracting. But wonderful track and singer #France #JuniorEurovision
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysYp...
Ce monde
YouTube video by Lou Deleuze - Topic
m.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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amflynn.bsky.social
Spare a thought for poor @gavreilly.com, sadly putting his smarties back in the box #Aras25
October 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
aoifenf.bsky.social
Lot going on here
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Oct 6
Well, if it’s 6 October, it’s the 82nd anniversary of the day the world was deprived of Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln, who was born a Hungarian Jew, got elected to the House of Commons, spied for Germany in both world wars, and eventually declared himself the 14th Dalai Lama...
Frontispiece from Lincoln’s 1916 book Revelations of an International Spy, showing a man in a suit and bow tie, holding papers, wearing a moustache, and looking at camera through small round glasses
October 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
Tech that was predicted vs Tech that was not.
Interesting list by Kevin Kelly
kk.org/thetechnium/...
A list titled "The Unexpected" and "The Expected" categorizes inventions and discoveries. The "Unexpected" list includes: X-rays, nuclear energy, radio, TV, electronics, photography, sound recording, quantum mechanics, relativity, transistors, masers; lasers, superconductors; superfluids, atomic clocks; Mössbauer effect, determining composition of celestial bodies, dating the past (Carbon 14, etc.), detecting invisible planets, the ionosphere, 1 and van Allen Belts. The "Expected" list includes automobiles, flying machines, steam engines, submarines, spaceships, telephones, robots, death rays, transmutation, artificial life, immortality, invisibility, levitation, teleportation, communication with dead, observing the past, the future, 2 and telepathy.
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM