Claire 4 🇵🇸
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- no nations, no borders - sí/í - more alive than i was
A more clear example of preaching to the choir does not exist
REMINDER: People need to get the fuck off X.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A more clear example of preaching to the choir does not exist
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From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
Occasionally a text drops in your lap that says "BEHOLD: THE PERFECT READING COMPREHENSION FOLLOWED BY CLASS DEBATE"
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Occasionally a text drops in your lap that says "BEHOLD: THE PERFECT READING COMPREHENSION FOLLOWED BY CLASS DEBATE"
It's a known unknown that we don't know what parade doesn't exist in NYC
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's a known unknown that we don't know what parade doesn't exist in NYC
Gonna get fired by bringing this up in the staff room
La justice autorise une messe à Verdun en hommage à Pétain
La justice autorise une messe à Verdun en hommage à Pétain
Le maire de Verdun Samuel Hazard avait interdit cette messe religieuse « en hommage au maréchal Pétain et à ses soldats ». Il a exprimé sa « très vive déception » après la décision du tribunal administratif de Nancy.
www.nouvelobs.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gonna get fired by bringing this up in the staff room
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Did you notice the 'ceasefire' being utter fiction didn't prevent it being used to quietly squash all the boycott initiatives? They even called off the vote to keep Israel out of Eurovision
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Did you notice the 'ceasefire' being utter fiction didn't prevent it being used to quietly squash all the boycott initiatives? They even called off the vote to keep Israel out of Eurovision
To be fair, "a performative patriotism" to gauge how cool we are with dying in a big war is very 1913 of us
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Has poppymania gone too far?
The long read: Over the past 20 years, the symbol of remembrance for the war dead has become increasingly ubiquitous – and a culture of poppy policing has grown with it
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
To be fair, "a performative patriotism" to gauge how cool we are with dying in a big war is very 1913 of us
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Specifically English people should BUTT OUT of the United Ireland conversation. You are congenitally unable to understand xxx
Welsh and Scots on a case-by-case basis
Welsh and Scots on a case-by-case basis
October 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Specifically English people should BUTT OUT of the United Ireland conversation. You are congenitally unable to understand xxx
Welsh and Scots on a case-by-case basis
Welsh and Scots on a case-by-case basis
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By failing to even get nominated for the Presidency while another independent candidate scored a record victory, I have of course been proven right
October 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
By failing to even get nominated for the Presidency while another independent candidate scored a record victory, I have of course been proven right
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The one conclusion they will assiduously avoid, of course, is that Catherine Connolly just won this election because a majority of voters want her to be the president, and that they want her to be the president because of her politics.
October 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The one conclusion they will assiduously avoid, of course, is that Catherine Connolly just won this election because a majority of voters want her to be the president, and that they want her to be the president because of her politics.
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A lot of people outside the UK positing the name of Soldier F. They know his name because it is in Hansard. If you are in the UK, you best not utter it.
Who the state protects tells you everything about that state & they have protected him from the minute he started shooting innocent people
Who the state protects tells you everything about that state & they have protected him from the minute he started shooting innocent people
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A lot of people outside the UK positing the name of Soldier F. They know his name because it is in Hansard. If you are in the UK, you best not utter it.
Who the state protects tells you everything about that state & they have protected him from the minute he started shooting innocent people
Who the state protects tells you everything about that state & they have protected him from the minute he started shooting innocent people
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Build. Affordable. Social. Housing.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has said that he would like to see supermarket staff and some other professions classed as "key workers" who would be eligible for cost rental homes under a new council plan to rejuvenate derelict buildings in the city centre
DCC plans to provide cost rental homes for 'key workers'
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has said that he would like to see supermarket workers and some other professions classed as "key workers" who would be eligible for cost rental homes under a new council plan...
www.rte.ie
October 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Build. Affordable. Social. Housing.
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Empire empiring, always.
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Empire empiring, always.
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As it’s #BookshopDay here’s a revised version of my poem on the Dublin bookshop Chapters @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
As it’s #BookshopDay here’s a revised version of my poem on the Dublin bookshop Chapters @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Monaco was given one of the most beautiful stretches of coast in the entire world and they did That with it
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Monaco was given one of the most beautiful stretches of coast in the entire world and they did That with it
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I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this.
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this.
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OK there's a LOT wrong with this framing.
Which viewers, exactly, were stunned? Because none are mentioned in the piece.
And how, exactly, did her "interrupt" an interview WITH HIMSELF?
Can we stop framing every mention of the genocide in Gaza as controversial, and start treating it like fact?
Which viewers, exactly, were stunned? Because none are mentioned in the piece.
And how, exactly, did her "interrupt" an interview WITH HIMSELF?
Can we stop framing every mention of the genocide in Gaza as controversial, and start treating it like fact?
Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville stunned viewers yesterday by interrupting a live television interview at the premiere of the franchise’s latest film to issue an urgent plea about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
jrnl.ie/6807992
jrnl.ie/6807992
Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville interrupts TV interview to call for action on Gaza
Bonneville made the plea on the red carpet in London during the premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
jrnl.ie
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
OK there's a LOT wrong with this framing.
Which viewers, exactly, were stunned? Because none are mentioned in the piece.
And how, exactly, did her "interrupt" an interview WITH HIMSELF?
Can we stop framing every mention of the genocide in Gaza as controversial, and start treating it like fact?
Which viewers, exactly, were stunned? Because none are mentioned in the piece.
And how, exactly, did her "interrupt" an interview WITH HIMSELF?
Can we stop framing every mention of the genocide in Gaza as controversial, and start treating it like fact?
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August 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
www.irishtimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
Jehn E. Kennedy
August 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Jehn E. Kennedy
All famines are man made but this one is just so open and egregious. Just so totally disgusting.
July 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
All famines are man made but this one is just so open and egregious. Just so totally disgusting.
Keep that hot honey shit AWAY from me
July 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Keep that hot honey shit AWAY from me
Turns out Aiden was full of shit. I way prefer not being the more loving one. This is mortifying.
July 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Turns out Aiden was full of shit. I way prefer not being the more loving one. This is mortifying.
Irish bands now getting banned in Germany for clout I feel. Good for them!!! You're nobody you don't support Palestine
May 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Irish bands now getting banned in Germany for clout I feel. Good for them!!! You're nobody you don't support Palestine