Ross Carroll
@rosscarroll.bsky.social
Political theorist at Dublin City University. Author of Edmund Burke (Polity, 2024) and Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton UP, 2021). Increasingly interested in abolition/emancipation and multigenerational democracy.
When you use the free version of ChatGPT to make trade policy.
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
When you use the free version of ChatGPT to make trade policy.
You know there’s a sound economic mind at work when they are slapping tariffs on uninhabited islands. 🤦♂️
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You know there’s a sound economic mind at work when they are slapping tariffs on uninhabited islands. 🤦♂️
I just searched for this title, fearing either that it was an AI hallucination in a student essay, or that there was somehow a book by Burke I hadn’t heard of. Turns out it’s neither and that @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social are just making stuff up.
April 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I just searched for this title, fearing either that it was an AI hallucination in a student essay, or that there was somehow a book by Burke I hadn’t heard of. Turns out it’s neither and that @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social are just making stuff up.
Many of us on here hoped we were witnessing the end of X. We were wrong.
March 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Many of us on here hoped we were witnessing the end of X. We were wrong.
I would have thought that removing a machine entirely was indication enough that it was “not in service.”😅 #speirgorm
March 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I would have thought that removing a machine entirely was indication enough that it was “not in service.”😅 #speirgorm
Isn’t it great all the same that the champions of free speech are back in charge?
March 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Isn’t it great all the same that the champions of free speech are back in charge?
This, from the recently deceased poet Pat Ingoldsby, is magnificent. #speirgorm
March 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This, from the recently deceased poet Pat Ingoldsby, is magnificent. #speirgorm
Am shopping online for whiskey and came across this gem of a fact. That is one busy cat! 🐈⬛ 🐁
March 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Am shopping online for whiskey and came across this gem of a fact. That is one busy cat! 🐈⬛ 🐁
Nine heroic souls stuck around for his nine-day-long humdinger of a concluding speech.
February 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Nine heroic souls stuck around for his nine-day-long humdinger of a concluding speech.
It’s the third day of the Hastings impeachment trial. Edmund Burke begins speaking at 11:35am, but by 2:15pm is too tired to continue. One wonders how the audience felt!
February 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It’s the third day of the Hastings impeachment trial. Edmund Burke begins speaking at 11:35am, but by 2:15pm is too tired to continue. One wonders how the audience felt!
But remember, folks, it’s the only democracy in the Middle East…
February 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
But remember, folks, it’s the only democracy in the Middle East…
Start your weekend properly by reading Patricia Lockwood on how philosophers write. 😆
February 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Start your weekend properly by reading Patricia Lockwood on how philosophers write. 😆
Absurd grifter behaviour taken to new heights. A company called “reputation patrols” wants me to pay them to make a Wikipedia page of my book. 🙄
February 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Absurd grifter behaviour taken to new heights. A company called “reputation patrols” wants me to pay them to make a Wikipedia page of my book. 🙄
Delighted to arrive home to this. I enjoyed writing my chapter and will enjoy even more reading the others!
January 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Delighted to arrive home to this. I enjoyed writing my chapter and will enjoy even more reading the others!
Irish academic of questionable judgment seen soaring majestically-ish through the air at the Forty Foot.
December 25, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Irish academic of questionable judgment seen soaring majestically-ish through the air at the Forty Foot.
Munched my way through a bag of “Leader Chips” on the way home from Marrakech. How did “F.C. Potato” not feature on a bag of Tayto first? Ireland have missed a trick here.
December 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Munched my way through a bag of “Leader Chips” on the way home from Marrakech. How did “F.C. Potato” not feature on a bag of Tayto first? Ireland have missed a trick here.
Because I was abroad for so long, and because Ireland doesn’t do diaspora voting, yesterday was actually my first time voting in an Irish general election.
And in honor of @chrisbrooke.bsky.social, here’s the Percy edition of #dogsatpollingstations.
And in honor of @chrisbrooke.bsky.social, here’s the Percy edition of #dogsatpollingstations.
November 30, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Because I was abroad for so long, and because Ireland doesn’t do diaspora voting, yesterday was actually my first time voting in an Irish general election.
And in honor of @chrisbrooke.bsky.social, here’s the Percy edition of #dogsatpollingstations.
And in honor of @chrisbrooke.bsky.social, here’s the Percy edition of #dogsatpollingstations.
Just saw this passage from Heath’s The Machinery of Government and got a chill down my spine. It explains why mass deportation schemes of the sort MAGA types salivate over will often function in the opposite way to advertised.
November 15, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Just saw this passage from Heath’s The Machinery of Government and got a chill down my spine. It explains why mass deportation schemes of the sort MAGA types salivate over will often function in the opposite way to advertised.
November 13, 2024 at 6:17 PM
I love me a bit of Hanoverian succession humour of a Thursday morning.
October 17, 2024 at 9:35 AM
I love me a bit of Hanoverian succession humour of a Thursday morning.
Thanks to all who came out to the launch. Fitting to have it on Dublin’s north side (where Burke was born). Even more fitting to have it in Belvedere House given that a key moment in Burke’s story - a duel between Philip Francis and Warren Hastings - took place at Belvedere House, Kolkata!
September 27, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Thanks to all who came out to the launch. Fitting to have it on Dublin’s north side (where Burke was born). Even more fitting to have it in Belvedere House given that a key moment in Burke’s story - a duel between Philip Francis and Warren Hastings - took place at Belvedere House, Kolkata!
How it started vs How it looked towards the end!
September 23, 2024 at 7:05 AM
How it started vs How it looked towards the end!
If you’re in Dublin and like political thought then come to the launch of my book on Edmund Burke DCU, St Pats campus on Sept. 26th. @turnstone.bsky.social, Katherine O’Donnell and @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social have kindly agreed to tell me what I got wrong. Full details👇DM me if you want to come.
September 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
If you’re in Dublin and like political thought then come to the launch of my book on Edmund Burke DCU, St Pats campus on Sept. 26th. @turnstone.bsky.social, Katherine O’Donnell and @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social have kindly agreed to tell me what I got wrong. Full details👇DM me if you want to come.
Me mammy has snapped the first picture of my Burke in the wild. 😊
September 7, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Me mammy has snapped the first picture of my Burke in the wild. 😊
Uncivil Mirth has a new friend 😊
May 7, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Uncivil Mirth has a new friend 😊