Rahul Bery
@rrrahul.bsky.social
Literary translator (ES+PT - EN), RLF Fellow @ Cardiff University, reprobate.
I was performatively reading Ulysses in the smoking area at my sixth form in 2002 back when these hacks were still in nappies. But I also enjoyed it and ended up studying in Dublin partly because of it. Much teenage reading is definitely performative but that doesn't mean it isn't also meaningful...
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was performatively reading Ulysses in the smoking area at my sixth form in 2002 back when these hacks were still in nappies. But I also enjoyed it and ended up studying in Dublin partly because of it. Much teenage reading is definitely performative but that doesn't mean it isn't also meaningful...
interesting. maybe they'll see the ultra-conservative tradcath wave as an opportunity to rebrand.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
interesting. maybe they'll see the ultra-conservative tradcath wave as an opportunity to rebrand.
I am beginning to think that if not one of my over 200 followers can hard relate to listening to 'I want to get high' as a millenial teenager while fantasising about what smoking weed would be like, maybe this isn't the platform for me tbqh
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am beginning to think that if not one of my over 200 followers can hard relate to listening to 'I want to get high' as a millenial teenager while fantasising about what smoking weed would be like, maybe this isn't the platform for me tbqh
Some of the creepiest people I met while studying in Dublin were those who had converted from Catholicism to Evangelism... obviously I had to defriend all of them during the abortion referendum...
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Some of the creepiest people I met while studying in Dublin were those who had converted from Catholicism to Evangelism... obviously I had to defriend all of them during the abortion referendum...
catholic towards creepy Catholic converts like Vance, Amy Coney Barrett etc.
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
catholic towards creepy Catholic converts like Vance, Amy Coney Barrett etc.
I have never seen footage of him before and can't really get over hearing him speak in an American accent. After the seemingly definitive defenestration of the Catholic Church in Ireland, do you think there might be a thawing of sorts? Especially as I have detected a repulsion from people raised...
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I have never seen footage of him before and can't really get over hearing him speak in an American accent. After the seemingly definitive defenestration of the Catholic Church in Ireland, do you think there might be a thawing of sorts? Especially as I have detected a repulsion from people raised...
yes please! will pick up today or tuesday!
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
yes please! will pick up today or tuesday!
Are you stocking the Chat Pile/Hayden Pedigo LP out today?
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Are you stocking the Chat Pile/Hayden Pedigo LP out today?
sure. but none of those terms on their own can be stretched include people of european, african and indigenous american origin (and any mixture of those three categories, without even mentioning the many Latin Americans of East Asian and Middle Eastern origin...)
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
sure. but none of those terms on their own can be stretched include people of european, african and indigenous american origin (and any mixture of those three categories, without even mentioning the many Latin Americans of East Asian and Middle Eastern origin...)
in the region. As if a white Cuban in Florida is the same as a Mestizo Mexican in Arizona. Does that make sense?
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
in the region. As if a white Cuban in Florida is the same as a Mestizo Mexican in Arizona. Does that make sense?
From a british perspective I've always fe;t like the words latines/latinx/latino etc is super problematic in the us context because it suggests that all people of Latin American origin share some kind of subaltern status, totally ignoring the history of white supremacy in so many countries...
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
From a british perspective I've always fe;t like the words latines/latinx/latino etc is super problematic in the us context because it suggests that all people of Latin American origin share some kind of subaltern status, totally ignoring the history of white supremacy in so many countries...
wikipedia does not really clarify much but apparently it's cau (hollow) not cae...
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
wikipedia does not really clarify much but apparently it's cau (hollow) not cae...
i thought it was glas cae, green field (cos glas used to mean green, and still does in irish. I don't think in brythonic times we even had the concept of blue?)
October 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
i thought it was glas cae, green field (cos glas used to mean green, and still does in irish. I don't think in brythonic times we even had the concept of blue?)
yerra, it does be what you have learnt that you must be unlearning, begob
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
yerra, it does be what you have learnt that you must be unlearning, begob
....maybe. To my ear it was slightly like he got Synge and Yoda confused?
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
....maybe. To my ear it was slightly like he got Synge and Yoda confused?
lol. that's what a lot of poor attempts at hiberno-english (cf. I'm afraid, Martin McDonagh's plays): It is to the shop I do be going, so I do. Is it with your man that from the pub you did to the house be returning?
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
lol. that's what a lot of poor attempts at hiberno-english (cf. I'm afraid, Martin McDonagh's plays): It is to the shop I do be going, so I do. Is it with your man that from the pub you did to the house be returning?
one of the many things that makes Adrienne Lenker from Big Thief so cool - absolute refusal to conform to any stereotypes or archetypes.
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
one of the many things that makes Adrienne Lenker from Big Thief so cool - absolute refusal to conform to any stereotypes or archetypes.
do you have the Animal Collective Feels deluxe edition?
October 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
do you have the Animal Collective Feels deluxe edition?
so cool! Is it at Trinity?
October 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
so cool! Is it at Trinity?
i've only ever seen a short piece in a mixed bill. there was a big deep listening festival at the RFH in 2019 that I was gutted to miss.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
i've only ever seen a short piece in a mixed bill. there was a big deep listening festival at the RFH in 2019 that I was gutted to miss.