siobhandowling.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Another sparkling IPQ issue nears completion. It’s our 20th (21st if you count our MSC issue), we‘ll be turning five this fall … with great thanks to @siobhandowling.bsky.social Thorsten Kirchhoff @biettetimmons.bsky.social & and the rest of the @ipq.bsky.social @internationalepolitik.de team!

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

If you're going to shit all over the history of the state at least force all the businesses to have 1916 themed names. A Tex-Mex BBQ restaurant called Flames Connolly, a bakery called The Yeaster Rising. Go the whole hog

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Turned up in Berlin that summer JUST after this, as I'd stayed in Dublin for my graduation ceremony. www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

My essay in Financial Times: How decades-long power struggle between Iran and Israel ended in war — and what the outcome would mean for the Middle East and the world. www.ft.com/content/858b...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

“Everybody keeps calling me, [saying] ‘You know, this would be a great time for #Fugazi to come back’. And I don’t know what they think we’re going to be able to do... But I appreciate the idea that we have superpowers.” Everything Wide Open: An Interview with The Messthetics buff.ly/5mkPNAQ

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know that the National Library of Ireland has digitised a first edition copy of Ulysses (Alan Clodd copy, number 120), which can be viewed in full online? Read it here: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, we do have a copy of Ulysses. No, we won’t test you on it. Yes, it’s okay to have only read The Dead. It’s Bloomsday - enjoy the complete madness of a day dedicated to an imaginary man, meeting imaginary people, crisscrossing a very real city!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

submitted 9 days ago • 704 comments

An honor to talk with punk legend Kathleen Hanna on the different forms that dissent must take amid ICE raids and the Trump administration's military crackdown on activists. "Protest is for everybody." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Noem reportedly requesting the military to detain or arrest people, possibly under the “protective power” construct for federal facilities. Also refers to “invasive, violent, insurrectionist mobs that seek to protect invaders and military aged males belonging to identified” FTOs. Very dangerous.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Among the many issues I have with AI (while acknowledging there's little to be done about it): 1. If you cut out the entry level jobs, how do people gain the experience/skills to become mid-level / management level / news editor / literary translator. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them.

submitted 24 days ago • 56 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 63 days ago • 250 comments

oh yes please!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Heute, Brotfabrik Berlin, 17 Uhr: Poesiefestival Berlin 2025, Poets‘ Corner mit u. a. Ali Alzaeem, dessen Gedichte sich auch im Band „Sei neben mir und sieh, was mir geschehen ist“. Zur Veranstaltung: www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/de/programm/... Zum Buch: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/sei-neb...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Fassbinder on Arte: www.arte.tv/en/videos/02...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

submitted 24 days ago • 110 comments

The first (free, online) @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club event is next Wednesday. We’ll be discussing the 1944 classic Gaslight. Free link to film will be provided. Watch in your own time & then join our event! All welcome! Details and registration: buytickets.at/theirishnetw...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I’m running a Symposium on Shakespeare and Ireland @tlrhub.bsky.social on June 14! It promises to be a rich discussion and all are welcome. Please register here: tinyurl.com/yc2a7dyf

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

@mmrovlje.bsky.social from @universityofleeds.bsky.social presents an insightful paper on Rosa #Luxemburg to reframe #FailingBetter both as a crushing lived reality and a potent political model of revolution and collective action. #FailWorse Symposium @tlrhub.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

My old pal Josie is writing a book on the history of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. And she has a newsletter too...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US. First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

Artemisia Gentileschi joined her father in London to paint 9 canvases for the ceiling of the Queen's House, Greenwich, now in Marlborough House, though her contribution is often dismissed. (From the new book 'The Art of Looking Up') #WomensArt

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

BIG BOOK klaxon: this 725pp epic will be out in September, translated by @cctranslates.bsky.social and me. More info here: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

If you are in London on 24 June, why not come to the Goethe-Institut for this: www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

When so many pedestrians are being killed - real issue is driving in Ireland, speed, lack of attention, massive SUV vehicles in urban areas, where drivers feel safe but everyone else - walkers, runners, children, cyclists are less so. #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/leinste...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

wow, this data collection by @ketanjoshi.co: ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d... eg Amazon power consumption is higher now than each of 150 countries on this list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... …higher than New Zealand, Belarus, Nigeria, Denmark, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Serbia, Libya & 145 more countries

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

You can read the amazing review of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation in The Observer online here observer.co.uk/culture/book... @prototypepubs.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

#xl8 #cfs

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Lotte in Weimar with English subtitles (via Goethe Institut website) thomasmann.goethe-on-demand.de/movies/lotte...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

✨ 𝓓𝓲𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝔁 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓫𝓸 ✨ Celebrate two of cinema’s most glamorous and era-defining stars - Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo with our latest in-cinema season! 🎞🤩 📆 June 1st - 29th Multi-film passes available from our box office in-person or over the phone. 🎟👉 ifi.ie/dietrich-x-g...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Applications now open for four funded PhD Scholarships available as part of the 'Refugee-Thrive' project: www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an... Closing date to apply is 15 June 2025.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This looks so good ... and (amazingly) coincides with my child's school trip.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”

submitted 32 days ago • 49 comments

Luckily have it out from the library, so might go to the top of the TBR list...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

It IS free:

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Writers! If your publisher works with audible, don’t let them use AI narration or translation for your audiobooks. Human narrators and translators do it better, we’re your creative cousins — and undermining our survival as professionals puts you next in line. www.thebookseller.com/news/audible...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold. The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.

submitted 35 days ago • 66 comments

On translated fiction: "These books might help a person keep faith, not just in art, but in us" ... "in these books we find news of the human elsewhere" Max Porter's speech at the International Booker Prize award ceremony (from around 30 mins). www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8vB...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

These cars are designed by people. I wonder what these people are thinking. They must be aware that their decisions are directly leading to more people dying and they still do it. Why? I would really like to hear from a car designer and how they clear their conscience.

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments