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Important thread on Gardaí discriminatory ID checking on public transport crossing the land 'border' on the island of Ireland. Know your rights, exercise them. End racial profiling. [1/4]

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Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

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happy twin peaks day to all who celebrate

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"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear." — Paulo Coelho #Ukraine Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and blue)1954. "Slava Ukraini"

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We are so proud of Radie, who has managed to work so hard while dealing with the practical and psychological difficulties of navigating this criminally broken system. All of our love and support to her and Dan. ❤️ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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We're searching digital archives relating to Irish #bogs #turf history and found this amazing photo on Tipperary Library online from 1940s with two men using a stretcher to carry sods! Have you family photos that connect to our bog history? #tócharstories www.tippstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/2...

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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

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“I have even been told to tone it down, and that this is how it is, and it’s a rite of passage. The fear of speaking out is.” People are afraid of speaking out, I congratulate those quoted for their bravery. But also we should ask, why is there a culture of fear on our campuses?

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There is a lot to unpack in this article www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

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A Black History Month story. This is Cornelia Williams Read, later Gould, my 3rd great-grandmother. She and my 4th gg were enslaved on Rice Hope Plantation in South Carolina, ~30 miles north of Charleston. 1/

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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Arachnophobia is the dumbest fear. Who cares if 2 spiders get married it doesn’t affect you

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"The task, for Michael, was never to embrace Marxism while kicking sociology to the curb; rather, it was to learn from both sociology’s critique of Marxism and the limits of sociological thought." Remembering Michael Burawoy - Zachary Levenson www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

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Just 157 more signatures from Ireland to reach the threshold here!

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"There are a small number of civil servants utilising their career break option, which is a bad thing cause I'm not allowed have one"

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On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're spotlighting a fantastic project published in BDJ, which used the power of data to uncover the hidden stories of women in science and publish them as a freely available resource. blog.pensoft.net/2023/12/06/e...

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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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💘 This week, we're celebrating the @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme of #EYALove by sharing love stamps from the 'Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection' deposited in the Digital Repository of Ireland by An Post Museum & Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #EYAGrá #Philately💞

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It's gas how it never occurs to politicians that working from home only "hollows out" the city centre if people can't afford to live in the city centre.

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“Experience has shown authoritarians that they can’t fatally undermine democracy without taking down rationality as well. The rhetorical goalposts are movable; the central problem is not.”

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Bar man in Listowel says “You can do anything in life if you have a woolley hat”. True dat.

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'Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left' edited by @oisingilmore.bsky.social and @david-landy.bsky.social and published by Pluto Press. I have coauthored a chapter in it on the Irish Repeal referendum, focused on the activism of the Abortion Rights Campaign. #abortion #sociology

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My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

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Burawoy on the University, from burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Sociology...

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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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The February theme for Explore Your Archive is Love. The IBCC Digital Archive has a tag for 'love and romance' and over 900 letters and photographs have been tagged. #EYALove #ExploreYourArchive

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Like many, I’m shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of Michael Burawoy. My well thumbed copy of Manufacturing Consent is still on my bookshelf, much referred to when writing my own book on working time in software. Condolences to his family and friends.

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💯 the current EU research model is built on, indeed has built, precarity

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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FF election pledge - straight to shredder.

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This guy asked this question in 2016 and was literally never heard from again.

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On this day in 1984, Anne Lovett, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, died while giving birth near a Marian Grotto in Granard, County Longford. Let's remember her today and how scared she must have been. We failed her. www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...