Eoin Daly

Au contraire calling someone racist, on no other ground but that the politician they are criticising is black, is itself surely a little bit racist

The thing you need to know Obama is that he dronebombed civilians, expanded hydrocarbon extraction and sponsored the Israeli occupation, but with a really cool aesthetic

Not a Brazil understander here but what’s the story with Roberto Unger??

Oh FFS, Trump’s evident admiration for the male physique is not one of the many objectionable and analysis-worthy things about him. Trump derangement syndrome is real www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The political function of the ‘minister for housing’ is not to make sure housing is affordable and universally provided. It’s to sustain housing understood as an asset, an industry, an investment. Largely as the banking sector depends on it . Managing the social fallout is a secondary concern

lol what is happening here

That is staggering. It is straightforward political repression by the UK in furtherance of its complicity in the Gaza genocide. Sally - who realises literature is political - has put something real on the line. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We are striking today as part of a national public sector strike in Ireland. It is the first time in 40 years that a national pay agreement has been allowed to expire and unless there is a new pay agreement, we are taking an effective pay cut. We refuse to accept a cut in our pay.

Watching ‘Ms Rachel’ with my daughter and it’s trying to teach kids… to read? Even though it’s aimed at 3 year olds? Is trying to teach literacy to toddlers an American thing?

Policing minor linguistic refinements - he got this one from the liberals

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

The Brazilian situation is as if it were confected in a lab so as to be maximally depressing

From the handmade birthday card the 9 year old made me

This article annoyed me more than I expected. It makes a fetish of the small-class conversation (not itself a bad thing) & indulges in florid over-intellectualisation of basing assessment around that (again, not itself bad but unfeasible for most instructors). In short, an aristocratic sensibility.

First strike directive by the union in my 16 years lecturing

‘Working with grassropts activists in Russia’ *sounds* nice but may as well be science fiction. Almost certainly, the war will end only through diplomacy

Tech being smart enough to end the world but dumb enough to make me sign in separately to all the MS apps, FML

Going to corner you at a party and bore you to death about the [*obscene vertical hand motion*] ‘grown-up soft drink’ I’m having www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...

Like this but for golf

Guys, apparently Donald Trump said something undiplomatic. Huge if true. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Ever since I was a little boy, I always wanted to begin Monday mornings by double factor authenticating on my smart phone to enable me to use a Word processor

‘False threats misdirect both opposition and regulation’ Brilliant piece on AI ‘criti-hype’ www.patreon.com/richardseymo...

YouTube substantially increased the subscription for its ad free version and apropos of nothing I saw a history video billed as ‘human voiced’ as if it were some boutique premium concept 🙄

Interesting on how Iran can withstand the war www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/why-ame...

My ‘happy Friday’ face. It’s what they used to call a ‘resting’ expression, I promise

By using appropriately positioned em dashes

Fundamentally don’t believe in sending voice notes, think it’s just very inefficient. So i just send them to one male friend effectively as retaliation for sending them to me

I always thought Ireland had a funny euphemism for WW2 (‘the Emergency’) but just learned the equivalent Icelandic phrase was something like ‘the situation’ or ‘the circumstances’

RFK Jr complains that people in hospice aren't dying quick enough and therefore cost too much money

Daughter has had had this laminated booklet with detailed visuals of her new classroom and the personnel … since June!

google AI generating claims and quotes that follow-up google searches immediately refute: internet commons so monumentally fucked

The whole gist of the 1998 peace agreement is that sovereignty over Northern Ireland is decided by its population. And then the British just say stuff like this - like they have the final say. To the British, NI is simultaneously ‘other’, but ‘ours’.

Strongly disagree with idea of ‘banning tech in the classroom.’ Those who teach adults should have humility about different ways ppl learn. Devices are distracting but paternalism is not the answer. Deciding whether to take notes with a pen or a word processor should be the student’s responsibility.

‘Can I customise your laptop with stickers’ asks the 9 year old. ‘Yes’. ‘What would you like’ ‘Maybe a motivational slogan’. … ‘why did you put ‘just one coffee’.?’ ‘Because you drink too much coffee’

It turns out Cofnas is being disciplined on quite specific grounds – publicly misrepresenting the scope of his post doc as being about race science, and making racist statements said to be criminal under Belgian law. Not directly based on orchestrating a ‘pile on’

The 9 year-old got me this hat as a gift. Useful lest there be any confusion about which component of the family I am.

amusing typo where instead of that someone 'draws on' a particularly author I said that someone 'raws on' that author, which sounds vaguely 🙈🙊

A design flaw of contemporary workplaces is that the people who decide how much is reasonable for us to have to dick around with computer stuff, are people who themselves have an abnormally high tolerance, and even liking for dicking around with computer stuff

Idly watching Gladiator 2. The combat scenes are like a computer game. Technically sophisticated but aesthetically shit. *Middle aged man noises*

Yesterday far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for nightly killings in Gaza of 30–40 people who he says are "not worthy of life.” Now Palestinians in the West Bank are being marked with numbers. Sound familiar?

Obviously hyperbolic but nonetheless honest piece by Sam Kriss about Jason Arday samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrio...