dr emer mchugh
@emer.bsky.social
professional shakespeare opinion haver, theatre historian, shoegaze fan, and habitual cinema-goer. she/her. i write about irish shakespeares and irish shakespeareans in performance & culture. my opinions are very nice and very much mine too.
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why Maria Somerville's Luster defined my 2025
emer.beehiiv.com
I have a (resurrected) newsletter! I wrote about Maria Somerville.
hello i have a ticket for maria somerville that i need to sell! this friday 13th at whelan’s! please someone take it off me hands! #ticketfairy
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 PM
hello i have a ticket for maria somerville that i need to sell! this friday 13th at whelan’s! please someone take it off me hands! #ticketfairy
second one is outstanding, third one is so curséd my god
February 9, 2026 at 10:41 AM
second one is outstanding, third one is so curséd my god
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
February 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM
so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
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🔥 EVA VICTOR: “Fuck ICE. I hate ICE. ICE is evil, racist, and violent, and I don’t think it should exist… shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais and Kevin O’Leary— I’m here for one night and I can say what i want.”
(From @variety.com )
(From @variety.com )
February 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🔥 EVA VICTOR: “Fuck ICE. I hate ICE. ICE is evil, racist, and violent, and I don’t think it should exist… shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais and Kevin O’Leary— I’m here for one night and I can say what i want.”
(From @variety.com )
(From @variety.com )
It’s weird Kate i don’t like it!!!!
February 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM
It’s weird Kate i don’t like it!!!!
at the stage of my life where I’m in a taxi this afternoon listening to a show called ‘Noughties Hits’
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
at the stage of my life where I’m in a taxi this afternoon listening to a show called ‘Noughties Hits’
imagine being a person who participates in the Olympic sport known as ‘luge’
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM
imagine being a person who participates in the Olympic sport known as ‘luge’
this was me when i discovered the first class section on the enterprise. can’t afford them atm but god i miss when i could get work to pay for them, worth it for the seats alone
February 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
this was me when i discovered the first class section on the enterprise. can’t afford them atm but god i miss when i could get work to pay for them, worth it for the seats alone
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The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
Immigration ‘vital’ for future of Irish society, economy and HSE
Report outlines necessity of overseas workers to offset population decline in a country where healthcare is already reliant on recruits from outside the EU
www.thetimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
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And from Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH !
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
And from Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH !
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There is no possible way to be an honest academician if you don’t start with the premise that absolutely all of your beliefs have some possibility of being wrong.
If you get so convinced by your own theory that you no longer assign any probability to the opposite being true, it’s time to resign.
If you get so convinced by your own theory that you no longer assign any probability to the opposite being true, it’s time to resign.
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
Correspondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.
www.monbiot.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
There is no possible way to be an honest academician if you don’t start with the premise that absolutely all of your beliefs have some possibility of being wrong.
If you get so convinced by your own theory that you no longer assign any probability to the opposite being true, it’s time to resign.
If you get so convinced by your own theory that you no longer assign any probability to the opposite being true, it’s time to resign.
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Thrilled for my colleague, Laurence Publicover, and his appearance on In Our Time today, joined by the brilliant @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @lucycmunro.bsky.social - what a trio! Have worked on H4 quite a bit and still learned lots! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds
Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Thrilled for my colleague, Laurence Publicover, and his appearance on In Our Time today, joined by the brilliant @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @lucycmunro.bsky.social - what a trio! Have worked on H4 quite a bit and still learned lots! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Shannon airport has long been put at the disposal of the US military by Irish authorities.
Now it is facilitating ICE deportations which may amount to human trafficking or even crimes against humanity.
For a country that speaks loudly in support of the rights of Palestinians, this is shameful.
Now it is facilitating ICE deportations which may amount to human trafficking or even crimes against humanity.
For a country that speaks loudly in support of the rights of Palestinians, this is shameful.
Eight Palestinian deported by ICE from the United States to the West Bank - via Ireland.
“They dropped us off like animals on the side of the road".
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“They dropped us off like animals on the side of the road".
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Shannon airport has long been put at the disposal of the US military by Irish authorities.
Now it is facilitating ICE deportations which may amount to human trafficking or even crimes against humanity.
For a country that speaks loudly in support of the rights of Palestinians, this is shameful.
Now it is facilitating ICE deportations which may amount to human trafficking or even crimes against humanity.
For a country that speaks loudly in support of the rights of Palestinians, this is shameful.
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i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero
February 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero
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After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
February 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
When will my mother return from the war. I mean the train station
February 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
When will my mother return from the war. I mean the train station
uuuuuuugh god really reminds u of how awful her show was
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
uuuuuuugh god really reminds u of how awful her show was
Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already.
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
February 4, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
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Sick to death of generative AI being shoved down our throats every single time you open an app or tool now. I want to write my own sentences! Fuck off!
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Sick to death of generative AI being shoved down our throats every single time you open an app or tool now. I want to write my own sentences! Fuck off!
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Even people employed as academics have to protect their intellectual lives from the ideal of the "marketplace of ideas." Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.
I guess it makes sense that as universities transformed into real estate & hedge fund profiles controlled by a growing class of asset managers w/ no meaningful academic expertise, the preferred outputs wd come to resemble airport leadership books & bullshit Ted talks— but man, what are we doing here
February 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Even people employed as academics have to protect their intellectual lives from the ideal of the "marketplace of ideas." Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.