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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 7h

I love you Dave

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11h

a warning for every newsletter writer going solo right now: you can literally win the Nobel Prize for literature and still desperately need an editor

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11h

bro i don't need to proofread my tweets you're being ridiculous

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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 16h

This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:

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Niall Leahy SJ @nlsj.bsky.social · 10h

Can’t wait to go to this. Please spread the word among younger adults who might be interested.

JCFJustice @jcfjustice.bsky.social · 16h

🌍 The Economy of Francesco Global Event 2025
Nov 28–30 | Castel Gandolfo (Rome) 🇮🇹

For too long, the economy has run on exhaustion of people, time, and the planet. Join young changemakers building a just, inclusive, sustainable future.

💶 €120 incl. meals (travel/lodging separate)

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 14h

I maintain he is the funniest man in the world

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 14h

It surely didn't break out of spéirgorm (Irish bluesky) but when the heavily backed candidate for president, Jim Gavin, abandoned his campaign last week, many Americans broke into Irish conversations assuming we were mocking the California governor, Gavin Whatshisname.

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 19h

Silence from the arts minister and the department for culture

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also going. We should cross paths! There's a panel on Brian's book on the Monday

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

A month would be pacy enough!

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 1d

Christian leaders: only an everyday commitment to speaking the truth in love can generate this kind of extraordinary witness for when the dreadful day arrives

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 2d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 27

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 2d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, the Dáil bike shed didn't represent a waste of money. Debate me, bro.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 2d

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2d

More than anything, the massive subsidy to fast food chains has a real "it's 2007 again" feel to it

Green Party / Comhaontas Glas @greenpartyie.bsky.social · 2d

It's official. They're giving big restaurant chains a massive tax cut, costing nearly €700m in the #VAT cut to hospitality.

For that kind of money you could:

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Bring in a second tier of child benefit - lifting 55,000 children out of poverty
🚌 Make public transport free

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2d

My physical copy finally arrived. All 1162 pages. I have never been more excited in all my life to get a new theological text. See you guys in a month.

Brian Brock's literally monumental Joining Creation's Praise, a theological examination of what it means to be a creature, founded on a remarkably creative reading of Genesis 1-11.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 2d

Legit skills here, but how does she handle a BMX?

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 3d

She could talk for "a very very long time" about the abuses she and her companions suffered but we have to take that on trust because all she wants to talk about is the plight of the Palestinian people.

An absolute model for fighting for justice.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 3d

This clip has been circulating a lot and look I don't want to be critical, it's great that it's inspiring people.

BUT. There is one thing he says that's inaccurate and it's important that people understand the reality.

He says that their trade union didn't support them. That's not true.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 3d

The story of how Ireland became the first western nation to implement a nationwide ban on South African goods during the apartheid era beautifully told. This cheered me up immensely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup

YouTube video by David Nihill

www.youtube.com

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Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that Prof. David Kertzer will deliver the Corish Lecture tomorrow evening in Maynooth. Register below.

St Patrick's Pontifical University @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social · 13d

🛎️ Reminder of the Annual Monsignor Patrick J Corish lecture.

Please visit www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-annual... to register your place.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 3d

Her: I bet he's thinking about other girls.

Me:

The Route map of the long awaited (first line??) of the Dublin metro.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 3d

This is a key point: evangelicals in the US are not villains in this piece because their religious commitments tie them into the brutality. They are particularly tragic because they've abandoned their religious commitments to participate in the brutality.

Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 4d

If American evangelicals were actually biblical literalists, ICE wouldn’t exist.

Matthew 25 | NRSV
the king will say to those at his right hand,
'Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. " Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink?
38 And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 3 And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?' 40 And the king will answer them,
"Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my
family, you did it to me.

Matthew 25 | NRSV
family, you did it to me? E a Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;
42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. 4 Then they also will answer,
'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?'
45 Then he will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.'
46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

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