Siobhán McElduff
@siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own
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The Epstein academic fallout just keeps getting weirder. A professor wrestled a journalist to the ground for asking too many questions:
Ohio State Professor Put on Leave After Wrestling Filmmaker to the Ground
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
The Epstein academic fallout just keeps getting weirder. A professor wrestled a journalist to the ground for asking too many questions:
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(Finishing sixth Jagermeister) No really, I could take down the pope
The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would "take down Francis."
Epstein files reveal ties to Catholic conservatives' anti-Francis campaign
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would ‘take down Francis.’
religionnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
(Finishing sixth Jagermeister) No really, I could take down the pope
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This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...
UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs
More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.
www.texastribune.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...
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The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin is free to watch on ARTE until the 6th of March. #spéirgorm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
The Quiet Girl | Film complet | ARTE Cinema
YouTube video by ARTE Cinema
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin is free to watch on ARTE until the 6th of March. #spéirgorm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...
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Even snorting a mountain of coke off his lucky toilet seat no longer brought Tony any joy
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Even snorting a mountain of coke off his lucky toilet seat no longer brought Tony any joy
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THIS COLD DARK RECTANGLE OF SAD AND GLASS IS NOT GIVING ME THE SUPPORT AND COMFORT I REQUIRE.
February 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
THIS COLD DARK RECTANGLE OF SAD AND GLASS IS NOT GIVING ME THE SUPPORT AND COMFORT I REQUIRE.
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Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie
February 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie
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A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance.
IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...
github.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology
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February 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Absolutely disgraceful. These bigots will kill someone in the end with their arson attacks.
www.thejournal.ie/limerick-mos...
www.thejournal.ie/limerick-mos...
Investigation launched after arson attack on Limerick mosque
A member of the mosque, who was in the building at the time, was left shocked but physically unhurt.
www.thejournal.ie
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Absolutely disgraceful. These bigots will kill someone in the end with their arson attacks.
www.thejournal.ie/limerick-mos...
www.thejournal.ie/limerick-mos...
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In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Fishing ban revives Yangtze finless porpoises
The population of the Yangtze finless porpoise, the only freshwater porpoise species in China's longest river, has risen to 1,426 in 2025, indicating that the fishing ban and other conservation…
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
Bet he did more than have an ale.
#theaterthursday 🎭
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
February 12th, 1661: A WOMAN in The Scornful Lady?! – Extending the London Stage Database
blogs.uoregon.edu
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Bet he did more than have an ale.
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In college I did a paper comparing government responses between the AIDS crisis and the Justinianic plague. Some of the texts I cited from contemporaneous Byzantine accounts had no published translations. As far as I knew, my translations were the first "published" excerpts. There's a ton of stuff!
A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.
I think that's a point that will surprise a lot of people. There's a lot of calling the internet capable of accessing "the sum of all human knowledge" and such that I think gives people the impression that any and all records exist online somewhere.
February 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
In college I did a paper comparing government responses between the AIDS crisis and the Justinianic plague. Some of the texts I cited from contemporaneous Byzantine accounts had no published translations. As far as I knew, my translations were the first "published" excerpts. There's a ton of stuff!
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Anyone on this app who even comes close to blowing kisses at AI deserves whatever beating they get, is all I'm saying.
I am pro worker, pro union, pro maker, pro artist. I am anti boss, anti Nazi, anti fascist, anti billionaire, anti oligarch. I believe in reading, writing, education. I don’t believe in a robot voice coaxing you to kill yourself. So yeah, I guess I don’t want ChatGPT to write a fucking email for me
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Anyone on this app who even comes close to blowing kisses at AI deserves whatever beating they get, is all I'm saying.
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Well thank god that Irish man being held in a US concentration camp may have committed some crimes. Our valiant crime correspondents have saved Micheál Martin from an awkward position by letting us know the guy deserves his ill fate.
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Well thank god that Irish man being held in a US concentration camp may have committed some crimes. Our valiant crime correspondents have saved Micheál Martin from an awkward position by letting us know the guy deserves his ill fate.
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Great to see that the lads have finally started a cult with good intentions that will quickly get out of hand and lead to the discovery of dozens of bodies in a remote Donegal barn.
#Ad It’s our 1 month anniversary since launching our #zigandzagfanclub
And it’s only getting started!
Plus for the select few, you get access to Ciaran and Mick’s secret diaries and memories of almost 40 years of Z brother mayhem. #zigandzag
So why not come and join us!
And it’s only getting started!
Plus for the select few, you get access to Ciaran and Mick’s secret diaries and memories of almost 40 years of Z brother mayhem. #zigandzag
So why not come and join us!
February 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Great to see that the lads have finally started a cult with good intentions that will quickly get out of hand and lead to the discovery of dozens of bodies in a remote Donegal barn.
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#theaterthursday 🎭
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
February 12th, 1661: A WOMAN in The Scornful Lady?! – Extending the London Stage Database
blogs.uoregon.edu
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
#theaterthursday 🎭
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
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This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department
Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.
www.statesman.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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Romania:
"...has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in Europe, & perhaps even the world. Its net greenhouse gas emissions...fell by 88% between 1990 & 2023.... Emissions have plunged by 75%."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#spéirghorm #ClimateChange
"...has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in Europe, & perhaps even the world. Its net greenhouse gas emissions...fell by 88% between 1990 & 2023.... Emissions have plunged by 75%."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#spéirghorm #ClimateChange
‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?
Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Romania:
"...has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in Europe, & perhaps even the world. Its net greenhouse gas emissions...fell by 88% between 1990 & 2023.... Emissions have plunged by 75%."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#spéirghorm #ClimateChange
"...has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in Europe, & perhaps even the world. Its net greenhouse gas emissions...fell by 88% between 1990 & 2023.... Emissions have plunged by 75%."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#spéirghorm #ClimateChange
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A private jet touched down in Shannon Airport. Onboard were Palestinian deportees from the US, their wrists and ankles shackled.
It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it.
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it.
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
Comment: The Shannon Three – awaiting judgment
For the last two and a half years the state has done all it can to reserve judgment on Israeli genocide.
www.ontheditch.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
A private jet touched down in Shannon Airport. Onboard were Palestinian deportees from the US, their wrists and ankles shackled.
It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it.
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it.
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
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Sharing this in light of a load of landlord TDs voting for new measures which they openly admit will drive rents even higher
TDs shouldn't be landlords and this shouldn't be an even remotely controversial thing to say.
So many simple solutions for the housing crisis that get shouted down as very controversial.
"People should be able to afford their rent"
"Lol check out this economically incoherent rube over here"
So many simple solutions for the housing crisis that get shouted down as very controversial.
"People should be able to afford their rent"
"Lol check out this economically incoherent rube over here"
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Sharing this in light of a load of landlord TDs voting for new measures which they openly admit will drive rents even higher
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What good does this information being made public do?
Call me mad, but whatever someone does, I would say they don't deserve to be in a concentration camp because of it.
Odd timing given the family said on the Tonight Show that they haven't had much help from the gov other than consular support.
Call me mad, but whatever someone does, I would say they don't deserve to be in a concentration camp because of it.
Odd timing given the family said on the Tonight Show that they haven't had much help from the gov other than consular support.
Seamus Culleton, the Irish man who has spent months in a Texas immigration detention centre, failed to appear in court in Ireland in 2009 on drugs-related charges
Culleton failed to appear in Irish court on drugs charge
Seamus Culleton, the Irish man who has spent months in a Texas immigration detention centre, failed to appear in court in Ireland in 2009 on drugs-related charges.
www.rte.ie
February 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
What good does this information being made public do?
Call me mad, but whatever someone does, I would say they don't deserve to be in a concentration camp because of it.
Odd timing given the family said on the Tonight Show that they haven't had much help from the gov other than consular support.
Call me mad, but whatever someone does, I would say they don't deserve to be in a concentration camp because of it.
Odd timing given the family said on the Tonight Show that they haven't had much help from the gov other than consular support.
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totally enthralled by this oven mitt with an onion sitting on it at LAX with the words “2. Keep important medications with you” over it. I took dozens of photos
February 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
totally enthralled by this oven mitt with an onion sitting on it at LAX with the words “2. Keep important medications with you” over it. I took dozens of photos