Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉
@stane.bsky.social
Leeds and Dublin, once a musician, now an academic; last refuge of the scoundrel etc.
https://beyondthespelloflabour.wordpress.com/
https://beyondthespelloflabour.wordpress.com/
Internet not all bad. Just applied for a new passport in about 5 mins.
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Internet not all bad. Just applied for a new passport in about 5 mins.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Went to dentist this morning. Dentist just rang me now, all apologies, to ask what happened because his notes hadn't saved on the computer. Which tooth was it? What did I prescribe? Odd ....
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Went to dentist this morning. Dentist just rang me now, all apologies, to ask what happened because his notes hadn't saved on the computer. Which tooth was it? What did I prescribe? Odd ....
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
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🖌️ From Amherst CP, "Painting History" offers a powerful visual and historical journey through Northern Ireland’s murals. With striking images and sharp insight, Tony Crowley traces how this art form evolved from domination to resistance over a century. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
bit.ly/4757vgx
bit.ly/4757vgx
Painting History
Painting History: The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024 is the first book-length study of the oldest and most enduring tradition of political wall art.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🖌️ From Amherst CP, "Painting History" offers a powerful visual and historical journey through Northern Ireland’s murals. With striking images and sharp insight, Tony Crowley traces how this art form evolved from domination to resistance over a century. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
bit.ly/4757vgx
bit.ly/4757vgx
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Judee Sill died in virtual solitude 46 years ago today, November 23 1979. Her songs have the power to make us feel we are never alone. She was a complete one-off.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Judee Sill died in virtual solitude 46 years ago today, November 23 1979. Her songs have the power to make us feel we are never alone. She was a complete one-off.
Getting like that old Soviet joke -'we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us' becomes 'we pretend to teach and they pretend to write essays'
"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Getting like that old Soviet joke -'we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us' becomes 'we pretend to teach and they pretend to write essays'
'I want to live like common people '
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
'I want to live like common people '
Unemployed post PhD, someone I knew on a record collecting forum mentioned some work at their university distantly connected to what I studied. So after doing philosophy to get away from music, I'm teaching in a music school.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Unemployed post PhD, someone I knew on a record collecting forum mentioned some work at their university distantly connected to what I studied. So after doing philosophy to get away from music, I'm teaching in a music school.
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I don't remember voting to have our asylum and immigration policy made by the British government.
New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I don't remember voting to have our asylum and immigration policy made by the British government.
Mono recording from 1962. Spectacular sound.
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Mono recording from 1962. Spectacular sound.
Highway to hell. Both directions.
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Highway to hell. Both directions.
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really nice piece on braxton in the nyt today. no fireall
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
At 80, This Composer Is Easier Than Ever to Celebrate
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
really nice piece on braxton in the nyt today. no fireall
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
The prominently displayed copy of General 'Sir' Mike Jackson's autobiography in the local Oxfam Books....
Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The prominently displayed copy of General 'Sir' Mike Jackson's autobiography in the local Oxfam Books....
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
To the guys who parked up down the street at 4am, booming bass through their car stereo - someday I hope that you have cause to regret everything.
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
To the guys who parked up down the street at 4am, booming bass through their car stereo - someday I hope that you have cause to regret everything.
I'm not going to link to it because being a muso is hard enough, but give me descriptions of a song/ piece of music that would ensure you would never listen to it.
mine, today, is '6-minute math rock opus'
mine, today, is '6-minute math rock opus'
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm not going to link to it because being a muso is hard enough, but give me descriptions of a song/ piece of music that would ensure you would never listen to it.
mine, today, is '6-minute math rock opus'
mine, today, is '6-minute math rock opus'
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A terrible beauty care regime is born...
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A terrible beauty care regime is born...