Aindrias Mac Cuíll
@ainmccuill.bsky.social
your friendly neighborhood New York City archivist and aspiring Gaeilgeoir.
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In the next four years you’ll see a lot of New York Post articles about City Hall that don’t make sense when you read them as an outsider because they’re just permission to hit the anger button in the reader’s brain. This is about seeing someone non-binary in power and getting permission to be mad.
December 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In the next four years you’ll see a lot of New York Post articles about City Hall that don’t make sense when you read them as an outsider because they’re just permission to hit the anger button in the reader’s brain. This is about seeing someone non-binary in power and getting permission to be mad.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Happy Wran's Day!
The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year.
"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year.
"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy Wran's Day!
The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year.
"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year.
"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
![All Things Motherhood Jasmen Powell • 6d • S
Hot take, but an honest one.
I think Al is going to replace a big part of traditional photography, especially when it comes to fa... See more
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December 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
Just remembered, I never bothered to set up that book scanner again after moving it… oh well!
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
December 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just remembered, I never bothered to set up that book scanner again after moving it… oh well!
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wow it is a merry Christmas after all
"RIP to the Heritage Foundation, which functionally died this week, as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit."
Good riddance!
Boom from @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN.
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Good riddance!
Boom from @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
wow it is a merry Christmas after all
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*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
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Thus redacted Zarathustra
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Thus redacted Zarathustra
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I spent $900 at 1587 Prime so you don’t have to.
Two nights playing with fire at Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's steakhouse: defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so…
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December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I spent $900 at 1587 Prime so you don’t have to.
There’s a fella here in my local in Queens shouting about how he’s from “the mean streets of Tralee” and I can only assume he was chased away from same by one of @ciaraioch.bsky.social’s squadron of rooks
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
There’s a fella here in my local in Queens shouting about how he’s from “the mean streets of Tralee” and I can only assume he was chased away from same by one of @ciaraioch.bsky.social’s squadron of rooks
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End the child surveillance state
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
End the child surveillance state
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Everything the experts and people knowledgeable about congestion pricing said would happen has happened, and nothing the ignorant doomers whined about for years on X and in community meetings has happened.
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Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide.
www.eenews.net/articles/bus...
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Business may have picked up in NY tolling area, economic development report says
According to the study, despite job and business growth in the city, there are still affordability challenges facing city residents.
www.eenews.net
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Everything the experts and people knowledgeable about congestion pricing said would happen has happened, and nothing the ignorant doomers whined about for years on X and in community meetings has happened.
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If you ever just look at the partition of Ireland (‘Ireland votes for independence, Britain realises if they cut it in half in a very specific way that half would vote to stay under British rule, Britain cuts Ireland in half), it’s immediately clear why Ireland and Palestine are as one.
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If you ever just look at the partition of Ireland (‘Ireland votes for independence, Britain realises if they cut it in half in a very specific way that half would vote to stay under British rule, Britain cuts Ireland in half), it’s immediately clear why Ireland and Palestine are as one.
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I think it's wonderful that Elon can't go out in public. No one needs to see that
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I think it's wonderful that Elon can't go out in public. No one needs to see that
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I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".
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I do not think you could march into a pub full of hardened 7 AM drinkers and find better interviews than you get here. One guy has the eyes of a sad poet as he says "I came out to look for a job, there wasn't any so I went for a pint."
youtu.be/l-GLRdMYQnI?...
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Early House Pubs of Cork City, Ireland 1980
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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December 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I do not think you could march into a pub full of hardened 7 AM drinkers and find better interviews than you get here. One guy has the eyes of a sad poet as he says "I came out to look for a job, there wasn't any so I went for a pint."
youtu.be/l-GLRdMYQnI?...
youtu.be/l-GLRdMYQnI?...
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The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes - a very cool read about tape restoration! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes - a very cool read about tape restoration! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
Processing some digital photos for the archives today and Micheál Martin has just appeared in a batch of them like a ghoul out of a story
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Processing some digital photos for the archives today and Micheál Martin has just appeared in a batch of them like a ghoul out of a story
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Majestic. A take worthy of the Ancients themselves.
Can't stress enough that this is the take WE NEED right now.
Only at @hellgatenyc.com
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Only at @hellgatenyc.com
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The Only Olivia Nuzzi-RFK Jr. Take You Need to Read
Your group chat isn’t talking about this part of it—but they should be.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Majestic. A take worthy of the Ancients themselves.