Andrew Ó Baoill
@aobaoill.bsky.social
Job: U Galway. Research: Community media, scholactivism, pedagogy. Politics: Labour Galway. Co-chair CAM section of IAMCR. obaoill.net
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At a special event at the University of Galway yesterday, it was announced that the University will be the custodians of President Higgins’ Presidential Archive. At the event, the Aula Maxima was renamed The Michael D. Higgins Auditorium where a portrait by Colin Davidson was unveiled
June 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At a special event at the University of Galway yesterday, it was announced that the University will be the custodians of President Higgins’ Presidential Archive. At the event, the Aula Maxima was renamed The Michael D. Higgins Auditorium where a portrait by Colin Davidson was unveiled
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On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
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We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.
www.theverge.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
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US declares national energy emergency
Cynical
Executive order claims US does not have enough energy. But US has one of the highest energy use per capita. Energy shortage is nowhere near
Should rather declare climate emergency
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-...
Cynical
Executive order claims US does not have enough energy. But US has one of the highest energy use per capita. Energy shortage is nowhere near
Should rather declare climate emergency
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-...
Energy use per person
Measured in kilowatt-hours per person. Here, energy refers to primary energy using the substitution method.
ourworldindata.org
January 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
US declares national energy emergency
Cynical
Executive order claims US does not have enough energy. But US has one of the highest energy use per capita. Energy shortage is nowhere near
Should rather declare climate emergency
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-...
Cynical
Executive order claims US does not have enough energy. But US has one of the highest energy use per capita. Energy shortage is nowhere near
Should rather declare climate emergency
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-...
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When you refuse to call a Nazi salute what it is, I think the only reason to do so is to allow yourself to continue covering a Nazi without feeling complicit.
Accepting that it was what it was demands you make a choice.
Accepting that it was what it was demands you make a choice.
I've watched the video ~two dozen times. The gesture, which is done twice, seems both bizarre and familiar. He pats his open hand to his heart, before extending his arm palm down above his head with a grunt and pursed lips. Then he turns around and does it again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture
Speaking at a celebratory rally in Washington, Mr. Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down, drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
When you refuse to call a Nazi salute what it is, I think the only reason to do so is to allow yourself to continue covering a Nazi without feeling complicit.
Accepting that it was what it was demands you make a choice.
Accepting that it was what it was demands you make a choice.
Ireland’s shame is that we let Mixhael McDowell stir up a moral panic for his own ends and induce us to end birthright citizenship in 2004.
The just-filed complaint challenging Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship.
Filed in the D.N.H. by the national ACLU, ACLU-NH, ACLU-MA, ACLU-ME, NAACP LDF, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and the Asian Law Caucus.
www.aclu-nh.org/en/press-rel...
Filed in the D.N.H. by the national ACLU, ACLU-NH, ACLU-MA, ACLU-ME, NAACP LDF, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and the Asian Law Caucus.
www.aclu-nh.org/en/press-rel...
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Ireland’s shame is that we let Mixhael McDowell stir up a moral panic for his own ends and induce us to end birthright citizenship in 2004.
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Smotrich 'assured' Israel would continue war and take control of Gaza
Far-right minister says he received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net/news/smotric...
Far-right minister says he received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net/news/smotric...
Smotrich 'assured' Israel would continue war and take control of Gaza
Far-right minister says he 'received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net
January 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Smotrich 'assured' Israel would continue war and take control of Gaza
Far-right minister says he received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net/news/smotric...
Far-right minister says he received a commitment' that there would be a gradual Israeli takeover of enclave, despite ceasefire deal
www.middleeasteye.net/news/smotric...
It’s almost like Netanyahu doesn’t want the ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the ceasefire in Gaza, which was due to start at 6.30am Irish time, will not begin until Hamas provides a list of hostages to be released
Israel: Gaza ceasefire delayed until hostage list issued
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the ceasefire in Gaza, which was due to start at 6.30am Irish time, will not begin until Hamas provides a list of hostages to be released.
www.rte.ie
January 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It’s almost like Netanyahu doesn’t want the ceasefire.
So sorry to hear of the passing of Jeremy Lansman. He used to call us at WILL AM with questions as he simulcast Bob McChesney’s show on his Alaska station. Rightly remembered, alongside his comrade-in-arms Lorenzo Milam, as a giant in community radio.
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Community radio pioneer and RM-2493 co-author Jeremy Lansman has died
His petition, filed five decades ago, sparked an urban legend that still continues to circulate to this day.
recnet.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
So sorry to hear of the passing of Jeremy Lansman. He used to call us at WILL AM with questions as he simulcast Bob McChesney’s show on his Alaska station. Rightly remembered, alongside his comrade-in-arms Lorenzo Milam, as a giant in community radio.
recnet.substack.com/p/community-...
recnet.substack.com/p/community-...
Grateful for the opportunity from @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social to discuss how media coverage affects our politics @uniofgalway.bsky.social
In this week's Suil Ghrinn column, Andrew O Baoil notes Syria is 'back' in the news. He takes a critical eye to how media coverage of topics affects our psychology, and how that influences the news agenda. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Framing the worldview
Did you know that many Americans cannot locate the US on a world map? I recently had a video show up on my social media that proved just that, as an anonymous camera person asked seemingly random peop...
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January 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Grateful for the opportunity from @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social to discuss how media coverage affects our politics @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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SWEDEN: Tesla seeks end to license plate blockade in ongoing Swedish labour dispute driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-s...
Tesla seeks end to license plate blockade in ongoing Swedish labour dispute
Tesla is continuing its legal battle in Sweden as the automaker is now seeking a court order to bypass a license plate blockade by postal workers, which is part of an ongoing labour dispute in […]
driveteslacanada.ca
January 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
SWEDEN: Tesla seeks end to license plate blockade in ongoing Swedish labour dispute driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-s...
Lean in? /s
Women work at Meta, right?
January 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Lean in? /s
The existence of this little bit of commons is increasingly vital as everything else is ground down in the mill for profit.
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism
forward.com/news/686797/...
forward.com/news/686797/...
January 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The existence of this little bit of commons is increasingly vital as everything else is ground down in the mill for profit.
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any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
Isn’t there a democratic billionaire who can buy Wikipedia and keep it free of Rich White MAGA Separatists??
Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."
January 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
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I guess "pugnacious" is a euphemism for lying, money-grabbing, racist viper now.
A pugnacious mix of populism, eloquence and charisma, Le Pen helped re-write the parameters of French politics in a career spanning 40 years that reut.rs/3Wa1PNQ
January 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I guess "pugnacious" is a euphemism for lying, money-grabbing, racist viper now.
Duty done. ✔️
Looking forward to the long awaited expansion of the University Seanad franchise later this year.
In the meantime, if you have a vote in the NUI panel make sure to give @aliceeire.bsky.social your number 1 🗳️ and return a principled advocate for justice to the upper house.
Looking forward to the long awaited expansion of the University Seanad franchise later this year.
In the meantime, if you have a vote in the NUI panel make sure to give @aliceeire.bsky.social your number 1 🗳️ and return a principled advocate for justice to the upper house.
January 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Duty done. ✔️
Looking forward to the long awaited expansion of the University Seanad franchise later this year.
In the meantime, if you have a vote in the NUI panel make sure to give @aliceeire.bsky.social your number 1 🗳️ and return a principled advocate for justice to the upper house.
Looking forward to the long awaited expansion of the University Seanad franchise later this year.
In the meantime, if you have a vote in the NUI panel make sure to give @aliceeire.bsky.social your number 1 🗳️ and return a principled advocate for justice to the upper house.
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this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight
January 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight
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I think I was easier to see award-winning Iranian movies 30 years ago, when every DVD rental shop had a couple, than it is today. Video going streaming should have been an amazing opportunity, but it has just increased film illiteracy.
and they only takes master US blockbusters that everybody already watched at least one time in life
you won’t find European movies, even more an Iranian or Japanese one
you won’t find European movies, even more an Iranian or Japanese one
January 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I think I was easier to see award-winning Iranian movies 30 years ago, when every DVD rental shop had a couple, than it is today. Video going streaming should have been an amazing opportunity, but it has just increased film illiteracy.
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I seem to recall that Putin's reign was legitimised by a series of unexplained terrorist actions.
January 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I seem to recall that Putin's reign was legitimised by a series of unexplained terrorist actions.
Picture of the year already?
January 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Picture of the year already?
So this arrived today. Time to start researching the candidates. (#1 of course to @aliceeire.bsky.social.) Anyone done up a cheat sheet to the less well-known candidates?
December 30, 2024 at 1:37 PM
So this arrived today. Time to start researching the candidates. (#1 of course to @aliceeire.bsky.social.) Anyone done up a cheat sheet to the less well-known candidates?
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If you beat someone so badly that they due of that beating, you have, in fact, beaten that person to death. They didn't just die for no connected reason.
Law enforcement in the US state of New York have released "devastating" footage of prison guards beating a black inmate shortly before he died.
Footage shows NY inmate beaten by guards before death
Law enforcement in the US state of New York have released "devastating" footage of prison guards beating a black inmate shortly before he died.
www.rte.ie
December 28, 2024 at 3:53 PM
If you beat someone so badly that they due of that beating, you have, in fact, beaten that person to death. They didn't just die for no connected reason.
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we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors
December 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM
we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors
This can’t have been coincidental - and if by some chance it was, it highlights just how criminally negligent these attacks are.
www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
Head of WHO was at Yemen airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says one of his plane’s crew members was injured.
www.bbc.com
December 26, 2024 at 4:31 PM
This can’t have been coincidental - and if by some chance it was, it highlights just how criminally negligent these attacks are.
www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...