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When a linguistics professor has not met enough Irish people …
February 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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In Ireland, support your local bookshops! Our local one has a second-hand corner too.

@kennysbookshop.bsky.social is consistently better, faster (and frequently cheaper) than Amazon.

@libro.fm is a great alternative to Audible or Spotify.
#BookSky #WeCanDoBetter
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
February 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Our annual collection for children in emergency accommodation, organised by @buzzoneill.bsky.social, is happening again on Dec 21st. See graphic for details, and if you can’t make it to Pantibar, you can make a € donation at the link:

www.gofundme.com/f/g9h2p-plea...
December 9, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third… ”

Judith Butler on throwing the Trans community under the bus. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Okay, the end of the year is in sight, so maybe it’s a good time for us to tell you about our financials, here at Dublin Inquirer HQ at the Digital Hub on Thomas Street in Dublin 8. We ask for transparency from others, so some transparency from us is good too, right? 1/
December 11, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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The annual Bohs effort to get a toy to every child in direct provision in Ireland is a wonderful thing.

Donations and info here: gofund.me/ee17f8fe
Donate to Direct Provision Christmas Toy Drive 2024, organized by Dan Lambert
WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN THIS YEAR! In a year that's shown the worst of human… Dan Lambert needs your support for Direct Provision Christmas Toy Drive 2024
gofund.me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 AM