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Liam Lanigan

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Work as an English professor in Chicago, interested in urban studies, Irish studies. In my mind I'm always still in Kilkenny. Mainly post about Deadwood and lefty political stuff, hurling and pictures of my dogs

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I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But I am not a government official.

03.12.2025 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Centrist Democrats showing their excellent judgement and respect for people of color

Centrist Democrats showing their excellent judgement and respect for people of color

21.11.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Eamon Dunphy - Ronaldo is a cod
YouTube video by ConΓ‘n Doherty Eamon Dunphy - Ronaldo is a cod

youtu.be/JCLZy6HCSls?...

Irish football analyst Eamonn dunphy talking about him a good twenty years ago had his number.

21.11.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever lurks ahead of grievous abominations and disorder, you and me walk into it together, like always

12.11.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah actually that is what a good politician is supposed to do. I know Democrats in general think it's us that are supposed to fight for them but actually it's the other way round.

07.11.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The New York Times is less significant than you think.

05.11.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hey me too. I know season 2 is the best one, but season 3 seems to speak to the moment a bit more right now. Watching Hearst break a hole in a wall to show he's in charge had a bit of an echo lately.

05.11.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cuomo was always a real shitbag so it's good to see him just completely give in to it in the dying moments of his public life

29.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whole of Ireland goes ”what do you mean a relative like that isn’t his aunt, of course it’s his aunt”

28.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 408    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 11

Was there a few years ago for mla and made a trip there, really great bookshop. Ended up picking up a China Mieville book I could probably have gotten at the airport, but it was a great way to spend an hour.

23.10.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This fucking sucks. Fuck Bill Burr.

02.10.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speaking as an Irish republican I've always had a bit of an issue there...

01.10.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Many such cases

30.09.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Asking for sources from someone who is obviously riffing on your own joke is peak bluesky

29.09.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Course as a base of operations you can't beat a fucking saloon

17.09.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're seldom that fuckin lucky

10.09.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@cynchy.bsky.social CYNCHY!!!!

03.08.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But I was told young men are all fascists and the only way to appeal to them is by going to the right and also inventing a center Joe Rogan in an expensive lab. I wonder what kind of lesson there is for the Democrats in all this?

30.07.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Front cover of book I edited and that I never have to work on again

Front cover of book I edited and that I never have to work on again

Contents page of book I worked on and never have to work on again

Contents page of book I worked on and never have to work on again

Book I never have to work on again

Book I never have to work on again

It's finally in my hands!

23.07.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Technically Mieville was picked up at the library yesterday

21.07.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good trip to the bookshop today

21.07.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kai's essay on Satin Island and enactive cognition in this collection is very innovative and helpful for thinking about how we read urban space through literature

18.07.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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E. Prieto et al. (eds.), Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance, Literary Urban Studies,
doi.org/10.1007/978-...

17.07.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Originally the introduction to the collection did have a paragraph or two about WReC in the context of a discussion of systems theory and related approaches to literature but the book as a whole was getting too long and it has since ended up in the draft intro to my book on cities and scale!

18.07.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dick Durbin is a Democrat though.

17.07.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance This book addresses questions of urban crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that literature and the creative arts play.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The cover is only ok though...

13.07.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Contents of book

Contents of book

More contents

More contents

Even more contents

Even more contents

So many contents

So many contents

Our book about literature, cities, crisis, and resistance is finally out! Some amazing essays in this!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

13.07.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Sir, maybe our ambushes would work better without the bagpipes?"
*Commander shoots him dead*
Commander: "any other brilliant suggestions?"

26.06.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently not even an endorsement from George Santos is enough to convince New York to vote for a sex pest smgdh

25.06.2025 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"hmmm, you know what this place needs? Some greasy tills. You know, to fumble in" - Michael Martin

25.06.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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