Clodagh Dunne

I posted this 7 months ago and it's only grown more relevant every day since. Which is, you know, annoying.

Has Melania joined witness protection?

please send me birthday wishes in the traditional manner: a deeply creepy message that implicates both of us in horrific crimes.

Nigel Farage called a ‘Putin-loving free speech impostor’ during bumpy US congressional hearing Democrats accuse Reform leader of being a ‘Trump sycophant’ as he decries ‘awful authoritarian’ situation for free speech in the UK

Hmm, #BBCNews not reporting #NigelFarage getting buttfucked in the USA? #ReformUK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A rainbow to round out a lovely day

Stack of books on a table Titles: The Dilemmas of Working Women On the Calculation of V.2 A Very Cold Winter The Endless Week She Who Remains Discontent The Year of the Wind The Jaguar's Roar

Copies of On the Calculation of V.2 and The Jaguar's Roar

Copies of The Endless Week She Who Remains and A Very Cold Winter

Copies of The Year of the Wind Discontent and The Dilemmas of Working Women

August is Women in Translation Month! Here's my stack!
Most of these books are forthcoming later this year and into early 2026.
Titles are in alt text.

if anyone’s looking to add to their tbr for women in translation month, here are some latinx books written by women and translated by women

Jim makes a good point - the idea that Ofcom is going to effectively police online hate is risible. The regulator has obviously realised that and decided to focus on BBC/C4

I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing *children with cancer*

i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate.

“kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

It took #SophieFromRomania and her friend Juno some time to warm up, but then there was lots of fun in our back garden

Country diary: The slow-motion magic of watching a mallard build its nest | Susie White Allendale, Northumberland: A pair has been pottering in my garden for a few days, and I witness the moment when she chooses her spot behind a rose bush

Mallards behind the roses in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man.

Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA):

- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis

Antisemitism (according to MAGA):

- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

This has importance way outside CS/ML. If you ask why DOGE employees believe it’s smart to gut NSF and NIH, I’m afraid the answer is that they’ve bought a story where technical progress can proceed mostly decoupled from scientific knowledge.

I won’t lie. Your diagnosis made me give you a free pass for your overall performance in Taskmaster.

Also you totally ruled in engaging a toddler and should have won five bonus points for that task alone.

Sigh. I don't suffer from it, I exploit it to guilt trip conedy audiences into listening.

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge #BookSky

Day 13 : A book with a colour in the title.

The Blackheath Séance Parlour by Alan Williams

Let's give this book some love. Utterly bonkers and all kinds of wonderful.

Trade Deficits and Truth Deficits Trump's reciprocal emergency tariffs are neither "reciprocal" nor "emergency"—and journalists need to stop echoing his propaganda

A long screed about the lies behind Trump's trade policy and how press coverage keeps helping him by lazily repeating them, even when reporters know better. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/trade-defi...

Small plane crashes in Boca Raton, Florida; all 3 on board killed A small plane crashed in Boca Raton, Florida, on Friday morning, according to Boca Raton police.

Another fatal plane crash today, this one in Boca Raton, Florida. I’m sure the complete evisceration of FAA air safety support staffing under Trump has nothing to do with all these crashes and it’s just a coincidence…again

abcnews.go.com/US/small-pla...

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’ “It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.

“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

Yes, they voted for this "You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in."

New in PN: Yes, they voted for this

"Perhaps the most damning commentary about the US electorate and media is that Trump never even tried to conceal his malicious intentions and deranged policy positions."

it’s a relaxation emergency

Foster puppy Sienna has entered. She's very shy and a little bit skittish. But she is very sweet & cute ❤️

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

That’s a happy girl!

The number of deaths in ICE custody is already more than double all of last year There have been more deaths in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, than in all 12 months of five of the six preceding years.

Trump's Gestapo is killing people. If you see them trying to take someone, intervene, record, demand warrants (which must be signed by a judge, not their boss!!!). If they say, "We just want to talk" REFUSE! Once they get you in a vehicle, you are disappeared. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I'm sorry but Sentebale's accounts are public, and they show that after a rocky first two years the majority of funding was indeed going to the kids who were supported by it. It's the very fact that changed when Sophie became chair that the board cited as their reason for resigning.