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Leabharlannaí Ireland, Canada, Etc. MLIS and migraines. Pronouns in bio just in case someone feels a need to shoot me on the street.

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so what WAS Leonard Cohen's er, body count?

23.02.2026 03:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This site needs less discourse & more stories about prophets being purposefully vague dicks.

23.02.2026 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That's the irony of these folks. They hate to see poor people *not* struggling and are happy to see the wealthy live lavishly because they think they have more in common with the latter than the former. Who's going to tell them?

23.02.2026 00:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
21.02.2026 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly.

Of course they'll bring that up when it suits them as well.

23.02.2026 01:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's amazing how easy both Stalinism and the various forms of fascism just became aesthetic choices, something to play with for one's online identity.

22.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What we've learnt is that "never again" means until it starts passing out of living memory.

22.02.2026 23:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hey now, they were briefly a thing in Montreal too!

(They all went legit and opened art galleries and such later)

22.02.2026 21:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As usual, tis amazing how much anti immigration rhetoric is just the stuff they said about the Irish two centuries ago and how much anti islamic stuff is just a half assed remix of the greatest hits of antisemitism.

22.02.2026 21:49 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

If we get a rootless cosmopolitanism in there, do we win a prize?

22.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Mike she's just against (((colonialism))) and (((New York Comedy))) and (((Neoliberalism)))

22.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 53    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Love to get updates from X, the free speech app for people with lead poisoning.

22.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I'm currently working with Dan and even his drafts are stellar! He really listens to your request and does a fantastic job interpreting it. Can't wait to reveal what he is working on for me!

22.02.2026 20:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

there’s only one correct answer to this question: store.coveredbridgechips.com/products/sto...

22.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“500 is, without a doubt, still a surge.” Francis pointed out that the first “surge” Minneapolis saw in Dec was an influx of 150 agents. A force numbering in the hundreds -several times larger than that initial deployment -is not a retreat. It is a tremendous enforcement footprint in a metro area.”

22.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Can AI teach students to write better?

Haha
Hahahaha
Hahahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha

No

22.02.2026 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

always raises a red flag when people keep just asking questions that have in fact been studied and answered

22.02.2026 19:21 — 👍 62    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 0

Besides I'm not sure I really identify with anywhere particular.

I'm more of a product of some strange liminal space that is somehow NDG, somehow Kreuzberg, somehow Kitsilano and a random bit of de Nortsoide despite everything.

22.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At least we were spared the awkward diasporic small talk.

22.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I tell a lie. Midlands flavoured D4.

22.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Apparently we're letting people from Donnybrook into the library now.

Roysh.

I blame woke.

22.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fun things to do after 24 hours worth of travel and time displacement.

22.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You look amazing

22.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Irish family dynamics in microcosm

Mammy: you've been invited to do this thing after a very very long flight.
Me: well I will have had a very long flight and I'd sooner drink bleach than attend said thing.
Mammy: but they invited you so we're going.

Why we all have issues with boundaries.

22.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Twitter screencap:
Robert Jenrick v @RobertJenrick
England, and the United Kingdom, are built upon and in the
Judeo-Christian tradition. We should treasure that inheritance.
A magnificent speech from @danny__kruger
® Danny Kruger @ @danny__kru... •2d
I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It's about the need for a Christian restoration.

Twitter screencap: Robert Jenrick v @RobertJenrick England, and the United Kingdom, are built upon and in the Judeo-Christian tradition. We should treasure that inheritance. A magnificent speech from @danny__kruger ® Danny Kruger @ @danny__kru... •2d I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It's about the need for a Christian restoration.

In 1290, Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England, becoming the first European state in history to do so. The law was issued on the ninth of Ab, just to be an extra asshole about it, and land and property were forfeited to the crown.

judeo-christian, my ass

20.07.2025 11:28 — 👍 2039    🔁 510    💬 79    📌 49

Here is what I think.

TPS status revoked? cool, you should get US citizenship
Spent any time in Dilley or Whipple? cool, you should get US citizenship
Someone took your bunny hat? cool, you should get US citizenship

21.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 910    🔁 153    💬 6    📌 7

Books, bitches!

18.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 180    🔁 37    💬 2    📌 2

oh no! not the gay tech mafia! whatever shall we do?

22.02.2026 05:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solidarity with our NYU siblings! I'm so inspired that they made AI adoption by the university a subject of bargaining. I hope it will become a roadmap for doing the same at other institutions of higher education!

22.02.2026 04:09 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

NO HIDE

ONLY SEEK

22.02.2026 04:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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