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Seán Finnan

@seanfinnan.bsky.social

PhD candidate & Research Ireland scholar @tudublin Interested in DIY online radio, algorithmic culture, alternative & community media. Radiomaker & writer

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Circuits w/ Olly Chubb - Anthony Shakir Special 12th October 2021 Playing Detroit Techno. Connections in electronic music: the history of house and techno as presented to you by the wonderful Olly Chubb.

That show is fire. I listen back to this one regularly.

www.nts.live/shows/circui...

25.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

24.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 386    🔁 107    💬 10    📌 10
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Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist ...

The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...

17.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 52    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 11

Big day out for the parish. Unfortunately I won't be in the parish. To find out why you'll need to watch this film 😉🍿

20.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All out this Tuesday, 6pm against #ThePoxtonHotel injunction!

A British hotel group seeking to silence a neighbouring club.

Izakaya isn’t noise pollution. It’s part of Dublin’s cultural fabric.

Hotels rise. Rents climb. Venues close. The city dies.

Image from Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin's Instagram.

15.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

13.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
TRAILER: DISPLACE: THE BATTLE FOR DUBLIN
YouTube video by Scamp Media TRAILER: DISPLACE: THE BATTLE FOR DUBLIN

Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.

11.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 16    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 4

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left?

Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

04.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 496    🔁 81    💬 5    📌 7

An analogy for this is research chemicals and synthetic drugs.

Labs are well able to keep ahead of legislation. Yet politicians like this go all out in their condemnation and efforts to ban them.

When it's X enabling CSAM? Ara shur look, each to their own -shur isn't technology mad lad...

08.01.2026 12:12 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns Hundreds of doctors, dozens of MPs and thousands of everyday Britons call on the justice secretary to intervene.

These people are being held on remand as punishment. Bail is routinely offered for more serious offences. The Home Secretary is refusing to meet their representatives.

Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns | Prison News | Al Jazeera share.google/rXo7ju6GqlM2...

19.12.2025 06:58 — 👍 17    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Really sad to hear this, Asad was a total genius! Remembering this Black Panther movie which turns into both a meditation on Huey Newton's political thought and an appreciation of Detroit Techno act Drexciya.... One of a kind. RIP viewpointmag.com/2018/03/05/b...

06.12.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is shite. The Complex serves so many artist tribes in Ireland. All artists need is a space, they'll do the rest because they've had to.

It's so frustrating that €10m can be given to the NFL but Dublin CC can't open a basic event space for artists without trying to commercialise everything.

04.12.2025 14:10 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

I wrote about The Complex’s first experience of eviction in this paper. In the years since they have clearly embedded themselves in this area of the city and contributed to its vibrancy. We need to protect cultural institutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

04.12.2025 09:45 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Galway’s Pirate Women: A Global Trawl – Charlie Byrne's Bookshop | Galway and the West of Ireland, Irish Biography

This is da book

charliebyrne.ie/product/galw...

25.11.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
AM Kanngieser | A micro-history of ‘convivial’ radio in Japan

It's amazing! She wrote a book on it which I'm dying to get my hands on. Also, this type of radio was all the rage in Tokyo

amkanngieser.com/posts/a-micr...

25.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Interview with Margaretta D'Arcy (Women's Scéal Radio/Radio Pirate Woman) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive No account of Galway pirate radio would be complete without the unique station set up by the writer and activist Margaretta D’Arcy from her home in the city centre. Women’s Scéal Radio broadcast irreg...

Rest in Power to a real one.

pirate.ie/archive/inte...

24.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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College Radio Keeps Its Cool

"Can places like KXLU survive, when the tech pull [is] squarely in the opposite direction? 'One administrator can kill a college 📻station,” @katejewell.bsky.social said, while adding that she feels the health of such stations is strong [bc] DIY camaraderie + community feel so urgent..."

20.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

My opening remarks danmcquillan.org/irish_parlia... were described by committee members as 'blunt' and 'sceptical about AI, to say the least'

18.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

25.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 328    🔁 95    💬 7    📌 1
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New Irish Music: September/October 2025 Remembering Manchán Magan, plus new releases from Throwing Shapes, Ian Nyquist, Junior Brother, and more

The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up is back ☁️

Harps and bodhráns reimagined as ambient instruments, surrealist avant-folk, fairy forts, some Prefab Sprout-style sweetness, uilleann pipes, motorik psych, Pavement covers and a tribute to Manchán Magan

anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...

14.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1
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BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

01.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 1184    🔁 613    💬 11    📌 38

When the dust settles, I hope we remember that on the precise evening Trump (a) pulled his cultural critics off TV and (b) designated his political enemies as terrorists, the UK was giving him every honour imaginable, and glorying in its "special relationship" with his regime.

18.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0
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Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not? No one understands the hollowness of its facilitators’ changed rhetoric better than the Israeli government

Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not?

Another great piece by Mark O’Connell.

10.08.2025 12:57 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

"[Microsoft Azure] has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Microsoft continues to aid genocide

06.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 131    🔁 97    💬 3    📌 14
Jobs - Open Vacancies at DCU | DCU People Want to advance your career and work at Dublin City University? Find all of our job vacancies here, from teaching positions to administrative positions.

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵

Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

30.07.2025 08:46 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Let Them Play Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine

Please sign and share this petition calling on the government to overturn its disgraceful refusal and to issue visas to the children from GAA Palestine for their trip to Ireland. #FreeGAAPalestine
my.uplift.ie/petitions/le...

10.07.2025 08:51 — 👍 47    🔁 43    💬 0    📌 1
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New show tonight!
We're back with another drone and ambient webinar at 9pm. with usic from @k8carr.bsky.social and @dvddnh.bsky.social, @colonialskyway.bsky.social, @isolatedcommunity.bsky.social, @dunksunk.bsky.social + releases from @quietdetails.bsky.social, @auralcanyon.bsky.social and more!

09.07.2025 16:33 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2
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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

09.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 1248    🔁 428    💬 16    📌 36
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A message from Keith (JD Twitch) A message from Keith (JD Twitch)

You'd be pressed to name a more crucial individual in this silly music thing, both in the foreground and background. Such a warm and generous man, absolutely fucking brutal news today

03.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

'Understanding Ireland’s dependency as a defining feature of Irish economic development allows us to see how the State’s undemocratic actions to support global extractive industries, erode our neutrality, and fail on Palestine are part of the same political economic matrix.'

04.06.2025 09:54 — 👍 17    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 2