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Michael Carley
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If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property. Lefty migrant
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The introduction to this should be required for reading for first year engineering students.
The cover of Bee Wilson's Consider The Fork.
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Timeline bingo win.
Two posts, one saying a warning seems to say you can't attack people with a spear on the Eurostar, another showing the Pope on an aeroplane with a baseball bat.
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Send him a camán you cowards!
Pope Leo on a aeroplane looking at a baseball bat in his hand with the air of a man with a list of people in his head.
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Cuimnidh ar Luimneach agus ar feall na Sasanach!
Keir Starmer with subtitle reading "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom"
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
drmcarley.bsky.social
Post a movie where you are from
A still from Intermission: Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, and Brian F. O'Byrne in a car.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Horse or kale, Grauniad, horse or kale?
An article title reading "Smoked trout and cavalo [sic] nero potato gratin"
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
drmcarley.bsky.social
Makes the old PJPII shirts look passé
A tee shirt showing Pope John Paul II with a joint and the words "I like the pope, the pope smokes dope".
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
drmcarley.bsky.social
How does that "further complicate the picture"?
It’s nearly 100 years since the BBC’s precarious political reality became clear. In May 1926, a general strike put Britain’s newspapers out of print. The BBC, under its founder John Reith, assumed a new role in the nation’s news. Winston Churchill, then chancellor of the exchequer, pressured it not to allow pro-strike voices on air. Reith reluctantly complied. The term “Reithian” is often used to describe the BBC’s high-minded idealism. The man himself understood the compromise with power that a national broadcaster must make to exist. (To further complicate the picture, he privately expressed admiration for Hitler and Mussolini.)
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Constance Markievicz in the uniform of the Irish Citizen Army, with a revolver.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
drmcarley.bsky.social
A plane you don't see every day.
A Long EZ two seat aircraft.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Christ
Letter: Legacy of the Troubles deserves more candour - on.ft.com/4oSaKzt via @FT
On Bloody Sunday specifically, your framing overlooks inconvenient testimony. Multiple civilian witnesses — including a wounded teenager — told various inquiries that a group of youths in the area were carrying nail bombs shortly before the shooting. Martin McGuinness, who later became Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, according to evidence from an IRA informer cited during the Bloody Sunday Tribunal (The Saville Inquiry), admitted he had a Thompson submachine gun on the day of Bloody Sunday. That context neither excuses unlawful killing nor dilutes the agony of the bereaved, but it does challenge the tidy morality play that is so often presented to the public.
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Never good if a union's in Private Eye.
A Private Eye story about the UCU dispute with its own staff.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Rashers Tierney and the Toucher Hennessey in Strumpet City. Rashers is holding his dog, Rusty.
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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The monument to fallen aviators in Alba is a bit on the nose.

www.pietredellamemoria.it/pietre/monum...
A monument to fallen aviators in Alba, Italy. It consists of an aeroplane tail sticking out of the ground.
October 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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"Very municipal park" is the new "bought his own furniture".
“We never used to have tulips in the garden here because my in-laws hated them,” says Marianne Cartwright-Hignett, who took over the estate’s management with her husband William the previous year. “They thought they were very municipal park, bright red and yellow.”
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Because it gave me a silly giggle.
A Swiss Rolls.
October 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Well, yeah?
What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
October 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"On the contrary" is it?
Letter in Financial Times: This framing is profoundly misleading. In reality Łempicki was Polish, a civilian lawyer and public servant. There is no evidence of any Nazi affiliation; on the contrary, he was later penalised for his stance against Poland’s communist regime.
October 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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You sure about commitment 4, UKRIO?
The five commitments of the Concordat to Support Research integrity are: 1. Maintaining the highest standards of research integrity-the principles 2. Maintaining the highest standards of research integrity-expectations and compliance 3. Embedding a culture of research integrity 4. Questionable research practices and potential research misconduct 5. Accountability and continuous improvement in research integrity The Concordat to Support Research Integrity is a framework that sets out key principles and commitments to uphold the highest standards of research integrity with a focus on ethical conduct, transparency, accountability, and good governance throughout the research process.
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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For example, do this, for the benefit of dopier customers.
A website form which requires you to tick a box next to the statement "THE TOUR IS IN NEW QUAY WALES. POSTCODE SA45 9NW. NOT NEWQUAY CORNWALL"
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I found one of my final year exam papers from back in the last century. I think the type of knowledge it expects of engineering students is still reasonable.
The first page of a 1992 engineering exam paper from Trinity College Dublin. The first question is to write an essay on the impact or recent world political events on European Engineers, or on the developing significance of the human factor in engineering practice, or on the role of the engineer in reducing long term unemployment. Page 2 of the exam, with questions on how information technology and computing will affect society, on the Safety Health and Welfare at Work (1989), on marketing, and on theories of motivation. The final page of the exam with a question on consumer law.
September 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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National Trust by Tony Harrison Bottomless pits. There's on in Castleton, and stout upholders of our law and order one day thought its depth worth wagering on and borrowed a convict hush-hush from his warder and winched him down; and back, flayed, grey, mad, dumb. Not even a good flogging made him holler! O gentlemen, a better way to plumb the depths of Britain's dangling a scholar, say, here at the booming shaft at Towanroath, now National Trust, a place where they got tin, those gentlemen who silenced the men's oath and killed the language that they swore it in. The dumb go down in history and disappear and not one gentleman's been brough to book: Mes den hep tavas a-gollas y dyr (Cornish-) 'the tongueless man gets his land took.'
September 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Ouch.
Matthew Goodwin, a presenter on GB News, read off a litany of violent crimes committed by asylum seekers and implored the audience to ‘take back your country’, promising to ‘weaponise these issues all day long’. It was time to ‘start putting the security of the British people and our children first’.
September 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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A display of Bud Spencer baked beans in an Italian supermarket.
September 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I'm still giggling.
A Rolls-Royce with a Zurich number plate.
September 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM