Giles na Magaleen
@gilesnamagaleen.bsky.social
Bard (from The Gurriers' Arms), gentleman scholar, Midleton drinker, pheasant plucker https://ballymagaleen.com/
Pinned
Ballymagaleen
Ballymagaleen:
Ireland’s Least Reasonable Village
ballymagaleen.com
Independent Scholar, Philologist & Financial Flâneur
Self-employed, Ballymagaleen & Various Jurisdictions, 1987–present
Conducts original research into language, liturgy, and ledger-books
Occasional lecturer on “The Poetry of Double-Entry Bookkeeping”. ballymagaleen.com/about-giles
Self-employed, Ballymagaleen & Various Jurisdictions, 1987–present
Conducts original research into language, liturgy, and ledger-books
Occasional lecturer on “The Poetry of Double-Entry Bookkeeping”. ballymagaleen.com/about-giles
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Been 4 years since leading military analyst & Trump's future children's rights commissioner Scott Ritter informed us that Russian plans to invade Ukraine exist only in US & NATO imagination
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Been 4 years since leading military analyst & Trump's future children's rights commissioner Scott Ritter informed us that Russian plans to invade Ukraine exist only in US & NATO imagination
Aftershave was the solution under Perestroika. Naztrovya!
Get ready for Dima to threaten WW3 soon.
Russian alcohol prices spiking in 2026, civil unrest likely.
The Kremlin is clearly desperate for money to risk this. For 0.5L bottles, price jumps are:
🔹Vodka: 17%
🔹Brandy: 28%
🔹Cognac and Whiskey: 16%
Expect a lot more angry posts from AlcoMedvedev next year.
The Kremlin is clearly desperate for money to risk this. For 0.5L bottles, price jumps are:
🔹Vodka: 17%
🔹Brandy: 28%
🔹Cognac and Whiskey: 16%
Expect a lot more angry posts from AlcoMedvedev next year.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Aftershave was the solution under Perestroika. Naztrovya!
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Get ready for Dima to threaten WW3 soon.
Russian alcohol prices spiking in 2026, civil unrest likely.
The Kremlin is clearly desperate for money to risk this. For 0.5L bottles, price jumps are:
🔹Vodka: 17%
🔹Brandy: 28%
🔹Cognac and Whiskey: 16%
Expect a lot more angry posts from AlcoMedvedev next year.
The Kremlin is clearly desperate for money to risk this. For 0.5L bottles, price jumps are:
🔹Vodka: 17%
🔹Brandy: 28%
🔹Cognac and Whiskey: 16%
Expect a lot more angry posts from AlcoMedvedev next year.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Get ready for Dima to threaten WW3 soon.
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"The news has been invaded by this phantom content, this homeophathic transplant, this waking dream of communication."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"The news has been invaded by this phantom content, this homeophathic transplant, this waking dream of communication."
- Seduction
- Seduction
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Here's an interesting example of how misunderstanding & not fact checking results in spreading misinformation that makes it seem some people were scared of bathing and filthy icky boys.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/12/07/j...
or here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/john-gabri...
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/12/07/j...
or here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/john-gabri...
John Gabriël Stedman and his misunderstood distaste for bathing
Here’s an interesting example of how misunderstanding & not properly fact checking a text results in spreading misinformation that, again, makes it seem some people of the past were scare…
fakehistoryhunter.net
December 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Here's an interesting example of how misunderstanding & not fact checking results in spreading misinformation that makes it seem some people were scared of bathing and filthy icky boys.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/12/07/j...
or here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/john-gabri...
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/12/07/j...
or here:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/john-gabri...
Play it again, and again, and again.
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Play it again, and again, and again.
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"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3K5yukX
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3K5yukX
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if elected president i promise to be just as corrupt as our current leadership, perhaps even moreso. but I will also reinvest the entire defense and policing budgets into creating what i call The Health Cigarette
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
if elected president i promise to be just as corrupt as our current leadership, perhaps even moreso. but I will also reinvest the entire defense and policing budgets into creating what i call The Health Cigarette
Could President Trump please make my horse a consul?
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"Welcome to the White House. Please report the nature of your bribe to the guard on duty upon entrance."
"Welcome to the White House. Please report the nature of your bribe to the guard on duty upon entrance."
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Could President Trump please make my horse a consul?
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ballymagaleen.com/giless-notes... The future of entertainment
CELEBRITY CANNIBAL ISLAND
Genre: Prestige reality-horror comedy
ballymagaleen.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ballymagaleen.com/giless-notes... The future of entertainment
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How 'citizen scientists' helped red squirrels return to Aberdeen. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How 'citizen scientists' helped red squirrels return to Aberdeen
Red squirrels have returned to Aberdeen city centre, reversing a retreat north dating back to the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
How 'citizen scientists' helped red squirrels return to Aberdeen. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"On the contrary, revolution itself, the idea of revolution also implodes, and this implosion carries weightier consequences than the revolution itself."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"On the contrary, revolution itself, the idea of revolution also implodes, and this implosion carries weightier consequences than the revolution itself."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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"It is this loss of reality that the surreal familiarity of objects translates."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"It is this loss of reality that the surreal familiarity of objects translates."
- Seduction
- Seduction
ballymagaleen.com/magal-coin The future of finance
Ballymagaleen
Ballymagaleen:
Ireland’s Least Reasonable Village
ballymagaleen.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
ballymagaleen.com/magal-coin The future of finance
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Frankly, I don't think Europe should be taking lectures on free speech from a president who sues media outlets for critical reporting.
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Frankly, I don't think Europe should be taking lectures on free speech from a president who sues media outlets for critical reporting.
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I know that 12:30 is ‘after noon’ but it still feels wrong to call it ‘the afternoon’, that begins at like 1 at the earliest
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I know that 12:30 is ‘after noon’ but it still feels wrong to call it ‘the afternoon’, that begins at like 1 at the earliest
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The only reason the Minsk agreements were needed was cos Russia wouldn't follow
UN Charter 45
Nuclear NPT 70
Helsinki Accords 75
Paris Charter 90
Belovezha Accords 92
Budapest Memo 94
Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97
Friendship Treaty 98
Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait ‘03
Karkiv pact 10
And others.
UN Charter 45
Nuclear NPT 70
Helsinki Accords 75
Paris Charter 90
Belovezha Accords 92
Budapest Memo 94
Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97
Friendship Treaty 98
Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait ‘03
Karkiv pact 10
And others.
And remember the Minsk agreements made Russia promise to respect borders
OTD in 2009 Russia reaffirmed commitment to the Budapest Memorandum signed 15 years previously.
Which is why you can trust us on the "peace deal" now proposed.
Which is why you can trust us on the "peace deal" now proposed.
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The only reason the Minsk agreements were needed was cos Russia wouldn't follow
UN Charter 45
Nuclear NPT 70
Helsinki Accords 75
Paris Charter 90
Belovezha Accords 92
Budapest Memo 94
Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97
Friendship Treaty 98
Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait ‘03
Karkiv pact 10
And others.
UN Charter 45
Nuclear NPT 70
Helsinki Accords 75
Paris Charter 90
Belovezha Accords 92
Budapest Memo 94
Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97
Friendship Treaty 98
Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait ‘03
Karkiv pact 10
And others.
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The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has published a new article from its upcoming 2025 volume!
‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Abstract In this article I integrate school drama, mainly in Latin, with other types of drama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I do so by exploring connections between adaptations of…
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has published a new article from its upcoming 2025 volume!
‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
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i'd rather be autistic than whatever the fuck RFK Jr. is
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i'd rather be autistic than whatever the fuck RFK Jr. is
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Glad Hesgeth is under fire and impeachment may come.
Now do RFK Jr., who is actively harming and killing American children with his quack pseudoscience!
Now do RFK Jr., who is actively harming and killing American children with his quack pseudoscience!
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Glad Hesgeth is under fire and impeachment may come.
Now do RFK Jr., who is actively harming and killing American children with his quack pseudoscience!
Now do RFK Jr., who is actively harming and killing American children with his quack pseudoscience!
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This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
I gather some people would like a picture of the publisher
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I gather some people would like a picture of the publisher