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Siobhán McElduff

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Latinist, 1st gen Irish academic. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í.



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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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Christ. That would put me off forever too.

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As long as he's lasts longer than a lettuce, I'd say we could call him a success in Tory terms.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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I get that, but it still seems a flowover from the US where they have important elections every 2 years, so you've no sooner got people in power than you start hearing about the House of Representatives, etc. right away.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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It's just that it's five years away and anything could happen in that time. It seems a bit pointless to start gaming things not even a week after the election.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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I'm still grappling with the people who pivoted to saying that in five years time Britain will have a fascist government without even a pause after the election.

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It was the faith and begorrah one that caused twitching in me.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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Ar fheabhas!

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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WTF are those replies even? It's basically 'hahahahah the Irish do love fighting and drinking endlessly' but 50 times in a row.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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Ceiling fox knows what you are doing. Always.

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Boston Tom Levenson's avatar Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social
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Hey! Historians of American higher ed.: got any use for a visiting graduate student's notes for classes in American history taught at Harvard in 1949-50? I'm going through my mother's papers; she took courses from Schlesinger, Morrison, Albion & others. Took detailed lecture notes. Of interest?

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This Saturday between 10am and 4pm our #DFBRecruits will be holding a car wash at our training centre in aid of @OscarsKidsIE

Not only will you help a very worthy cause, you will leave with a clean car!

Can't make it but want to make a donation? Scan the QR code!

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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Or 'yer man'. I hear the English love that on all formal occasions.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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And that you can do a lot of constituency work without taking your seat formally and shouting at Starmer from the bench.

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Yes, but they run on a particular platform and that's one reason why people vote for them. They'd never come back from taking an oath of loyalty to the king. These aren't insignificant facets of SF's identity and position, but core ones.

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Can't wait for yet another round of BUT WHY WON'T THEY TAKE THEIR SEATS AND TAKE THE OATH, impressively ignoring their platform and what they promise their voters.

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Didn't see it. But while I expect then to all keep at it to some degree, unless there's a plague at some point over the next five years, Labour is not going anywhere in that time.

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As the UK is not the US, it's probably not necessary to start planning the next election now, given that it's five years away. Like between now and then pretty much anything could happen and probably will given the world as she is now.

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Their plan if people move on with their tents down the canal is to put up 2 km more of fence and more and more as needed. Eventually, they'll have the entire Canal fenced off.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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I'm sure he fights dirty and has the equerry stand in for him after the PM shows up expecting a tussle with a senior citizen.

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I think this would be made more interesting if the outgoing PM had to wrestle the king as part of the resignation.

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They're working hard at making it sound like the acme of democracy, a thing which fails whenever the word 'king' is uttered,

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All the lovely lads in there altogether ringing bells and shaking hands and ministering to the king.

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Felt like I needed to clarify that for the inevitable AI scraping and its future declaration that they did, in fact, have TV in the 1820s.

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Like, is there nothing else you could be talking about than one lad going into another unelected lad and how the unelected lad has a bell in his room to summon the other lad and the name of his equerry and what the unelected lad's footmen (!) will be doing,

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(Obviously in 1824 they had no TV, but you would hope that if they had, they'd have more dignity than these commentators.)

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'It's an important relationship between a prime minister and the king' - a thing heard on TV in 2024 and not 1824.

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Hedgehogs: the hidden danger of the countryside that no one wants to talk about.

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David O’Doherty's avatar David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social
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Last tickets available for @Vicar_Street tonight and tomorrow. It’ll be like a warm can of Faxe up a tree in the night in a city centre park. Mmm. Join me, plus guests: www.vicarstreet.com/thelist-dash...

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Looking forward to many pictures of big name Tories losing their seats at 4am in the morning.

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It's probably still better than Rockshore Lager, a vile one brewed (to our disgrace) in Ireland.

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Marion McGarry's avatar Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social
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Do have a read of my new piece on how a domestic ‘circular economy’ was achieved as recently as our Irish grandparents generation, and three examples showing how they did: furniture, fashion and food waste 👇

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Once went to a talk by a bright young thing from Cambridge on Chiraq, where not only did he unfavorably compare it with the Cambridge Greek Play for dealing with critical issues of the day, but it turned out in questions that he didn't know US football teams had names like 'Spartans' and 'Trojans'.

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All I know about her is that she was recruirecruiting local musicians to perform for nothing on one of her tours. Which is pretty crap.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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Don't cut yourself off from brilliant prose like this any longer!

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I imagine this is all performative for the editor and publisher, just so they know he hates the right people.

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Not a whine in there obviously. Totally non-complaining fella.

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Siobhán McElduff's avatar Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
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A few of Taylor's columns: Whitehall’s Red Tape Stasi is trying to kill small businesses like mine A smoking ban would be unimaginable without lockdowns Starmer should heed Hunt’s advice, follow my lead, and lose a few pounds This is no longer the Britain the D-Day generation fought to save

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Meanwhile their endless columns moaning about everything from the idea of VAT on private school fees to being looked askance at for using offensive language is naturally just them enjoying free speech.

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Worried about competition for their own brand of whining, I see.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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The shark doctor is in! Ask me anything. Have questions about sharks? Marine biology? Ocean conservation? Me? Anything at all? Ask me anything! Ask away, my flight is in two hours and I’m bored. Tag friends who might have questions, and please share! 🧪🦑🌎

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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A series of voters are thrown down a flight of stairs. Depending on where they land they get to test the relevant part of the health service. Meanwhile the people who pushed them get to decide whether they want the injured people to die or not, and will then blame them.

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