Jack Kennedy
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PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share jackkennedy.ie linktr.ee/jack_kennedy
I guess it's technically true that it can't be a place the far-right make pilgrimages to if they're just already inside all the time
Beside the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin, there is a police training college housed in a former SS barracks A sign outside proclaims that at this college "The prime educational objective is commitment to the primary principle of the Basic Law: Human dignity is inviolable"
It can be hard as a PhD student to take a real holiday. I am often guilty of working even when I'm travelling for pleasure. In a bid to combat this menace I will be spending the next 5 days on a tall ship in the North Sea with no WiFi or phone signal
Though yeah I remember things got pretty wild in Bologna when Morocco reached the QF in 2022
This porn bot (?) has weighed in on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula
One of the fears expressed by strategists about "nuclear tripolarity", where the US/Russia/China are all nuclear "great powers" is that in a hypothetical confrontation between two of them, the third could be catapulted to supremacy by just waiting it out i.e. they're worried about this meme
Lots going on in this story but the standards being used here to determine what constitutes harassment and discrimination seem utterly bizarre and arbitrary
An important part of being back in Dublin is taking a stroll around town and seeing what ugly new buildings have been built since last time
*Eric Andre voice* do you think you were effectively defending the fundamental dignity of every person when you drastically curtailed family reunification for asylum seekers
As it happened, it was barely necessary to point out that Harris et al would be insincere, he made it pretty clear himself
I did think of something else to say: tomorrow members of the Irish government are going to make statements feigning horror and shock at what's happening in Belfast. They will be lying. They are complicit in it.
On my way home from the supermarket I got given a leaflet encouraging me to renounce Islam and embrace Christianity
My cat died His name was Toby. He was 15 years old, almost 16, and he meant a lot to me It was sudden. I hadn't seen him since late January, since he stayed living with my parents in Dublin when I left Ireland in 2022. Another three weeks and I would've seen him again I'm going to miss him a lot