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  2. Sep 2025
    1. There is always one more form. Always. Once, I submitted every required document only to be asked for a notarized copy of the same document, signed in blue ink by someone who died in 1993. You return the next day and the form has changed. No one knows why. The person behind the desk shrugs in perfect, national harmony. Bureaucracy in France isn’t red tape. It’s red velvet. Thick. Lush. Endless.

      Written by an American who has never experienced what it's like to live as a foreigner in the US.

    1. William A. Finnegan wrote well about the conversations he’s had with his family here

      William A. Finnegan doesn't exist. It is a pseudonym used by an individual who claims diverse expertise and experience without offering any credible evidence of it.

    1. This is staying anonymous for now, because that may be wiser as the United States becomes more authoritarian.

      As long as your account is registered with an email address, and as long as you create revenue through Substack and its contracted sub-processors (such as Stripe), you are not anonymous from parties with authority to audit such systems. In other words, adopting an anonymous identity on Substack only serves to hide your identity, and therefore your claim to authority, from users of the site.

  3. Aug 2025
    1. "Stochastic Anarchy": New Sovereign Architect's Guide to the Future

      How much bullshit can be packed into a short sentence? What is "Stochastic anarchy" and what the hell is a "sovereign architect"? It's an adman luring you in with pretentious language.

      One can find out the real meaning of these things by becoming a paid subscriber, since the real meaning is the separation of you and your money.

    1. Why You Should Subscribe

      The answer to "Why you should subscribe" is to hand over your money to a person hiding behind an avatar that itself has a bag over its head. Want to know more? Cut and paste the "About" page into ChatGPT and ask (1) if the biography credible, and (2) can all the assertions of activity in the public sector be verified by official or press records.

      A fool and their money are soon separated.

  4. Jul 2025
  5. Jun 2025
    1. Once you travel, you become a Global Citizen, and you will never see the world the same way again.

      One can conversely argue that you only remain a citizen of the country or countries you are ACTUALLY a citizen of, and that travel in many cases divests you of the rights extended to actual citizens, or make your participation in those rights more difficult.

  6. May 2025
  7. Feb 2025
    1. People move abroad and then back again pretty regularly. If I wasn’t so damn lazy, I’d go back and check stats, but something like 50% of US immigrants move away from Portugal (either back to the US or to other countries) within five years.
  8. Dec 2024
    1. The news is mostly an aggregation of every bad event that happened in the last twenty four hours, anywhere on Earth.

      This is a British perspective; the same is not true for residents of the U.S., for whom the world beyond its borders is rarely mentioned in the news, apart from the various wars that the US supports

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  13. Jul 2017
    1. seeAlso Machine-processable links for this page include page-level representations of texts for consumption into indexing services. Verbatim Plaintext [Proposed] Emended Plaintext [Proposed] Plaintext for full-text search [Proposed]

      Isn't this redundant?

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  18. May 2016
    1. "Historic trove of documents discovered in city attic," Herald.ie (2016-05-16) http://www.herald.ie/news/historic-trove-of-documents-discovered-in-city-attic-34707155.html

      The four missing volumes of Prisoner Books listing the arrests of more than 30,000 people between 1905 and 1918 include the "crimes" of labour leaders Jim Larkin (seditious conspiracy), James Connolly (incitement to crime), revolutionary Maud Gonne MacBride (defence of the realm), and suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (glass-breaking with other suffragettes).

    2. "Dublin Metropolitan Police Prisoner Books 1905-1918," The British GENES blog (2016-05-12) http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2016/05/dublin-metropolitan-police-prisoner.html

      University College Dublin's Digital Library (http://digital.ucd.ie) has just uploaded digitised editions of four Dublin Metropolitan Police prisoners books from 1905-1908, and 1911-1918, at http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:43945.

  19. Apr 2016
    1. Related writings:

      Crossman, V. (1998). The Shan Van Vocht: Women, Republicanism, and the Commemoration of the 1798 Rebellion. Eighteenth-Century Life, 22(3), 128–139. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/10463

      Innes, C. L. (1991). “A voice in directing the affairs of Ireland”: L’Irlande libre, The Shan Van Vocht and Bean na h-Eireann. In P. Hyland & N. Sammells (Eds.), Irish Writing (pp. 146–158). Palgrave Macmillan UK. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-21755-7_10

      Steele, K. (2002). Editing out Factionalism: The Political and Literary Consequences in Ireland’s “Shan Van Vocht.” Victorian Periodicals Review, 35(2), 113–132. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20083865

  20. Jul 2015
    1. Dundalk market day, Co. Louth

      The Dundalk Market Square web site offers the following history of the Dundalk market:

      In the 17th century, Lord Limerick (later James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil) created the modern town we know today. He was responsible for the construction of streets leading to the town centre; his ideas came from many visits to Europe. In addition to the demolition of the old walls and castles, he had new roads laid out eastwards of the principal streets. The most important of these new roads connected a newly laid down Market Square, which still survives, with a linen and cambric factory at its eastern end, adjacent to what was once an army cavalry and artillery barracks (now Aiken Military Barracks).

      In the 19th century, the town grew in importance and many industries were set up in the local area. This development was helped considerably by the opening of railways, the expansion of the docks area or 'Quay' and the setting up of a board of commissioners to run the town.

      The present photograph was captured by the Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann (CBÉ) / Irish Folklore Commission (1935).

      Dundalk market day, 1935

  21. Jun 2015
    1. Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters

      This documentation describes the technology behind indexing of websites with scholarly articles in Google Scholar. It's written for webmasters who would like their papers included in Google Scholar search results. Detailed technical information is helpful if you're trying to fix an error in indexing of your own website, or you need to make sure that your article hosting product is compatible with Google and Google Scholar search services.

  22. May 2015
    1. Fundamental questions for the library revolve around issues of: stewardship (what types of annotations are appropriate for library ownership, vs. say a course platform), persistence (how long should different types of annotations be persisted and preserved), costs (who will fund annotation storage over time) access (what privacy and distribution controls need to be placed on access to annotations.)