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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 17:19:35 JST Aral Balkan

   The homeless university lecturer: ‘There’s a sense of shame around it’

   https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/05/02/the-homeless-university-lecturer-theres-a-sense-of-shame-around-it/

   True. If this sort of thing happens in your so-called “first world” country, you should feel a profound sense of shame about it. It shows that your society is failing.

   With the levels of wealth and technology we have in countries like Ireland, having homelessness is a choice. We’ve chosen cruelty. We’ve said, we’re ok with it. So yes, we should definitely be feeling ashamed.

   You know who is the last person who should feel ashamed? A homeless person whom we have failed as a society.

   #Ireland #EU #homelessness #EuropeanValues #capitalism

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 17:37:31 JST Aral Balkan

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     • SeaFury 🦜🍉

     @SeaFury It’s absolutely unfathomable to me just how much we excel at valuing the wrong things under capitalism.

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     SeaFury 🦜🍉 (seafury@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 17:37:32 JST SeaFury 🦜🍉

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     @aral I have been a casual academic for over 9 years and I barely scrape by every month. I don’t know how long I can keep going 😭

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     Adam Steer (adamsteer@mapstodon.space)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 18:48:26 JST Adam Steer

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     • Andrew

     @fletch @aral

     ...returned to Australia, was homeless for 10 months, unemployed for most of that time, now working manual labour to get by. Meanwhile getting notifications about how my work is cited (again), latest paper was most popular read etc...

     I've heard multiple stories of people returning from international research contracts to a void, homelessness, mental illness.

     Like Ireland, all of this is totally acceptable. And the sense of shame is devastating.

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     Andrew (fletch@mapstodon.space)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 18:48:27 JST Andrew

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     @aral acceptable when the Vice Chancellor is also homeless

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 18:48:56 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @aral True. There should be zero homelessness in wealthy countries.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 18:53:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • SeaFury 🦜🍉

     @SeaFury Anytime :)

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     SeaFury 🦜🍉 (seafury@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 18:53:44 JST SeaFury 🦜🍉

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     @aral Thanks for boosting my job search post ❤️❤️❤️ 🤞