It is hard to describe the emotion in the conference hall today as Margaret Aspinall spoke with such power and heart about her son James and all those unlawfully killed at Hillsborough A moment no-one in that room will forget

@musaalgharbi.bsky.social providing essential reading for anyone interested in actually moving forward.

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

I legit think a problem on the Irish left is a failure to engage with other European leftists. You’d see how insulting comments like these are if you’ve touched grass with socdems in Finland, Lithuania, Poland etc Too much absorbing American leftist talking points and not enough internationalism.

Connolly seems to think the US and Russia are on a par with each other. Delusional.

Fact of the day. Brian Lenihan Snr topped the poll in the 1990 Presidential election, with 44% of first preferences.

Footage has emerged of JD Vance saying he wants to go back in time and breastfeed baby Hitler.

“If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis” open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

My @IrishTimes column today www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/0...

Hey, everyone, @3castlesburning.bsky.social is here at last.

Scientific advice in the new Viz. @johnmoynes.bsky.social

Bit late to move him to another parish.

Cool

Catherine Connolly says “the Ukraine” in every speech on the war. She opposes Ireland providing Ukraine paltry combat medic and de-mining training, and objects to all EU arms funding for Ukraine. She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.

Irish-Syrian activists ask Labour not to support Connolly’s presidential bid

What I thought about cultural evolution a month ago - something else for you to read @robsica.bsky.social ecoliberal.substack.com/p/from-cultu...

Great stuff from @helenlewis.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I think Hugh Linehan is great. Go @hlinehan.bsky.social :-)

Look what I got from my local library. I'm stoked! @kevinlala.bsky.social

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

Our new book 'Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything' is published today: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/basic-...

New Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

This album is beautiful.

Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Well, well, fucking well… After all that shit about a suit he goes and steals his look

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Who checks the fact checkers? Creating distrust instead of light. ecoliberal.substack.com/p/bias-in-fa...

Banning transgender people from the military: something actually transphobic.

An example of conspiracy thinking here, and simply misleading about the term. I guess you don't have to engage with the reasoned beliefs of people who disagree with you if you cast them all as haters.

[email protected] is an Irish scientist whose work should be better known. Very impressive research program spanning critical perspectives and evolutionary political psychology. Great interview Ricardo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7BH...

Good even-handed piece by @hlinehan.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com today, showing some awareness of woke overreach. There is a danger of over-correction, that's true. But the "illiberal" framing is questionable. Wokism was never liberal. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Found some good news! www.positive.news/society/what...

Who is the most important social scientist working today? My vote goes to Joe Henrich.

It seems appropriate to post this nuanced article by @hlinehan.bsky.social about online platforms and political polarization here. And I probably won’t post it in the other place cos I’ve pretty much stopped posting there 🤷‍♂️. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

I stand with @jessesingal.com

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

I'm very happy to see my article "Genes, Culture and Scientific Racism", coauthored with Marc Feldman, published in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (see rb.gy/x0e4lw). We explain why people wrongly believe race is a biological classification.

‘Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist.’ — Jane Smiley writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Pretty much this.

1980 - about 20 years ago 1990 - about 10 years ago 2000 - about 10 years ago 2010 - a couple years ago 2016 - 87 years ago 2019–2023 - last year

Enough of the vacuous something must be done-ry. There is no compromise with race-baiting agitators and their more polished media special-pleaders, whose political and business models depend on alienation and racial division www.ft.com/content/c3dd...

Hello world.