Every so often I remember the Irish immigration system is so dysfunctional that the Brazilian community here had to set up a WhatsApp group to help find each other after the DoJ kept returning their passports to the wrong people #speirghorm

Haliburton?

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

I’m listening to the radio adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ “The State Of The Art” and it’s as gloriously fine as I remembered. I can’t recommend it highly enough - it’s what opened up Banks’ Culture tales for me - so if you can get BBC Sounds, it’s easy to search for. And it really would be worthwhile.

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

News to the Shah

Kind of epic how British tabloids still haven't noticed that their pro-war position to play to an American audience isn't even popular with most Americans

Jesus okay I'll stir it, no need for name calling.

I think about this a lot

I saw a (gold-ish coloured) car on the motorway earlier that had the number plate RB13 ENA, and I've never wanted a car to be purple so badly in all my life.

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

Many, many people in Britain have a fucked up view of places and cities in the Middle East, often without even realising it. When a friend of mine returned to Glasgow after being in Tehran people here were surprised to learn that folk there were into Belle & Sebastian and Mogwai

Me an hour ago: fuck VAR, I hate VAR Me to VAR now:

BOY DO I HAVE A STORY ABOUT THIS. STRAP IN, FOLKS. A few years back, my retired father replaced all the light switches in his house with smart switches that he could activate by talking to Alexa. It was a useful accommodation for an elderly man who gets dizzy when he stands up. That is, until...

Cillian Murphy's first project after getting an Oscar was to make a movie adaptation of a book about the Magdalen Laundries with the biggest possible partners. Between this and saving the Phoenix Cinema, this man really believes in the power of films.

yeah yeah yeah we've all played Final Fantasy

"Which takes us to Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, a man who achieves the rare feat of being both eager to show off his hard muscles and yet somehow also personifying erectile dysfunction." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

I didn’t leave you on read. I can’t read.

I'll explain to your kid what a gay is if you explain to mine what was there before the big bang, because honestly that one's tricky

Instead of more Firefly we should be getting the rest of The Expanse after it was left with more questions to answer.

Great “this meeting should’ve been an email, but email hasn’t been invented yet” behaviour from Ian Fleming’s younger brother.

We need to find out why the people who we’ve bombed, sanctioned and dehumanised for decades won’t accept us as their liberators, guys. We need our best people working on this, guys. Guys?

This is based on “anecdotal evidence” that foreign students are really here to work (at a time when more workers are needed) and because it “seems likely” that this is causing wage depression, not that they’ve bothered to try to get evidence of this or anything We have the stupidest government

At a time when some people are losing their jobs over delays in the system for renewing immigration permissions, and others are waiting years for a decision on their application, Lawless wants DoJ to put resources into spying on foreign students’ employment #speirghorm archive.ph/2026.03.05-1...

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Did you know that Kemi Badenoch is so obsessed with trans people you can literally see it coming off her?

The Transphobia to fascist pipeline strikes again

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Thank you, Ripley. That’s enormously helpful.

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

“It is naive to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership. We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.”

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August. A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

This is pretty disgraceful.

Trafalgar group winning awards for writing the most leading question possible.

Do you remember when video games were the focus of a Republican-led moral panic, because they might lead the kids to become violent and anti-social?

Ah yes, British newspapers - the best possible place to find nuance, depth and context.

Post-2008 crash Britain has been quite the intensive experiment in seeing how long you can hold back spring by cutting all the flowers, hasn’t it. How much longer will that work for, do we think?

Can he even hear himself? Denying that the leaked reports are true, while demanding an investigation into the leak?! Leak from secret UK meeting about US attacks on Iran a travesty, says Lammy | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian share.google/mZ4tjRehW5nE...

Screaming

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Pro tip: if you're going to send someone a nonsense letter that you hope uses enough serious sounding "legal" language to be taken seriously, you should probably make sure you delete the bit at the end where ChatGPT offers to write a different version lol

alpha male update /s

Una McGurk canvassed with an actual segregationist who wants to ban interracial relationships during the 2024 locals / Euros

Hard yikes

We're all adults here at this casino, we can call it a shits table

Good afternoon from the Kingdom ☀️

successive governments of two majority-Muslim countries have been choking the life from a majority-Christian country with the world's oldest national church for almost four decades and guys who never shut up about the persecution of Christians in majority-Muslim countries never mention it. it's mad!