Seriously, what the fuck are you on about

I’m absolutely creased at this

To understand the United States’ attitude towards Cuba you have to understand the long history of American designs on the island. This isn’t just about socialism. American leaders have wanted Cuba for two hundred years. It’s a slap in the face to them that Cuba has remained independent.

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

Welcome to parliamentary democracy lol

It looks like it’ll be just a party event for FG members and supporters? Not sure what acting like they’ve declared a public holiday in his honour achieves. Plenty of real things to be outraged about!

I never feel more alienated from other people than when I log on and see people discussing halftime shows and Superbowl TV advertisements. How do you even muster the energy to have one single thought on any of that? To care even a tiny bit?

He hasn’t got the goals or assists but I think Amad has been absolutely sensational over the last few weeks. he does everything

kinda surprised the balloon guy is still going ??

Of course Guardiola is a hypocrite and it should be pointed out. But like … so are you. So am I. It doesn’t automatically make everything we say worthless.

People keep saying "the only person who has gone to prison for any of this...is a woman" and yeah I know what you mean, all these abusive men in power continue to walk free. But Ghislaine Maxwell is ALSO a paedophile rapist sex trafficking monster and her life in prison is like being in a resort.

Applying for PhD funding … really annoying!

Putting the Six Nations right after January … have we not suffered enough

We haven’t done one of these in a while and it may be because the world is so depressing that we were forced to disengage for a while. But we’re back and trying to work through it!

Recorded from deep in the hells of the bleakest January on record, we talk Davos and Minneapolis while also grappling with just how difficult we’ve been finding it to fully engage with the world around us. Just how much news is enough news? On all pod apps now x

Can’t stop thinking about Martin asking Paul Murphy “do you think you have moral superiority over me?” Like … yes ! Most of us do

It is now a moderate, universal, sensible position to believe that the world elites are run by cretinous pedophiles and evil capitalists. What happens to those people next will be interesting!

Just witnessed two German teenage girls on the bus scroll through a Google Image search of Ed Sheeran and pissing themselves laughing

We have known about Mandelson for years, though

The age old question that @casementsleftovers.bsky.social have been bravely posing since the beginning: does money and power attract nonces, or does money and power MAKE you a nonce?

What no material analysis does to a mfer, etc etc

This one is particularly mental

We can (and must) make sense of Epstein materially. Everything in our world is mediated by different notions of power, and the Epstein affair lays bare to us how that power operates. It is beyond useless to treat these cases like isolated incidents.

The philosophical and logical ramifications of believing this nonsense are mindblowing lmao

In 2015 in London my then-girlfriend was approached by a man with an very posh accent. He asked her about herself, complimented her intelligence, then asked if she wanted to go to college, if she could afford it, and whether he and his 'friend' could help her

the world is run by evil people sure but you still have agency in that world i'm afraid

Again, we’ve known this for years

Better late than never I guess but we’ve known this fairly conclusively for quite a few years now? Like I swear I saw posts exactly like this around the time Epstein died, which was six and a half years ago.

I reckon you could do without shopping in Avoca, tbh

Literally official Irish policy lmao

So it turns out that U.K. universities may consider me an International student because I lived in Germany for a few years, despite the fact that Irish citizens are supposed to be considered ‘Home’ students. That seems entirely unfair?

This will obviously be unreal

nobody does it quite like Conte

Why do we need to consume so much content in the first place? Design a flying car or cure cancer or some shit. This isn’t progress!

Have to say this new format of the CL group stage is such an own goal. Jeopardy only works if it’s simple to understand. Havent watched a single game

They should sell Rancheros in pubs

God forbid people in a democracy feel they should be able to vote for someone or something they believe in lol

These taste so good and even better because you know they’re publicly owned

I dunno, people were annoyed at liberals citing Harry Potter in every single analysis of culture or politics long before Rowling outed herself as a TERF. Sorry it’s just really annoying!

god bless this sheltered sheltered soul

A couple weeks ago an Amazon delivery van turned a corner so fast (on my very narrow, residential street) and ran up on the footpath, missing me by mere inches. Then just sped off down the road. They’re obviously under so much time pressure that they have become lethal threats on the road.

Arsenal are gonna win the league with exactly zero star players. Has it ever been done before

I generally find myself shouting into the void as that rarest of things: a Dublin Bus defender. I think the main challenges they face (Dublin’s compactness and lack of a Metro) are beyond their control, and I think the improvements recently have been real and steady. But … bring back the 145!

I see the standard sensible media line on Carrick has emerged as “well, all he’s done is make the simple and obvious decisions. Anyone could’ve beaten City and Arsenal in consecutive games with this squad if you think about it,” and that’s just so … dry? And blatantly untrue?

Would love to have this blind optimism tbh

Not trying to be mean, or to reduce the severity of what’s happening with ICE but a couple points on this: (a) ICE wasn’t formed under Trump; (b) Martin’s government itself has in fact detained and deported children

Fifteen years ago, we had Sam Vokes and Paul Scholes. Now all we're left with is damn wokes who are all scolds

Gonna do a thread of new (to me) albums I’ve been listening to. No rule about frequency, no theme, just somewhere to put my thoughts on music, in a (vein?) attempt to be a more intentional listener. In a way this goes hand in hand in my departure from streaming services and building a library again.

"Israel’s farmers are discovering that mass killing does not travel well. Crates of citrus and mangos are piling up, ships are rerouting or not coming at all, and European buyers are quietly looking elsewhere." via Truth Against Hate Keep boycotting - support @bdsmovement.bsky.social

Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.