"Used to be an angry atheist" is pretty much the Evanjelly version of "Once Upon a Time" and whatever follows is generally just as credible. On that basis alone, Vance is about as Catholic as the shahada

When a politician anywhere talks about the concerns of the working class beyond wages and employment rights, what they're doing is putting all the bigotries they know they can't say aloud into the mouth of someone else. Every. Single. Time.

Demographically, these lads are the lowest academic achievers and exist in areas were the idea of a third space that isn't The Lodge or The Band is considered deeply strange. And yet there's no push from the local political reps to change any of that. And at a certain point, that looks deliberate

If you're going to a concert with €500 glasses on, it tells me you have both really shitty taste in music and some motive other than being able to see.

This is just Gillian McKeith level bullshit. Fuck off

Look, the British government has always been incredibly overcautious in proscribing organisations with potential connections to terrorism. That's why they banned the UDA in 1992.

"No, you fucking idiot, that's not what 'make them feel pampered' means!"

I don't agree with the ban in principle, it's a fucking nonsense to allow these companies off with policing what happens under their own roof. That being said, how in the name of fuck does Roblox dodge this?

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Wasn't Vlad Putin actually the world's first trillionaire, but he didn't count because he lied, cheated, stole and fucked everyone out of it without the benefit of the entire Western media fellating him for it every hour on the hour?

Anyway: staples out today, and I'm instantly feeling approx 300% better. Have tied my laces and put on actual clothes for the first time in ten days. Might even walk up to the end of the road later if the notion takes me.

A thing you are expected to swallow to be A Serious Person in Northern Ireland is that Far Right Politics, Mainstream Unionism and the will of the broader British government *almost* converge at Loyalist paramilitarism but they never actually touch and well dare you say they do...

To tackle the threat from the far-right, our government would have confront the fact that they also speak the language of white supremacist terror, that the words in their speeches and policies are echoed in the shouts of violent extremists as they take to the streets and attack brown people. 7/

Not saying it's entirely indicative of the "brains" behind the current Facebook led pogroms, but the first time I remember businesses being ordered to close was for Billy Wright's funeral.

This is one of the more endearing signs of impending collapse I've seen in my life

if you need a random daily distraction, or if you're a democracy-minded etsy witch, the day of the UFC fight is now in the 10-day forecast and has been hovering around a 40% chance of thunderstorms

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Flatting In Spa

Small relief from the pain today, which is nice. Able to play a guitar on my lap like a normal person again, which is fucking lovely.

Rose the Hat is on my "I can fix her" Mount Rushmore

Just got my guts rearranged (under extremely close medical observation)

My old physics teacher, who greeted my little brother with "Well, your brother was a smartarse, I wouldn't expect any better of you" on his second day of school. I had left the school at that stage, but I made the effort to meet him for a little chat

Imagine you were wishcasting a music festival and this was the best you could manage.

A few years back, Irish twitter went kind of mad because Matt LeBlanc had physically morphed into the ur-Irish uncle. In that spirit, here is Tim Sult of Clutch, who looks like a man who you last seen singing in the resident's bar at 0400 the morning after your cousin's wedding

Ten Ton Slug fucking murder live

Two Surname Names as a marker of shitty politics remains undefeated

At the library yesterday, and it seems both myself and the daughter have come home with books by @gailsimone.bsky.social Seems reasonable

In as much as this is coded like chest-full-of-medals, declaring yourself a God, wild-eyed tinpot dictator behaviour, those lads would all recognise going to live in a military fortress with its own hospital as absolute chickenshit behaviour.

The backlash against naming "Christian nationalism" as such amongst centrists and libs in US/Western Europe is interesting. They seem to understand the idea of a political project dressing itself in religion, coopting faith, fervour and numbers. Must be fucking fascinating for yer average Muslim

Use Your Delusion I, II, III

I feel that as well as the big tech "idea" companies seemingly tackle on a rota basis, no single ill conceived technology had fired quite as many warning shots of its potential for disaster as the "self driving car".

"We broke it, you bought it" had been SOP for America to its allies since the eighties.

Celebrating a new addition to the "Thomas L Friedman Hall of Fame" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

So, thanks to a waiting list fuck up and heaven knows what else, I'm now scheduled for surgery with two different people in two different hospitals on two different days for the same issue. It is the first time in my life there has been competition between people to rearrange my guts.

Yer Da picks Chun Li

MFW I learn acting from TNA wrestling

This reads like it's from an English impressionist "doing" Adrian Dunbar in Line Of Duty

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Guy who was forty when Oasis broke and hung out around the local indie club night ass motherfucker

While it's interesting to note that Jimmy Beast's ma does all his HR work, I'm more curious about which member of his family is on retainer to burn every trace of his existence the second his heart stops so we never find out about his many, many crimes.

A surprisingly large proportion of military failures and disasters happen because one guy isn't where he's supposed to be or unable to correctly carry out some seemingly trivial task, and the cascade ends up fucking everyone over. America has decided to increase the proportion of their one guys.

Heavy music without humour, and the people who make it, are inevitably fucking insufferable

In retrospect, my criminal enterprises would be going so much better if only I had a form of operational security that couldn't be cracked by Facebook Mas

"Bitches, amirite?" seems undefeated in converting stupidity, incompetence and callousness into media careers across any field.

Have stumbled on one of those near mythical seller-has-no-idea, I can flip this for 5x marketplace bargains and I find myself unable to because the seller lives right at the end of my street. So whilst I have ethics, it would appear they're on a proximity trigger

This does imply the existence of an amateur mayonnaise, and that combination of words didn't help my mind either

"You must engage in gender performance and harm yourself mentally/physically to maintain a body shape lest you become an unlovable, unfuckable troll" is a gun society held to the head of women for centuries, and I'll fucked if I call the stupidest men on earth reinventing it for themselves a crisis

I don't know that there's a more definite recession indicator than when the news starts broadcasting serving suggestions for long pig

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If you ask me, the fact Elton John, Joan Jett and Dave Lee Roth seemingly didn't know the word "Jukebox" is deeply suspicious and perhaps evidence that they are in fact aliens