Let's remember that the only good RE deal Trump ever did involved a tax break and the city of New York being effectively bankrupt; one thay only happened because of inherited wealth. Luck. His real estate empire since was a litany of failures, unpaid subbies and brand licensing to failed products.

Bedtime Grump.

youtu.be/gIxq03dipUw?... It's the old analogy of the modern car vs the horse and cart - and we're the horse.

Hillbilly Effigy - the tale of how an unlikely figure emerged from rural Appalachia to (falsely) claim hillbilly status, sell himself to Peter Thiel's dark accelerationist vision and set fire to America's position as the leader of the free world. Whilst maintaining an arrogant-yet-sassy smokey eye.

POV: your owner has just discovered the bin's pressure based lid open and your once luxuriant coat smells faintly of intrepid bin-diver.

With the way the US is going we'll soon be having to speak in code before the big social media crackdown. Before that happens - know that I support Aunt Aoife. For those unfamiliar with the Irish name (which translates to "brilliant" or "joyful"); Aoife is pronounced ee-fah. Aunt Aoife.

Current mood.

A world where the term anti-fascist becomes a label for 'the other' for me is a dark place indeed: just what it you are FOR exactly, MAGA?

Ah, so The Rapture DID happen, and it seems "demographically Catholic" was not the right choice. 😅🤣

Wife returns from London. Claude immediately displeased as boy time / bin diving is at an end.

The self-satisfied look of a man who just got caught nose deep in the bin, like the smelly Bindiver he is.

Stephen Miller: *hurls his keyboard at the wall, slamming a balled fist against his desk as his eyes bulge in fury* "They're animals! ANIMALS!" 🦄🦝🐻🤣

I have to ask: to what end? Perhaps it's a failure of imagination on my part, but if all of these hyper inflated AI companies spend their time raising huge amounts of capital, and we are all becoming ever poorer under the system that feeds it; just who is this for? Trading cards for billionaires.

The myth of fascist regimes being efficient needs to die. The trains did not run on time in Italy under Mussolini, contrary to popular belief. Nor were the Nazis remotely compentent. It was then as it is now - the fascists silence dissent; and into that vaccum their own spiteful mythology seeps.

I'm just going to leave this here, and then retreat into my soundproof bunker with my Tool records. Looking forward to Taylor punching down on Peppa Pig of all people.

One of the greatest twists in comic book history. From The Incredibles to The Boys and the entire comics industry as a whole from the 90's onwards - Moore's Watchmen is a seminal work of fiction that everyone should read at least once - and ideally the physical copy so you can flip back and forth.

Mum once encountered a member of the Guinness family c. 2005 - in a clipped British accent Lady Guinness asked Mum "Do you keep horses?" Mum explained she was from Bray; her father was a publican. She did not, in fact, keep horses. "Fascinating. You're the first Irish person to not own horses!'

The push for Return To Office (RTO) by so many tech firms is a measure of soft-rolling out voluntary redundancies across the board. AI will be rolled out as a cost-saving measure; and society be damned. "Let them eat algorithms." And all the while America - an absent parent to dangerous tech.

Storm buddies 😄

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7YV... Younger brother asked for driving tips. I had him covered.

youtu.be/EX--0zqaflg?... Democrats have finally released a neat summation of their robust opposition to the fall of America. Truly, a resounding success - we in the rest of the world thank you, and present to you a short video summary of your collective efforts to date:

I've learned his secret. youtu.be/gqn6bDA0B9k?...

youtu.be/ZPjSV-lnqvg?... This is precisely my brand of stupid.

America never so badly needed a French Revolution. youtu.be/o8jdzfHvCI8?... P.S. welcome to the watch list! 🤣😅

How quickly free market capitalism becomes corporate paternalism becomes state-sponsored surveillance state. But then Ellison would say that - he's the one being offered TikTok for a song through abject cronyism. One set of rules for the many; an entirely different set for the very select few.

My wife is in London this weekend. Claude and I are glad. We shall be spared the initial impact of the new Era upon us. In a similar vein, Claude would like to take this opportunity to announce that he is no longer referring to the time between meals as hours. They are now Epochs.

There has been a development. The other direction was deemed more cosy.

The more I read about the authors of Project 2025 being consulted on how to crack down on Democrats, the more convinced I am that America has undergone a not-entirely-quiet coup by Evangelical Christians. There are two problems with the US: God and Guns; and soon these two forces shall surely meet.

If I hear a podcaster solemnly intone "this is yet another unprecedented move by Trump as we creep ever closer toward authoritarianism," before *immediately* launching into yet another insincere plug for organic dog food I am going to scream.

Team Europe trolling Trump after winning The Ryder Cup 🤣💀

'Murican Exceptionalism will be filed beside Rule Brittania in the history books as "shite Empires used to say". Of course, the history books themselves will be little more than kindling, bundled in a squeaky hand cart by a tradwife on their way to the next Dissident Bonfire, so there's that.

"They say you can tell a veteran of the Portland front by the cut of their manbun and the thousand yard stare in their eye. Food and IPA supplies are perilously low. Send ironic tees."

In light of the frankly shite heckling from (badly behaved) US Golf fans:

Timeline cleanse. Attempts at hiding from Claude beneath a blanket have proven unsuccessful.

Purrfectly camouflaged. Until you sit on him and the couch goes mrrrrp!

This is known as the Sinclair Edit by Deadspin. it was relevant 7 years ago and is relevant again today. Original video here: youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?... "We are in the middle of a fascist takeover!" - not so. This has already occurred; it was in motion since 2016, and solidified as of 2025.

Ezra Klein is the Neville Chamberlaine of Podcasters.

Some of the speeches coming out of the Kirk Memorial are going to be studied by sociologists examining totalitarianism for decades to come. Miller, Carlson and Trump's in particular. Nuremberg Mk. 2.

When you provide a population with such ready access to firearms, starve them of economic opportunity, and bankrupt them for the slightest malady; that's a tinderbox. Season all this with IG wealth porn and it's no small wonder nihilistic shooters are so prevalent. A symptom, as much as a problem.

Wife: "Have you foam rolled?" Me: Claude: Yuss. :3

Food motivated.

So too Ireland. No guns, plenty of LGBTQ people who are fabulous in every sense of the word. Guns, God* and Gazillionaires are the problem. And I would put the tech oligarchs at the top of that list. *By all means have faith, but there's nothing even remotely Christian about White Supremacists.