get his ass

I, a lover of hostages to fortune, excitedly saved this and it has been of great value

FIFA is doing this so Spain, the leader of the free world, can beat the US. Trust the Plan

No privileges for any nation or any one language! Not even the slightest degree of oppression or the slightest injustice in respect of a national minority—such are the principles of working-class democracy!

ai doesn’t work if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, episode 6 zillion or so, but i will say: before we do another round of stem vs humanities discourse, remember that all the worst people in silicon valley are humanities and social science majors

'As the reader will have recognized in dismay, the analysis of the real, inner connections of the capitalist production process is a very intricate thing and a work of great detail;' #Marx (Capital vol. III)

joe dot eye ee video came up on my feed from 5 years ago along lines of: when Claire Byrne 'owned' Farage. did so by lecturing him on why it's wrong to say 'up the ra' in a cameo. Atlanticist staterism personified

I read all of Vivek Chibber's books + what he published on Jacobin and here's what I wrote by way of response substack.com/home/post/p-...

Reminds me a little of this account in Forces of Production of Norbert Wiener, one of the foundational cybernetics researchers, who became increasingly disgusted at the uses cybernetics was being put to in both military and industrial automation

Noraid doc on rté player v good

From Greg Grandin's characteristically excellent Fordlandia I learned about Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian man who beat the Wright brothers in demonstrating flight. The military > internationalist ends to which the technology was put seems to have motivated his suicide

I like this photo of Marx, taken on 1882-04-28 in Algiers, the last known photo of him.

working class people in America are central americans working in the service economy. "working class people" are spheroid car dealers who worship Baal

Are there any substacks which are worth the paywall. Especially but not exclusively politics / economics especially but not exclusively specialised, quants driven

This bollocks is at it again

Like for Newgrange I applied 20 years ago for a place to see the sunlight enter Frank Ryan’s

[Yes we're all waiting for vulgar electoralism and associated sub-cultures to be swept away by the real movement, I don't even live there etc] have to assume anyone pitching for anti-DSA pro-Platner is into the idea of their representatives having killed people

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

James Fitzharris, aka Skin-the-Goat getaway driver for the group who assassinated the Chief Secretary of Ireland in 1882 www.findagrave.com/memorial/479...

Three racist pogroms were carried out under the command of the UDA and UVF. August 2024 Ballymena June 2025 Belfast June 2026 The PSNI are standing down officers and suspending efforts to enforce law and order when paramilitary groups are involved. [6/n]

Live 40 minutes walk away from the amerikkkan ambassadorial residence. He's mad for v long late-night fireworks shows, not just this time of year either. Hard not to connect with him being a self-declared Trump whisperer

The youngest must be 42

what age is the average r/ireland user would you say

critique of the new Beckert history of capitalism substack.com/home/post/p-...

I cannot recommend Empire of Necessity enough

It is kind of funny how consumer capitalism inverted the meaning of the idea of self-sufficiency. Oh you're self-sufficient? What's that mean, you buy all your camping gear from a catalogue that caters your ideological beliefs? cool

The man died 13 years ago but the Heaney Grievance Industry chugs along. Enda Longley has (just about) defected to the pro-Heaney side drb.ie/article/when...

This guy's probably the most famous example of a southern abolitionist who didn't get killed for his cause, despite attempts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius...

always liked the way ~5% of the population hold the door for you: propping it to a 25° angle behind them, while standing directly in your way. onus on you to shuffle in behind while taking the door off them. with a pram it really forces the: you better just get out of there altogether reverse nod

*sweat has permeated collar to the point its a different color from rest of shirt* look man i'm giving you an off ramp here i don't want to beat you up in front of your identically huge friends

seems so quaint and fun - it's all just the aul mad racism now!!

love thinking about the stories behind these wee bugbears. what is it that motivates someone to put REVISIT the barring order process on a leaflet

when abolitionism was a cause were there abolitionists being killed or getting draconian sentences in the southern states while e.g. new yorkers or bostonians were doing their relatively safe civil society contestation. probably

that wolverine game looks dire. aaa gameplay feels very: press attack button to trigger cut-scene of wolverine attacking

Enjoy

the woke left have gone too far

i enjoy nodding my head along to someone critiquing something I, manifestly, hate for its influence on my work and life and still going "this guy is a stone cold moron"

as much as zitr*n is stealing a living part of myself wishes I could make a living publicly talking about something I ~25% understand

I wrote a review of the good and bad in the very long sage handbook of Marxism substack.com/home/post/p-...

The United States has violated the war-ending memorandum with Iran by creating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, advisor to Iran’s supreme leader says. He adds that response to any violation of the memorandum will be swift and decisive.-Al Arabiya

the fact that it did it in the first place is staggering, and something no-one saw coming. give them their flowers

Reading some of the reactions to Supergirl's underperformance and I'm curious how much of it is now the audience for comic book movies are in their 30s/40s and they juat aren't leaving the house for this stuff anymore.

good critique of the Ed Zitron / Robert Brenner finance + tech is fake that I think we all operate with to some extent jacobin.com/2026/06/bren...

None of those fuckers own their cars tbf, so much hire-purchasing going on. Then they give the car back for a newer model in a year or so

fleet of tanks, teslas and trucks descend to the GAA club down the road every weekend. either parents everywhere are 000s in debt or there is some amount of money in this country

Profound

To boost American morale and unity in these divided times, there should be a Twitch Plays Pokemon type deal where everyone constantly votes on control of Trump's hands. It wouldn't have to disrupt his presidency - maybe just run it for like, a week. With luck, it could even end significantly sooner.