been meaning to watch this for years

how about the László hierarchy of needs and its just: Attention

latter symptom of former. if you're operating through threats you don't have claim to leadership, your power's more brittle. hegemony =/= great power politics

‘Is tír fhorbartha í Éire’. Pléigh. www.rte.ie/news/health/...

mo bhláthanna fiáine ag bláthú an tseachtain seo... tá ár saoirse in aice láimhea a chairde

this is kind of a brilliant article on how much more complicated Sinéad O'Connor was as a figure than she's come to be portrayed over the past few years. off the strength of it I suspect the author's forthcoming book (on Irish popular music and liberalism) will be really great drb.ie/articles/our...

fintan o'toole / mcbride book about prospects for a United Ireland sounds funny. by the authors' admission is it focuses on pragmatic evidence-based policy arguments for and against... especially now this argument was never going to play out on a vibeless terrain

amárach

under the skillful re-penning of mister taylor sheridan, blade is now a white man with zero vampire blood

was wondering if MCU was going to sack florence pugh cos of her statements. another blow to 'phase six'

ignoring everything else I can 100% hear James voice in my head calling someone a "Zizekian Posh Boy" lol

Haha Jesus Christ. He's our Eoghan Harris

They are working with Loyalist terrorists to commit literal terrorism. We knew this was coming.

Keep honking, I'm listening to avant-garde composer and noise rock pioneer Glenn Branca's seminal work of no wave totalism Symphony No.1 (Tonal Plexus)

merciful god

Lot of creative deaths in the tales of the elders of ireland, but the one I enjoy at this point in time is 'He put his face to the earth and did not raise it again, and thus died from shame'

people are going to find whatever they're looking for here but this lad's, 'don't-push-the-boat-out' brand of economism is awful

Four days in July might be considered cheating so A Separation

Ireland's armchair generals are in retreat, the media is a shambles, respestability politics limps on and gaeilge is a big winner. Read seven mega massive takeaways from the presidential vote anseo. medium.com/@keepthereco...

It's a good speech

the world is so big and full of so much beauty, and the hateful little nobodies who want to put up walls everywhere to compensate for their psychic voids must be comprehensively defeated, pulverized into the nothing they secretly know themselves to be

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

bheadh ​​sé go maith dúinn dá bhféadfaimis plé a dhéanamh ar ár gcuid difríochtaí polaitiúla i bhfoilseacháin oscailte, ach níl an Irish Times ag iarraidh píosaí fé seo ach chun magadh a dhéanamh fúinn

cé go bhfuil sé fé cruthanna nó dathanna nuair atá leabhar á léamh agat ag do nuabheirthe tá sé cosúil le troicha leathnaigh kant nó heidegger srl leo. tá tinneas cinn orthu, tá orthu néal a fháil chun an eolas a próiseáil ...

the median Irish voter wants: -all mortgages in hands of private equity firms -500e taxback per annum for rising SUV insurance premiums -state sadism as spectacle -child benefit replaced with bully xls

Eddie Hobbes had George Hook on his right-wing youtube show. EH looking for '(((they))) are trying to replace us'-type material but Hook is in traditional Cork FG mode: 'Bill always told me you can't say cardio-vascularity on the air, you have to say fitness. and that's how it was in those days'

wrote an article on Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance cos I wasn't seeing much criticism that knew the history analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...

never be able to command a complete overview of the spoils but a lot of support for citywest, mcgregor, even some swastikas. if maria steen ran I think she would've polled second

SF Greens Labour PBP SP all involved and collaborating in the campaign where I am, which is great. who's to say if behind closed doors there haven't been tensions developing which will lead it all to go like it did the day after Repeal of course

wrote an article on Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance cos I wasn't seeing much criticism that knew the history analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...

Just came back from The Hague, where I admired Vermeer's "View of Delft". Proust had Bergotte die in front of this painting during an artistic epiphany caused by "le petit pan de mur jaune". There are many theories about which little yellow wall he had in mind. I'm convinced it's this one.

poem

great piece

didn';t think much of the Losurdo Stalin book substack.com/home/post/p-...

available now from the publisher that brought you the toad tunnel www.marrowbone.ie/shop

v proud of this title. thanks to the heads @ fallow

Just arrived the first issue of fallow magazine: poetry, essays and fiction; Chris Beausang, Helen Charman, Ellen Dillon, Oisín Fagan, Greg Gerke, Eva Griffin, Patrick Nathan, Wayne Koestenbaum & Rhian Sasseen. Interviews with Pascale Sardin and Gabriel Josipovici. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01

logging off permanently to make use of this book to raise child in Irish language (zero contradiction with my remaining on goodreads letterboxd substack etc) be good, love yous all xxxx

Feel like people in Europe and elsewhere aren’t making a big enough deal of the fact that we’re soon gonna have a US-free social media, it’s like everything we’ve ever hoped for 🥲

also as well as a 'shoot the messenger' tendency of the type you saw during covid for those who said this thing has causes and can be mitigated

Guy Debord on suburbia and manufactured ignorance

review of Losurdo's hatchet jobof European intellectual history, which looks like fun. Reading i) Perry Anderson as a Trotskyist and ii) Trotsky as a centrist esp. on the war seem off the mark marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2190...

MCKINSEY (2004) Al McKinsey (Liam Neeson), founder of the eponymous consulting firm, receives a huge grant to study sexual behavior in the human male. Years later, he publishes a report finding that more $ is needed to determine whether sex is real, and whether babies do not in fact come from storks

Piece of ash from right outside my back door in Glassell Park. Only clear words are “platonists” and “Swedenborg”

A quick translation of the interview for the curious: jumpshare.com/s/robgeVyMSZ...

Interview with Malachy McGurran, leading figure of the Official IRA, in the paper of the trotskyist Ligue Communiste [Rouge, 11th March 1972] "For us the development of the revolutionary struggle in England and Europe is complementary to the struggle we are waging in Ireland."

Angelus Novus ass cactus