You know what kind of lost property I'm interested in. Is the Andrew O'Hagan book Faber were supposed to be publishing on the Grenfell Fire

Thanks for indulging the grumpy accumulated takes and attack on Jacobin a chairde. Hope yous get a good break over the next few weeks

‘what is offered is an ample buffet and a fifteen minute timeslot on a couch from Design Within Reach. “Can’t we all get along?” the post-neoliberal centrism asks. “Or, if not, can’t we still enjoy what we have for a little longer?”’ By @quinnslobodian.com

They worship Trump so much that they’ve collectively gone “ok so he fucks kids big deal”

hate em all

Get uppity about compact, for sure, they deserve it, but the Irish times has a weekly column for a forced birth advocate, increasingly puts far right conspiracies out there, pro-car articles... As bad if not worse

Concentration camps.

Left alliance sounds class in theory but then you've a cyclist da calling everyone in the WhatsApp group a trumpist for criticising NATO, can't be having these people

From Joe Joyce's v entertaining book on Charles Haughey

Funny to see the Irish times writing about how cutbacks in infrastructural investment will make e.g. transport system dysfunctional. What fiscal policies were yous calling for this time 15 years ago

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

back of the dustjacket reveal that Vonnegut sleeps under a Norman Rockwell poster… very funny

yeah

Nolan should have made a moby dick movie instead. It wouldn’t have been good but it would have made sure the whale was big and that’s really all I’m looking for

Longford Leader Editor: You get those photos of a farmer selling cabbage plants out of the boot of his Opel Rekord? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

Very sad that Cope stepped on a rake and died instantly in 2024. RIP

It's terrorism to touch this sign unless you are the cops touching this sign while arresting the people touching it

cannot confirm whether or not the Avengers trailer is real or AI but if it is indeed a single shot of captain America with a baby that is class. Late stage MCU with zero ideas > any of their films

Fun fact: in the two three (?) years my book has published it Sold 30% of what American Canto did in its first week

The Grinch has passed away. His Tesla Cybertruck left the freeway at a high rate of speed and was wreathed in flame almost immediately, where The Grinch was incinerated like common refuse. He is survived by his brother, The Grunch, and his much younger live-in "protege," Maximilian.

Imagine having to explain to your kids on Christmas morning that Roger didn't actually vomit up a mix of martinis and oysters

2025 films Four Days in July (1984) Grin Without a Cat (2017) A World Not Ours (2012) A Gentle Creature (2017)

One battle after another was fine. Del Toro v good, DiCaprio overacting. Looked great, too long. Vineland could be my favourite non-GR Pynchon

Saw a lad fully hunched over a laptop on the malahide road a few weeks back. Two wheels good four wheels bad go deo

I've been enjoying readding through the archive of the uneven and combined thoughts substack, interesting angles on works of economic history I'm familiar with and compressed reads of ones I'm not, recommend

Books of 2025 Aesthetics of Resistance Hayek's Bastards Tarka the Otter Black Jacobins Border and Rule: Migration Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Every victor Serge book

I wrote about Vivek Chibber and his stupid anti-anti-imperialist origins of capitalism article in Jacobin aonchiallach.substack.com/p/vivek-chib...

Mise s an leanbh le cúpla mí anuas

vaguely Expressionist 1907 blond youth-Jesus, lightly pencilled over

My novels pretty bad but it's the kind of thing Jess from Gilmore girls might have published, that helps me feel better

Thank you, mother. “Yeeeeuh”

have learned over the years that you know when cricket or some shit is on when the Brits on the tl start posting like "Borthwick has to get 120 to keep us in this? I'm going back to bed!"

A lot of people don’t know this but true sovereignty can only be achieved when your nation has the perfect number of chill Protestants - the number is a secret and designated by European betters who will reveal it to us when we show appropriate gratitude for how much they thought about us in the 80s

Trying to get my french back up, from a low level, conversational podcasts I understand nothing but establishment opinion news v v easy, l'occident est la democracie, Les Algerians sont populisme extreme du guache, Atlanticism = the one conversation everywhere

My best books films 2025 open.substack.com/pub/aonchial...

Love hearing SFrs on the radio not committing to whether or not they support good popular things that will make life better, cos they think their voters are thick and probably racist

my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner

it annoys me how long it took me to realise the thrust of the highlighted section given the information everywhere else. I think if I had been more informed or conscious of other people's wishful thinking I would've known it sooner, and not published so many stupid opinions on websites

Tooze pronounces it 'Obammer'

lmao

Basically agree with this, though I'd say there are occasional flashes of the 62-66 genius in his later stuff (e.g. 'Hurricane'). And fully on board with the The Band bashing (the fact they're called The Band should also form part of the prosecution). Also appreciated the billy woods comparison.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

buttonholing my father-in-law and making him watch 21:03 of unedited between two ferns bloopers on my iphone 11 that i don't even orient horizontally

hes just like me fr

neighbour has new dog, barks a lot. keeps shouting 'stop barking!' at it, wonder if dog thinks owner is joining in