New poster for the @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social podcast just dropped.

Was listening to some relaxing history videos on YouTube and then it glitches. It’s A.i, I genuinely couldn’t tell

New podcast: how the American Christian Right has invoked morality to drive neoliberal policies that built today’s unequal and unstable society—and how they continue to do this with the culture wars open.spotify.com/episode/2ApA...

High quality journalism is paywalled, right wing propaganda is funded by cunts and free

I’ve been reporting on influencers for more than seven years now and today I had an academic decline to do an interview about them for the first time out of fear of government retaliation.

New podcast: how the American Christian Right has invoked morality to drive neoliberal policies that built today’s unequal and unstable society—and how they continue to do this with the culture wars open.spotify.com/episode/2ApA...

My explanation for owning a copy of morning glory milking farm

Here's what comes next www.garbageday.email/p/utah-gov-c...

Karen Attiah, the last Black full-time opinion columnist at the Washington Post, says she was fired for quoting Charlie Kirk directly

I was on the internet archive looking through a bodybuilding magazine from 1977. I saw this self defense ad, and then I went researching, and it turns that the money generated from sales directly funded the KKK. White nationalism, fear, fear of not being masculine enough. Always side by side

I have seen videos of toddlers in a genocide this year.

Sorry, why is the ITV morning bulletin leading with Charlie Kirk's Widow giving a call to arms?

Do people realise Nazism probably started as someone's shitty opinion until it was shoving people into gas chambers just because they were Jews? Especially baffling to watch how accounts that claim to be opposing antisemitism play down hateful rhetoric as just harmless opinion.

The people wondering "how could anyone who isn't a professional escape after a high profile daylight assassination" are forgetting two things: 1. Cops are bad at their jobs 2. The FBI used to be somewhat better at their jobs and were recently gutted by political layoffs

New podcast. This is about how Tom Barrys flying column intersects with wanking Minotaur porn in a zeitgeist of rising global fascism open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR...

New podcast. This is about how Tom Barrys flying column intersects with wanking Minotaur porn in a zeitgeist of rising global fascism open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR...

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My take on this is that it’s a form of control. It lets you know that you don’t really own your Apple products, that they are subject to planned obsolescence. It’s obedience and control. Apple is your boss when you have to stop what you’re doing for this ridiculousness

Doing everything in my power to pay for and support journalism and news sites. But fuck me, it’s frustrating when clicking on a link takes me to the app, which I then have to sign in to every single time. Multiple platforms are like this. Trying my best to throw money at them.

This weeks podcast is 90 minutes of me talking about the Old Testament via a lens of artificial intelligence, and simultaneous feuding with Limerick city council open.spotify.com/episode/0PvJ...

This weeks podcast is 90 minutes of me talking about the Old Testament via a lens of artificial intelligence, and simultaneous feuding with Limerick city council open.spotify.com/episode/0PvJ...

And this is another useful reflection on which protests are publicized internationally.

"I'm interested in the philosophy of the birdshit, the poetry of the birdshit, and the biodiversity of the birdshit." Great episode, @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social!

Fucking lol

New podcast. This one is about biodiversity, starlings, the neurochemistry of sunsets, and our relationship with biodiversity in urban environments. open.spotify.com/episode/0taT...

Now that Google is completely broken, I’m using Google images to do a lot of research. If you search for a topic, I find that images will take you to decent articles about that topic, quicker than traditional search

Some of my happiest memories are staying up watching Hong Kong action movies on Bravo when I was a child

The onion were knocking out top quality digital content before there was even an audience or platform for it. It was doomed to fail at the time simply for being so far ahead

I often think about how Derrida's terminology has been misread and hollowed out. 'Deconstruction' has been taken to mean 'the opposite of construction' and can now refer to an apple crumble where the crumble is served next to the apple; 'hauntology' now means 'things from the 1970s.'

Two times in the past week I’ve bought electrical appliances in shops and they’ve had eu plugs when they come out of the box. The Brexit consequence I never predicted. The only compliment I’ll ever give the Brits is that they got plugs right

“An Irish speaker will not, for example, be able to give the same monosyllabic yes or no answer that an English-speaking witness would. The potential impression of being evasive, vague or contradictory where small differences in language and meaning have tangible legal outcomes is real.”

New podcast. This one is about biodiversity, starlings, the neurochemistry of sunsets, and our relationship with biodiversity in urban environments. open.spotify.com/episode/0taT...

In an open all-out war between Sally Rooney and the British state, I'm putting my money on Rooney

This is what I mean when I say that my podcast is a perpetual novel.Even though it makes me look insane. I write it each week, with mouth instead of my hands, I edit the words using audio software,the same way I’d edit them with a word processor. I write with my mouth, you read it with your ears

Scummy stuff

Just reading about a doctor called Paddy Randles in Navan in the 1960s who wrote to all the newspapers to raise awareness of the number of his young patients with injuries from corporal punishment at school. He was denounced from the pulpit and had the tyres on his car slashed.

Scrolling through computer desks on the 2001 Argos catalog. Surprisingly narcotic experience if you’re an elder millennial

This is most of Twitter now. 2016 Facebook minions meme if you hit it in the head with a hammer

Turns out Bluesky does have an algorithm but it just sends your joke to the person least likely to get it and most likely to get real mad about not getting it

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

This week's @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social is a gem 👏 Especially when he calls Geldof "banshee bones Geldof" and explains where "painting the town red" comes from. I was at the All Together Now festival years ago and concur that the ground is cursed 🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/1bGD...

I just had a 22 year old critique me because I use FL studio to record audio/produce music. I was about to clap back and then realised I’ve been using it for 23 years. I don’t have words for the emotion I felt. This is new levels of elderly for me

Listen back to this weeks podcast, it’s about how to eat a bowl of cornflakes by inhaling them into your rectum open.spotify.com/episode/6Hka...

There’s absolutely no way this was the best phrasing choice for this headline.

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

I HATE AI prompts in word. How the fuck is it good to encourage people to outsource thinking about things that should be sweet & nourishing. "Write a funny poem to wish a happy birthday to my 5 year old sister" It's literally discouraging people from creative & meaningful & life-affirming stuff

Is “downwardly mobile elite” just the new term for “college educated millennials and genz”? Asking for some friends…

There’s this 11th century Irish book called Leabhar Gabhála na hÉireann, it’s a history of Ireland that blends the Old Testament into it. The opening line is “in the beginning, god made heaven and earth, but he himself had no beginning or ending”. It’s so beautifully Irish and ridiculous