There’ll be no World Cup then, I’ll tell the children — In Search of a Scrum Philosophy — The Bajada — Props and Game-Time — Backs Rugby vs Forwards Rugby — Boks Tactical Discipline — Emotional Ireland — Bundee's Rugby Mortgage — Lessons from Dev — Going forward shows.acast.com/the-molecast...

Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid

Apologies for the poor sound quality on one of the microphones! — Ireland romp against Oz — Paddy Mac arrives fully formed — Sam's highs and lows — Baird's hard yards — Aussie woe — Northampton influence — Delectable Pumas — SA conspiracy shows.acast.com/the-molecast...

Ireland playing the basics of wet weather rugby much better than Australia.

Skills and confidence ebbing — Lineouts, Attack, Defence, Kicking — Charismatic Strongmen all the way down — Possibles flow while Probables stutter — MacKenzie's Murrayfield Moments — Rassie and Siya's Mentality Monsters strike AGAIN shows.acast.com/the-molecast...

The equivalent of what the Americans are going through right now would be me being handed the actual voice recording of DGSE operatives explaining the exact tramadol dose they subreptitiously gave Ronaldo on the evening of 11 July 1998

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

Ireland's new normal: good moments, largely stodgy, dodgy set piece — Counterpoint: actually quite good, all things considered? — Ringrose, lineouts, execution errors — Hyper-Rationalisation —Middle-Aged Man yells at cloud — “Friendlies” — Japan Selection shows.acast.com/the-molecast...

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

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A post on on the Presidential Election - mainly going deeper into the poll numbers, but also some discussion about what each outcome might mean beyond just this election, and thoughts on the broader conversation about democracy. #Áras25 irishelectionprojections.com/2025/10/21/2...

I meant to publish this a while ago but life intervened. But here's some thoughts on baseball and why I like it despite following a bad team. open.substack.com/pub/brightey...

I always thought it was funny that Za/um chose to give the insane bigot the most cogent argument against the fascism of nostalgia. Man, what a game.

Coming around to the idea we should just randomly permaban 20% of the site a year. I think it would be healthier if you knew you were gone in a few years most like and it would let people get on with their lives. And if you manage not to get get banned then congratulations God wants you to be here !

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

The Burkes turning up at the DUP Conference to accuse them of promoting the LGBT community is a funny bit, gotta say

6. Mainie Jellett, The Virgin of Eire (1940s)

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

published my Guide To Reading More Books nearly exactly a year ago so I guess it's time to post it again youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/learning-h... [free to read!]

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

This would be my read on it, with the caveat I haven't kept up too much on scifi books the last while. I would wager that over the last 10-20 years fantasy has significantly outsold scifi.

This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇

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Maybe that Joe Schmidt is actually a good coach after all 🤔

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

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The 75% here is an 'absolutely hysterical' view that the 'left/centre' cannot give any oxygen to if it wants to survive, btw

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“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today” #TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

Support the Molecast at ko-fi.com/dementedmole — Molecast Summer Symposium — The Lions Phenomenon — Rugby and Media Landscape — Ireland on Tour — U20s Catastrophe — Espoirs in NZ shows.acast.com/the-molecast...

John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good

‘I am disappointed in myself for believing we were more than just a number’: AIB staff angered by cut to hybrid working

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

late 1800s garment storage. would do spring/ summer one one side and fall/ winter on the other, then just turn each season IG oldhouseadam

I wrote about different kinds of medievalism and finding comfort in history during times of crisis. I’m slightly mean to gritty 2010s medieval shows and there are cameos by Pangur Bán and Leonard Cohen.

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Bulls neutered — Leinster Forwards just kept rollin’ — “This Means More”? — Paean to Jordie — Sam puts his head where it hurts — U20s slide — The flying Bayonnais shows.acast.com/the-molecast...

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

That will do Leinster, that will do.