The Catholic Church really popped off with the stained glass windows

It's kind of wild that Bluesky got branded as the place where people were saying rude/mocking/disrespectful things about Charlie Kirk's death. I just popped over to Twitter, and the stuff I saw over there was way edgier than anything I've seen on here.

I don't think Connolly is a big Hamas lover or anything, and she's correct in her disagreement with Starmer's unworkable, high-handed, bad faith conditions. But fucking hell, her mouth has a foot fetish. A president needs to be a shrewd and sensitive communicator.

(Being asked to do something that is a lot of hassle) Yeah, no hassle!

The way a lot of rightwing men talk about Maria Steen online is more than disturbing

(Someone with a lot of worries) No worries!

Every interview she does unveils even more problematic opinions

if this is what he’s saying about Kirk i can’t imagine what kind of Trump eulogy he’s got in Google Docs

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Come across some busts of Charlie Haughey, Pee Flynn and Bertie Ahern

people keep reposting this but cmon it’s made up. the stock hasn’t “collapsed” (it’s barely down) and there are precisely no numbers on how many subscription cancellations there have been

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

Everything I’ve learned about British politics over the last 10 years has been against my will

An NFL game featuring two American teams playing in Croke Park

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Kate O’Connor with an unbelievable silver medal in the heptathlon on the World Stage. Being good at one sport is impressive but being good at 7????? Insane. Incredible. Irish athletics is having such an amazing time of it.

A party as large as Sinn Féin not having their own presidential candidate when both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael do is pathetic

BREAKING: Sinn Féin announce Nile Rodgers with special guests Chic as their nominee for Áras25

The hero worship of Corbyn may finally end

A new party! How does he come up with these brilliant and original ideas?

He called the Pope a heretic and said a lot of anti-Catholic things over the last year alone

It’s one thing for GOP to be pretending Trump’s polling isn’t abysmal, it’s a death cult after all. However, that doesn’t really explain why the mainstream press is still acting like Trump has a mandate from heaven.

They do very literally just want one set of rules for themselves and another for other people. You can't be expecting any different from them and that's why you can't give them an inch, any fairness or openness offered to them will never be reciprocated.

I'm going to say one thing about American conservatives and then I'm sticking to local topics only for my own sanity - those people know that they are hypocrites and do not care, there is no point holding them to normal standards because they will not feel ashamed of it or even rumbled

The accepted narrative is that Danny Healy Rae's critics are condescending towards him. But I put it to you that he is one of the condescending people in Irish public life. He is not your sound culchie uncle, he is a catty, passive-aggressive, overgrown rich kid.

All this for a historically unpopular president.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

Watching Ricky Gervais go dead silent about the right of a comedian to offend anyone they want now that it means more than pissing off college students is gonna be the first funny thing he’s done since The Office ended.

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

Too much overwhelming news flooding in from around the globe. Especially the US. I'm going to combat this by going hyper-local with my posts. So...did you guys see that cute little ladybird that landed on my neighbour's windowsill this morning? Very cute ladybird. Please share if you agree

A surprising number of people seem to regard Nazism as an understandable and natural reaction to heavy eye makeup.

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

The Andrew Tate piece is, at least, a profile written by someone else, which means I'm sure it won't be the glorified platform the cover seemed desperate to suggest. Now, to take a big sip of coffee and read what it says. bsky.app/profile/youn...

Telegraph writer here, and it’s not hard to spot the ones who thought it was all a great lark and are now discovering a lot of unpleasant people were taking it all deadly serious

More bits in the English papers prior to the release of "Michael Collins" (1996) including a letter that is quite literally "outraged in Tunbridge Wells"

Some bits in the English papers prior to the release of "Michael Collins" (1996).

Seen people wondering why so many major institutions are prostrating themselves before Trump and maybe this is obvious but it's because the incentives for cowardice are immediate and obvious while the disincentives aren't. All they lose is their dignity and you can't pay the bills with that anyway

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

When Michael Collins was released, some English critics were furious about inaccuracies in the Hollywood movie. For example, the *kind of* guns used to shoot civilians in Croke Park was not right.

"What if the Democratic party’s problem is not that it is too left-leaning, or for that matter, too moderate, but instead is too disconnected from the lives of the people whom it wants to appeal to? " www.programmablemutter.com/p/not-popula...

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