One of the bluest State House districts currently held by the Minnesota GOP isn't in the MSP metro, it's in the Duluth area! The GOP won #HD3B last year by 0.6%, despite Harris carrying it for President by four points and Amy Klobuchar winning it by 18!

Rest In Peace 'Your Party' (July 2025 - September 2025)

watching The Candidate (1972) for Redford

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

chat is this good

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Well I’m sure the ministers who went out to defend him earlier this morning are feeling a lot of job satisfaction right now.

kirk was important enough of a figure in the internet-poisoned US right that i get why everyone up to trump is kicking into high gear about it, but there's no reason for it to take off in the UK. yeah, its horrifying that the US is just wracked with political violence now, but this isnt the start!

i am trying to be a bit more on bsky so i'm also moving my filmposting over here. i'm about a year late on this take but i think i understand Longlegs more now that i've watched Osgood Perkins' 2015 debut film, The Blackcoat's Daughter, which had some noticeable thematic/creative choice similarities

it turns out when you try to starve two million people to death decent people stop wanting anything to do with you

PEDOCON THEORY IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS

pretty niche map, parish-level results for the 1837 by-election, general election and 1841 general election in the Westminster constituency. subdivision results for uk elections is ridiculously scarce so this is a pretty rare type of map

underpriced factor in Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule is Peel's role. Gladstone was a devotee of Peel the vast majority of his political life, and reading Peel's biography highlighted how part of his thinking to endorse Catholic emancipation was a utilitarian decision, betting that Catholics...

Yorkshire is indisputably God's Own County, because it's the only one mentioned in the Bible. "Three men came from the East Riding on camels"

its going to be so funny when Jenrick, The Great Hope of Young, AngloFuturist Conservatism, inevitably runs up against the inexorable spirit of ol' reliable Faragism and flops

“because when the time comes of the next general election, the public are going to be looking for a serious, credible alternative.” Risky line to take when, on current polling and local election performance, Reform are the mainstream right party and you’re the fringe party

its nowhere near as horrifying as the many other ramifications of the trump administration's immigration policy, but have they really not considered the effect this will have on the world cup? the olympics? all tourism? 'the message is to shock and horrify people' - message received loud and clear!

more excerpts on Parnell: "For six days, Parnell, sitting in the chair, defended himself tenaciously. Tempers flared. One MP shouted 'Crucify him!'. At one point it was feared that Parnell would produce a revolver from his pocket to shoot his ablest critic, Timothy Healy"

Ireland is one of the few countries in the world where Male Life Expectancy is over 80 years of age.

weekly twitter outage time :)

during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, a (Revolutionary) French army in Mayo recruited with pamphlets written in English. despite not speaking English, many Irishmen joined the French, believing them to have been sent by the Pope – unaware the French had deposed the Pope in February

Here he is prescribing letting Gila monsters loose into the Senate.

remembered my bluesky password after five months award

me for the next ~3 months

Virgin BBC election night: you are probably not interested in seeing the actual counts of the election results Chad RTE election weekend: so as you can see it appears that in Carlow-Kilkenny, during the third round of the count around 300 votes from the surplus of the elected Fine Gael are...

cos im on a twitter hiatus, im just gonna post this quick 52-76 US swing map that i knocked up in an hour because i thought it looked nice and is pretty informative about political shifts (suburbs, white voters, Germans/Yankees) in the mid-20th century

A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people. It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1886...

TIL the Obama joker poster was made by a Palestinian-American student who wasn't right wing but just bored and thought it would be funny.

The media informed American voters that the stakes of the trans issue was about girls sports and never told them the result of electing Trump would be trans service members being unfairly fired (because telling them that would've hurt Trump)

quality and production value akin to like a really early torchwood episode or something is the best i can describe it as? but its set in berkshire (best county) so it gets a pass

nw

for people who didn't see on The Other App: watched Emma (2020) tonight and loved it! one of the best movies i've ever seen, cant recommend it enough

doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location

Doctor: congrats on the baby! What are you going to name him Newt Gingrich’s mom: newt Gingrich

I don't know who needs to hear this but Slow Horses is as good as everyone says it is

its probably not great that the best case for Democrats electorally also involves a crippling economic depression, massive deportation and the further rollback of minority rights for a whole four years. like the Senate and House would be nice to have, but still, yknow