Those who are neither a Democrat nor a Republican are, most likely, far more political than those who have a favourite colour team and believe everything the team says they should believe.

The BBC using quotation marks on terms like "drone attack" and "genocide" but then just printing His Majesty King Charles like it's an emergent property of the Universe.

It's so Punk to be an autistic trans woman right now. Pissing and taking a paracetamol as we speak.

Absolute chaos here but I love it. Cooking with bábóg (while Sarah works on her new essay, all hell breaks loose). Oh, and happy rapture I guess.

This should be an interesting one!

The Media is doing a piss-poor job reporting on the terrifying situation the Sumud Flotilla find themselves in. 11 ships, waving UK, Polish, Italian flags, attacked by drone, flashbang, projectile and chemical weapons. Please contact your representatives and departments of foreign affairs.

The Leftist Cooks have been featured in the British Press (the Guardian/Sight and Sound) and the US Press (Business Insider, some others) but NEVER featured in Irish Press. At all. Despite numerous attempts on our part to spoon-feed our story to various outlets. Isn't that mad?

But of bass trivia for you: Tommy the Cat is actually the uncle of Thundercat.

The people on the Flotilla are officially in the danger zone. This isn't just theoretical, Israel has used violent means to intercept boats delivering aid in the past, including in 2010 when they murdered 10 people and injured around 50, all in international waters. 🧵

"This video essay is hours long!" Yeah. It's, uh, it's supposed to be like... comprehensive? "But what if it's a waste of my time??" Then maybe turn it off? "I'd have to establish it's bad first!" Short videos can be bad? "Yeah but I'm comfortable wasting my time in short intervals!"

youtu.be/-n6VvpcdiC4?... I just realised I had not pinned our new video - an essay about the very concept of Irishness and historical identity.

Don't worry everyone, Cicierega and I are here to protect you from Bad Neils.

Karlie Chirk!

There was already a boycott of Disney. They've been on the BDS list for over a year.

Trans affirming comments are always addressed to me, and transphobic comments are always addressed to some imagined third party who can join the transphobe in laughing at me. Isn't that interesting?

Ugh. Britain 🤦 Just get it together, come on. There are so many left wing voters and you're flapping about growing marrows, breaching data and refusing to disavow transphobia. Slightly left wing campaigning is actually easier than you're making it look.

Getting ever so slightly better at finding ways to get work done.

It's 2027 - the United Oligarchy of Western Empires, recently purchased by Elon Musk and renamed "FUCK" has just proscribed Medicine as a terrorist organisation. Jimmy Fallon is interviewing Chris Pratt about the new George Washington biopic he's starring in.

"words are not violence" Spoken like a bad writer

Somewhere in Hollywood you can hear Jimmy Fallon's nervous laughter as he rocks back and forth considering only bad options in a world he helped create.

I like it when the "you're not going to win anyone over with this garbage" comments are sandwiched between "this video has fundamentally changed me as a person" comments.

It's very cool that one of our biggest fans is such a unique voice in the video essay space. Editing for and working with Tirrrb was such an education.

Bluesky admin should probably have done something about the thousands of random-name-buncha-numbers that all joined in the hours following Kirk's assassination. Because, if I'm honest, I think they're up to no good.

Uh... I feel like maybe some Italians could complicate this, right?

Famously, I have no arguments. And my wife, don't even get me started on the arguments she doesn't have.

Went on a little holiday and it was lovely

The next Jubilee episode should be 20 not-quite-Nazi enough conservative influencers versus one Groyper

The media should report that John Boyne and Graham Linehan saved Christmas by tweeting about how gender is when you woman.

I knew it was the left. Even when it was yet another troll-brained young man with incoherent politics and a conservative religious background I knew it was the left!

The water is good.

Not niche. You win this one.

Sarah thinks that Bill and Ted is not a "common point of reference" and that I am making a niche reference every time. Who here has seen Bill and Ted's (excellent adventure and bogus journey) and thinks they're fairly obvious reference points?

A surprising number of people from places as random as Ukraine and Greece and Mexico are relating to the fundamental 'broken' and 'many' aspects of national identity in our video analysing Irishness. Once again our community is teaching me so much about the world.

Even the most gentle-hearted softy - if they are aware of who Charlie Kirk actually was - is struggling to find something humane to say. Only those who have no idea who he was in his heart, how evil he was to the end, and how freakishly big his gums were, will make peaceful platitudes.

I hope Matt Walsh dies from Charlie Kirk's wounds.

Actors love money and often have little going on between their ears. Too busy jumping about going "whoaaaa look how awesome I am what a great actor gimme money"

I want to be the kind of radical leftist you can introduce to your Mom.

Michael Burns is starting (Corned) Beef with me because I recommended Diane Negra's "The Irish In Us" to him and now he's jealous I ripped it off to make a video essay first.

Various outlets backtracking because the footage got out. We should never forget that the BBC and others tried to bury this attack on civilians from across the world.

The lead boat in the Sumud Flotilla appears to have been struck from above while in Tunis. Not alone that but the claim that "the fire originated on the ship" is propagating across the media. This is an international civilian aid flotilla. The levels of mistruth and abuse are staggering.

Our new video is dropping in just under two hours! Feel like joining us for the premiere? They're fun. Link below.

So who here is already familiar with "Paddy" as a pejorative for an Irish person? Who here has never heard that before? And are there any of you who think it's actually genuinely hurtful/offensive?

Some issues: 1. McGregor was never close to a frontrunner 2. Irish president is a very specific, ceremonial and diplomatic position 3. This doesn't appear to have happened in any sense, at all

A new Leftist Cooks video is premiering tomorrow (Monday) at 8pm Irish time. It's called "What is Irishness?" and you should watch it. Link to premiere: youtu.be/-n6VvpcdiC4

The more I hear about this Linehan fellow the less I like him.

www.patreon.com/posts/new-vi... For a limited time, our new video is available exclusively for our amazing Patreon subscribers. We will be premiering on Monday for everyone else (and probably a few of those patrons again, because like I say they're amazing)

Well. There goes that dream.

There are several journalistic failures in this article but this might be my favourite. This is not a photograph.

We were interviewed as part of this Guardian piece on Video Essays. All of my answers were too POWERFUL so they took the sensible option of just quoting Sarah.

These days, if you say you're British, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.