Conn MacEvilly

Mmmm - chocolate Guinness

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

How much pleasure this racist term has given those, especially in NI and Britain, who cannot cope with Ireland’s economic success.

For sure, PK might be right in what he *describes*. But calling it “golliwog economics” or “kaffirnomics” or “coolienomics” doesn’t help the argument. So why do it?

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

Such courage.

“Bringing facts to a vibes fight.”

Sigh.

Reminds me of trying to explain the impact on Northern Ireland, peace in Europe and food security (my three obsessions) to Brexiters.

Is there any point? Can’t *we* try vibes-based argument this time?

Love this - the reference and the cuteness

I agree. It busts up their warfighting fantasies.

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

I’m so glad Prof P is still doing this.

This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.

Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.

My new tour starts in ONE WEEK! Very excited to get back out on the road with this show. To be brutally honest, sales have been lower than I would have hoped after last year's tour, but I know times are tough and there are a lot of people on tour at the moment! 1/2

YouTube video by WaterTower Music Interstellar Official Soundtrack | Stay – Hans Zimmer | WaterTower

S.T.A.Y.

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Oh, and yes, I know “stay” as a verb has Latin/French origins too but as a word it is freighted with the Germanic origins of the noun.

I’ve always thought “Leave” v “Remain” was unfair.

Should have been either:

Stay / Leave (Anglo-Saxon)
or
Remain / Quit (French)

Imagine if the Anglo-Saxon benefit had been weighted the other way, with the choice being “Stay or Quit?”.

The power of those words in a comms campaign, my God.

This really needs to be said and understood. What makes it worse, if possible, is that it is not coming out of any genuine crisis or emergency. It is a deliberate attempt to whip up anger and grievance in order to capitalise upon it & in Jenrick's case purely to advance his leadership ambitions.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

In the late 1980s, there was an anti-authoritarian protest movement in Poland called The Orange Alternative where people would wear "dwarf hats," and it made arresting them look ridiculous

Interesting and troubling report/thread here on vulnerability of scientific bodies to politicisation, something the public do not want and is not in there interest but could happen nonetheless if politicians with selective or hostile views on science and evidence were in charge

"Pro Life"

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

‘Out of sight and out of mind?’: British Perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement

Delighted to be on the @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social seminar programme for this autumn!

Come and hear me talk about my work on Britain and the NI Civil Rights Movement on 20th November. Or join online via Teams.

More details here 👇

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I’m a huge fan of Erasmus. I benefited from it personally.

But since you ask, I can relay to you the intellectual case (such as it is) for not rejoining. It’s that those coming to the UK “got a much better deal” in terms of quality of the uni experience.

To which the answer is: so what?

A pure example of BBC balance. On the one side, on the other, all the way through. This leaves a really superficial account of what's at issue with leaving the ECHR and accepts, doe-eyed, that Policy Exchange had a "really detailed proposal" on the GFA, not a hot mess:

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More good work by Greg Sargent

Well put

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE. Award-winning multiverse adventure when you parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to sender, in your green bin, all at the same time- but never actually with you.

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

Wow - incredible