Martin Concagh

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This is the post, yes I called London my “hometown”

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I once posted about a historical mystery from my hometown in the subreddit r/unresolvedmysteries and almost immediately dozens people responded with an obvious, everything-falls-into-place explanation that never ever came up in any of the official investigations into the disaster

I’ve grown to love Reddit’s style of organisation. I can go post to my heart’s content on some obscure subject and assume the average reader has at least the context to understand what I’m talking about

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Everyone should go to a citizenship ceremony. Even people born in Canada. I have teared up every damn time, and I didn’t know the people. I think it might help, if not solve, some of our problems if people could see it unfold.

there is some evidence that Bluesky genuinely drives engagement to a lot of websites due to being one for the few platforms that doesn’t shadowban posts with links in them

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

i think when both Twitter and Bluesky eventually implode we will revert back to BBS

There aren’t enough media layoffs, that’s the nicest thing I can say

This statement is ironically a piece of good journalism in that it unwittingly explains exactly why this dinner is and always has been a bad idea corrosive to journalism’s purpose.

My first thought is that they really can’t eat a run of box office failures in the way that Disney has over the last few years

Friend on discord showed me this and I thought a few people who enjoyed this person's comics might like to know how they post over on the Hitler site.

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

A lot of the current discourse on anti-Semitism on the US left does feel grimly reminiscent of what played out on the British left last decade but on a larger scale and in a worse information environment

“You may be unconvinced by my efforts to defend a racist moron, but perhaps it will make more sense if I explain that I see him as necessary for copying how the other party got taken over by racist morons?”

It doesn’t happen a lot to me but the most common one I get is Arab / Egyptian

Whenever Canada’s version of The Guilty Men is published there should be a lengthy chapter about the legions of pundits, politicians and assorted politicos who sternly lectured us for years that this was actually just a sincere disagreement about energy policy

I think it is as simple as 'in foreign policy, Keir Starmer's approach of really valuing institutional memory has worked, and because literally none of the options are popular, it couldn't get McSweeneyed into uselessness' (unlike, say, pure defence spending).

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

This is an excellent summary of the looming Alberta Crisis. Probably not much much new information if you’ve been following the issue, but it’s one that neatly lays out the pieces on the board

Are we allowed to say that all this stuff was just the acceptable-for-progressives way of saying “what happens when a female president gets her time of the month“

He’s gonna end up saying the exact same thing about Vance in 2028 I think

The thing with Ellison‘s desire for more right wing films is that they really can‘t eat a run of box office failures in the way that Disney has

A lot of Americans overcorrected the Team America: World Police shit by being all, "Well unless the US government is the evil one it's really none of my business" and like... that is also a bad stance to take

NGL I’m seeing way more Americans post about the 200ish school children killed by the US government than about the thousands of protesters killed by the Islamic Republic so I can understand why some members of the Iranian diaspora are losing their minds a little

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

Imo it would be better if less people who are interested in politics didn't LARP as if they were paid strategists or representatives. Usually debates about how best to appeal to public opinion usually end up imposing strict and rigid rules & logic on it when on most issues it is incoherent

Lots of worrisome signals about what next, but the idea that the U.S. can just destabilize Iran and then wash its hands and walk away unscathed is particularly so.

Avi Lewis - Wikipedia

Avi Lewis is pretty much Canadian left royalty

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It’s worth noting that Naomi Klein’s husband is almost certainly going to be the next leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works