God, he really is the most excruciating person. He’s like the spinal tap of performative intellectuals
25.04.2025 22:30 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@fergalmc.bsky.social
History — Sociology — Memory (particularly Northern Ireland) — Music and Records (An Ecstasy of Fumbling)
God, he really is the most excruciating person. He’s like the spinal tap of performative intellectuals
25.04.2025 22:30 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My wife and I have tried to hold things together over the last couple of years, with a lot of help from our online friends, but we’re sinking now, literally and figuratively.
If you can help (even just a re-post), we really need it now.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
or
ko-fi.com/ccohanlon
🙏
@modernnature.bsky.social
Didn't know you were on here. Got this from the "newsletter" so thanks and keep them coming, some of us are reading it!
Bit of a polymath was our Henry. Northern Ireland editor for the Irish Times during the early Troubles period and author of the definitive book on the collapse of the Stormont parliament in 1972 — all while still in his 20s
26.02.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy New Year, David. I’m not visiting the “other place” so hopefully see you around here more in 2025!
01.01.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is it a radio station? (Triple Ok)
22.12.2024 09:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s great
20.12.2024 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A very chronically online take.
20.12.2024 07:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very heavy bass
18.12.2024 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dublin in autumn ‘66
12.12.2024 23:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dude (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social ) does it again: the Luigi’s “Manifesto” open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
10.12.2024 22:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AND, libraries are also common, public spaces. They help to generate social solidarity and social capital
30.11.2024 18:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My Bloody Valentine live in Dublin next year, apparently
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25.11.2024 10:31 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Album incoming too?
25.11.2024 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@sashagusevposts.bsky.social
22.11.2024 22:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@ent3c.bsky.social (Eric Turkheimer) on Plomin and Pinker’s evasions: open.substack.com/pub/ericturk...
22.11.2024 22:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He has such pompous dart Vader prose lol
19.11.2024 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amazing
18.11.2024 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cos playing at having principles, units him and Bari Weiss. That and awful prose.
16.11.2024 19:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Richard Skelton is at it again. And this time he is — quite literally — making stuff up. Richard Skelton- The Old Thrawing Crux:
aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/the-ol...
Drone “ground-zero” for pop music!
15.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Isn’t it just great?!
14.11.2024 19:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good to see on board, James!
13.11.2024 22:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here after *the rot* had set in over there:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Le1...
I’m kind-of agnostic about this one. Could be a conspiracy but equally never underestimate human incompetence (the guards etc).
09.10.2023 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think I’ll be in here for the time being (rather than ‘X’) the current news is just too distressing and chaotic — in itself but primarily mediated through fucking Twitter
09.10.2023 02:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The air is indeed fresher in here
25.09.2023 22:55 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Going to do Twitter the right way this time, he said.
25.09.2023 11:56 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0