ᚐᚂᚐᚄᚇᚐᚔᚏᚑᚃᚆᚐᚔᚂᚌᚆᚔᚌᚆ (aka. Fully automated Celtic Anarchy)

Check out Robert Fisk's pieces in the 1980s on the American navy's shooting down of a civilian airplane over the Persian Gulf and then their years-long denial that they murdered 200+ innocent Iranians. Sadly, there is nothing new about this.

Tragedy and farce, at the same time.

Taylor Irish Materialisms

Used reading week to finally finish this excellent book: Colleen Taylor’s Irish Materialisms: The non-human and the making of colonial Ireland, 1690-1830. it uses coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud and pigs(!) to think about material lives of Irish peasants

But then again they wouldn't being as Greenland is seen as a lot more European than Iran. Aka. in their minds far more civilised and human.

Perhaps it's because I'm Irish but the colonial white supremacist underpinnings of this war is just glaring and the lack of self awareness across EU media makes me want to scream. Not two months ago you were screaming about Trump invading Greenland and you can't see the obvious parallels?

What infuriates me more than anything about this is the casual way people in the media just throw out, "Well of course I'd have no problem murdering the head of state of one of these savage nations, if they just had a plan for what to do next?"

The real epoch changing event recently has been the rise of China as a rival to this centuries old racket of essentially European white supremacy. So, much of what is going on right now is fundamentally grounded in this loss of power by the European empire to its former victims.

Over the last 70 years there has been a form of neocolonialism in which these powers allow a token autonomy but maintain the right to topple any government or assassinate any leader they see fit, for little or no reason. All while extracting vast wealth from the poorest societies in the world.

The European (and extended European colonial states) have dominated the world militarily and economically since at least the 18th century. They imposed their preferred economic model, racial hierarchy, religion and politics at the point of a barrel, killing hundreds of millions in the process.

Stunning victory in Stroud last night.

Look at that majority! 💚😍

Huge congratulations to @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social and the entire team!

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If you ever needed more evidence that the British media ultimately decides who wins every UK election based on the propaganda they spew out in the weeks leading up to polling day. The house always wins!

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

bring back shame

i need an emotional support perogi

This summarises the scourge of columnists perfectly.

If you can't make your movie less than two hours it should be a TV series. No film needs to be 3 hours. Ghostbusters was 84 minutes long! I will die on this hill.

Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch

Taking bereavement leave to mourn the passing of Catherine O'Hara

1850 version of 'Whisky in the Jar', 'A regular nightly favourite in the Glasgow Saloons', via www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

In the run-up to St Brigid's Day, it's fascinating to get a rare insight into an early medieval nunnery with the discovery of human remains at St Mella's Cell in Co Offaly. Initial analysis shows the burials to be those of women and children from the 7th-10th C
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Oxymoron ?

The US insane.

Hero. Terrorist.

The speed at which Republican electeds and voters rush to justify ICE killings, despite clear evidence, makes me think that this country is irreparable. I’m sorry for the doomerism, but I’m more and more questioning what the hell am I doing in this country

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.