Eoin Palmer

Hot Stove League Season 2

There are so very few opportunities in this modern life to say this, so I just want to record for posterity:

My copper merchant has delivered very high quality copper, in the amounts requested.

Break the cycle.

When you see an open letter.

Even on the left in discussion of the imminent AI bubble burst, I don't see much on the immediate stakes for normal people; jobs, housing, mortgages etc. beyond the exposure of pensions, index funds etc. Mostly preoccupied with the downfall of hated companies and technologies. What am I not reading?

BREAKING 🚨: Equinor has admitted the Rosebank oil field would result in 249 million tonnes of CO2.

That's more than the combined annual emissions of Ireland, Belgium and Greece.

But Equinor says that's not their problem. They profit, everyone else pays the price.

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨

The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin

Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

If I'd known about this earlier I'd have submitted something. Looks brilliant.

The richest man on the planet is paying for Tommy Robinson's legal fees.

The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees.

They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.

FDA = Fecal Devourment Administration

CDC = Cooking Defecation and Consuming it.

One campaigner said the spread of industrial chemicals to some of Scotland’s most remote waters was “really heartbreaking”
theferret.scot/orkne...

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie” While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

The blurbs for my book are in. It's out March 26th 2026. Since I don't have a publicist let me know if you have any interest in reviewing it. Also more than happy to talk about it in a class, seminar series, or podcast.

Civilization itself cannot be cleared of the responsibility of having engendered its opposite: barbarism. History achieved the domestication of man only by continuous suffering.23 In the childhood of humanity all activity was directly conditioned by immediate need, under menace of danger. Vital instincts comparatively unfettered by social organization guided the first men. The path from that era until people first became used to organized labor was a painful one, and the necessity to provide for hard times was often impressed upon their minds. Ruthless conquerors who had come to rule the aborigines, tyrants and castes of military oppressors, —in one word, domination, did the job. The profound story of Paradise and the expulsion from it in the first chapters of Genesis may combine a theological truth with a historical memory which toiling and oppressed people harbored of happier days free from the burden of organized and regular work. Only during the last one or two thousand years has man learned to do his work without the pressure of the ruthless taskmaster by transforming the outside coercion into the power of conscience in his own soul, by translating the immediate need into concepts which comprise the future as well as the past and the present.

What I am referring to is the process which leads from a stage in which compulsion of the masses by the very few was a social necessity to a level where force finds its expression in the law, where people have become capable of molding their own relations by respecting their mutual interests and of making work a tolerable and even desirable expression of life. If we try to understand the psychology of the present-day human being, we have to remember that this whole transmutation is a recent one. It has left its imprint not only on the institutions of modern society but also on the character of its individuals. They still bear the marks of the terrible punishments, the humiliations and tortures which humanity had to undergo until it learned to respect law, the neighbor’s property and life, the woman’s or the stranger’s weakness. These marks are shown in the ambiguity with respect to such values, in the readiness of the individual to tear down the boundaries of civilized life not only because of a strong materialistic urge but also for the sake of the violation itself.

This is very insightful from Max Horkheimer. I can really feel what he means here, not only understand it. This text taken from @jamescrane.bsky.social's blog here:
jamescrane.substack.com/p/max-horkhe...

The only place this is acceptable is in the God forsaken King’s Cross toilets with the completely arbitrary traffic lights. You do a service to the other patrons doing a round of the cubicles.

It’s happened again

🔴NEW: At least 20 racist incidents took place in Scotland last month including attacks on mosques and asylum hotels, alleged assaults – and the jailing of a neo-Nazi for slashing a student in the face with a knife.

Find out more: bit.ly/477AYHY

Who Owns ScotWind?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit

Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire •5h S.. EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage will his afternoon to accuse Keir Starmer of inciting violence against Reform In live address after PM's conference speech, he will say allegations of racism risk US-style polarisation Says Starmer "wholly unfit" for office

Just the worst people imaginable: hurling the most insane, deliberately inflammatory drivel they can and then, at the slightest sign of pushback, hurling themselves squealing to the pitch clutching their shins, rolling around pretending to be injured, shouting for a red card.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Donate to Help Tasneem and her Kids, organized by Louise Mooney Hi, My name is Louise, I am based in Ireland and I have been helping my friend Tasneem, wh… Louise Mooney needs your support for Help Tasneem and her Kids

It‘s my birthday so im asking you to send money to help people out in Gaza www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

Chart showing road fatalities by road user involved in collision. Data for Great Britain in 2024

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

trump speeches vary between something from a history textbook about 1930s germany and something from the histories of suetonius about what the emperor calligula supposedly said to his horse while drunk

That show is so good *because* its writers clearly read a ton of revolutionary literature - novels, history books, theory - and used it for their narrative. "Read revolutionary leftist lit" is cringe, but we have literally two centuries of very popular novels and films conveying these messages.

Thanks. I hope so. Trying to cross that road is the bane of my existence.

Is there anyone trying to get something done about that horrible T Junction in Yeaman Place and Dundee Street?

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

Israel is committing genocide, Scottish and UK LibDems say for first time

The UK and Scottish LibDems have both labelled Israel’s actions in Gaza a 'genocide' for the first time