With the exception of ground troops q ~40% respondents support Trump & Rubio, think theyre doing good things, Iran posed an immediate danger, we're better off, that base is a cult it is going nowhere
Yeah cheers, be particularly interested to read Tim Brennan's contribution
one of the only things I miss from twitter lol
Found cleaning up Downloads folder
Always note he sez Netanyahu > Israel
On stubborn Atlanticism: "Sections of the European political elite are concerned primarily with maintaining their own proximity to imperial power. In the spirit of Vichy, many believe that collaborationism is the only way to guarantee some autonomy going forward."
www.equator.org/articles/dea...
also probably that it's flattering and easy to convince yourself that the people sitting next to you on the smart person panels are smart, just like you lol
Cosmopolitan culture is great and you sit on panels and you're feted and you speak three languages, wonderful, but it has nothing to do with Merz Kallas or von Der Leyen
annoyed that I allowed toozes 'under the incompetent & evil politicians european architecture is basically good and it's good because it's European and European architecture is good' outlook to swing my instinctive line that in addition to being evil they are also v stupid
Plenty of it from indigenous small landlords and western investors already
When MM hands over that shamrock only people living in the 6 are allowed to make fun of the English for being English. Irish card revoked for spurning the Republic declared 1916 ratified 1919 etc. in favour of SUVs and 'Wendys'. a sad moment but there it is, get your kicks in before deadline
but skipped the postcolonial book, cos I've known postcolonial theorist lectures and they indenture their PhDs like everyone else but apparently that book is all Brennerite misrepresentation too
Wrote this long, reasonably methodical inventory of everything Vivek Chibber wrote, pointing out tissue of lies, wilful failures of reading comprehension, not up anywhere cos I hold onto the idea of getting it somewhere more reputable than SSub$tack,
-Bomb rush cyberfunk
You're going to be telling me the evidence linking William Gull to the Ripper murders isnt 100% next
Which one do we think was in the Middle East?
Finished this this morning. Very much detailing the OG #HowIrelandWorks
I wish war nerd was a bit more: how much does a shahed cost a little less 'what did Nancy pelosi say this week? 😏'
In every crisis the algo churns up an explainer, each worse than the last. Mearsheimer, that dodgy ex naval guy, the latest is a game theory head who connects it all in the final instance to the Illuminati
Reading there that when the Romanovs were in Bolshevik custody the daughters were keeping diaries in which they were drawing: swastikas. In 1918. Reality written by Alan Moore
Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"
In an interview Knoxville talked about trying to figure out a non-lethal way to connect people to giant balloons (e.g. sneakily clip onto their belt or similar) that would rip them into the sky. Probably impossible but funny to think about
This or golf airhorn
Accept no substitutes:
Find the Buckley arc v funny. ardent explosive praise -> returned to her home planet. Bye Jesse, I never planned on seeing Hamnet
synthesising good humoured common sense, reasonable offer edged with imperialists fuck off at Castro levels
Eric Williams putting CLR James under house arrest: where all doctoral supervisor / supervisee relationships tend over sufficient timeframe
Get less mad at Goodreads/Storygraph reviews by choosing to see them as outlets for people who like to write little essays recording their failings in reading comprehension
top corner of John Rocque's map of Dublin, showing a detailed patchwork of irregularly shaped fields
section of what is now Fairview & Clontarf: Ballybough River & Clontarf Island
the city itself
in Rocque's 1756 map of Dublin
the city is somehow secondary, all his attention & love goes to the fields around it
digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:...
listen, I know you have to promise insane things on covers to get people to read a book anymore but I don’t think this level of false advertising is sustainable
