SpaceX, the investment opportunity for people who didn't learn their lesson after spending $300k on a jpeg of a monkey
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h agoMean bastard Irish police chief straight from central casting
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Maybe if you live there it's harder to notice it happening, but it's obvious from here that Britain is fucked, and getting worse every day
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
I once read an early interview with Oasis where Noel had a go at Liam for wearing sunglasses indoors and he replied "you've got to keep up yer fuckin' mystique aven't yer?" and over 30 years later I still think of it every time I put on sunglasses
The New York Times legitimate-concerning racist pogroms in Belfast
There's a lot of very risky money propping up the economy at the moment, and it's a lot more opaque than in 2008. We actually have no way of knowing how bad the next crash will be
Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
I'm old enough to have been around when Mayo started losing All-Ireland finals and you never heard any of this "curse" nonsense then, it's entirely a 21st Century invention
I have a hunch that JK Rowling has bitten off more than she can chew by taking on West Belfast
I've got a bunch of folk records issued by the Smithsonian. Is Trump going to email me and tell me the Froggie Didn't Go A-courtin'? That John Henry Wasn't a Steel Drivin' Man?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoBreaking News: President Trump ordered new signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to warn that its depiction of U.S. history, in his view, is “inaccurate.” It was the latest escalation in his dispute with the institution.
Get the fuck out of here with your "Commonwealth Games". Don't even try to put that shit over on me
I asked my partner the "50k now v a chance to flip a coin for 1 million" question and she answered "50k now" instantly. Then a rather long pause before she asked "what would you choose?" and an even longer one before I said "that would depend on whether I thought you would find out or not"
When I was a kid my older brother's friend stayed in bed for a weekend to make himself tall enough to get into the Gardaí.
There won't be a rain staying mainly on the plain in Spain tonight
There's a post getting a lot of numbers just now that obliges me to say - not without some regret - that the hurling final was also a bad game
"Can Spain play keepaway for 11 minutes" my brother in Christ have you ever seen Spain play
A comfortable majority of the World Cup finals in my lifetime have been absolute stinkers
Infantino has played the greatest long game of all time, enduring our scorn for years so that he could sit next to Trump at the pivotal moment. Here it comes...
Seeing a lot of people saying "why can't it be like last night's game?" and a lot of others saying the fix is in for Argentina, and every one of them is English