Roy Lonergan
@roylonergan.bsky.social
Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Son of immigrants. Not integrated. East, east, east London. Some photographs: https://t.co/B0HT8DtgRg
Well we all wondered if the opposition parties would recapture the agenda while Burnham was on holiday and it does look like Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives will manage to do that for a crucial third day
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1h agoFormer neo-Nazi activist withdraws... But Badenoch now offers him advisor role. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
For me this is one of those “yes I understand that it’s objectively a positive development but I do also lament it in ways I can’t justify” things
You know how football has gone all nice and middle class? West Ham are at the Den on 19 September. I’d bet on noisy but no real trouble.
Is there Irish academics who could point me in direction of relevant papers on socio-cultural reasons behind the heavily centralised style of government through history of Irish nation antithetical to proper consultation on environmental issues etc. #speirghorm #speirgorm #academicsky
For somewhere so wealthy compared to the UK, Mississippi‘s life expectancy of 72.2 is a bit low.
Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22h agoOnce again, the US's problems are red state problems. 9 of the top 10 life expectancy states voted for Harris, and 9 out of 10 of the bottom 10 voted for Trump. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...
I would definitely listen. This would be a hoot. Draft the contract now before Goalhanger steal the idea.
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6h agojust had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down
1. Caves of Steel. Not sure. 2. Don’t know. But the 1818 edition of Frankenstein is one. 3. For a genre: SF. Not F. And absolutely not hard-sf trilogies. 5. Phlox Books in Leyton. 6. Best was The End of Everything by M John Harrison. 12. Most things we were forced to read were great.
Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · 9h agoAll right then. 1. The Code of the Woosters. 12. Yes: Hardy, Shakespeare, Waiting for Godot. (Middlemarch, not so much.) 19. Tolkien. I'm team Hugo Dyson: "not another fucking elf".
This Tory candidate put our colleague & others through hell, was convicted of assault of police officer, extremist racism to Jewish & Muslim communities. Tory leader last month withdrew the Tory whip from Gavin Barwell after he posted criticisms of Badenoch’s stance against net zero. Tory choices
I just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.
Tricky. Anywhere near Mare Street has been hipsterfied. Best bet might be the Chesham Arms.
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 23h agoPeople who know: a) Hackney, and b) my taste in pubs (cosy, real ale, dogs, no sports, no TV, no live music, no loud music, maybe burgers) What is the best pub in walking distance of the Moth Club?
Suppose an Irish author publishes with a British press. Their local bookshop wants to get a few copies in. If they are already ordering €150 worth of other books from the same publisher*, that’s fine. But if they aren’t, they’ll either wait until they are ready to do so – meaning a delay in ordering
Matthew Parkinson-Bennett@matthewpb.bsky.social · yesterdayI’m hearing that An Post are adding the new €3 charge to B2B deliveries from UK to Ireland, where the total value is less than €150 – even though the new regulation only applies to B2C deliveries. This is potentially devastating for Irish businesses including bookshops.
There’s so much crap down that thread. Also shows the power of mythmaking around Operation Dynamo (it was the world’s largest navy that took the troops off, not small boats) and that none of these people will have heard of the later Operation Aerial evacuations down the coast.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · yesterdayShe's a perfect example of why people need to study history because no one who knows anything about Dunkirk would dream of writing something so insulting and wrong.
“As soon as the hooter sounded in Croke Park, the story was no longer about football. It was about roots and identity and repressed feelings and damaged feelings and everlasting feelings.”
Siobhan McAndrew@siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 3d ago'Places like Achill Island and Black Sod and Belmullet have always been there and they were always beautiful... the light is coming right down on top of us now' 💚💔 www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
Arguably the best characteristic of the Wehrmacht was a propensity for becoming dead.
Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 3d agoAnd instead compensated by, ahem, a lack of casualty aversion.
My child is academic. Your child should have a choice. Their child should know its place.
Charlie Beckett@charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d agoAgreed. Especially in an age when the distinction between 'practical' and intellectual skills at work is becoming more amorphous
Sweden eh. Still can’t drop the eugenics habit.
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2d agoYou'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant
Hunky Dory. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Aladdin Sane. Young Americans. Station to Station. Heroes.
Roy Lonergan@roylonergan.bsky.social · 3d agoHeaven up Here, Porcupine, Ocean Rain. Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. Born to Run. Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Heaven up Here, Porcupine, Ocean Rain. Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. Born to Run. Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 3d agoSurfa Rosa/Doolittle/Bossanova
I say this as a West Ham fan of more than 30yrs (Christ that makes me feel old)… but why, why do you hate your kids that much?! Bastard.
Well worth reading. Both for the discussion of the use of time travel in fiction and in post-hoc “analysis“ of recent events.
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 3d agoSelective time travel is one of the most interesting aspects of SF narratives around time. A lot of shows will talk about “fixed points” in time, essentially to prevent the characters from strategically or logistically deploying time travel to dismantle the crisis the story is about.
