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Vote like the future of your country depends on it.

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

I am once again thinking of the brilliant review of Trader Joe's on Hyperion by "Werner Herzog" (@pftompkins.bsky.social) And now I can post the full audio version <3

Tell you what - I've always hated this song, I think because it was mainly used in an annoying advert some years back, but @pftompkins.bsky.social and Maya Rudolph fully crush it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fbu...

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better. First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime