Profile avatar
jaymcee.bsky.social
10 posts 53 followers 391 following
Regular Contributor
Posts 21 Comments 8

Adorno got it right in 1945

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

You can tell how ill the Pope is because they say he's reading the newspapers and in good spirits. Nobody who's reading newspapers at the moment is in good spirits.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

If there is one positive in all of this it is the final, definitive end to the fiction these companies are global. They are as American as the United Fruit Company and Standard Oil were in their time.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

But you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

I’m just still not convinced that this china shop is the best place for a full grown bull.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

"What's past is prologue" The Tempest William Shakespeare

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Holly Cairns having her baby ON election day is iconic tbh #Election2024 #GE24 #VoteLeftTransferLeft #VoteThemOut

submitted 91 days ago • 19 comments

It’s mad that they have two hosts for three leaders in this debate but poor Katie Hannon had to handle ten of them on her own last week

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

They should allow a second Mary Lou McDonald to even up the teams. Mary Two McDonald #rtept

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

Scored 15. As someone who did a uni course on Tolkien and has never taken antidepressants, I thought I’d win on the nerd reference front. Turns out it was the antidepressants. Curse you, obscure names of Gondor.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

submitted 101 days ago • 195 comments

The Husband is desperately clinging on to Old Twitter cos the Irish sports crowd are still there. Could someone round them up and point them this way??

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

There seem to be two qualifications for high office under Trump: Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.

submitted 103 days ago • 137 comments

Hey @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social thanks for giving me 'the start' here. All eyes now turn to #whereispaulhoward

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky is like walking into your local pub on Christmas Eve and spotting everyone who's home for the holidays.

submitted 103 days ago • 80 comments

I'm going to start working on this, and will add to it as more major media outlets join Bluesky. I expect the pace to pick up very soon and very significantly. Major media has let us down significantly over the last ten years, but it's still vital to know what's being reported. go.bsky.app/2JyEju6

submitted 107 days ago • 946 comments

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

submitted 111 days ago • 51 comments

Thx to m'colleague Róisín Lanigan for this pic of Lukashenko and Putin serving 100% Northern Irish Showband Memories vibes. Willie McDaid of The Detroit Band and Paddy Kelly of The Capitol Boys, pictured ahead of a three-day Lough Erne residency on what they're calling "HMS Jive".

submitted 156 days ago • 6 comments

My ten-minute talk on #Arendt for @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-...

submitted 189 days ago • 4 comments

Wonder if the Olympic swimmers will end up like the horses in Phillip Larkins “At Grass” - tearing up and down the municipal pool, years hence, swimming only for joy…

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar mystery.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments