Roc83
@roc83.bsky.social
Writer. Musician. Recovering Academic
Perhaps the most revealing thing from all the Starmer/Streeting kerfuffle is when Wes said that nothing gets Kier angrier than Labour people briefing against their own.
Genocide, transphobia, racism, rampant poverty, he’s fine. But watch him explode if you dirt to the media.
Priorities, eh?
Genocide, transphobia, racism, rampant poverty, he’s fine. But watch him explode if you dirt to the media.
Priorities, eh?
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Perhaps the most revealing thing from all the Starmer/Streeting kerfuffle is when Wes said that nothing gets Kier angrier than Labour people briefing against their own.
Genocide, transphobia, racism, rampant poverty, he’s fine. But watch him explode if you dirt to the media.
Priorities, eh?
Genocide, transphobia, racism, rampant poverty, he’s fine. But watch him explode if you dirt to the media.
Priorities, eh?
Due to the continued inability of Bluesky to recognise a joke, it is now compulsory to attach this Nick Helm clip to any post containing the slightest trace of humour.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vai_...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Due to the continued inability of Bluesky to recognise a joke, it is now compulsory to attach this Nick Helm clip to any post containing the slightest trace of humour.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vai_...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vai_...
After the mass theft of copyrighted work, AI companies still need state funding for their business model to work.
They want to use tax money to train technology that will, ultimately, take millions of jobs from the people paying the taxes in the first place.
They want to use tax money to train technology that will, ultimately, take millions of jobs from the people paying the taxes in the first place.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
After the mass theft of copyrighted work, AI companies still need state funding for their business model to work.
They want to use tax money to train technology that will, ultimately, take millions of jobs from the people paying the taxes in the first place.
They want to use tax money to train technology that will, ultimately, take millions of jobs from the people paying the taxes in the first place.
I haven’t seen this year’s John Lewis advert, but let me tell you, nothing will ever top my analysis of the 2016 one.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I haven’t seen this year’s John Lewis advert, but let me tell you, nothing will ever top my analysis of the 2016 one.
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
Given the day that’s in it, I decided to repost my trilogy of Poppy Blogs.
#Poppymania always struck me as profoundly indicative of the type of nationalism that was growing in England during the 2010s.
1/3
politicalhorizons.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/p...
Given the day that’s in it, I decided to repost my trilogy of Poppy Blogs.
#Poppymania always struck me as profoundly indicative of the type of nationalism that was growing in England during the 2010s.
1/3
politicalhorizons.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/p...
Poppies Over Auschwitz
It’s November in the United Kingdom and that can mean only one thing: the ubiquitous presence of poppies in the public domain. The poppy is worn in the run up to Remembrance Day as a mark of respec…
politicalhorizons.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
Given the day that’s in it, I decided to repost my trilogy of Poppy Blogs.
#Poppymania always struck me as profoundly indicative of the type of nationalism that was growing in England during the 2010s.
1/3
politicalhorizons.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/p...
Given the day that’s in it, I decided to repost my trilogy of Poppy Blogs.
#Poppymania always struck me as profoundly indicative of the type of nationalism that was growing in England during the 2010s.
1/3
politicalhorizons.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/p...
Dublin people sharing posts about non-Dubs liking coddle as if it’s something to be celebrated and not a cry for help.
#Speirgorm
#Speirgorm
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dublin people sharing posts about non-Dubs liking coddle as if it’s something to be celebrated and not a cry for help.
#Speirgorm
#Speirgorm
I know everyone wants to talk about Mamdani, but spare a thought for his poor forgotten magician cousin, Tadani
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I know everyone wants to talk about Mamdani, but spare a thought for his poor forgotten magician cousin, Tadani
Please, please, please, PLEASE, can this additional funding be used to buy a guard dog trained specifically to keep Enoch Burke off the school grounds?
Obvs the dog should be called, Enoch Bork.
#Speirgorm
Obvs the dog should be called, Enoch Bork.
#Speirgorm
Additional State funding is to be given to a school to help pay for security as Irish teacher Enoch Burke continues to attend school grounds
School gets State funding to pay for security for Burke
Additional State funding is to be given to a school to help pay for security as Irish teacher Enoch Burke continues to attend school grounds.
www.rte.ie
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Please, please, please, PLEASE, can this additional funding be used to buy a guard dog trained specifically to keep Enoch Burke off the school grounds?
Obvs the dog should be called, Enoch Bork.
#Speirgorm
Obvs the dog should be called, Enoch Bork.
#Speirgorm
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
#SpeirGorm #Áras25
FF deputy Leader, Helen McEntee - Heather Humphreys ran a very positive and forward looking campaign.
Me -
FF deputy Leader, Helen McEntee - Heather Humphreys ran a very positive and forward looking campaign.
Me -
a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in a dark room with christmas lights in the background
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in a dark room with christmas lights in the background
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#SpeirGorm #Áras25
FF deputy Leader, Helen McEntee - Heather Humphreys ran a very positive and forward looking campaign.
Me -
FF deputy Leader, Helen McEntee - Heather Humphreys ran a very positive and forward looking campaign.
Me -
Just took my 93yr old Mum to vote, she has red hair, and has to walk on all fours. In a loud voice she said “Which box for …”
Before she finished, a loud horn sounded and a group of people on horseback with dogs chased her out of the polling station yelling RURAL PURSUITS!
#Speirgorm #Áras25
Before she finished, a loud horn sounded and a group of people on horseback with dogs chased her out of the polling station yelling RURAL PURSUITS!
#Speirgorm #Áras25
October 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just took my 93yr old Mum to vote, she has red hair, and has to walk on all fours. In a loud voice she said “Which box for …”
Before she finished, a loud horn sounded and a group of people on horseback with dogs chased her out of the polling station yelling RURAL PURSUITS!
#Speirgorm #Áras25
Before she finished, a loud horn sounded and a group of people on horseback with dogs chased her out of the polling station yelling RURAL PURSUITS!
#Speirgorm #Áras25
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Roc83
Catherine Connolly used to wrap little bits of turf in tinfoil and sell them as ten spots of hash in the campsite at Féile
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SmearTheBejaysis
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Catherine Connolly used to wrap little bits of turf in tinfoil and sell them as ten spots of hash in the campsite at Féile
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SmearTheBejaysis
I once asked Catherine Connolly why she was walking so fast. She said that for as far back as she can remember, she’s always been Russian.
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SmearTheBejaysis
October 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I once asked Catherine Connolly why she was walking so fast. She said that for as far back as she can remember, she’s always been Russian.
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SmearTheBejaysis
Catherine Connolly took the horse to France, and that’s why it ended up in your lasagna in 2013.
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SmearTheBejaysis
October 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Catherine Connolly took the horse to France, and that’s why it ended up in your lasagna in 2013.
#SmearTheBejaysis
#SmearTheBejaysis
October 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Catherine Connolly never says thank you to the driver when she’s getting off the bus!
Don’t miss my hard hitting investigative expose in tomorrow’s Independent.
Don’t miss my hard hitting investigative expose in tomorrow’s Independent.
October 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Catherine Connolly never says thank you to the driver when she’s getting off the bus!
Don’t miss my hard hitting investigative expose in tomorrow’s Independent.
Don’t miss my hard hitting investigative expose in tomorrow’s Independent.
This last round table is a mansplaining fest of cringe tropes. Like, I get that they’re playing a game, but they are leaning so much into men follow the evidence/women follow their emotions trope that I’m shocked that Nick hasn’t fallen into the 1950s.
#TraitorsIrl
#TraitorsIrl
September 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This last round table is a mansplaining fest of cringe tropes. Like, I get that they’re playing a game, but they are leaning so much into men follow the evidence/women follow their emotions trope that I’m shocked that Nick hasn’t fallen into the 1950s.
#TraitorsIrl
#TraitorsIrl
Prediction is that Nick and Ben try to convince Kelley that the other two women are traitors. Then, Nick will go after Ben by saying he must have been protecting him if he’s still here.
#TraitorsIrl
#TraitorsIrl
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Prediction is that Nick and Ben try to convince Kelley that the other two women are traitors. Then, Nick will go after Ben by saying he must have been protecting him if he’s still here.
#TraitorsIrl
#TraitorsIrl
Why would you murder Wilkin?
The poor fella probably didn’t even remember if he was a faithful or a traitor.
I was hoping he would just kinda stumble his way to victory.
#traitorsIrl
The poor fella probably didn’t even remember if he was a faithful or a traitor.
I was hoping he would just kinda stumble his way to victory.
#traitorsIrl
September 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Why would you murder Wilkin?
The poor fella probably didn’t even remember if he was a faithful or a traitor.
I was hoping he would just kinda stumble his way to victory.
#traitorsIrl
The poor fella probably didn’t even remember if he was a faithful or a traitor.
I was hoping he would just kinda stumble his way to victory.
#traitorsIrl
Before the advent of long distance communications technologies, humans were able to relay information via carrier pigeons.
AI is openly advising people to kill pigeons.
Why?
They know that these winged heroes may be humanity’s best hope in the coming war. Protect pigeons at all costs!
AI is openly advising people to kill pigeons.
Why?
They know that these winged heroes may be humanity’s best hope in the coming war. Protect pigeons at all costs!
September 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Before the advent of long distance communications technologies, humans were able to relay information via carrier pigeons.
AI is openly advising people to kill pigeons.
Why?
They know that these winged heroes may be humanity’s best hope in the coming war. Protect pigeons at all costs!
AI is openly advising people to kill pigeons.
Why?
They know that these winged heroes may be humanity’s best hope in the coming war. Protect pigeons at all costs!
September 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a profound misunderstanding of violence. Words, ideas, actions can be as destructive as acts of direct physical violence. Kirk’s words have helped normalise and exacerbate violence against LGBTQ+ and non-white people.
He should not have been shot, but don’t amplify this false dichotomy.
He should not have been shot, but don’t amplify this false dichotomy.
HORRIBLE. SICKENING. UNACCEPTABLE.
In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.
#ShameOnUS
In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence.
#ShameOnUS
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is a profound misunderstanding of violence. Words, ideas, actions can be as destructive as acts of direct physical violence. Kirk’s words have helped normalise and exacerbate violence against LGBTQ+ and non-white people.
He should not have been shot, but don’t amplify this false dichotomy.
He should not have been shot, but don’t amplify this false dichotomy.