Micheál
@nameless-weevil.bsky.social
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Micheál
@nameless-weevil.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Towards war with China? w/ Adam Tooze
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 05/11/2024 · 1h 19m
podcasts.apple.com
I do not enjoy podcasts, too passive, too slow, but this 79m @poltheoryother one is worthwhile. Adam Tooze is much less politically guarded in the more informal setting of a conversation than in Chartbook or his punditry, his liberalism barely aggravates at all.
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A wealthy man who talks about something he knows as much about as the man in a pub will have his tantrum reported as the third item in the RTÉ News running order.
Remote working a 'mistake', claims Denis O'Brien
Businessman Denis O'Brien has claimed there has been a "marked decline" in the efficiency of all parts of the Government due to remote working.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A wealthy man who talks about something he knows as much about as the man in a pub will have his tantrum reported as the third item in the RTÉ News running order.
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I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
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"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" is a quote I think about constantly
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" is a quote I think about constantly
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3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
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one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
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A filmmaker I know tried to use the beach from the movie The Beach for a film shot late last year and, who could have guessed, it is still wrecked, unusable and an ecological disaster (this article is from 2022)
www.timeout.com/news/hollywo...
www.timeout.com/news/hollywo...
Hollywood is finally fixing ruined Thai beach from ‘The Beach’
Leonardo DiCaprio defended the movie during filming
www.timeout.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A filmmaker I know tried to use the beach from the movie The Beach for a film shot late last year and, who could have guessed, it is still wrecked, unusable and an ecological disaster (this article is from 2022)
www.timeout.com/news/hollywo...
www.timeout.com/news/hollywo...
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Exactly. It's performance art, storytelling to keep the money spigot turned on full blast. Agents don't work, it is AI Centipede.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Exactly. It's performance art, storytelling to keep the money spigot turned on full blast. Agents don't work, it is AI Centipede.
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
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The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.
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now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it
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From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏
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The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
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"What should be occurring to us around this time, as we take stock of a prominent figure in politics and media, are questions like: ‘Did any of these people who pay Ivan Yates to share his opinion ask him if he had any conflicts of interest?’ Is that not a question we ask these people?"
"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?"
Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.
Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.
Surrealing in the Years: Yates' Fianna Fáil dealings an open kimono moment for Irish politics
Agh, my eyes. My eyes!
www.thejournal.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"What should be occurring to us around this time, as we take stock of a prominent figure in politics and media, are questions like: ‘Did any of these people who pay Ivan Yates to share his opinion ask him if he had any conflicts of interest?’ Is that not a question we ask these people?"
Delightfulness alert: Walking along the Grand Canal tonight I cam across a parade of young children with colourful lanterns all of whom seemed delighted to be walking at night surrounded by trees. I asked a parent and apparently it's people with German connections celebrating St Martin's Day.
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Delightfulness alert: Walking along the Grand Canal tonight I cam across a parade of young children with colourful lanterns all of whom seemed delighted to be walking at night surrounded by trees. I asked a parent and apparently it's people with German connections celebrating St Martin's Day.
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World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
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FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we can afford to build social housing.
Also FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we, a neutral country, can afford not to spend billions on weapons for our military.
Also FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we, a neutral country, can afford not to spend billions on weapons for our military.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we can afford to build social housing.
Also FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we, a neutral country, can afford not to spend billions on weapons for our military.
Also FF/FG - there’s literally no way that we, a neutral country, can afford not to spend billions on weapons for our military.
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It is fascinating to watch governments turn to their populations and say, 'This is it, lads. Yees are not getting anything better ever. Now continue to vote for and support us', as a strategy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It is fascinating to watch governments turn to their populations and say, 'This is it, lads. Yees are not getting anything better ever. Now continue to vote for and support us', as a strategy.
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this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
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Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
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When someone asks me if I regret leaving Hollywood
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
When someone asks me if I regret leaving Hollywood
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Incredible that WWII has been the origin myth of the West for 80 years - saturating the culture, looming large in political rhetoric - and yet these leering beasts have been allowed to just saunter back into power as if no one has read a single history book.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Incredible that WWII has been the origin myth of the West for 80 years - saturating the culture, looming large in political rhetoric - and yet these leering beasts have been allowed to just saunter back into power as if no one has read a single history book.
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This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
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Bitta history.
Beagánín staire.
The Govt made a solemn commitment to keep the Triple Lock in the “National Declaration” on neutrality during the second Nice Treaty referendum.
That Declaration was responded to by EU Member States in their 2002 Declaration made at Seville.
Beagánín staire.
The Govt made a solemn commitment to keep the Triple Lock in the “National Declaration” on neutrality during the second Nice Treaty referendum.
That Declaration was responded to by EU Member States in their 2002 Declaration made at Seville.
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Bitta history.
Beagánín staire.
The Govt made a solemn commitment to keep the Triple Lock in the “National Declaration” on neutrality during the second Nice Treaty referendum.
That Declaration was responded to by EU Member States in their 2002 Declaration made at Seville.
Beagánín staire.
The Govt made a solemn commitment to keep the Triple Lock in the “National Declaration” on neutrality during the second Nice Treaty referendum.
That Declaration was responded to by EU Member States in their 2002 Declaration made at Seville.
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UCD Assistant Professor of War Studies Edward Burke
yesterday said that people take the existence of the EU “for granted”, adding: “We need to fight for it."
The Government is afraid of a referendum which gives people the chance to say there are better things to fight for than genocide enablers.
yesterday said that people take the existence of the EU “for granted”, adding: “We need to fight for it."
The Government is afraid of a referendum which gives people the chance to say there are better things to fight for than genocide enablers.
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
UCD Assistant Professor of War Studies Edward Burke
yesterday said that people take the existence of the EU “for granted”, adding: “We need to fight for it."
The Government is afraid of a referendum which gives people the chance to say there are better things to fight for than genocide enablers.
yesterday said that people take the existence of the EU “for granted”, adding: “We need to fight for it."
The Government is afraid of a referendum which gives people the chance to say there are better things to fight for than genocide enablers.