Seeadler
@seeadler.bsky.social
Ex-RM from NI with a PhD. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK
To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання
To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання
I want to know what musical qualifications Crossan has, because every musician I know loves Bohemian Rhapsody.
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I want to know what musical qualifications Crossan has, because every musician I know loves Bohemian Rhapsody.
Misread that as "Crufts" for a second there...
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Misread that as "Crufts" for a second there...
"By their fruits shall you know them."
There aren't half as many Christians in the world as there claim to be.
There aren't half as many Christians in the world as there claim to be.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"By their fruits shall you know them."
There aren't half as many Christians in the world as there claim to be.
There aren't half as many Christians in the world as there claim to be.
And, in doing so, taught the wrong lesson: that aircraft carriers were vulnerable to battleships.
It would take quite a long time for everyone to realise that the reverse was true.
It would take quite a long time for everyone to realise that the reverse was true.
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
And, in doing so, taught the wrong lesson: that aircraft carriers were vulnerable to battleships.
It would take quite a long time for everyone to realise that the reverse was true.
It would take quite a long time for everyone to realise that the reverse was true.
Just so we're all clear, what do you think their "only job" was?
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just so we're all clear, what do you think their "only job" was?
I'm Northern Irish but I live in Scotland. Today I was in the post office, sending a parcel back to NI, and I had to fill in what was essentially a customs declaration form. To send something from one part of the UK to another. So I'm sorry too: you happened to catch me on a day when I'm a bit off.
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm Northern Irish but I live in Scotland. Today I was in the post office, sending a parcel back to NI, and I had to fill in what was essentially a customs declaration form. To send something from one part of the UK to another. So I'm sorry too: you happened to catch me on a day when I'm a bit off.
I'm glad you clarified. There was literally no other way to tell you were trying to be funny.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm glad you clarified. There was literally no other way to tell you were trying to be funny.
It is more complicated than that (a statement that applies to *every single fucking thing* in Northern Irish identity politics, which is *all* Northern Irish politics).
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It is more complicated than that (a statement that applies to *every single fucking thing* in Northern Irish identity politics, which is *all* Northern Irish politics).
Okay, but that comment wasn't actually funny. The Troubles killed or injured 3% of the entire country's population. The Omagh bomb killed more people, per capita, than 9/11.
Understand your audience.
Understand your audience.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Okay, but that comment wasn't actually funny. The Troubles killed or injured 3% of the entire country's population. The Omagh bomb killed more people, per capita, than 9/11.
Understand your audience.
Understand your audience.
I cannot tell if you're being facetious and playing the "utterly clueless American" bit with deadpan brilliance, or if you are in fact an utterly clueless American.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I cannot tell if you're being facetious and playing the "utterly clueless American" bit with deadpan brilliance, or if you are in fact an utterly clueless American.
I dare you to say "Northern Ireland is not part of British culture" on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I dare you to say "Northern Ireland is not part of British culture" on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
It sounds like your biography pretty exactly matches my own!
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It sounds like your biography pretty exactly matches my own!
Watch him scamper up that chimney
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Watch him scamper up that chimney
Richmond-upon-Thames?
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Richmond-upon-Thames?
Fly-by-night dog-and-cat-restaurants are unbelievably profitable, apparently.
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Fly-by-night dog-and-cat-restaurants are unbelievably profitable, apparently.
*1975 Northern Ireland looks on in amazement at the assertion that at that time there was "less culture warring".
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
*1975 Northern Ireland looks on in amazement at the assertion that at that time there was "less culture warring".
The UK? Which includes Northern Ireland? Which in 1975 was, in turn, in full Troubles mode?
Let's take a look at how NI was doing in 1975...
OH.
cain.ulster.ac.uk/victims/huma...
Let's take a look at how NI was doing in 1975...
OH.
cain.ulster.ac.uk/victims/huma...
CAIN: Victims: Memorials: Search Results Page
cain.ulster.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The UK? Which includes Northern Ireland? Which in 1975 was, in turn, in full Troubles mode?
Let's take a look at how NI was doing in 1975...
OH.
cain.ulster.ac.uk/victims/huma...
Let's take a look at how NI was doing in 1975...
OH.
cain.ulster.ac.uk/victims/huma...