Shaun McGoldrick
@shaunmcgoldrick.bsky.social
Irish in Oxfordshire, love Rugby, F1, MotoGP, Beer and Brewing. Often found doing incalculable damage to the UK
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This kind of big modern cruise ship is always so funny to me, because it's basically 'hey, what if we took a bunch of things you like to do on holiday, then added a thing that made it slightly more dangerous that also increases the price and means you can't leave'.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This kind of big modern cruise ship is always so funny to me, because it's basically 'hey, what if we took a bunch of things you like to do on holiday, then added a thing that made it slightly more dangerous that also increases the price and means you can't leave'.
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
What do Scotland gain from all these T2 matches?
Last 18 months they have played USA twice, Fiji twice, Canada, Chile, Uruguay, Portugal, Samoa and Tonga.
Apart from Wales, Australia and Italy at home the T1 matches have all been losses.
Last 18 months they have played USA twice, Fiji twice, Canada, Chile, Uruguay, Portugal, Samoa and Tonga.
Apart from Wales, Australia and Italy at home the T1 matches have all been losses.
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
What do Scotland gain from all these T2 matches?
Last 18 months they have played USA twice, Fiji twice, Canada, Chile, Uruguay, Portugal, Samoa and Tonga.
Apart from Wales, Australia and Italy at home the T1 matches have all been losses.
Last 18 months they have played USA twice, Fiji twice, Canada, Chile, Uruguay, Portugal, Samoa and Tonga.
Apart from Wales, Australia and Italy at home the T1 matches have all been losses.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
2/3 races with marshalls in the firing line on a live track is completely unacceptable
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
2/3 races with marshalls in the firing line on a live track is completely unacceptable
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"It looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with," Rounds says about the plan.
I think we'll find out in the next 24hrs or so, but this might represent a schism — between the pro-Ukraine camp, which includes Rubio, Rounds, and others; and the anti-Ukraine types: Vance, Witkoff, etc.
I think we'll find out in the next 24hrs or so, but this might represent a schism — between the pro-Ukraine camp, which includes Rubio, Rounds, and others; and the anti-Ukraine types: Vance, Witkoff, etc.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"It looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with," Rounds says about the plan.
I think we'll find out in the next 24hrs or so, but this might represent a schism — between the pro-Ukraine camp, which includes Rubio, Rounds, and others; and the anti-Ukraine types: Vance, Witkoff, etc.
I think we'll find out in the next 24hrs or so, but this might represent a schism — between the pro-Ukraine camp, which includes Rubio, Rounds, and others; and the anti-Ukraine types: Vance, Witkoff, etc.
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How the fuck are we still only 11 points behind?
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How the fuck are we still only 11 points behind?
My mate is out with his boys so I'm supposed to go dark on WhatsApp.
Should there be a break glass in case of emergency, like this is going to spoil his weekend and I could spare him?
Should there be a break glass in case of emergency, like this is going to spoil his weekend and I could spare him?
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My mate is out with his boys so I'm supposed to go dark on WhatsApp.
Should there be a break glass in case of emergency, like this is going to spoil his weekend and I could spare him?
Should there be a break glass in case of emergency, like this is going to spoil his weekend and I could spare him?
For fuck's sake James/Sam/Jack.
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For fuck's sake James/Sam/Jack.
We're definitely getting pity calls from the referee now
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We're definitely getting pity calls from the referee now
Carley bottled that
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Carley bottled that
There's the yellow card
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
There's the yellow card
Two tries chalked off, Blair Murray catching a ball and the first hat trick against New Zealand in over 20 years. What a match
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Two tries chalked off, Blair Murray catching a ball and the first hat trick against New Zealand in over 20 years. What a match
That looks held up
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
That looks held up
The entire Welsh team needs to go to tackle school
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The entire Welsh team needs to go to tackle school
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Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
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Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
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"Hands up if you caused 23,000 extra deaths by being a dithering incompetent twat"
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Hands up if you caused 23,000 extra deaths by being a dithering incompetent twat"
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John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
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Receipts from 8 years ago - and yes Andy Wigmore did refer this to Farage’s lawyers
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Receipts from 8 years ago - and yes Andy Wigmore did refer this to Farage’s lawyers
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![Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he
knew Farage well because they took the
same train to school, has similarly clear
memories.
"When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said,
Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,.
"He took me for a walk up to the lower
school playground, where all the children
from about nine years old to 12 would be.
And he singled out, completely at random, a
kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in
detention for no reason whatsoever. I was
flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just
disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just
purely based on the colour of his skin.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreifwa2hlzevsllsekm44ne6yprkgrfhwryxxclupy3cz2qqj42sxma@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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'Quiet, piggy': Trump responds to reporter after Epstein question
'Quiet, piggy': Trump responds to reporter after Epstein question
The president made the comment to a female reporter while speaking to the press on Air Force One on Friday.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
'Quiet, piggy': Trump responds to reporter after Epstein question
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He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.