matt
therockisdead.bsky.social
matt
@therockisdead.bsky.social
Budding historian intetested in global revolutions at the turn of the 20th century. Dublin via Offaly and Berlin. Sometimes post about football. Do a podcast also @casementsleftovers.bsky.social
Anyway, blessed to have been there for both games, including my first ever Ireland away trip. Went with my pal who I’ve gone to home games with for over a decade, which was special. Our third pal couldn’t make it but video called us crying at full time. Being Irish is yet again very good
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Are the revisionists okay
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Why would you post this in public
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
October 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Two counter-points to this nonsense:

1. I do not believe that comedy has “transformative power”. I think it’s just comedy.

2. If you did to engage in “social transformation”, why not do it for free?
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Really enjoying this. Slobodian takes the ideology of the Far Right seriously, in order to attempt to understand it. It is an extremely welcome change from the dismissiveness we usually see.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Everyone say congrats!
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Andy Quirke is the most embarrassing scrote in Ireland
September 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Nights like this I miss Twitter, but always good to remind ourselves why we shouldn’t be on there
September 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What the hell is this feature? Surely if you’re recommending 5 songs from one album I could just listen to the whole thing?
September 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Keep going guys, we nearly got him
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The timing …
August 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Kind of nonsense, Messi is a UNICEF Ambassador who has spoken out about Gaza, and also he did this in 2018:
August 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Also hard LOL at the suggestion that historians also don’t have a long and storied track record of getting things wrong
July 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This morning’s album, Kraftwerk’s first from 1974
July 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I am seeing this sentiment a lot, and — maybe I’m missing something — but what is the lesson supposed to be? What are we supposed to learn from studying that history?
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Was reading up on Kraus (the other guy in this pic) and, lol, this is the funniest thing to say when you are asked if you think your friend is a pedophile. Maybe it’s good that we are post-science now
April 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Happy what even is a shrove day to all who celebrate
March 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
From the new Richard Dawson album. There’s nobody else doing it like him
February 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
How do I get my Bluesky Discover algorithm to stop showing me shit like this
February 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Feel like this hasn’t been stressed enough:

The US destroyed Europe’s Nordstream pipeline, and now we are forced to buy our gas from them.

And nobody seems to want to talk about it. Call it what it is.
January 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Heroic work my Google here it has to be said
January 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Trying to figure out how best to shelve my books when all my space is vertical
January 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Judge me, I’m doing the same to you
December 4, 2024 at 9:54 PM