Recent content by taubstumm

HAIL TO THE KONTENT KREATORS

I know lovely travellers it’s almost like as if we shouldn’t generalise our feelings about individuals to presume that they apply to the group that those individuals are a part of. there’s a word for that.

recently I’ve been going to a place run by a no-nonsense vietnamese matriarch with a flock of younger guys doing the actual haircuts, with whom I have basically no shared language. a roll of the dice every time but it’s worked out pretty well so far, even though the latest one was a bit more of...

tried to go see horse lords last night... the venue was a ten-minute walk from my place, and I thought, whatever, it won’t be sold out, it’s weird skronky music on a tuesday night. dear readers, it was indeed sold out. gahh. and then I saw that the next gig that they have after that one will be...

must be a bit weird for shatter also being basically ireland’s only zionist... strange man.

Harris has the curse of a nerdy squeaky voice. gives everything he says a faint whiff of self-parody. I say this a fellow squeaky-voiced person. having said that, michael martin has the curse of waffler-voice, leo has the curse of robot-voice. so that makes enda kenny the most recent taoiseach...

years ago I told a friend of mine, who is french, about paul gogarty’s unparliamentary language in the dáil, and showed him the video. he was very entertained. and so, for years afterwards, he would occasionally jump out from behind things and, in his kerrygold-ad-level french accent, shout...

there’s a brexit / tiktok / george galloway / yoga / photoshopped-princess intersection here that will somehow end up being powerful in utterly baffling ways

right now there are millions of middle-class young english women — women who might not normally ever read the news beyond a glance — that are currently rapidly developing what is likely to be a strong and life-long profound mistrust of any normie media outlets. that’s the kind of thing that has...

this is clearly just an attempt to stop people voting green by associating them with the modh coinníollach

yep, it’s almost entirely a post-reunification, liberal, post-material, end-of-history innovation (if you ever end up talking with a german who is attempting to dispute this, consider asking them why it took until 2004 to build a holocaust memorial in berlin) and in further updates on the...

a documentary that is an israeli-palestinian co-production won one of the main prizes at the berlinale film festival. the two directors got up and said some things that official germany regards as unsayable, indeed unthinkable. the same day, someone posted an anti-genocide post (swiftly deleted)...

any word on what def leppard fans make of it? that line can’t be an accident

I resent the loss of the time I had to spend reading about obscure british parliamentary procedure just to understand what the hell that whole shitstorm was all about. only the brits could manage to come up with a way to turn a genocide into a ritualised fisticuffs about opposition-day motion...

avdiivka is falling, congress is refusing more money and weapons, putin is cruising to re-election, the middle east is on fire, biden is slowly becoming more senile. what a mess. it would be great for the war-hawks if there was some kind of distraction, especially one that allows people to do...