Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sorry but his full comments were just insulting, he explicitly is pledging to keep using tariffs as “industrial policy“, which is also how Trump justified them half the time! 120
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Underrated how much international diplomacy is just this 0110
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I didn't say she called for it, I said she condoned it. I don't think the full context for her remarks is much better: 2242
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Nirvanna the Band will no longer open for Ed Sheeran 1182
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I promise you this reference is immensely funny to my British mutuals 010
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Okay not as dramatic as I remembered but still a very sharp swing. I get the impression Heath being seen as an Arabist and Wilson being close to Golda Meir was a big factor in this seat 131
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The UK economy is people started investing in shares a bit more (probably) 090
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 01/09/20265 of the last 6 MPs for Toronto Centre were cabinet ministers, and the one who wasn’t was the former Premier of Ontario who ran for leader and served as acting leader afterwards 161
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The most polite way to describe OP’s response to this fact is “beyond parody”. 2331
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The world where Sports Night got seven seasons and Sorkin just wrote films after that 051
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Bought a nice summer shirt in a sale yesterday and only now do I realize that it makes me look like Tony Soprano 2221
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is basically right, there is a story where a steam engine describes fleeing across England at night, hiding from diesels in tunnels and sidings, which ends with him getting smuggled across the border bsky.app/profile/gold... 3925
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The real-life phase-out of steam traction on Britain’s railways is written as a sort of ethnic cleansing where Sodor and the real-life heritage railways are the only safe havens. Below is a real illustration from one of the books 213721
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Me every time someone still on twitter starts taking potshots at BlueSky users 0292
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This reminds me of one of my favourite works in the Tate Britain 120
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026That kind of post is a genre and nothing will beat this entry into it 0252
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026POV: You are every single public intellectual circa 1955 2919
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Also if you were flying in the 1960s it probably would have been in economy class on something like this, which was genuinely state of the art at the time. 2130
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’d also push back on the idea that it was more luxurious for the lucky few in first class fifty-sixty years ago. This is what the first class cabin looked like on a Pan Am 747 in 1970. Nowadays on most long haul flights first class buys you a bed! 2230
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/08/202614. God, no! I have a wide range of pretty bookmarks. And failing that a train ticket or old receipt will do. 110
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/08/202611. I like loads! Mostly about politics and history, but lots of stuff about urbanism and architecture etc too. This is the non-fiction section of my bookshelf right now, and most of the books about cities and architecture are off to the side. 120
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I love a good bribe when the mayoral election is in three months time 0143
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This was originally about Graham Platner but it 100% applies to people who defend Starmer as well 0211
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I think it’s probably bad that so much pop culture discourse on every social media site is just a variation on this 30 Rock gag 0212
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026And to make an international comparison, what ended Justin Trudeau’s premiership was not two years of him leading his party towards the side of a cliff, but his up to this point extremely loyal Finance Minister announcing to the world that he was leading the whole country off the side of a cliff 031
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026So you agree? They were publicly demanding that Canada unilaterally disarm in a trade war that they did not start? 130
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In the 2017-19 period I would have a lot of fun playing a magic trick on various Canadian politician discussion forums, where I would simply post this screenshot of Andrew Scheer being interviewed by white supremacist Faith Goldy and then all the thread‘s Tories would disappear. 040
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026“Did your football come home last night, Argentina?” “Yes, why?” “Well, mine didn’t.” 2253
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026For instance in this excerpt from Bullshit Jobs it is clear what the purpose of Nathaniel’s job is - it’s to make sure applications aren’t rejected due to trivial errors, if these errors are corrected before the forms are sent in that saves the organization and the applicants huge amounts of time 1151
Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Anyway this is how I feel about Twitter users complaining about how boring and sanctimonious BlueSky is 0195
