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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1m

For all we talk about how cinema is getting dumbed down etc, stuff like Conclave and Black Bag would have been considered *very* high brow stuff circa 1976

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely 100% we need to add this to criminal code explicitly

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 2h

Well this is going to go viral again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pssI...

youtube.com

Jeffrey Archer on Michael Crick

YouTube video by Carl Salter

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you were trying to have the most toxic possible combination of traits for this moment, it could well be: —media CEO —still on Twitter in 2026 for some reason —dating a failed leftist meme candidate

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 2h

By David Lloyd-George‘s son, no less

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 14h

it's not an original point but it will never stop being funny to me whenever right wingers criticise religious figures for "virtue signalling". like... yes? that's kind of the point of their role?

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

the continued crankery of the English left-of-Labour flank is also, let's be quite real here, downstream of the fact that Corbyn's fanboys and fangirls, instead of ever recognising that they have in fact been huffing paint, invented a stab in the back myth, and I chose those words very deliberately

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 4h

I think the only interesting story to be written about the Unabomber is roman-a-clef about the brother who turned him in. About the dilemma of realizing your brother is a psychopath who will keep killing and/or get himself killed unless you completely and utterly betray him

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 5h

If Bernie Sanders wants to show that feels as strongly about Jackson winning as Obama feels about AES winning, he can go to Maine and campaign with him any time he wants, it’s not even a long trip for him

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 5h

The OLP really did just decide that they’d rather burn themselves to the ground and hand the province over to Ford in perpetuity sooner than be led by Nate-Erskine Smith. It’s all very student union politics. All that matters is protecting your own petty fiefdoms.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 16h

idk its just. striking to me that the thing giving so many leftists pause in thinking about the soviet union is always the trials and purges and never any of the national minorities deliberately exterminated or forcibly relocated.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 15h

-Sorry, What happened to all those nice socially liberal lapsed Catholics who used to live here? -They’ve gone sir. They’ve all gone. And we’re *back*. -Who? -The incredibly right-wing Pentecostals who still inexplicably hate the Amazon.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 7h

Trying to decide whether to use Mozart's birthplace to post about mixed use (convenience store on the bottom), heritage (museum that you can pay to enter) or multi-family housing (3 doorbells).

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 7h

AIUI the polling that has come out shows a pretty close race, I wouldn’t bet against Flanagan but I suspect if Trump wasn’t so catastrophically unpopular this would be causing alarm bells to ring for the MN Democrats

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 7h

I know a guy from high school who is very wealthy, very right wing, a self described “libertarian“ who thinks London is in the midst of a catastrophic crime wave thanks to Sadiq Khan, who hates the Tories with great passion because of Brexit.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 20h

Until the news orgs call it one way or another on October 26 I will have a sinking feeling about the mayoral race. And my own ward of Toronto-Danforth

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

He’s always been a *very* polarizing politician and I think a lot of the discourse around this election forgets that.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

In political media “the Tory Syndrome” is mostly understood as “the Conservative Party likes to do infighting and leadership coups because it’s in their nature or something“

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

There’s a book called “The Tory Syndrome” from 1980 which argues that Canada’s Tories are so dysfunctional because they’re just a coalition of everyone who isn’t a winner under the Liberals, and those groups have little in common and don’t like each other.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

The LPC is a lot less factional than the LDP but there‘s a similar dynamic of the party constantly reinventing itself.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

I think the comparison might be with Mark Carney of all people - Taikachi was such a big rhetorical and policy shift from the previous regime that voters didn’t treat the LDP like long-serving incumbents

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

I do wonder if in that situation they just don’t do it and try it delay it to a second term

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's something a little depressing in the fact that the British establishment stood up against Enoch Powell's racism in the 1960s than it seems to be willing to be now

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 23h

I think what it means is that Netflix will be buying Superman and Bugs Bunny for ten cents on the dollar in 2029.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 23h

In 2004 Annie Jacobsen was on the same flight with 13 Syrian musicians and she started such a massively racist shitfit about how they were certainly terrorists that the air marshals suspected her of being a terrorist and that is the main thing I think people should know about her

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wuthering Heights being WB’s most successful film this year plus the rise of A24 is a pretty clear sign of what’s happening to cinema-going audiences and one I suspect Skydance will studiously ignore

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In both directions.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s a great SNL bit where Ariana Grande says “I don’t mean gay in *that* way, I just mean gay as in stupid and bad” and I think that applies to a lot of things

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The CPC took forever to announce the final ballot (where he lost by a 49-51 margin) and then the party immediately announced that there would be no appeals and destroyed all the ballot papers.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026

we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With the epic failure of Digger the most financially successful film Warner Brothers put out this year was Wuthering Heights. Between that and the rise of A24, that should be a strong signal of what’s happening with cinema audiences but I suspect most studios will studiously (ha) ignore that.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s kind of an open secret that literally every leadership election in Canada is dominated by extremely blatant electoral fraud along these lines

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i really hate how on this website everyone acts like you're an idiot version of yourself they made up in their head, which is always on the verge of committing a Terrible Thoughtcrime that must be course-corrected at all costs

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The other dynamic here with GC, and the whole “reactionary centrist“ crowd is that they clearly much prefer to talk to liberals and leftists than conservatives

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Weirdly the whole bit of her dad previously being the local MP to me reads as more Labour coded than Tory coded

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I always thought “mirthless laughter“ is when you laugh or chuckle at something deeply unfunny out of discomfort or politeness

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only actually interesting thing about Sodha et al is that they sincerely believe themselves to still be left wing

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the thing! Convincing people that, say, Israel is practicing Apartheid (to use an example of a linguistic fight from a few years back) makes them aware of specific injustices they may have thoughtlessly defended. What does convincing people that “Zionism is racism” change? It’s so conceptual

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can we do cool shit for once without the same characters coming out and being like "damn this isn't going to breakeven". Yeah motherfucker it isn't. That's what the govt is for

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Whenever Cristiano Ronaldo isn’t on the pitch, everyone in the stands should be shouting ‘where’s Ronaldo?’”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

someone call up will smith we need him to do something

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s an xkcd for everything

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a very weird headline because the mob actually very specifically cares that they weren’t charged.

The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care |
Opinion
What's most troubling in the Cornell
University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame.
Ingrid Jacques

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies

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