Reposted by Roger McCarthyOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5hIt’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig 422878
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 6hThe eighteenth century looks on, weeping. 2151
Reposted by Roger McCarthy👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 7hHeroes of Reunification #8,302: Famously a method actor, David Bowie moves to Berlin to research his upcoming role as Herr Flick's sidekick in the BBC's 'Allo 'Allo. 1111
Reposted by Roger McCarthy𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙻𝙴𝚃𝙾𝙽 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴 𝙱𝙰𝚈𝙱𝙴𝙴🎃 @mudfire4.cryptid.expert · 02/10/2026I think about this Russell Crowe interaction all the time You just don’t get celebs responding to people like this anymore 434655
Reposted by Roger McCarthyRobin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 12hAfter they surf Pikachu and his new pal go off to fire a .455 Webley revolver at a giant floating head 2216
Reposted by Roger McCarthyspooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 22hguy who has only seen marvel movies: "this is one of the darkest movies ever made" 6385796
Reposted by Roger McCarthyJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19hSomeone should do a piece on this. There is *SO* much more money easily available on the right. 2531661
Reposted by Roger McCarthyWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19h#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225... 49037
Reposted by Roger McCarthyOliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 19hWhat with this and funding a genocide in Sudan I’m beginning to think the UAE might be quite bad. 0114
Reposted by Roger McCarthyS'Pammy Cassandra 🦩💥 @nafoffs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Front page ft www.ft.com/content/95f5...ft.com‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front 0467
Reposted by Roger McCarthyJennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They only leave when it directly affects them. The pedophilia, rape, racism and fascism are perks for them. 1033094978
Reposted by Roger McCarthypaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No major new reservoirs have been built in England since water privatisation in 1989 (Carsington was finished in 1992 but was started before privatisation). In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs were built inc. 30 exceptionally large drinking water reservoirs. bsky.app/profile/eciu... 45821
Reposted by Roger McCarthyAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The NEET rate basically hasn't changed for the whole of this century (except post-GFC and post Covid). It's been the same with tougher welfare sanctions and weaker. More apprenticeships and fewer. Higher employer national insurance and lower. I draw two conclusions from this.... 66239
Reposted by Roger McCarthyAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Shut up, man. Say "thank you" to someone who took time to explain a term to you about which you plainly had no idea, instead of continuing to argue from a position of utter ignorance. It is so fkn exhausting. Like a forever remedial class with an infinite number of disruptive teenagers. 61928
Reposted by Roger McCarthyEd Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I sometimes wonder how much the fact that Health ministers are usually drawn from the demographic that uses the NHS the least (able bodied, white men, young-middle aged) is a factor in it's issues. It probably plays a part in the obsession with apps and convenience over continuity and human contact. 1015441
Reposted by Roger McCarthyWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I do think that ‘Hi-def video of horrible shit’ is our generation’s version of smoking or leaded gasoline tbh. As in it’s something that future generations will look back on and be appalled that we thought it was ok to have as an environmental hazard. 1349069
Reposted by Roger McCarthyJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This week on Untitled History Podcast: Dr Clarke joins me for the incredible last stand of HMS Glowworm in WW2. The only time a Victoria Cross was awarded based primarily on a nomination by the enemy captain: Captain Heye of the Hipper Below or on apps/Youtube! open.spotify.com/episode/52Ma...open.spotify.comEpisode 34: The last stand of HMS Glowworm and the invasion of NorwayThe Untitled History Podcast · Episode 79725
Reposted by Roger McCarthySonic Spookhammer 🎃 @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026"I am NOT a crackpot." 724443
Reposted by Roger McCarthyolive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 02/10/2026Notably, one of the real failing points of fascism's obsession with aesthetics, particularly human aesthetics, is it's more or less perfectly designed to piss off all the functionaries with stage 4 office ass you need to theoretically run a functional fascist state. 319336
Reposted by Roger McCarthySharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026FWIW i think that this has some good points to it (in many ways, Euro-liberal conservatism was a victim of its own success) chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-death-...chrisdillow.substack.comThe death of the centre-rightLiberal conservatism has been killed by the economic system it supported. 28013
Reposted by Roger McCarthyChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty. 58159483336
Reposted by Roger McCarthyThe Murders in the Brian Ruh Morgue @brianruh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sounds intriguing, out later this month - Yukio Mishima: A BBC Radio Collection A combination of stories and nonfiction pieces about Mishima www.penguin.co.uk/books/481483...penguin.co.ukYukio Mishima: A BBC Radio CollectionEnter the haunting, beautiful and provocative world of Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest writers, whose extraordinary life ended as dramatically as his fiction Considered one of the greatest Ja... 2108
Reposted by Roger McCarthyParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs" 1132447766
Reposted by Roger McCarthyJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1525350807
Reposted by Roger McCarthyRuth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.latimes.comHis mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicideSamuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear. 6397180
Reposted by Roger McCarthyThe Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026God bless this woman. 1192
Reposted by Roger McCarthyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I still can't get over how this dude looks like he's trying to sell me ketamine in a gas station restroom 911052152
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I really don’t think anyone is thinking of what post Trump will actually be. There is literally nothing salvageable from the wreckage of journalism or the American federal government. They are total write-offs. What comes after is a decades long drunken stagger of trying to build something new up.static.klipy.comKramer Explains 'Write-Offs' to JerryALT: Kramer Explains 'Write-Offs' to Jerry 1143
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It bears repeating that when King says “moderate” he’s talking about *moderates on segregation*. 0344
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes. I want us to rejoin. The solution to nationalists is not to cede to nationalists, it’s to show who nationalists work for and why they are so eager to undermine the power of coming together.static.klipy.comBruce Lee MadAlt: Bruce Lee Mad clench fists 69812
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A new kind of redlining just dropped 418238
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For #NationalPoetryDay Charlie Hankin New Yorker November 13, 2023 0319
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well...the 'wulf' is out of the bag. Professor Daniel Wakelin and I were the Middle English consultants for Robert Eggers' upcoming film Werwulf, in UK theatres on January 1st 2027! 1317126
Reposted by Roger McCarthyThe New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Andy Burnham has embraced Labour’s new core vote – younger, economically insecure, liberal Brits, instead of holding on to an imagined voter of a bygone era ✏️ @jamesrball.combuff.lyVigour, passion, purpose: Why Andy Burnham’s bold speech will be talked about for many years to comeOn social care, PR, Brexit, water, housing and more, the PM signalled seismic change and a willingness to tackle the toughest issues 25011
Reposted by Roger McCarthyJames Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The ACTUAL Oldest Pub in England. A film that I wrote and presented in collaboration with @HistoricEngland and A Few Good Productions. Click the link for some gratuitous shots of me talking timbers and building up a powerful thirst... youtu.be/RlyvHJtptbc?... 129522
Reposted by Roger McCarthyTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026FWIW, I still think Polanski's strategy of targeting a more ideologically consistent but smaller coalition is sensible and the correct move for the Greens if they want to grow into a full "Third Party," I just think he lacks the self doubt required to lead it effectively. 3213
Reposted by Roger McCarthyKeith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The big man would have been 96 today. Limerick’s greatest. #speirgorm music.apple.com/ie/album/mac...music.apple.comMacArthur Park by Richard Harris on Apple MusicSong · 1997 · Duration 7:24 242
Reposted by Roger McCarthySardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/10/2026‘Anna Pavlova in Russian costume’, 1911 dancetabs.com/2012/08/anna... 212923
Reposted by Roger McCarthyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/09/2026Robert Macintyre, 'The Great Cthulhu', ''Collector's Dream'', Vol. 1, #5, 1978 oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8289218... 116622
Reposted by Roger McCarthyBart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This striking pre-Columbian greenstone masterwork depicts an Olmec shaman in mid-transformation, adopting the powerful facial features of a sacred were-jaguar. Originating from archaeological sites in the Gulf Coast region of Veracruz state, it was crafted between 900 BCE and 600 BCE. 241575241
Reposted by Roger McCarthyCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 29/09/2026What was so scary about the premise of “Alien”, to men in particular? The specter of a creature that could overpower and immobilize them, penetrate their bodies without consent, and impregnate them with offspring whose birth could/would kill them 3/4 1214
Reposted by Roger McCarthyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians." 1432559566
Reposted by Roger McCarthyDuncan Deeznuts @parasocialista.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Some orgs have refused to switch to Palantir FDP, seeing it as a downgrade. Leeds Teaching Hospitals would ‘lose functionality’ if adopted. One source who uses Palantir FDP told us they had to wait 20 minutes for a dashboard to load only for the system to crash." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...m.youtube.comPalantir and the NHS: How a Silicon Valley Firm Took Over Britain's Health DataYouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB) 14017
Reposted by Roger McCarthyAudrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Emma Joyce was sick and vomiting for days when she died. The next summer, Ava Joan got sick: wouldn't eat or drink, rapid breathing, and her vomit was black. It was untreated diabetes. The girls' toddler brother was next to die. Years later, another brother. www.propublica.org/article/idah...propublica.orgFour Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr... 50601288
Reposted by Roger McCarthyWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy 5840247