Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialFiona @fionasmall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Incredible that this wholesome poem by an Irish monk about him and his cat, Pangur Bán, is from the 9th century 829988
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity. 1041416108
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting. 2075068
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative. 311534209
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25/09/2026More broadly I think "how much time do you spend affirmatively championing your cause versus using it as a permission structure to abuse those you disagree with," is a revealing question well beyond the statue pfp bros. 418436
xargirl.bsky.social @xargirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Day after 9/11, primary school headteacher Miss Mumme (pronounced 'Mummy', I shit you not) hauled us all in to assembly, lit a candle, and told us we now had to pray that America wouldn't go to war. For years I felt vaguely guilty that it hadn't worked re: Iraq 020
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026will stancil's mentions are if summer classes in a community college were also Combat 970528
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/09/2026as.ft.com/r/f257abde-7... Morning all 1239969
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Once you stop trying to convince yourself that all of your policy preferences are secretely really popular if explained in the right way, you will be released from samsara 13962143
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies? 37661183
xargirl.bsky.social @xargirl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Why does the White House have an arcade website 000
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"alright our kid could you get Farage bang to rights on tape accepting foreign donations?" 216833
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?" 101094234
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better' 223676717
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026 1056351045
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/08/2026programmer: i have made Artificial Intelligence researcher: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 420625
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialCredentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks. 10293091568
xargirl.bsky.social @xargirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026No fucking way did the British government just use the nuke warning system to tell me not to have a barbeque 000
xargirl.bsky.social @xargirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Introduce yourself as what almost killed you Hi, I'm Be A Ho One Time and Get a UTI Which Ascends Into Your Kidneys and Requires Emergency Hospital Treatment (your now-husband is very nice about that time he nearly killed you with his penis during university) 000
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026There is just so many hetero men who don't seem to actually need or want a woman in their sexual experiences which is fine I guess but I just wish they stopped having so many opinions about women and what they should or should not be doing. 2816
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Each circle has a different story. 1538267835
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026From 2019, when the news was telling us that staring seagulls out had been proven to stop them eating your chips 20879248
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The good thing about none of the major parties running in Clacton and Count Binface running against Farage is that it effectively gives Farage nothing to run against, aside from complaining he's running against a man with a bin on his head, which is inherently funny. 41962140
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you want an active & aggressive public sector, which means robust state capacity, & think that patriotism is ontologically bad, I think the burden is kind of on you to show that you can have state capacity without a state that people believe in or view as possessing some deeper legitimacy 827328
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDaniel @donalldubh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I don't think it's great that there doesn't seem to be a part of the British regulatory state that can't easily be co-opted into a scam. A government with an alleged change agenda might want to do something about that! 131
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialSimon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Doctor Trivago 71910426
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force. 19343331513
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialMax Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense. 2143045873
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialHello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer 122156672657
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026memory is a superpower 2277861
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialCameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026On a structural level, the government is not taking this stuff seriously enough This content is a threat to public order and is driving a disintegration of the social fabric. An administration with its finger on the pulse would understand that a lot of issues run downstream of this 4265100
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialKelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 20/04/2026My brother, preparing to be a new dad in a few months; 819713
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The rabbit-duck illusion explained at last. 229957
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I'm really split on this personally because I agree the museums need the money but having worked front desk at a museum the delight on a tourists face when you tell them it's fee is a universal language I wish we all saw more of 109711
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 20/03/2026It's not the biggest thing, but it is genuinely deeply aggravating that everything will get worse for no real gains, just because Americans were stupid enough to elect him again. 727340
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/03/2026A unifying feature of all great "dominant military victories" throughout history is the winning leader having to beg on social media for China to come rescue him from the consequences of his triumph. 728856
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down 97162373241
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/03/2026Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?" 12598402543
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...theverge.comTim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowardsOnce you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company? 71831557
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/12/2025the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats 602963444
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 05/12/2025in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company 42168741069
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Increasingly I think the point of a wealth tax is not to raise money but to create space for raising income tax. The lethal thing in politics is when the compliant middle class feels like they have been taken for mugs; if you want to get money out of them, someone else needs to pay more too. 36555108
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.socialJonty @fairless.xyz · 15/10/2025Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM... 5657301701
Reposted by @xargirl.bsky.social28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 23/08/2025the problem with being deep into politics online is that you do, on average, know more than the average offline person but you might also develop at least one mildly insane belief not shared anywhere outside your cohort that you thus can’t be dissuaded of 1026826
![[Scene is a BEACH. A man is sat eating chips on a blanket - or rather he is trying to, but a terrifying, haunted-eyed SEAGULL is stood next to him, staring intently]
SEAGULL:
Well well well.
You must be one of these ‘Starers’.
[Show man trying to stare the seagull out]
SEAGULL:
Read an article in the Guardian did ya? ‘Stare seagulls out to save your chips’...
Come on then.
Look into my eyes.
[We see his cold, terrifying, haunted eyes in close up]
Can you see the darkness?
The things I’ve seen?
[Hypnotic waves are coming out of his eyes now]
The things I’ve... eaten...?
Frozen shit from a sewage pipe off the coast of Sussex…
The still-pulsing intestines from a badger by the A602…
Thaaat’s it
Look into the truth
The truth you’ve always known.
I am a seagull.
I am harder than you.
And I am having your chips.
11 [The man’s facade breaks, His eyes water, his lips wobble]
SEAGULL [Eating chips]:
Nom nom nom.
[ENDS]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidxpsx6ubfyjz2yhp2xtq4ov2akmt4mk4fo5tgf6ckicarqwad44e)
