Pavel

spavel.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:51

The invincible airplane

Sam (ABeardedPanda)

abeardedpanda.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:50

If I had a nickel for every leftist commentator dead set on defending the Russian Federation named Branko, I'd have two nickels which isn't that many but it's really annoying how there's two of them

BeijingPalmer

beijingpalmer.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:49

coverage of the French riots also miss, as they often do, that rioting is fun and dumb teenagers (and adults) love burning stuff down.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

seamas.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:48

Really fascinating case of a thoroughly orphaned cultural object. What living person is Ali G "satirising" in 2026? Like, Harry Enfield didn't scrap Loadsamoney due to political correctness, it's cos the Thatcherist parvenu (and the anxiety its emergence triggered within society) no longer exists.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

seamas.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:47

Ali G's schtick was - to put it *very* kindly - rooted in the specific multicultural anxieties of 90s Britain. Those anxieties have now been supplanted by other - in many cases worse, but all quite different - tropes/clichés. The "white guy who attempts patois, sounds like Tarzan" isn't one of them.