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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 10m

"Slovakia are in the relegation Zone here, Tony. Unless they get 3 points out of their next five games, they're going down. They've Cyprus next, not even a full country, but they're sticking with the starting cabinet. Let's see how that works out."

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 16m

PolSci pumps out papers on EV voting on the regular. but you need something catastrophic to get anyone to change a voting system anywhere within their borders never mind across them.

But introduce a wildcard TROIKA round for all EU states might work too.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 21m

Matt this is Eurovision.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 30m

You have to clean up the dog sick pretty quickly because they'll just try to eat it again.

Georgina Wright @georginaewright.bsky.social · 32m

Annnnnd… He’s back 🤣. President names Sébastien Lecornu PM (again).

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 40m

Get ready for high end office bargains in the great AI bankruptcy wave. Dealz dealz dealz/

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 47m

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 45m

Department of Definitely Cannot Be Bothered With Following Thorugh On a Dumb Roid Dream

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 46m

Apart from the people losing their shit over an F-15 pilot training program, some dinky offices and hired hangers by, OMG ARABS it is funny to me that his rebrand hasn't reached the brass plates on the Pentagon.

TV Drunk Pete Hegseth standing outside a US DoD building with a sign saying Department of Defence despite TV Drunk Pete Hegseth's attempts to rename it.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 54m

This was a dream BTW

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 55m

Last night I got offered a job in a cafe in New York by called Eamon who had a bizarre way of making coffee involving filling the cup with coffee and washing it out with hot water. And I had suitcase full of gloves.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1h

DWTS is the Department of Water Treatment and Sanitation? A noble calling.

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 3h

Some seriously weird anti-Arab sentinment bubbling around this.

Don't think Qatar should be a US ally, hosting US troops, training on US platforms, on US bases like other US allies, fine, but make a reasoned point not "OMG arabs in planes"

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 3h

Jesus people get a grip. It's a training facility for Qatari F-15 pilots exactly the same as the Singapore one on the same Air Base.

There is nothing sinister about it. The US trains pilots from other allies in US facilities all the time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 6h

Singapore does training there and has a permanent deployment of F-15s. Guess it's a training facility?

www.straitstimes.com/singapore/la...

Large training area allows greater scope of integrated sense and strike operations for SAF

The size provides the opportunity for the SAF to run a whole gamut of integrated sense and strike missions. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 7h

It's rather like that bizarre notion that people get that rich people are generous because they can afford to be rather than rich because they are miserly. As if wealth is like weather and they were smart enough to leave a bucket out at the right time.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

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Brian Turner Show (on East Village Radio), October 8, 2025

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

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New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 10

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

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Trump, Gaza and shutdown

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

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John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

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Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 9h

Going to just post a thread of new podcast episodes I want to listen to but you might too?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

Obviously it’s not Kushner. This means that Tony Blair persuaded Trump to accept that Palestinians cannot be ethnically cleansed and that Israel cannot rule Gaza.

What an indictment of our international system that Blair was a lesser evil to Trump’s initial plan

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

By then Trump, with the help of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the former British prime minister Tony Blair, had been convinced to change his mind on two critical issues. First, Palestinians should not be driven from Gaza
and Israel should not
*erritory. "Gaza
should be for Gazans,
one sai
-• That meant Trump dropping the displacement rhetoric he deployed earlier in the year, when he triggered widespread alarm by speaking of
plans to develop a "Gaza Riviera" Secondly, Trump was persuaded a "day after" plan for the future of Gaza would not complicate the negotiations on a ceasefire- hostage release agreement by adding new contested ingredients, but was the precondition for success. A UK diplomat explained Blair's thinking: "Hamas was not going to give up unless it knew the Israelis were going to get out and the Israelis were not going to get out and stop occupying Gaza unless they
knew Hamas were not going to

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Out: make all 16-year-olda do a years volunteering / service.

In: Make all sixteen year olds spend a year connecting to an NME / Kerrang board over dial up.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Ever do David Pajo?

Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

We went from pig nuggets to guinea pig nuggets? What a case of Shrinkflation.

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