Roger McCarthy
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'Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal,
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
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Been reading a lot of Philip Roth lately and it occurs to me that there was a mid-twentieth century belief in the transcendent power of sex that's about as dead as Manicheeism now.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Been reading a lot of Philip Roth lately and it occurs to me that there was a mid-twentieth century belief in the transcendent power of sex that's about as dead as Manicheeism now.
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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‘We’ve got a strong floor & no ceiling, dad!’
‘Shut up, son’
‘Shut up, son’
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
‘We’ve got a strong floor & no ceiling, dad!’
‘Shut up, son’
‘Shut up, son’
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I love these articles because every one of them is like "the secret to being rich? have lots of money lol"
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I love these articles because every one of them is like "the secret to being rich? have lots of money lol"
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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this is the insight Keynes was getting at when he said the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. It often is possible to know with high certainty that a thing will go down, but not knowing whether that's tomorrow or in 10 years destroys most trades you could do
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
this is the insight Keynes was getting at when he said the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. It often is possible to know with high certainty that a thing will go down, but not knowing whether that's tomorrow or in 10 years destroys most trades you could do
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Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
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This is meant to say "2/3 majority", but it looks like the free trial of the streaming software Your Party are using does not allow small digits?
The "2" and the "3" have been replaced by a logo that appears to read "Trial Only" with a URL.
The "2" and the "3" have been replaced by a logo that appears to read "Trial Only" with a URL.
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is meant to say "2/3 majority", but it looks like the free trial of the streaming software Your Party are using does not allow small digits?
The "2" and the "3" have been replaced by a logo that appears to read "Trial Only" with a URL.
The "2" and the "3" have been replaced by a logo that appears to read "Trial Only" with a URL.
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I’ve just written this 👇. Here’s the link to sign up to my newsletter: jujuliagrace.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I’ve just written this 👇. Here’s the link to sign up to my newsletter: jujuliagrace.substack.com
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Shazam everything. The one unmitigatedly good app.
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Shazam everything. The one unmitigatedly good app.
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‘Schopenhauer came into vogue as despondency did. Conrad, Kafka, Beckett and Borges all owe him a debt.’
Terry Eagleton on Schopenhauer’s philosophy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton on Schopenhauer’s philosophy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Pregnant with Monsters: Schopenhauer makes a stir
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
‘Schopenhauer came into vogue as despondency did. Conrad, Kafka, Beckett and Borges all owe him a debt.’
Terry Eagleton on Schopenhauer’s philosophy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton on Schopenhauer’s philosophy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Terrence Malick is 82.
I showed The Thin Red Line to my A Level Film students in 1998.
After a brief silence at the end, a boy said loudly ‘that was bollocks!’
Two weeks later, he came to apologise, saying that he’d bought the video as ‘it’s stayed in my head since.’
I showed The Thin Red Line to my A Level Film students in 1998.
After a brief silence at the end, a boy said loudly ‘that was bollocks!’
Two weeks later, he came to apologise, saying that he’d bought the video as ‘it’s stayed in my head since.’
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Terrence Malick is 82.
I showed The Thin Red Line to my A Level Film students in 1998.
After a brief silence at the end, a boy said loudly ‘that was bollocks!’
Two weeks later, he came to apologise, saying that he’d bought the video as ‘it’s stayed in my head since.’
I showed The Thin Red Line to my A Level Film students in 1998.
After a brief silence at the end, a boy said loudly ‘that was bollocks!’
Two weeks later, he came to apologise, saying that he’d bought the video as ‘it’s stayed in my head since.’
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This long read suggests it was No 10 that panicked over income tax.
Best thing I’ve read so far on the choices behind the Budget from @rachelsylvester.bsky.social
Economic with the truth: the mis-selling of the budget | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This long read suggests it was No 10 that panicked over income tax.
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Have to say it’s deeply frustrating that the BBC News team simply cannot ask a tough question about POLICY rather than politics. It is infantilising the audience - unless the audience is other journalists in the lobby.
I’ll give Laura K some questions for free:
Are you really going to introduce tax on salary sacrifice pension contributions on your own voters months before the election?
Where will the money for special educational needs come from when it’s moved from local government to central?
Are you really going to introduce tax on salary sacrifice pension contributions on your own voters months before the election?
Where will the money for special educational needs come from when it’s moved from local government to central?
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Have to say it’s deeply frustrating that the BBC News team simply cannot ask a tough question about POLICY rather than politics. It is infantilising the audience - unless the audience is other journalists in the lobby.
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Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
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have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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The centrist vision... laying on the ground while it rains on you. A portrait of a terminal depressive
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The centrist vision... laying on the ground while it rains on you. A portrait of a terminal depressive
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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The “no verbs” thing is incredibly 90s, and isn’t due a comeback.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The “no verbs” thing is incredibly 90s, and isn’t due a comeback.
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last week, the weather forecast was saying we're likely to get 5 inches of snow this Tuesday. since then, it's gone up to 6 inches, then 7 inches, and now the current forecast is that we're going to be getting a full 8 inches! truly, we are living in a Golden Age Of Double Entendres
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
last week, the weather forecast was saying we're likely to get 5 inches of snow this Tuesday. since then, it's gone up to 6 inches, then 7 inches, and now the current forecast is that we're going to be getting a full 8 inches! truly, we are living in a Golden Age Of Double Entendres
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Take 13:25 seconds out of your life watch this. www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...
Why the Jews: History of Antisemitism - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This 13-minute film explains the history of antisemitism from the days of the early Christian church until the 20th century.
www.ushmm.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Take 13:25 seconds out of your life watch this. www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.