Triskaidekaphobia
@gerardsugrue.bsky.social
London-born, Killarney-based, rugby fanatic, IT professional, beer enthusiast
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A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.
Venezuela
Every situation is unique.
But there can still be a strong past pattern which reveals deeper trends than any single intervention, however startling or shocking it may be.
This short 🧵 isn’t meant as an analysis of right and wrong.
But let’s first get some historical perspective. /1.
Every situation is unique.
But there can still be a strong past pattern which reveals deeper trends than any single intervention, however startling or shocking it may be.
This short 🧵 isn’t meant as an analysis of right and wrong.
But let’s first get some historical perspective. /1.
January 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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It’s worse than you think - the NHS and HMRC give everyone ID numbers and store them on a database too. 😱
Thursday's MAIL: Digital IDs for babies #TomorrowsPapersToday
December 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It’s worse than you think - the NHS and HMRC give everyone ID numbers and store them on a database too. 😱
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Always amusing to see how the failures of American military overreach against Canada usually ends up as an embarrassing footnote in accounts of late 18th/early 19th century American history.
January 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Always amusing to see how the failures of American military overreach against Canada usually ends up as an embarrassing footnote in accounts of late 18th/early 19th century American history.
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He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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A neat example of why prominent Jewish voices boosting far right narratives are being unbelievably stupid. Have they never read a history book?
Yeah it's probably because you're talking about 'English-Jewish relations' and threatening to deport us all if we don't fall in line with your ramblings
January 1, 2026 at 11:18 AM
A neat example of why prominent Jewish voices boosting far right narratives are being unbelievably stupid. Have they never read a history book?
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US President eventually complies with the law in respect of not using troops against own citizens.
A good way to end the year.
A good way to end the year.
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
US President eventually complies with the law in respect of not using troops against own citizens.
A good way to end the year.
A good way to end the year.
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That is indeed what they did.
December 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
That is indeed what they did.
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If I were this guy I would absolutely get sworn in on Karl Marx's personal copy of the Quran just to make losers have strokes
BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
January 1, 2026 at 5:20 AM
If I were this guy I would absolutely get sworn in on Karl Marx's personal copy of the Quran just to make losers have strokes
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"Sir. This plate has been empty since last year."
January 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
"Sir. This plate has been empty since last year."
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Most distant image of Earth, taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft on 14 February 1990.
In 2026, how about we remember we are all on this dot together?
In 2026, how about we remember we are all on this dot together?
December 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Most distant image of Earth, taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft on 14 February 1990.
In 2026, how about we remember we are all on this dot together?
In 2026, how about we remember we are all on this dot together?
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To wit, love this graph, via @sciencehippies.bsky.social.
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
To wit, love this graph, via @sciencehippies.bsky.social.
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I don’t wish to be judgemental but could it be time to ignore vile rich tossers and their pathetic lives and make reality TV shows about people who do something useful?
I know, I live in a radical leftist scum bubble, but really?
I know, I live in a radical leftist scum bubble, but really?
December 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I don’t wish to be judgemental but could it be time to ignore vile rich tossers and their pathetic lives and make reality TV shows about people who do something useful?
I know, I live in a radical leftist scum bubble, but really?
I know, I live in a radical leftist scum bubble, but really?
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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
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Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
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This data is old (2017) but it makes a point I’m not tiring to repeat: as privileged people we are terrible at estimating how good we have it. Americans and Australians think that a whopping 43% of the world are richer than they are. The median US income puts you in the top three percent globally.
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This data is old (2017) but it makes a point I’m not tiring to repeat: as privileged people we are terrible at estimating how good we have it. Americans and Australians think that a whopping 43% of the world are richer than they are. The median US income puts you in the top three percent globally.
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Karen and Graeme Hoyland, both 43, who are terrified their children will catch autism from a vaccine and become social pariahs, also gave them names that would guarantee 12 years of wedgies – at least.
“We want the best for them” say anti-vaxxers who named kids Meadow and Sunbeam
A couple who are afraid vaccines will give their children autism, causing them to have a harder time in life, has also given them both really fucking silly names, it has been confirmed. Karen and…
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December 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Karen and Graeme Hoyland, both 43, who are terrified their children will catch autism from a vaccine and become social pariahs, also gave them names that would guarantee 12 years of wedgies – at least.
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They call everyone else snowflakes, but they're one long blizzard of self-loathing and everything triggers them. Strange and inadequate people.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
They call everyone else snowflakes, but they're one long blizzard of self-loathing and everything triggers them. Strange and inadequate people.
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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'We're all going to hell in a handcart.... well not me personally.'
How good a year do Britons say 2025 was for...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
'We're all going to hell in a handcart.... well not me personally.'
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Casablanca still slaps so hard.
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Casablanca still slaps so hard.