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Goff

@themightygoff.bsky.social

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Goff JM Saoirse Don Phailistín. Nae Pasaran. Trying to make the ever-shittier world a better place. Help when I can. I'm the one you want having your back. "I can hear your laugh in an old love song."

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 14h

I just sawthat and thought WTAF? And various misspellings of twat.

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 15h

Israel is done.
Get over yourself.
#bds

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 15h

Lest we forget. 🤔

Israel sold weapons to Argentina at height of Falklands War, declassified files show

Military jets sold to Argentine forces were used to bomb British warships, while arms sales continued even after the war was over

www.independent.co.uk

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 16h

Do you support genocide?
Why are you still spouting lies and bollocks?
Israel is done.
#bds
(I won't see your reply, shit bot).

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 16h

'tis the season.

Get well soon.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 16h

“Pissing like men…” Oliver Soden on the acrid, ammonial side of Seamus Heaney—a poet who combined a Nobel prize with seven-figure sales, but whose work was never as cosy as his reputation suggested.

In the bogs with Seamus Heaney

For all the beauty of his work, a new collection shows that the Irish poet was rooted in darkness and mud

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 16h

Rules of engagement are a thing.

2nd amendment is a thing.

All enemies foreign and domestic is a thing.

You waiting on someone else to save you?

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 19h

A boatful of journalists and medics. Can't have them seeing what's really happening.

Israel is a fucking scum pretendy cuntry.

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 20h

Are you okay in the head? They are protesting a genocide. That's the only thing that started on October 7th.

Your false equivalence is ridiculous and is exactly the reason why Israel thinks it can act with impunity.

Sickening attitude.

#bds

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 21h

She's so brave. Like the 24th Foot at Rorke's Drift fighting the Zulus. 😏

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h

Democide in our times

Austerity, wage & public service cuts kill, but are govt policy.

Millions can't get good food, housing, education, healthcare, pension.

Men in poorer UK areas live 9.7 yrs less than those in least deprived areas. Women 8 years.

Govts silent on the human cost of fiscal rules

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 22h

He lost me at bismarkian.

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

It is. It's a 40mm tactical launcher. For firing tear gas or rubber bullets. Rubber bullets can kill.

It's the very definition of a firearm.

Rifles and pistols are also firearms.

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Classic example of my enemy's enemy doesn't mean he's my friend.

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Like the ravens leaving the Tower of London signifying the end of Britland, if Dolly goes, America is over in its present form.

My favourite D.P.

Wait! What?!

(also possibly my favourite Mann/Weil tune).

"All you gotta do is smile that smile
And there go all my defenses."

Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Official Video)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

youtu.be

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

No. I despise apple. But their technology is provably sound. Although if you have any proof to the contrary, unknown to the rest of the tech world, please do everyone a favour and provide it.

I won't hold my breath.

Feel better now?

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Classic Cork. Classic Oireland. This song is legendary. And brilliant.

"It's alright to say things can only get better
You haven't lost your brand new sweater."

Genius.

Where's me jumper

YouTube video by Slaine Macroth

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Depends on how it's used. Is it iPhone only using apple's own scan? That's encrypted on your device and no one can access it. Is it to go to their servers? Then don't use it.

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this.

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

*genocide*, not war.
Trump cannot be trusted. Ask Iran.

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Nah. Doesn't work. India was an aberration. Britain was weak after the war and India BOYCOTTED British goods.
That's how you bring down countries if you're not taking up arms. Boycotts. Like South Africa.
Boycott. Divest. Sanction.
#bds

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who supports Israel is a fucking idiot and genocide enabler.

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

A lot to digest. All of it true.

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

Latest from the #Trumpocene

Is This the Spark That Ignites the Slow Civil War?

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act has moved from rhetoric to rehearsal. The empire’s legions have come home, and the republic now governs itself as colony.

open.substack.com

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

And people whose opinions and ideas I usually resoect fall into the "ai is bad" trap, without understanding it. Just Internet pox, as usual, telling folk what to think.

Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 1d

Most (but not all) traditional artists come from privilege. Other people have to work for a living.

Now, they can create things. The tools they use are none of your business. And you can't tell anyway.

People don't have a clue if I've used VFX or AI or Photoshop or actual paints in my shit.