john handelaar
@handelaar.org
I made KildareStreet.com, inter alia.
[🇮🇪 Cork]
[🇮🇪 Cork]
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I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
Literally all us asd-af kids were the narrators
So - did you take part in a nativity play at school and if so, what part did you play?
I got the part of the frankincense guy - I was the only child in the class who could pronounce the word ...!
I got the part of the frankincense guy - I was the only child in the class who could pronounce the word ...!
Nativity plays have been a much-loved part of the school year in infant and junior schools across the UK for many years. These performances brought the Christmas story to life with a mix of earnestness and unintentional comedy. Classrooms buzzed with excitement as tea towels and
December 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Literally all us asd-af kids were the narrators
Can someone maybe tell the Russians Invaded Shannon Airport Just By Landing fuckwit about literally the entire post-1984 history of plane hijacks and how successful they now universally aren't?
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Can someone maybe tell the Russians Invaded Shannon Airport Just By Landing fuckwit about literally the entire post-1984 history of plane hijacks and how successful they now universally aren't?
It would, but not even slightly for that reason. If HS2 were a road any whiff of objection for a nationally-important infrastructure programme would have been kicked in the face, and both east and west northern branches would already be open
If HS2 was a motorway, it would have been built by now! But because new rail projects are minutely analysed with this "value for the taxpayer" nonsense. If road building was held to the same level of scrutiny, a sizable amount of the road network would still be cart tracks.
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It would, but not even slightly for that reason. If HS2 were a road any whiff of objection for a nationally-important infrastructure programme would have been kicked in the face, and both east and west northern branches would already be open
I'm annoyed now, but I shall become fully ungovernable if anyone at Radio 4 is hateful enough to attempt even one episode of Monkey Cage without Robin Ince
Heartbreaking night where I told the final audience for Monkey Cage that I will ever play to that I had no choice but to resign
In the audience today at the amazing Niamos theatre in Manchester for the Christmas recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. Devastating news from @robinince.bsky.social - what must have been an incredibly difficult decision but absolutely the correct and humane one. Robin remains the best of us.
December 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm annoyed now, but I shall become fully ungovernable if anyone at Radio 4 is hateful enough to attempt even one episode of Monkey Cage without Robin Ince
Poss we missed this but BBC Studios during its "kill Lineker at all costs" period also decided that *literal comics are no longer allowed to have opinions that cunts do not like* and still do any work for BBC *Radio*.
Was a fan of Robin since forever and after meeting only more so
Fuck. This.
Was a fan of Robin since forever and after meeting only more so
Fuck. This.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Poss we missed this but BBC Studios during its "kill Lineker at all costs" period also decided that *literal comics are no longer allowed to have opinions that cunts do not like* and still do any work for BBC *Radio*.
Was a fan of Robin since forever and after meeting only more so
Fuck. This.
Was a fan of Robin since forever and after meeting only more so
Fuck. This.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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At what point did being completely wrong start counting as an “opinion”? Claiming vaccines cause autism isn’t an opinion. It’s utter bullshit. And then they say, “Well, that’s my opinion, you have to respect it.” No. I don’t have to respect stupidity. Fuck off.
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
At what point did being completely wrong start counting as an “opinion”? Claiming vaccines cause autism isn’t an opinion. It’s utter bullshit. And then they say, “Well, that’s my opinion, you have to respect it.” No. I don’t have to respect stupidity. Fuck off.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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Sharrrron Davies being made a peer for her campaigning on women’s rights is like giving Harold Shipman an award for services to the elderly.
December 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sharrrron Davies being made a peer for her campaigning on women’s rights is like giving Harold Shipman an award for services to the elderly.
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
Last time Scotland was at a World Cup they held Brazil to a draw and beat the favourites Sweden at the group stage. And got absolutely pumped by Costa Rica, so as to make the plane home as planned
Scotland getting Brazil and Morocco
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Last time Scotland was at a World Cup they held Brazil to a draw and beat the favourites Sweden at the group stage. And got absolutely pumped by Costa Rica, so as to make the plane home as planned
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Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.
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Well, phew
Think we've finally fixed the severe performance problems on kildarestreet.com that have been dragging on for a month, and things are once again super-fast
(Cause was a firestorm of fake browsers owned by scummy AI companies, which are throwing 1000s of page requests at us every second)
Think we've finally fixed the severe performance problems on kildarestreet.com that have been dragging on for a month, and things are once again super-fast
(Cause was a firestorm of fake browsers owned by scummy AI companies, which are throwing 1000s of page requests at us every second)
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Well, phew
Think we've finally fixed the severe performance problems on kildarestreet.com that have been dragging on for a month, and things are once again super-fast
(Cause was a firestorm of fake browsers owned by scummy AI companies, which are throwing 1000s of page requests at us every second)
Think we've finally fixed the severe performance problems on kildarestreet.com that have been dragging on for a month, and things are once again super-fast
(Cause was a firestorm of fake browsers owned by scummy AI companies, which are throwing 1000s of page requests at us every second)
Yes, famously Ireland had a lot of postwar Scottish corporation housing and placed all of it on streets with no pavements, tarmac or vehicles of any kind
Dublin, Ireland, ca. 1957 - by Leonard McCombe (1923 - 2015), American (?)
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Yes, famously Ireland had a lot of postwar Scottish corporation housing and placed all of it on streets with no pavements, tarmac or vehicles of any kind
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Deputy Rice speaks for all of us:
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Deputy Rice speaks for all of us:
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Oh please, please, please, please. I promise Santa I have been good this year, kind of. Please let this be the gift
Farage also wants an apology from the BBC "for all of your appalling output" or he won't speak to them again. He sounds very, very rattled.
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Oh please, please, please, please. I promise Santa I have been good this year, kind of. Please let this be the gift
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Oh so now we're supposed to believe something happened because a historian says it did
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Oh so now we're supposed to believe something happened because a historian says it did
The 80s: when the dominant culture opted out of caring about anything and yada yada fun. What anybody remembers about the 80s: the art and music of the people who raged against that shit
1/ I just feel that if we let young people see that we're propelling ourselves out of the geological and climatic epoch in which all human civilizations developed and fostering a brutal apathy to ecocide and genocide... it's not a particular surprise that they're mirroring the obliviousness.
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The 80s: when the dominant culture opted out of caring about anything and yada yada fun. What anybody remembers about the 80s: the art and music of the people who raged against that shit
Has he considered buying fewer coffeeshop lattes and/or avocados?
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Has he considered buying fewer coffeeshop lattes and/or avocados?
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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This is a kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is a kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
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Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...