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Martin Concagh

@mconcagh.bsky.social

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Brit living in Toronto. Politics, books, jazz, Doctor Who and many more

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 10h

Hasan “Zap A Doodle” Piker

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11h

I’d go as far as to say that every workplace sitcom and drama after the three season mark ends up becoming primarily about how the characters have no meaningful relationships outside of their work

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15h

around season 3 people WILL start to notice that none of the characters on your workplace sitcom have meaningful relationships outside of work

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11h

Now it’s “ugh why won’t that dumb black bitch shut up and go away forever“

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11h

Right up until July 2024 the prevailing narrative from the left, right and centre is “lol that dumb black bitch can’t talk”

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11h

If you’re an ambitious and savvy progressive politico / streamer / public figure by snubbing Piker and not doing a photo op or collab you’re saving yourself the hassle of having to publicly distance yourself from him when the inevitable downfall comes and a lot of bad shit comes out

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11h

Very funny to see people still saying Hasan Piker is being smeared by the lib establishment for animal abuse when he’s currently on his third explanation of how he wasn’t electrocuting his dog

www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...

From the LivestreamFail community on Reddit: Another explanation from Hasan. He's pushing the gate button and Kaya reacts to it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

a lot of people read like LLMs generate text: they don't actually comprehend the words so much as make a guess at what they think they are based on a few recognizable terms

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 22h

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like I read OP’s post a million and one times when Corbyn was labour leader

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 23h

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

I think the Liberal leadership candidate who was closest to my own political stances was Karina Gould. I think she could make a good liberal leader at some point. However, she came third with 3% of the vote. What are we doing here

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

A huge amount of the discourse and criticism of Carney - from the left and the right - has to pretend that he didn't win the leadership election with 90% of the vote

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

I could ask you the same question

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

Does occur to me that the sources for that recent mildly unflattering profile of Carney in Macleans was clearly primarily sourced from off-record comments by disgruntled Karina Gould supporters

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

About sixty percent of this article is just namechecking the close advisors to previous PMs and the rest just feels a bunch of well-connected politicos whining that Carney didn’t give them a cushy job.

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 21h

Endlessly fascinated and pissed off by this genre of non-article, which presents itself as serious analysis of political dynamics and then does nothing of the sort

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

PM Carney risks trouble without loyal ‘palace guard,’ say political players

Every new prime minister eventually faces turbulence, and that’s when a strong and trusted palace guard is ‘essential,’ says political historian and former Liberal MP John English. But at a critical t...

www.hilltimes.com

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

It’s such a great song because the composition and production of the parody is so shit

“There’s only twelve notes in the whole world
(In perfect harmony)”

Is a perfect chef’s kiss of a hack line and it comes in completely out of time too

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

This song is entirely applicable to Sabrina Carpenter too btw

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 22h

Their Oasis parody is IMO the greatest thing Spitting Image ever did

youtu.be/3_n0hLRAIeQ?...

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

High Potential (2025-)

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Writing a series about a detective with a loving relationship with his unmurdered family. He solves cases by not drinking, taking time away from work, and getting a good night’s sleep.

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

One of the great bits in Dominic Sandbrook‘s Who Dares Wins is him talking about left and right wing commentators in the 1980s who would in one breath would bemoan the death of the British car industry and in the next insist that they had no choice but to buy a much better quality imported vehicle

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

I think he took the negative comments personally and didn’t see the point in making nice with an opponent who won only 3% in the leadership election.

I think it’s needlessly tactless but again I don’t see it in and of itself as evidence of a misogynistic attitude - he’s snubbed a lot of men too.

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and as I said before I can certainly believe Carney treats female subordinates poorly but I don’t think his snubbing of Karina Gould is evidence of that

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

If you actually read my two posts, you will see me linking to a former female Liberal MP alleging being treated poorly by Trudeau, an allegation made *while Trudeau was still in office*, showing that evidence often does emerge while someone is still in office

Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

As I said two posts up I can believe he’s a misogynist but “snubbing an opponent who made negative comments about him during the leadership contest“ is not really evidence of that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com