I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).

The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.

Who knew fanning insurrection and bombing a developed country into a Mad Max like dystopia could be so profitable for the ‘good’ guys.

This is it: low income folks that graduated in '94 were the last to get full student grants and no fees to pay + renting was relatively way cheaper too.

Do you mean the people of Han ancestry on the island of Taiwan that claim sovereignity over parts of India, Russia, Bhutan, Pakistan, Japan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Tajikistan; and all of Tibet, Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China.

Those people that imposed forty years of martial law on the population of the Island (commonly known as the White Terror) so as to commit Politicide, executing over three thousand, imprisoning over one hundred and forty thousand, not to mention killing between eighteen and twenty eight thousand to thwart a popular uprising. Those people that after two generations of crushing repression felt secure enough, in their possession over the Island’s levers of power and capacity to generate income, to allow elections.

Is it those people that you want me to speak to? Or are you trying to push this in some kind of ‘All Lives Matter’ direction?

I’ve been cycling for 45 years and have only ever retired one bike. Theft or catastrophic damage took care of the rest.

That particular bike had a steel frame and an aluminum seat post that became permanently fused and much of the the bottom bracket barrel was rusted out so I had to let it go. A couple of salty winters in Calgary killed it.

I have a single speed that is almost twenty years old. I’ve easily spent six times the original price in replacement parts. It’s such a low-key ridiculously good bike. If the frame geometry is good for you then keep it ticking over.

Who, the indigenous Taiwanese, or the cancerous ancestors of brutal monarchists from the mainland?

They would certainly struggle to do so but that doesn’t stop the ROC wishing it would.

Their hopes probably made more geopolitical sense many decades ago.

Or, maybe, as they have long hoped, the US will put these children of a brutal aristocracy in ‘charge’ again.

Liberals don’t want truth or justice, they want a self serving narrative that disguises their contempt for people they feel are beneath them.

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One of the things that helped with the relative prosperity of Belfast is that George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, had amassed huge gambling debts so the family had to sell off their extensive property holdings. This was about the mid nineteenth century. There was something of an industrial boom up until the partition of Ireland.

The economist has ever been part of the machinery of the ratchet effect.

At what cost!!?

I’ve been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don’t think it has changed all that much in that time. It’s not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn’t pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.

I get your point but this type of action has always been part and parcel of settler colonialism. They cynically write their own history/propaganda. The same shits that deny these things haven’t happened over and over again are terrified of immigrants because of their own internalised behaviours.

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These match books have card matches so they are difficult to strike like a wooden match. The card match is drawn through between the cover of the matchbook and the striking surface. So the ad on the front of the packet is a word play on the igniting mechanism. Larson’s joke here seems to be that Michaelangelo, one of history’s most famous artists, was inspired to become an artist by one of these everyday matchbook puns.

You’re talking about cock…roaches, yeah?

Entertainment dressed as news, channel.