Sean Matthews
(Northern) Irish-British, entitled to, but no desire for, a German passport. Wife German, born Hungarian, teaches literature at a German university. Children ethnically confused. Mostly in Mainz, but also in Westmeath.
Does computational math for a living
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- Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever
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- This is exactly right by @mmasnick.bsky.social. You just don’t talk to law enforcement without a lawyer. There is never upside. Ever. Not NEVER. www.techdirt.com/2025/05/13/h...
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- When the Home Secretary is having to argue that the Prime Minister's speech was "completely different to Enoch Powell's", it may be time to pause and reflect on ... lots of things.
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- Stevie Wonder Visiting A Children's School For The Blind In London, 1970. Photographer Terry O'Neill. youtu.be/JI6zfrA3-CA?...
- some personal news! www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
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- The Labour leadership, man. The frogs who boiled themselves.
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- No-one curmudgeons quite like Moorcock. Tho' some might say he'd a bit of a cheek, given the content of stuff like the Hawkmoon & Corum sagas, not to mention the soft ride he gives to Lenin & Guevara in The Warlord of the Air and the glorification of rape in - the original edition of - Gloriana....
- I think one of the skeleton keys to understanding Elon, Big Yud, Sam Altcoin, etc., is that they appear to genuinely believe that "intelligence" is more important than eg the laws of physics, because if you're smart enough you'll discover new laws of physics that allow you to break the current ones.
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- Feeling vengeful towards elites? This sheet-pan brioche will make you feel like you’re in 1780s France.
- Some men will literally go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of their soul the uncreated conscience of their race -- instead of going to therapy.
- having a mini magnum on the balcony for breakfast, for medical reasons
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- The “international travel to the U.S. is taking a dive because of Trump” story turns out to be mostly about Easter falling later this year (though there’s something to it for Canada). Important to keep confirmation bias in check. (Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
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- From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.
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- Trump tweeted out a picture of himself as Pope, and then look what happened.
- Look, I'm not saying that all amiable balding white-haired midwestern white guys look alike to me. One of them has the fancy pope clothes, after all.
- you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
- A mere 2 hours ago, betting markets were giving the now Pope a 0% chance of becoming Pope. Lmfao
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- just over the last 5 weeks, Trump has helped swing elections (against him) in Wisconsin, Canada, Australia, and the Vatican.
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- I haven’t been Catholic for a very long time and try to stay out of the church’s internal politics but my rule of thumb is that if fanatical converts like Vermeule, Vance, or Ahmari are upset it’s a good sign.
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- Yes, the work can be mentally tough. But who else gets to poke their head out of their office to see what the commotion is, only to see a guy who sat crying with you a couple of months ago because he thought he would never even stand, let's alone walk again, doing this! UNBROKEN Lviv
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- I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer
- Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it? We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data. A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.
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- Anyway. We are here.
- I worked at the same office job for many years. Staff hated and bullied me. I collected my earwax everyday by scrapping it out with a rounded black Bic pen top storing it in foil. Last day of work I rolled it in to a candle and served it on the cake I bought for colleagues.
- I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
