Mick

I drew a picture based on a dream I had one night of a gigantic statue of the death of Cú Chulainn much like the African Renaissance Monument in Senegal.

Rebellion rewatch: one big problem from the start is them making up all the main characters. hard to care about these bozos when Connolly or Pearse are right around the corner

On September 24,the atmosphere in Fidel's room at the Hotel Theresa was electric, a small room buzzing with the energy of a young revolution. It was cramped with Cuban guerrillas, youth who had descended from the Sierra Maestra mountains less than two years earlier. At 34, Fidel himself was a whirlwind of motion; his famous beard and olive-green fatigues radiated a restless energy. The room, cluttered with drafts of his upcoming UN speech and scattered news cables, served as a makeshift headquarters. Across from him sat Malcolm X,35, who, in a sharp suit and with an equally commanding presence, embodied the increasingly militant Black liberation movement within the United States. The encounter was a profound, if brief, exchange between two men who recognized the mirror of their struggles in one another, a shared fight for what Fidel would later call,two days later, in his historic four-hour-long UN speech,"the full human dignity" of all oppressed people. Only a few Black journalists were permitted inside, where Fidel, speaking in English, expressed his admiration for the resilience of African Americans."I admire this," he said."Your people live here and are faced with this propaganda all the time, and yet, they understand. This is very interesting."Malcolm X's reply was succinct and powerful:"There are twenty million of us, and we always understand." As he left the hotel, facing a throng of hostile journalists asking about his sympathies for the Cubans, Malcolm X defiantly replied "Please don't tell us who should be our friends, and who should be our enemies".

Season 2 of Blowback is a history of the Cuban Revolution and the US' attempts to sabotage it. Episode 4 describes Castro appearing at the UN, visiting Harlem. It brings a lot of different sources together, this paragraph doesn't do it justice, but it is so moving. Blowback only good podcast

Yer da funds Tommy Robinsons holidays

Kris Kristofferson is one of the rare cases that after his death stories surfaced claiming he was a beautiful human being and also incredibly based and possibly also my father.

WE ARE THE BILLY BOOOOYS

Two pikemen view a comrade with a fancy halberd: “Fuckin’ show off”

I did get this from doing it though

Cork man down repeat cork man down

Behind every great leader is a cork man ready to tear them down.

Just want to give a shout out to everybody in the world.

I added a new welcome email when you subscribe to my blog. You’ll only see it if you subscribe to my blog 👍

This is an announcement
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The Brits pioneered militarised policing in the ever-useful colonial laboratory that was/is Ireland

Americans learned lessons from those experiments

And it's not like policing doesn't look like that here anymore

Lasair Mhúrn will take over the world. Sin é

While ill continue writing long form articles Im going to be writing more everyday stuff. As well as comics. And maybe also video stuff. 👍👍👍

Lasair Mhúrn | Micheál McBride | Substack A South Down based blog. A place to dump my writings and other things. Click to read Lasair Mhúrn, by Micheál McBride, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

I’m going to be posting more stuff on my blog. Long form stuff. Building up my blog before the great microblogging collapse.

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They rally around Dennis Hutchings because he acted out the true disturbing desires that lies at the very heart of British society, shooting poor disabled people in the back.

Fuck my disgusting NATO life.

This is very good indeed.
Keir Starmer not welcome in South Down

Thank you 🙏

"Starmer represents the snivelling, liberal English middle class who view themselves as polite and civil like Paddington Bear but one inconvenience away from Ian Paisley or Enoch Powell."

enough with my lies. here’s a free taste of the little comics I’ve been making and poasting on patreon exclusively: www.patreon.com/posts/147338...

2026 is the return of the blog. I thought it would be last year. But it will be this year. I’ll be dedicating my life to the blog. I will live for my blog. I will die for my blog.

It's Coming Home The Imperial Boomerang

I wrote an article on my blog about bastards.

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I bring my cousin Arthur McBride to the Christmas morning walk that the sergeant, corporal and their drummer don’t really like

Here’s how Conor McGregor can still win the 2025 Irish presidential elections.

You can get 3 headers in a room and the entire historical illiterate anglosphere will say “the ra is back and some how, they’re my friend”

When your girlfriend is good at taken photos @jupiterbanana.bsky.social