CJ Lemire

@cjlemire

Leftish ex-Londoner. Current Masshole. Associate member of Romancelandia. Red Sox fan. Remoaner. He/him

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CJ Lemire@cjlemire· 19d

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· 21d

Also from Stephen's newsletter.

That’s not to say that individual measures to control inflation like this are always bad — in many respects it is like taking a painkiller. It can be a good idea to dose yourself up on painkillers if you have a looming deadline or a personal event you really don’t want to miss. It is a bad idea if the painkiller becomes an alternative to seeing a doctor or going to the hospital. The Reeves approach became a way for Labour to avoid talking about the underlying causes of pressures on living standards while doing comparatively little to ease them. If the John Healey approach is about providing a good introduction for Andy Burnham that’s one thing. If it becomes the repeated method that is quite another.

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· 24d

Describe yourself in three fictional characters.

Mitch from Real Genius. A little over his head, a little too young to be where he is. His every instinct is telling him to deal with the stress by keeping his head down and playing it straight.

Alas, Chris has other ideas

Jordan. Same movie. Never sleeps. Literally drove her roommate crazy. Always thinking ten steps ahead and refining as she goes.

Lazlo. Fuck it. Let's go live in the closet and hack the cereal box competition.

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· 25d

Post a thirst trap. Go:

A white man with his right side facing the camera is wearing a cream linen suit, a white OCBD, and brown loafers. He has short salt-and-pepper hair, a full white beard, and is wearing eyeglasses.

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· 26d

Got some family tree tidbits from my dad yesterday (he's not very forthcoming with this stuff) that allows me to start filling in the Welsh branch. This is the house where my great-grandparents lived and my granddad was born. Not surprisingly, given the location, my great-granddad was a coal miner

A brick-fronted terraced house in South Wales

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 29

My Cousin Vinny

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 29

War Games

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 29

Spotlight

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 29

When this bubble pops it's gonna be UGLY. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A timeline graph showing how the AI boom compares with boom-bust cycles of past major innovations: Canal Mania in the US in the 1830s, Railway Mania in Britain in the 1840s, the Roaring 20s, and the Dotcom Boom of the late 1990s. At this point in the cycle, investment in AI is larger than all the others.

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 8

It always comes back to this

Donald Trump pretending to drive a truck

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 5

Ferris today

Matthew Broderick at the Irish Repertory Theater in NYC in March 2026

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Jun 5

I was traveling yesterday, for a first fitting on a suit I’m having made (in cream Irish linen, from J Mueser in NYC). The shirt is a white OCBD from Drake’s. The shoes are dark brown penny loafers from Crockett & Jones.

A white man with close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair, a full white beard, and dark horn-rimmed glasses stands facing the camera. He is wearing a cream linen two-piece suit, a white oxford-collar button-down shirt open at the neck, and dark brown loafers. He's standing on a red oriental rug, in front of a wall with some framed photographs on it.

The same man, wearing the same clothes, in the same room, with his back to the camera.

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· May 31

Prof. OBrien's second point, on the emergence of a northern European alliance, bears watching. Two thoughts: a) For the UK such a defence arrangement helps cement tighter relations with "Europe" while being unhindered by Brexit shibboleths. b) Notably, France and Italy are not included.

A map of Europe, headed "The Baltic-North Sea States" with the UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine highlighted in teal

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· May 26

Long John Silver (Muppet Treasure Island)

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· May 20

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· May 18

If you see this post your getaway vehicle

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· May 12

CJ Lemire@cjlemire· Apr 21

This is a weird damn map, and indicative of what happens when FPTP elections are used in an environment with a minimum of five viable political parties: the whole thing devolves into a series of very localized two-party contests. Eventually something has to give and I suspect it will be FPTP.