Des Fitzgerald

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Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· 27d

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· 27d

Tfw it's not coming home

Simpsons "there will be no orphanage, I'll tell the children" meme

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· 28d

We need a study on wtf is going on with this app and Argentina.

Argentina’s President is extreme enough and the people are obsessed enough with the Falkland Islands that this football match, could become a catalyst for another conflict if it becomes anymore controversial during the match.

Think I’m exaggerating, think on.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· 29d

From our journey to "camp" (lol) this morning - the former Cork waterworks and, behind it, the outline of the old psychiatric institution, looking west along the River Lee.

A river scene with some industrial infrastructure (a tall chimney) in the greenery and the roof of a Victorian institution behind it.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· 29d

Excited for a full day of: the humanities lads once again discover "the social sciences"

Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 12

Raymond Aron absolutely bodied here by Didier Eribon (but also: how many famous sociologists does that last line put you in mind of? In my own case, basically my entire department at grad school).

I can't help imagining that there was a cleaning lady in the home Raymond Aron grew up in, and that when he saw her it never occurred to him that she was "conscious of belonging to a social group" that wasn't the one he belonged to; that he was taking tennis lessons while she ironed his shirts, washed the floor, and cleaned the bath-rooms, following his mother's orders; that as he was following an educational trajectory leading to further study in prestigious places, her children, the same age as him, would soon be starting work at a factory, or had already done so. When I see photos from his childhood, with his family, what I see is the bourgeois world on display in all its self-satisfaction (a self-satisfaction of which it is surely fully conscious). And yet he is unaware of this? Even retrospectively? And can still call himself a sociologist?

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 12

Bluesky negatively polarising itself into England fandom may be the most truly bluesky thing yet.

I am rooting for whoever is playing Argentina. That is all.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 12

I find this stuff - which is all over bluesky - deeply strange, even kind of mad. It's also hard not to see it as an attempt to displace the one actual attempt to cheat in this competition, which was by the United States.

God, I was so worried FIFA wouldn't get the final four sides it wants (France, Spain, Argentina, and England) that I can't tell you how thrilled I was when in a 1-1 game 75 minutes in a Swiss player was given a red card

That was a near escape, we almost had a real tournament

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 11

I need to get off the internet before I end up supporting England

A Jacobin tweet: The far right spent a century claiming the Vikings.

Norway's World Cup team — horned helmets, runes, a viral row-chant and all — just took them back.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 11

In fairness to Harry Kane, hanging out with dodgy political figures before a big world cup match is part of his Irish heritage.

Irish team hanging out with John Paul 2 during Italia 90

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 10

So much of this nonsense around. Haaland plays for the same club his famous father played for! His career is not a product of some "low cost" egalitarian fantasy - jfc.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 10

I'm sure haaland is lovely, but we have to stop treating the Nordic states in this stupid, childlike way. Norway's entire existence is predicted on the financialization of fossil fuels. Their second-largest political party is broadly fascist. Haaland himself is the scion of famous, rich athletes.

My only take on Erling Haaland hype is that he grew up under Democratic socialism in Norway which boosts one of the highest happiest indexes of any country globally & I can’t but feel that come across in his attitude both as a player & human. He seems to be having fun. Like many whose needs are met.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 9

This is the most british writer's CV I've ever seen

a list of books, four of which are various doctor who adaptations, the ast of which is a swerve into "gender ideology"

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 8

I'm going to share with you the 5yo's menu for his restaurant, which offers among its delights "carits with soop" and, incredibly, "Iss Qrem."

A child's handwritten menu in orange card: "carits with soop or pork with carits and grave, For dsrt iss Qrem."

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 6

the first page of Szasz's 1963 paper on transference

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 6

Fyi for Americans this is the king of Belgium and he almost never posts like this.

A tweet by sepp Blatter: Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 6

Obviously overthinking this, but the instance that individual nice Americans bear no responsibility for crimes committed in their name feels like It Explains A Lot.

From an article in The Athletic: "But the uncomfortable paradox of it all is that the face of the controversy, Balogun, and the team that many around the world will now turn on are blameless."

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 5

Look at the size of these mofos

A woman holding two freakishly large oysters

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 4

<Americans dusting off the family callipers> let's see who can take a joke

Some guy accusing people upset the the onion's dumb anti-Irish "joke" article of not understanding jokes.

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 1

Princess Leia from star wars. Text says "help me Mexico, you're my only hope."

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jul 1

The BBC commentary team as Brave England draw level with one of the world's most under-resourced teams.

Meme of gobshite who came third over-celebratinf

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 30

Are the novelists okay

Text from a novel that reads: "in his bathroom he took a shit that came out hit and thin as filter coffee."

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 30

RIP Florian Schneider you would have loved downloading academic journal articles in 2026

are you a robot? please confirm you are a human

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 30

Big fascist golden eagle on the white house

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 30

Europe deep in mourning at the defeat of its beloved Germany

A post that says "Europe lost, Football won."

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 29

we need to re-invent the soviet union just so we can once again have a rigorous & positivist state anthropology dedicated to working out wtf is going on with americans

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 29

The deranged "Europeans" discourse on here becomes a lot more comprehensible when you realise that much of the time they mean "Germans."

a series of posts about how europeans think about ac, in which one of the posters revels his source for europeans quasi-theological view of the phenomenon is having lived in germany for 6 months

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 26

Yes, it is surely politically unacceptable that we refuse to use the proper name of <looks down at the history of the twentieth century> Deutschland.

A series of deeply silly posts that argued using the new economy "turkiye" also suggests that we should call Germany "Deutschland"

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 24

Not to dunk, but please stop doing this. No one deserves redundancy, irrespective of where their institution is positioned in the obvious bullshit of rankings and also irrespective of whether or not americans will allow that their university is a "serious research institution."

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald· Jun 24

"harry kane was shit; some guy from dundalk was watering pitch" - unimprovable honestly