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Barry McGee

@barrymcgee.dev
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Belfast - musing on tech, politics and other minutia. Centrist Dad.

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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 02/02/2026
Enabled WiFi for a full seven hour flight and getting consistently above 15MB down - game changer.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 09/12/2025
Never not relevant.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 20/11/2025
"Quiet, piggy!" In the current climate it's very easy to forget this level of nastiness from a person in his position should be unconscionable. What a pathetic boor he is.
Nasty, bullying and pathetic man-baby
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 19/11/2025
Can anyone tell me why the entire influencer class now all hold lil tiny mics?
A lil tiny mic
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 05/11/2025
XL Bully dogs account for less than 3% of the dog population but are responsible for about half of all attacks in the UK. Every single one should be culled, without exception. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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XL bully killed nine-month-old baby boy in Rogiet home
Gwent Police said the dog involved was a six-year-old XL bully that had been officially registered.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 05/11/2025
You gotta give credit where it's due - not a vote to his name but Jamie Bryson is the undisputed leader of unionism. What he wants.. he gets.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/10/2025
Increasingly.. sorry, wha?
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 24/10/2025
It's been a very long time since I've finished a book in a weekend - a fascinating format and a fascinating read. So refreshing to hear a depth of argument that has up until this point been missing in pretty much all mainstream debate. Looking forward to the Lyric launch 👏🏻
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 17/10/2025
What remarkable difference will this make to anyone's lives?
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 17/10/2025
Weekend reading has arrived @sjamcbride.bsky.social
Book: For and Against a United Ireland - by Sam McBride and Fintan O'Toole
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 04/10/2025
Good morning from a non-descript chain hotel off a ring road near Heathrow - today we try again to reach the aul sod ✈️
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 03/10/2025
Watching Belfast cancel everything this evening due to an incoming storm knowing I'm due to fly into City Airport at 6pm 🙈
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 30/09/2025
Irish Home of The Year looks like it sits off a city centre ring road.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
Well, as an Irish citizen living in Béal Feirste, I'll be 100% giving my vote to Ca... oh, shit - right.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
So.. what are you saying? Rowling shouldn't communicate or acknowledge any child actors of Potter after they become adults?
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
Emma Watson is now a grown woman, 5 years off 40. Are you saying Rowling should still be treating her like a child?
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
...and promoted, surely?
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
My good wife got us tickets to Jamie Duffy in the Ulster Hall on Saturday night past and I'm ashamed to say I didn't actually know anything about him prior, despite him growing 3 miles away from where I grew up. Anyway - he's fantastic and has a huge future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0a...
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Jamie Duffy - Solas (Official Video)
YouTube video by Jamie Duffy
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
Yet another reason to always use Remix.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 29/09/2025
Just spitballin' but .. maybe the maths work out if you factor in exposure via TV coverage in the states? Drone shots of Croker over Dublin? Vox pops during the breaks etc? I assume someone somewhere has sat down somewhere with the bag of a fag packet and concluded, 'this math works' 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 23/09/2025
Checking the news every morning: "What has this fucking clown said now?"
Massive orange bake of Donald J Trump - Clown in Chief
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 23/09/2025
99.5% of that convention centre would send ICE to his family home without blinking.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 23/09/2025
is losing?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 18/09/2025
Yeah, I realised a while back that I instinctively believe at that, at some level, logic and reason will prevail and equilibrium will restore. It's a bit head-melty to accept that may not be the case.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 18/09/2025
Hey USA.. you are here.
The ten steps in the Classic Coup Playbook - highlighting step 9: Change the rules (referencing latest Trump move to cancel mainstream comedians)
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 18/09/2025
Eighty years of peace and relative prosperity also lulled Europe into the utterly perilous position of needing to subservient to America on everything from security to economic prosperity.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 18/09/2025
Insanely ironic that gun-toting yanks have argued for years they need their guns to keep the government in check in case it tries to over-reach or crack down on shit it doesn't like... the argument can now longer be heard as they're out of breath cheering and whooping for Trump.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 18/09/2025
MAGA Free Speech update: "I disapprove of what you say, and I will defend to the death our right to make you not say it" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments
ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 17/09/2025
Can someone pls review my bugfix here? github.com/bluesky-soci...
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Fix notification indicator appearing behind navigation text by barrymcgee · Pull Request #9035 · bluesky-social/social-app
Summary Fixes the issue where blue notification dots appear behind navigation menu text instead of on top when user is already on the main feed. Problem Notification indicators (blue dots) were re...
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 17/09/2025
"the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” - Einstein
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 16/09/2025
The parents of Gaza are being literally tortured.
Palestinian Dad moves toward central Gaza in dead of winter night with two sleeping children draped across his bike as intensified Israeli attacks on northern Gaza force them to flee.

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 15/09/2025
I too would like to take this opportunity to withdraw from the Presidential race. Conor & myself had a great run of having absolutely zero chance of making the starting line and I'd like to request privacy as I continue to be a zero chance candidate. 🙏🏻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
theguardian.com
Conor McGregor pulls out of Ireland’s presidential race
Former mixed martial arts fighter had vowed to curb immigration to shore up ‘Irish culture’ and give power ‘back to the people’
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 12/09/2025
Sitting president tries to overturn election by overrunning government buildings with violent mob finds out consequences 4 years later: 🇺🇸 USA: Congrats, you're now President again! 🎉 🇧🇷 Brazil: Congrats, you're now in jail for 27 years 🔐
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 11/09/2025
Based on recent episodes, I wouldn't bet on South Park not having the balls.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 11/09/2025
Elmo's social media hellscape is reaching new heights of disinformation and hysteria today. America and, to a lesser extent, the western world now live in two parallel realms and shit's now got so bad I'm worried the twain never again shall meet.
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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This explains it better than I can
Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 10/09/2025
I guess we're now about to see what happens when a spark meets a tinder box 😵
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 10/09/2025
There was nothing official as far as I know. From my own experience when younger, the probable bigger risk is from young people taking very readily gear of their own accord without understanding provenance or dosage. All teenagers do silly things.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 10/09/2025
Really not looking forward to navigating this when my two get up a bit - really feels like drugs, particularly coke, is as accessible these days as beer was in my day.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 10/09/2025
There's great comfort in a cupán tae that weatha. 🍂
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 08/09/2025
Timeline cleanser (less than 5mins long) - thank me later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjR...
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Frances Maguire — Echoes of an Irish Lifetime (2025)
YouTube video by Film at ATU Donegal
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 08/09/2025
This genocide will remain imprinted on my brain for as long as I draw breath. Unforgivable.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 01/09/2025
What a time to be alive. I think it's fair to say what used to be known as the broad middle in British politics is now absolutely obliterated. A complete capitulation to the worse instincts of the worst people you can think of. Just throw the keys to Tommy Robinson and be done with it ffs.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 21/08/2025
Hodor from Game of Thrones.
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 21/08/2025
Throwing stuff at your arse is a huge societal problem in Ireland. Was cycling a rural road an hour ago and the entire hedgerow from end to end is teeming with litter. 😭
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 21/08/2025
Brunch of champions 👌🏻
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Barry McGee @barrymcgee.dev · 20/08/2025
Meanwhile in Dublin... unrelated: any update on Casement?
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