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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 19m

With each passing day, as a parent, I understand this guy more and more

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Its Nobel Prize for Literature time folks. You know what that means... time to prank call John Banville again

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Enormous mushroom amazes pupils and staff at Sligo national school

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dying to know what prompted this broadcast message from the doctor's office

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fascist government: Here is a list of ethnicities that we are deporting starting tomorrow. Average Bluesky user: Thank you for using Alt Text 👏

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Enormous mushroom amazes pupils and staff at Sligo national school

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

petition for the lrb to bring back covers like this

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fascist government: Here is a list of ethnicities that we are deporting starting tomorrow. Average Bluesky user: Thank you for using Alt Text 👏

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dying to know what prompted this broadcast message from the doctor's office

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes"- RIP Annie Dillard

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Topics that should be banned from "braided essays": -Walser's final photo in the snow -Anything to do with Yves Klein Blue -ANYTHING to do with Wittgenstein

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It's times like this I'm glad I have an AI-proof job (stealing catalytic converters)

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

-regular cloud or mushroom cloud -mushroom cloud pics -mushroom cloud how to avoid -mushroom cloud getting closer -family guy season 1 highlights x1.5 speed

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

-regular cloud or mushroom cloud -mushroom cloud pics -mushroom cloud how to avoid -mushroom cloud getting closer -family guy season 1 highlights x1.5 speed

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

First Kirkaversary without King Harald of Norway. Always the hardest

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Almost everyone around me feels that General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who took power in 2013, has failed to stand up to Israel and defend Palestinian life. We know our country could have done more than offer verbal condemnation and ceasefire mediation". Good piece on a new generation's Nasserist turn.

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Pride and Dependency

A letter from Cairo

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

British novelists may now only be named Ben or Daisy. There are no other options.

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WRONG! Literary Twitter only exists to adjudicate as to whether Stoner is a good novel or not.

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“The Young Communists, would take my hand and put it on their smoothly combed heads: they wanted me to feel the scars left by Nazi knives." This looks great: www.nyrb.com/products/com...

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Comrades in Fire

Comrades in Fire is a portrait of interwar Europe by one of the most stylish and underappreciated writers of the Soviet avant-garde, the Latvian-born Sergei Tretyakov. From 1930 to 1931, Tretyakov tra...

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Irish comedy on Instagram and TikTok is the absolute pits. Comedians performing sketches Bernard Manning would have rejected as being too broad, while waiting to get their big break (getting to do an online Casino advertisement)

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: Rockstar Games announce forthcoming "The Films of Éric Rohmer" Grand Theft Auto VI expansion pack. Missions to include "glimpsing the Green Ray at sunset" and "spending a night at Maud's". More details to follow.

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Disturbed by how gym sculpted, styled and good looking everyone is these days. As David Berman once asked "what have they done with the fat ones? / The bald and the goatee'd?"

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Falling asleep last night I had the thought "when you die, your secret Tomatometer Score will be revealed to you". What could it mean?

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

people don’t even ask to meditate on time, loss and history anymore they just look at you like this

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every Zohran Mamdani Instagram video I see is like: "I'm here with my friends Thierry Henry and Charli XCX to announce Ney York's newest initiative to provide health care for prisoners." Every Andy Burnham video: "Here's my favourite Morrissey song. It's called "Stop The Boats My Love"".

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Watching ALADDIN (1992) with my toddler

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Wexford Gardai say "to be clear, the Cat in the Hat was not in your driveway while you were out and he is not currently hiding out in Curracloe..""

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Amazon Prime really captures the "rural Irish petrol station that also rents DVDs" movie selection

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Watching ALADDIN (1992) with my toddler

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The ubiquity of people being on their phones without headphones means that my wife was having contractions while someone was playing a "the saxophones are getting louder" TikTok in her ward

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wonderful Alan Partridgesque moment in an interview with Gwendoline Riley about Mark Van Doren's Shakespeare book

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

everyone losing their mind because a classicist published a negative movie review in the lrb? big deal. I remember when Mary Beard said America had it coming a week after 9/11

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Kobe McDonald, a sort of "Mayo Kwisatz Haderach"

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Future biographers will really have to contend with just how much time their subjects spent on the computer

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"[H]is acknowledgement of the defeat of the communism in which he was a lifelong, if nonconformist believer, often appears alongside the notion of resistance as itself a virtue, a belief in togetherness & comradeship even in futility, a kind of Beckettian Marxism" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Owen Hatherley, Hope and Defeat — Sidecar

On late Berger.

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

colleague: haha so weird that the World Cup is over, it's like what do I do with my time now. Hey have you heard of Jimothy? me:

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

sorry but Paredes would annihilate that child

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Resent the implication that we must attend every new blockbuster, irregardless of quality, otherwise we might not get original movies anymore

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

At the beach wearing the SPOORLOOS tee

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

At the beach wearing the SPOORLOOS tee

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

crying at the shot of Sad Jagger after Argentina scored

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sincerely hoping that Nolan got his pals The Brothers Quay to work on this

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Michele Mari has won Italy's most important literary award, the Strega Prize! Thrilled that his novel I convitati di pietra, provisionally titled The Stone Guests, will be published in English in my translation – along with two other masterpieces of his for @andotherstories.bsky.social!

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

the woke left have gone too far

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