Reposted by Cal DoyleSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It makes me feel mental, we're subsiding predatory gambling companies that destroy lives, and doing so in a way that forces thousands of dogs to be killed and dumped every year 29717
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fuck it. It's Tuesday. Have at it. music.apple.com/ie/album/tru...music.apple.comTruly by Floating Points on Apple MusicSong · 2009 · Duration 7:56 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleKirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"This book is dedicated to the city of Perugia, apart from the following specific individuals:" 1111
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is: Maybe he didn't? 0146
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dear Eli, I'm in the middle of the ocean. I haven't left my room in four days. I've never been more lonely in my life, and I think I'm in love with Margot. 011
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Going out on a limb: the intro tune to the NYer Writer's Voice podcast is the best podcast intro tune of all time. 010
Reposted by Cal DoyleEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thinking that what's going on with Man City is just a football story is like thinking that the Enron scandal should have never left the business pages. Size of Enron inflated profits = £585m, size of Man City total profit and loss mistatement = £921.4m 119653
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 04/10/2026She was a playwright, and she won a Braverman Grant of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. 021
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026International break isn’t over until Tuesday. Fuck my fucking life. What a waste of everybody’s time. 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026President Trump directed staff to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4jBqx63 52262160
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They finally geo blocked the Criterion Channel. Bastards. 121
Reposted by Cal DoyleRob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remembering when for no good reason i pretended to be Nabokov ranking various bears 38428
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And so on and so forth, until the club is playing Division Two of the Manchester Football League. Which is pretty much the thirteenth tier of senior association football in England. Happy days. 000
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But they have to carry the full penalty, as in, say, if they get 100 points in the Championship next year, and get relegated to League 1 on minus 14 points, they start the following campaign on minus 128 points. 100
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh f*ck it, let's just say a 10 point penalty for every charge is a fair outcome. You know, like phased over time, say, dunno, 10 years? So, start each of the next ten seasons on a minus 114 points, as standard. 100
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The NBA essentially hobbled the LA Clippers from competing in any meaningful sense for a decade for circumnavigating the salary cap to pay one player. Just in case any Man City fans care to internationally benchmark what 114 charges should, in reality, entail. 100
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As a Liverpool fan, you absolutely feel it. But the greatness of that Klopp side was plain to see. Ditto Arsenal in the 2020s and the inconsistent, but occasionally brilliant, Manchester United of last 15 years. Huge clubs. They can take the hit, not the Stokes and Watfords. 010
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This all day: It's the likes of Stoke, Watford, Villa and Spurs that you feel for. Those cup wins are vital to these clubs and their fans. www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comTony Pulis says he and Stoke were ‘cheated’ in 2011 FA Cup final after Manchester City verdictTony Pulis says ‘we won’t ever get that day back’ after Manchester City were found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules 100
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Anyway, Bad Monkey not being on the list is a crime against humanity 000
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’ll never forget the radio report: ‘A man was seen running through fields outside Goleen at approximately 7am. Gardai are treating the sightings as suspicious’ 130
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck it. It's Friday. Go nuts. music.apple.com/ie/album/com...music.apple.comCompro by Skee Mask on Apple MusicAlbum · 2018 · 12 Songs 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 25/09/2026"In a lesser film, the dress is red." - @franhoepfner.bsky.socialbrightwalldarkroom.comAtonement (2007): In This HeatThe first act of Atonement takes place in the summer of 1935 in Shropshire, England, and this is the kind of heat that’ll drive you insane 0163
Reposted by Cal DoyleMike Spillane @spillanemike.com · 24/09/2026Not my country but you look at what was done to just stop oil or Palestine action... A marked difference... 033
Reposted by Cal DoyleNeil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Talk about nominative determinism. 5699
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Again the citizens of Cork continue to blur the lines between petty crime and performance art www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...echolive.ieMan stole alcohol and steaks from the same Cork shop eight times in one week, court toldAlan Roche pleaded guilty to the eight thefts, a number of other shoplifting offences elsewhere and to public order offences where he was abusive to ... 081
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Are you suggesting that the school run in Norwich is not as fraught as the fall of Basra!? 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra. 1014531
Reposted by Cal DoyleBad Parking Cork @badparkingcork.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cornmarket Street #badParkingCork #bpcCornmarketStreet 001
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Chattanooga Red Wolves SC v Portland Hearts of Pine shall be known as the Cal Doyle Derby, for reasons that I’m unwilling to disclose. 001
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied entry to the White House on Saturday. First Amendment experts condemned President Trump’s ban on the news outlets as unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... 99524197
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Getting a lot of Mao adjacent content on here for some reason. He was demonstrably not a good sauce person. Bad sauce. 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You dropped your cigarettes. 032
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has baffled players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.nyti.msCan Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go. 76611
Reposted by Cal DoyleSachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a guy. www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comJürgen Klopp wants his Germany team to reclaim national pride from ‘the wrong people’Jürgen Klopp has said Germany’s football team can help ensure ‘national pride is not entrusted to the wrong people’ after a recent far-right AfD election victory 623146
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why are Cork City Councillors even concerned about a Dublin matter? Should they not be voting on the actual fare increases that happened in Cork a few months back? www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...irishexaminer.comCork politicians call for proposed public transport fare hikes to be overturnedCork City Council unanimously backed a motion opposing fare increases, while the Green Party is seeking €85 million in Budget funding 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Both Canada and the EU are America’s closest allies and he’s angry and threatening them more than he’s ever threatened Putin. 44542143
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We are delighted to offer an online craft seminar with Sinéad Morrissey entitled Writing from the Inside: On Immediacy of Poetic Address. The seminar will run on Tuesday 13th October from 7pm to 8.30pm, online via Zoom. Tickets now on sale: stingingfly.org/product/writ... 076
Reposted by Cal DoyleArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tennis Court Oath, by Jacques-Louis David, 18th century 568188
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026For reasons too elaborate to fully explain, I kind of need Erling Haaland to score a handful of own goals and be sent off in the Manchester derby. 000
Reposted by Cal DoyleThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 13/09/2026That's seventy-two unforced errors for Richie Tenenbaum. He's playing the worst tennis of his life. What's he feeling right now, Tex Hayward? 011
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Green kits shouldn’t be allowed in field sports. Hopefully Serie A’s stance on this will become more widely adopted. 000
