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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you know when the idea for a tweet comes to you nine years too late? like my brain, unbidden, just produced the thought “an indecisive Irish judge called Ruth B’fhéidir Ginsberg”. or maybe I did tweet it at the time. nothing matters anyway.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surrealing in the Years: You Should Probably Arm Yourself At Some Point

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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A six-month trial of live facial recognition technology in London’s railway stations cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time. It ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with no arrests

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – false – alert

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why, every year, the whole of Ireland is required to celebrate the Puck Fair. We can’t just say that hauling a goat into the air for days on end is something just for Kerry. We are a united country, which is why we have airborne goats everywhere.

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Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 28/09/2026

You have to cook the question this much and it's still plurality in favor of the triple lock. C'mon lads, pack it in

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@carlkinsella.bsky.social Is our frontline correspondent reporting live from the decade-long war on Christmas. How fares the trenches, Carl? And our troops' morale? www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

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Dublin City Council not at war with Christmas, but with basic organisation and communication

Which is worse, by the way.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Keeping the winter lights on until February gives the impression that the council is out of ideas for how to make Dublin nice all year round… Sort of like how you need to make your Roses last into the post-Christmas season even as shrinkflation withers your Strawberry Dreams away into nothingness.”

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Dublin City Council not at war with Christmas, but with basic organisation and communication

Which is worse, by the way.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just sucked something through a plastic straw for the first time in god knows how long and let me tell you, we’ve all forgotten just how good it feels

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If the Irish team or indeed any players really do refuse to play this match they would be heroes on an international scale

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

jrnl.ie

Dublin City Council not at war with Christmas, but with basic organisation and communication

Which is worse, by the way.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m not being funny but the people who call for a United Ireland flag to make some concession to unionists… what do you think the big huge fucking orange bit on the current flag is for

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You know how on The Traitors you might get someone on there who lies about their job in the real world? That’s sort of how it feels when Michael Gove acts as the prime minister." Wrote a review of Sky's The Wargame, which features Gove, Sturgeon and more playing D&D only it's war with Russia.

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Did you know they've made a TV series where real politicians pretend Russia is bombing the UK?

Starring high-profile politicians, The Wargame turns invasion by Russia into reality TV. But… why?

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

how's it going man i heard your dog thing went out of business. i read that in the newspaper

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love this guy at the end of the Lord of the Rings with a huge pumpkin who’s like you’re think the only one who’s been busy

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Samwise: Rosie Cotton dancing. She had ribbons in her hair. If ever I was to marry someone, it would have been her. It would have been her. Frodo: that was never on the cards man

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

he didn’t have to do it like that

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23/09/2026

The greatest thread in middle earth forum history

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boonque @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shaving a hobbit's foot is an act of extreme violence

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

actually the hair on hobbits feet is a complicated sensory organ

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m sorry you can’t actually tell me that the hobbits wouldn’t have benefited from shoes

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I never ever drink coffee so a fun thing about my life is that on the biannual occasions that I do drink coffee I spend the next six hours feeling like I’m about to die. About three hours left to go.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you forgot drying off was a possibility getting wet would be so scary

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'“I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician,” said Sheeran, his eyes locked on the teleprompter like a septuagenarian father holding a conversation about your fragile emotional wellbeing while he tries to finish a game of Sudoku on his phone.' It's Hear Me Out, a new series on The Journal!

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Hear Me Out: How bad has Ed Sheeran's response to the backlash been?

The Journal writers discuss and debate Sheeran’s attempt to navigate a backlash.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

no sorry bro i can't. my business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.

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Abortion Rights Campaign @freesafelegal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hear us Now! at the 15th annual March for Choice, this September 26th in Dublin. Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil. Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s called MUBI because I love da mubies baby

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

rewatching Friday Night Lights in a totally shameless bid to fuck my whole life up

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

me, squinting at a teleprompter: please leave me out of this.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Episode 3 of Lunchtime with Michael Fry airs today at 13.30. Michael gets a gold earring to appeal to the youth demographic and crashes the price of gold globally. Sir Maurice prepares for his charity skydive into Lough Neagh.

The schedule for BBC Radio Ulster showing Lunchtime with Michael Fry airing at 13.30

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Did we believe that Trump has been putting together plans for cross-border working groups on a united Ireland and setting up the volleyball nets at Camp David for mixed-doubles between Micheál Martin, Andy Burnham, Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly?' Surrealing in the Years:

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Donald Trump called for a united Ireland. What exactly were we expecting to happen next?

Also this week: Ed Sheeran has made a right balls of it, eh?

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Legolas: hurry! Frodo and Sam have reached the eastern shore! Aragorn: ah dyou know what

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s so good how the Lord of the Ring’s exposition speech is like “the ring came to the creature, Gollum”. Like just in case you’re wondering what this thing is, it’s a creature

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

man that whole paragraph is so good. calling Anne Boleyn 'by today's standards not as "hot" as Sydney Sweeney' is really getting me

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

stealth edits without acknowledgement are unethical and the normalisation of them has contributed to the deteriotation of public trust in the press 👍

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"beautiufal women have been driving the world insane as long as has been recorded. the most obvious evidence of this time-worn tradition is a woman who did not exist."

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

genuine question here but is there any suggestion at all yet that MHR was assaulted for a political motive?

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

US congress approves $2.8 billion "aid in the region" package

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it turns out not taking a side means taking the side of getting your ass kicked by everybody probably for the rest of your life

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Chelsea @chelseabigbang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just can't believe he posted that lmao I am truly AGOG

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's statement where he sounds genuinely very angry throughout, immediately both-sideses the genocide, and asserts that he has his own opinions on the matter but that they're a secret, strikes me as unlikely to solve the problem he perceives himself to be facing right now.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In a recent test, a Canadian freelancer autonomously consumed the last slice of pizza, even though she wasn’t really hungry.

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I dunno cos the actual scientists saying there is an evidence-based 100% chance we are effed climate-wise didn't get much attention.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/09/2026

Worth noting that "romance novels will rot your brain and ruin your life" has been around for a couple of centuries, and we're the biggest genre by miles.

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