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Colm Quinn

@colmfquinn.bsky.social
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Irishman in DC 😎

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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Judge us by our enemies etc
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting that Ireland, the universally beloved country, only has one hater.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Michael, I have great affection for you and you live a very rich and interesting life, but you live in a bubble. What you're describing is a self-curated bubble. If you haven't heard the song that's been #1 on the charts for 23 weeks, you live in a bubble and you should probably be aware of that.”
Tom Wilkinson holding 20 baguettes in Michael Clayton
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don’t need a dumb dumb like me saying “Steinbeck=good” so instead I will say I appreciated that he used “can’t get an old guy to move? Sock him in the jaw, knock him out, then carry him wherever you need to go” Not once but twice
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just finished Grapes of Wrath, my first Steinbeck book and damn sometimes a classic does not hold up but this holds up and also blows the doors off. Crazy it got published in any era.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So many OC parallels, makes you yearn for the era of 24 episode seasons
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Little late to the party but Sterling Point god damn. Everyone involved take a bow
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Give Mourinho his Man U PL winners medal let’s goooo
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had to wear gloves today
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NY cops are a different breed, at least in DC they will wait until they are in the safety of a squad car before endlessly scrolling their phones. Not in New York. Free range phone addiction here.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But for real it was the now-illegal leveraged buyout
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The real problem at Man Utd is—*collapses into gravitational singularity*
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Arsenal. Horrible bloodless football. Wonderful to see them lose.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Declan Rice with the England player discount, yellow for him, red for anyone else.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
lol Starmer is there. The platonic ideal of “waaaaaay”
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What does America lose when it fails to have a culture of saying “waaaaaaaay!”
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Brighton Arsenal a great day for fans of saying “waaaaaay” ironically
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
[me in ward 5 doing Squidward looking out window meme]
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dudes rock
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mr Trader Joe you gotta put a ziplock on these because I do be eating them all in one go otherwise
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And they say this place doesn’t have the juice bsky.app/search?q=my+...
bsky.app
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People say society is going backwards etc but if you go to the hardware store with a scrap of paint they will use a computer to match it perfectly to make you some new paint and it just works. This is the kind of thing that keeps me going.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
City are streets ahead but hard to argue Carrick isn’t just a Harry Redknapp-style vibes man
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do they deliberately make it look terrible so we know it’s AI
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I still remember the ads for hoki being like “sorry about the cod, you like hoki now 👍 “
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are so back.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Only tree down in my neighborhood is in front of the Catholic Church with the anti abortion sign out front. Make of that what you will
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
People posting the trees down in their neighborhoods like accidentally posting how big your parents’ kitchen is at Thanksgiving. We get it you have big trees where you are 🙄
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am reading my first Steinbeck and it is making me mad how good he is. A god.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who knew there were that many cowboy shows
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Very funny how Roku is now a key soldier in the culture war
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Shoutout to @cmzparker5.bsky.social. This bikelane work has been unfinished all summer and bled into school season. One email and he sorted it in a week. (Pictured: Before, after)
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The tournament’s first real honest to god blunder
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The pretty women have simply been priced out
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It is the time of drawing early conclusions so here is mine: how a candidate feels about bicycles is the great litmus test of our time. It really reveals so much about
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I hope future generations watching this World Cup understand that we actually did possess camera technology better than the grainy ref cam they are using
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Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org · 10/06/2026
DC! It is less than a week until the primary and it couldn’t be more important to support pro-housing, pro-transit candidates. Thankfully, we have a slate of great endorsees ready to hit the ground running. First up, our endorsed candidate for mayor: @janeese4dc.bsky.social 1/8🧵:
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Lettuce, cabbage, whatever. There’s a reason parliamentary systems are the norm nowadays.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This piece goes deeper than the headline of course but can’t help but think America’s problems stem from *not* being able to fire their leaders. Liz Truss messed up the economy and was gone before the cabbage. In America there is no such punishment. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
Why Britain and America Can't Stop Firing Their Leaders
In both countries, political revolts keep toppling leaders without solving the deeper crisis.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Paying $2.70 to get the metro downtown
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
nytimes.com
Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
*not* a hater but it is funny that Madison square garden holds 20,000. Charlton athletic ass numbers. Bradford city numbers, Bolton Wanderers, things of that nature.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hard to find something more inessential in sports journalism than the athletic’s soccer coverage yet here we are
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mac users could never reach this level of grind
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New DC driver unlocked: guy with Virginia plates cruising through an intersection with the Lenovo on his lap tapping away.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The stoics used to decamp to the woods for weeks at a time so their beds at home would then feel a little softer. I played my annual rugby match yesterday and am now reminded of what being run over by a car must feel like, I’m just like them for real
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I wonder about the internet’s first 30 years and how it’s easily the most documented the human race has ever been, but with AI and general malaise about posting that will probably decline. It’ll be like the bulge you see in tree rings
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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Colm Quinn @colmfquinn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We needed this rain dot jpeg
Flowers in rain
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