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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Tom. You made tea shoot out my nose!

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1h

In fairness to Zack 3.5% growth and a 7% greater swing was exactly what that woman asked for back when he was a hypnotherapist.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

I understand that there’s a cost issue and a resourcing issue… but they’ve just given out another tax cut and are vacillating on public sector pay!

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of medical products were developed to assist people with a certain condition and also happened to be life-improving for people who just wanted them. It’s not sinister. Maybe the over-diagnosed neuronormal patient has another need to attend to and shouldn’t just be told to fuck off?

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SinisterBulb @sinisterbulb.bsky.social · 1h

I realise its a convenient device to excuse underfunding EVEN MORE mind. Diagnosis should be massively more available, but crucially support should not hinge on whether the answer is yes or no.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

We know that ADHD and autism were misdiagnosed and undetected in the past. We’re told we’ve swung too far the other way now. Will the scaremongers please tell us the year we got it exactly right so we can use that as a model? Or will they admit that that year hasn’t happened yet?

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Why do they assume that investing more in this area will lead to the incorrect diagnosis of people who are neuronormal? You can get a walk-in eye test. Are people walking around with glasses that are too strong?

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

Why aren’t they worried about under-diagnosis of ADHD and similar conditions? It’s not as if they have so many resources available that a person can get checked on a whim and have it immediately ruled out.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1h

The time and energy we have to put into fighting these over-diagnosis scare stories is time and energy we should be putting into talking about the scale of under-diagnosis.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 7h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 2h

Did Maria Walsh vote the other way or was she not there?

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 2h

This is VERY pleasing news!!!

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3h

Imagine if Reform had tripled their vote in this election and how the coverage would look...

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3h

Has Thomas been a supreme for half his life? I actually thought he was older.

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Jessica Grene @jgrenewriter.bsky.social · 12h

I convinced someone that in Ireland men do a coming-of-age ritual where they have to eat a live lobster.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 12h

Goodnight Mairéad-mind yourself

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Brian Boyle @brummagem.bsky.social · 15h

There's a lovely circular feel to this: MacDermot -> Kermode -> Kermit -> Dermot... and onwards... Kermit's son could be MacKermit

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15h

When FD had to get the bus for the next few weeks, the cyclists in the office would pass him at the bus stop and laugh. He was furious and decided to get even. He was seen letting air out of the tires of the bikes in the bike shed. The cyclists decided to get revenge on him.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15h

The other sister got married in Rome. She booked the family into a lovely hotel except for him, he was sent to a cheaper hotel down the road.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15h

FD was a twitchy man with eyebrows like toast crusts. He took it personally if he was overtaken while driving and the cyclists in the office would slap his car and laugh at him as they overtook him in heavy traffic. One day he was racing a cyclist to work and he crashed into the side of the office.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15h

I love that the same staff are there for years, always a good sign.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 19h

Had delicious ramen in Yamamori for the first time in ages. I'm guessing it must be one of the longest standing Japanese restaurants in Dublin. Still great. Much better than Musashi and some of the other newer spots.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15h

Around this time Johnner was told he wasn’t allowed to answer the phone anymore because his anger issues had an impact on customer experience. Two utterly useless malingerers (T & FD) saw his reassignment to the postroom as a dream outcome and each tried to get “the Johnner Punishment”.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15h

When they came back from the Isle of Man they weren’t friends anymore.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 16h

Another time his frenemy Johnner left his golf clubs in Finnegan’s car after a game and Finnegan sold them on the internet. Johnner had a bad temper at the best of times so this really set him off! Amazingly, they went on a short break to the Isle of Man later that year.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 16h

This one time, Finnegan had his coat stolen by a Mormon and he was ringing “the police station in Utah” to report him. I assume they had him on speakerphone there laughing at him. He was asked to stop doing that.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 16h

There was a guy in the office called Finnegan and he was so annoying that when his sister got married she invited him to the afters. But Finnegan got in a lot of scrapes!

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 16h

I bumped into a pal I hadn’t seen in ten years today. We were reminiscing about our old office and I definitely think workplaces used to be a lot more craic before non-stop Teams meetings and hot-desking.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 16h

The AI CEO Dad getting his robot to read bedtime stories to his son has stumbled upon why we hate it. They want to automate the things people like to do and leave the misery and work for us mugs.

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Alan Rodgers @bi99le5.bsky.social · 17h

Isn't a fununcle a type of vertical railway?

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 17h

No one has ever pre ordered anything faster than I just pre ordered Madra Salach’s first album.

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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 17h

Americans asking *where is Ben Bulben please* (Ben Bulben right there but completely shrouded in mist) So we go *oh, yeah, well they take it down at the end of the season* And they go *oh, okay, thank you for your help* and drive away

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Moldy Bones Brown @wolfesghost.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not offended as an American hearing about all this. I was ribbed pretty good by folks I met in Scotland until I completed the Three Trials of Loch Lomond. Was it easy balancing the egg on my head? No. Did paying $250 for the special egg from the Egg Master seem expensive? Yes. Totally worth it.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 20h

Comedians have been reacting to the news that the BBC is to cancel two TV shows synonymous with comedy in Northern Ireland. Long-running sitcom Give My Head Peace and comedy panel show The Blame Game were both axed this week as part of a huge cost-cutting exercise jrnl.ie/7186681

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Northern Ireland sitcom Give My Head Peace is axed by the BBC after 30 years

Comedy panel show The Blame Game is also to be cancelled as part of cost-cutting.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

There are sharks with better parental instincts than your average tech bro.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20h

“Fun aunt” usually just means aunt without kids, right? Not a rhetorical question: do people say “fun uncle” too?

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Śéáń @fiercemilder.com · 20h

I checked, had to. Real tweet, not a parody account, and does not seem to be posted with any irony.

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 23h

All of ye taking the piss out of the poor yank when you know full well people refer to caterpillars as hairy mollys

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21h

That person probably believed that though

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 21h

Someone told an American - who repeated it back to me - that Irish dancing came from ‘during colonialism’ people trying to hide when they were dancing in bars - cos the Brits didn’t like it - so they didn’t move their arms incase soldiers were looking through windows. Best laugh i’d had in ages!

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21h

Sorry but a fun aunt would never wear this.

Grey crew neck T-shirt with AI print image of a woman riding a cat with the text “hear ye hear ye the fun aunt has arrived “

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22h

We didn’t have Oreos until about 2010!though!

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22h

I think I’ve red-bereted myself.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 22h

The result is that we have the finest bullshit detectors on earth but we're bad at reading people who are sincere and straight and mean it; we think, we assume, they're working an angle of bullshit as well. And from the intersection of that and West Cork law, you get the Irish RM books.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 23h

Yeats had this idea of a mask allowing us to show our true selves because our faces had to mask so much to exist in the bourgeois world. I think a lot of Irish lying is like that mask.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 23h

I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.

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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 23h

Our famed literary tradition is actually just an offshoot of our shite-talking.

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