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I'm actually reading this book at the moment, and I'm genuinely terrified that I've somehow activated the Lathe of Heaven by doing so. Can anyone recommend any novels in which only good and positive things happen, please?

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 8h

Really enjoying all the smooth-brained centrists discovering that, actually, they no longer like Tom Watson. How can he have strayed so from the light?

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 9h

Working-class people should stay in their lane, and not seek to hold public office, which should be left to their betters.

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Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social · 10h

After the children in Gaza documentary and Bob Vylan I remember the head of Ofcom being all over the news. They had 10,000 complaints about Channel 4's ADHD disgrace and haven't said a word.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 10h

There is a fairly straightforward way for a person who has opinions about what political direction the GPEW should take to actually make those opinions worthwhile. This is not it.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 11h

When my daughter was about four, she had scarlet fever and lost a frankly terrifying amount of weight, and one of the Health Visitor's tips to help her gain the weight back was to add loads of butter to every thing she ate; pasta, mash, scrambled eggs etc. This was also the slogan that we used.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jesus didn't do that. That isn't true. They didn't even HAVE audiobooks in those days.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't want Marisa Tomei playing a disconcertingly sexy Mongoose! That would just upset me. But I like the Rhames and Chiklis idea, except they should also be twins and it's never explained how such a thing could be the case.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Postman Caractacus And His Duck-Billed Platypus

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I once claimed that The Munsters TV show was called "The Ulsters" when they sold it to RTE, and dubbed with Larne accents, because Herman Munster is clearly Protestant. It don't think it worked, but I gave it a good go.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Literally caught cheating in the closest thing to a national religion we have in the UK, the football, and a bunch of total roasters to boot, but kicking them out would upset the Americans so we just don't even mention it.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be scrupulously fair, I believe some supporters of the Association Football club Newcastle United ARE suggesting that or something like that, but your essential point still stands.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

are you fucking kidding me

$Curtis Yarvin • @curtis_yarvin • 1h What if OpenAl solves the Jewish problem ... roon @tszzl • 23h Replying to @tszzl unified field theory / quantum gravity within the next 12 months? 25 {7 16 • 258 ıll 9K$

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be honest, neither is convincing. So you're saying these two law-enforcement officers, who presumably work closely together, were shot in entirely unrelated incidents? UNLIKELY. Or maybe the deputy was shot by one of your policeman-shooting accomplices, which doesn't absolve you AT ALL.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love this. "Yes, I've checked the rules again and you are not in fact allowed to ride a bicycle in the marathon. My bad."

She wrote an apology statement on Chinese social media platform RedNote, where she has 520,000 followers and regularly posts running videos.

“Riding a bicycle during the Berlin Marathon did indeed violate race rules,” the statement read, translated from Mandarin to English. “Even if I felt unwell on the course, it should never be a reason for me to break the rules.”

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I've never smoked, only drink moderately, follow a Mediterranean diet, and I'm a fucking tortoise."

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is one of them "being a tortoise?" It is, isn't it. I bet it fucking is.

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James @gortoshay1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jedwarda Síochána

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Gwen @ionceposted.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New Guard just dropped

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

THANK GOD somebody is finally honest enough to say that crime is bad and people shouldn't do it! I've been banging my head on the wall on frustration with all these "crime is actually fine and good, and we like it" parties we have in the UK.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi is probably too young to remember John Barnes receiving boos and monkey chants from England supporters in the Maracana stadium in 1984 when he scored England's "goal of the century," but she should be old enough to remember Jimmy Greaves questioning his patriotism in the Daily Mirror in 1992.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is not one of those fake social media accounts set up to make fun of "centrists," much as you might suspect it is. A genuine human man.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the real sincere opinion of a genuine human man.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't question my parenting, sir.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually, my son is called "Vernon Demerest O'Reilly," after his late uncle Vernon Demerest Maguire. This is very offensive to the Vernon Demerest community, and I've reported this post.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is objectively unlikely!

Vernon Demerest is a pompous and self-confident senior pilot for Trans America Airlines and brother-in-law to Bakersfeld. He opposes him on a number of issues of policy. Despite his overbearing attitude, he is an expert pilot who helps to bring Flight Two home safely, although the actual flying is done by Captain Anson Harris, an equally expert pilot who is being given his final "check ride" by Demerest before being certified for international flight captaincy.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I am an intercontinental pilot. I work in my local airport with my family." "I'm a flight attendant. So do I."

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is that the one where, coincidentally, all the other protagonists in various important roles were the main protagonist's brother/brother-in-law/best friend, notwithstanding that they held roles where you wouldn't traditionally expect someone to just work in their local establishment?

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When was the last time someone read an Arthur Hailey novel? He sold ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MILLION OF THEM! If he's remembered at all, it's as the writer of the movie that Airplane! was taking the piss out of.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They did a new reprint in the 2010s, which had an introduction from Daniel Roche who played him in the TV series, and I think they did another reprint to commemorate the centenary of Just William in 2022. Maybe even a Folio Society edition, because I seem to remember an email about it.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a tiny bit sceptical, although keeping an open mind, about the suggestion that The Fairford Incident was a phony war "attack" by Iran proxies. But if it was, or even if we believe they it was, it's probably sub-optimal to let them know that it was a successful one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations

No reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted to "suspicious vehicles" near the airbase.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People who demand that politics is kept out of education never ever object, or even consider, that Animal Farm has been on the national English Literature curriculum for as long as the national curriculum has existed, despite not being a particularly good book.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Moschops 🦕🦖 @moschops.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I go past the other A55 every day on my way to work and have a snigger about that myself. But in my case, the signs say "A55 OUTER RING" which amuses me even more

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My wife and I once stayed in a Travelodge on the A55 outside Chester, and I initially thought the credit card bill said "TRAVELODGE ASSCHESTER WEST."

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People say that making cuts is all about tough choices, but the time it took from the start of the media narrative that Burnham needed to signal his serious credentials by cutting it, to the announcement at conference, was only about 6 weeks. Doesn't seem that tough.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Given that it's always and only the same "tough choice," and they make it again and again and again, you'd think it would be less difficult for them by now.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exactly. The best possible outcome here is the Pope thinking you're ridiculous, as opposed to, for example, eternally damned.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Look, I'm not saying you CAN'T lobby The Pope, but you want to be I don't know King Philip II of Spain wanting your daughter's volatile and unproductive first marriage to be annulled or something. Not, you know, THIS bullshit.

According to a bombshell report in the NYT, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.

Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisors "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.

For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under non-disclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder how she's going to go about brötchen the subject

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like that time he failed a drugs test as a player because a doctor administered nandrolone to him without his knowledge. A doctor he later brought with him to Barcelona to work with players. So unfortunate!

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Poor old Pep Guardiola. To be totally blameless, yet to be surrounded throughout your career by people engaged in corruption and cheating without your knowledge. So unfortunate. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

nytimes.com

UEFA receives ‘substantial’ dossier from Real Madrid on Barcelona’s payments to ex-referees chief (Gift Article)

A Barcelona court has been investigating the 'Negreira case' since 2023.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interestingly enough, a lot of the research appears to be going on in German universities...

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe he's had a tough day at the Panda office? You're worse than Mrs Panda, you don't understand the pressure he's under.

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