Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I suppose it's a useful campaigning tool, but when the actual laws are passed, they get the usual boring names like any other law, and that's what the courts, guards etc call them. Media prefer to use the "name" format because headlines, drama, colour, etc but it's legally inaccurate 050
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Last week I dictated an email and speech-to-text picked up "in the event" as "India event" and now I'm wondering if the recipient thinks I thought that was the actual phrase 140
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Something very "now" about making life-changing decisions based on an incredibly niche identity you created for yourself whilst frying your brain on the internet 0113
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered about the effectiveness of dog breeding, a sheepdog puppy literally just *herded* me to the sink and back with her water bowl. She's 14 weeks old. 080
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word 223066
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...cbsnews.comEd Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts canceled due to nor'easter, tour promoter saysEd Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts in Foxboro, Massachusetts, have been canceled as Boston braces for a nor'easter. 191
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just thinking about that time in 2017 when people sued Trump for blocking them on Twitter. It literally went to the US Supreme Court 010
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Puppies are so playful. If you get down on all fours for any reason they assume it is to frolic with them, though your purpose is in fact to scrub their shit off the kitchen floor 021
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Pointed out to her this evening what date it was and she, very much despite herself, was delighted 040
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New demographic unlocked: old enough to know who Charlotte Church is but still be surprised to learn that she's solid 040
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I continue to notice the absence of any actually-existing Tilly Norwood films 171
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026US Senator: now as I understand it you have concerns about plagiarism and environmental impact... Some sweaty oddball: OK I think we need to take step back here. Are you familiar with Roko's Basilisk? 030
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It would be funny if governments responded to this AI doomerism by actually meaningfully regulating AI and the crackpots end up saying "no, not like that!! We meant something totally different!!" but it'll be too weird and complicated for them to explain to anyone normal 262
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026AI CEOs are quite simply "too sexy", they say. They demand that governments recognize this and do something about it, for the good of all humanity 050
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's a start, but they also need to reinstate the ban when you turn 50 040
Reposted by FergalJack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There is something very specific that is driving this... 2217230
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Care" is a verb (like "help"), not an adjective (like "sad😢") 030
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't buy this AI panic at all and it's genuinely very funny that Trump - for his own very stupid and bad reasons - doesn't either 100
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ed Sheeran getting his ass kicked by Ms. Rachel, you don’t come back from that bro 014441
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When it's Britain: You must understand we are a community of laws, forged in the aftermath of war and strife. We cannot allow one country to redefine what membership means. When it's Canada: Allez-y, nous vous écoutons... 251
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We were supposed to be pooling our collective psychic energies to make him have a stroke and you let him distract you with his United Ireland line, you idiots, you absolute rubes 04914
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Martin Amis describing the planes "sleeking in like harsh metal ducklings" has stayed with me longer than anything the real Amis ever wrote 072
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'd call in sick and camp out in front of the tv, scrolling on every device I own for 72 hours 050
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Saw a kid on the street the other day in a Nirvana T-shirt done in NFL jersey style - smiley logo and stripes on the sleeves, COBAIN 93 on the back - and I think the ghost of Kurt Cobain killed himself again 070
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Similarly, the Minister for Justice, who is often a lawyer, will show their independence by taking on their own profession. But I mean Jesus , you don't have to provoke an actual solicitors strike, Jim 070
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I mean you've misunderstood the assignment here Jim. The point is to be unpleasant to criminals and bleeding heart lawyers, not victims. What you're doing here is just "Being A Dick" www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...irishtimes.com‘My job is not to be sensitive’, says O’Callaghan, after rejecting Creeslough families meetingMother of explosion victim Leona Harper (14) says move was a ‘slap in the face’ 3143
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Tough Guy act that all Justice Ministers put on works best when you let people think on some level that it is an act, part of the job. You don't want them thinking you're actually like this 1120
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026All this performative unpleasantness is entirely unnecessary for Jim O'Callaghan, who's already naturally widely disliked 38225
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Where's the political party for people who don't want to get up early in the morning? 3120
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'm beginning to question Bluesky's commitment to mysticism 020
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026No sign of Bluesky's leading spiritual figure @rubot.ie on that Most Influential list, whole thing's a cod 2101
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Scrambling the airforce to come pick up the body. The frantic speculation during the media blackout, our own establishment trying to figure out how to play the whole thing....delicious, all of it 110
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just thinking how exciting it would be if It Happened here 2132
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Money: I mean we need to avoid any kind of stand-off situation... Trump, literally bursting through the wall from the room next door: DID SOMEBODY SAY STANDOFF???? 100
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Dude's going to Hormuz himself with his own central bank www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b...nytimes.comTrump Threatens to Halt Some Trade Unless the Fed Cuts RatesThe president said he could halt trade between the United States and countries with which it has a trade deficit if the central bank doesn’t do his bidding. 482
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If I was drawing down that sweet Collison coin I would have the sense to at least pretend to have done what they paid me for 161
Reposted by FergalJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth 223237798
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I feel like it should be feasible to bully JD Vance out of Catholicism like you might bully someone off Bluesky 040
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I mean I'm just kidding, JD knows less about Catholic theology than I do, and I know nothing 050
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Whoah if you think this is bad wait until JD tells you about "mental reservation" 1132
Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026OK ok this is me being a cranky old man because the young folks today don't know nothin about real country 000
