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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man sitting opposite me in a cafe today had headphones hanging uselessly around his neck while he played video clips at full volume on his phone. What is wrong with people? Seriously?

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place!

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was just thinking of that 😆

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reminded that when this song came out, someone on Twitter said “Galway girls have now inspired 2 of the worst songs of all time, maybe they should take a long hard look at themselves” 😆

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TIL the blue haired lawyer on The Simpsons is based on Roy Cohn!

Blue haired corporate lawyer character from The Simpsons with Mr Burns

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He’s so so pretty 🥹

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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know people hate these plastic bollards but I like to think of them as a contemporary art piece about how bad people are at driving

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nice use of ‘feck’, love to see it 😁

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

AI: When you absolutely do not want your customers to find your restaurant.

An AI map directing customers to their restaurant. Parneel Street is now a river. O'Connell St goes in the wrong direction. Parnell Square is on the wrong side of the Jervis Shopping Centre.

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m diminishing Dolly Parton’s incredible legacy as a philanthropist, musician, songwriter and wit, when I say - she was also one of the greatest cutie patooties of all time. Just so so so pretty 😍

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

literally 100% of the bad things about "woke 1" are just shit that sucks about social media. if you're complaining about "Woke" and not Gamergate, it's because you're a disingenuous prick.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I saw it years back, no Gemini then, Google actually worked - good times 🥲

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It remains genuinely hilarious that people think this quote is WB Yeats. This is on the wall in Kilkenny Design in Dublin, by the way. Bit of a lurch in tone from "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Saw it in big metal letters on a wall in the Google Dublin office. You’d think they’d have access to a tool that could check the source but 🤷‍♀️

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just recently rewatched Last Man on Earth - the first season is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yeah, Grok is in no way reliable for information

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Forgot to do the -ai thing before googling an episode of Inside No 9, and the poxy AI overview spoiled the twist 🤬

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reminder to all writers to enter the @frazzledlit.bsky.social short story competition - judged by the amazing Donal Ryan. And Frazzled Lit is a wonderful journal - they're so decent to submitters and give so much generous help to the writing community ❤️ www.frazzledlit.com/p/opens-at-m...

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Opens at midnight: The Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2026

Judged by twice-Booker-longlisted Irish author Donal Ryan!

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This looks interesting, but I fear Jeremy Strong has way too much character in his face to portray Mark Zuckerberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4L...

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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

No Photoshop, AI or Jim Henson muppeteering involved, this is what my brother's dog looks like in real life. Isn't she DEADLY 😍

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Weather's so good in Dublin, me and my writing group are gonna meet by the canal instead of online. Blare some audiobooks from our boombox 🌞

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ok just learned from my uncle that this same grandfather got his own birthday wrong all through his life. Thought it was July, when he passed away and his birth cert was located, it said August. Not super detail oriented, the O’Briens 😆

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Looked at the 1926 census with my Dad last night, trying to find his dad. My dad didn’t know: his father’s birth year, the town he grew up in, or how to spell his first name. To be clear: his dad raised him, he didn’t disappear or anything. Apparently he was quite nice 🙃

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is amazing news, can’t wait to see it. Also when I saw this today, realised my daughter (19) had never seen the story as she’s not on Twitter or Bluesky. Read it out loud to her and we both cried from laughing 😆

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

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Shorts: Animated Shorts curated by Whoopi G | 2026 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca

Tribecafilm.com: Home of the 2026 Tribeca Festival

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

There's an instinct to blame the left that these agri protests are often right wing or led by people who are right wing cause "the left" didn't engage but that ignores that many of these people have their own conservative to right wing ideologies.

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Tom Waits has recorded a song with Massive Attack and it is UNREAL 🙌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

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Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground

YouTube video by Massive Attack

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

the official conservative position in Ireland is that as they get less popular and representative of the population, they deserve more of a voice in public discourse, an obviously absurd position that is nonetheless constantly validated by the Irish press for some reason

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

That comment about how she would have diagnosed herself with ‘15 brain tumours’ is revealing I think. Hypochondria, eh? Compulsively imagining dangers when there’s none there, eh?

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Been working on a list of nicknames for people from specific Irish places, along the lines of ‘Galwegians’: Limerichards Celbridgerators Traleejits Will update as more occur to me kthnxbye x

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I feel like I am taking crazy pills - for every 1 rental property in Cork, there's 4 Airbnbs - this is lunacy in the middle of a decade-long housing crisis. Like, wtf are we doing here?

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Airbnb-style short-term lets outnumber homes to rent by 4 to 1 in Cork

Renters are locked out - developers are looking to build an 11-story short-let tower in Cork city centre

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just came up with a deadly name for an Irish drag queen: Úna Bomber

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg.

But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself.

Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Best ever adaptation of Wuthering Heights was by the genius @katebeaton.bsky.social ❤️

Wuthering heights panel from Kate Beaton’s comic ‘Hark, a Vagrant’

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