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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 8h

I appreciate that Northern Ireland is legally a part of the United Kingdom but they have shown a de facto unwillingness to enforce the laws around proscribed terror groups in the past for the sake of avoiding hassle.

Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 8h

North-South question: are rare Sally Rooneys now illegal in Newry? Will the Belfast literati have to get the newly more frequent train to Connolly in a reverse of the contraception missions of the time before?

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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 8h

Kind of into Jensen Huang. The rest of them are trying to position for the apocalypse of the machine god and he's just like "as long as people continue to buy many widgets from my company at a high price, I'm in favour of it"

Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Wearily taking my sword and shield down from the wall again for Sally Rooney. Do not ban Sally Rooney ffs, every reasonable person knows this, and the PA ruling underpinning it, is unjust, and it just makes the UK look ridiculous.

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How is he supposed to know about tackle if he's not technically directed to do so

Almost certainly going to walk around looking at bins. Will this make copy? Depends what I find when I inspect the bins.

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As a man of central Dublin I am 100% locked in on the "no public bin collections" aspect of the strike tomorrow. Will town fester? Will it be exactly the same?

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Luckily my fridge barely even functions as a fridge, never mind as a computer.

Everything good already booked out. Gonna be forced to appreciate modern architecture ffs.

The strike has finally come for me, the protagonist of existence, by causing the Open House tour of Leinster House to be cancelled. Sort this out Mr Chambers!!!!

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It's short, it's funny and it had an aura of being semi-pornographic due to its publication history (and the fact it is semi-pornographic). I think it probably sold into a mass market rather than being beloved of every literary reader on earth.

This is it. The problem is not a large latent cohort of men starved of things to read, it's that they're not reading at all. Whole discourse makes no sense. Whatever on-the-fence readers there are can read Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian and find themselves at Szalay or Lerner as they please.

Consider the works of Oisín Fagan. Read the oeuvre of Kevin Barry and Colin Barrett. Do the McGaherns. Buy Djamel White's last novel, and buy the next one when it comes out. There is plenty!

Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Said it before, will say it again: there are more excellent novels by men featuring soi disant male themes in existence already than any human could ever get through, and a lack of supply cannot be the reason for the men's reading drought.

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Also levelled up in "insane allotmenteer" by using leftover bathroom tiles as a mulch. Upside down so I don't slip on them! Bad day to be a creeping buttercup beside a raised bed.

Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Planted my garlic and onions and spring onions (normal onions spaced less and harvested earlier) for 2027. Investing in the future.

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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's the dinner party game where someone is a spy and you have to guess who. I think Among Us has a relative similar mechanic. None of the castle or spooky stuff or missions etc are relevant to the game at all really.

In its current, post-Green, sometimes-advancing sometimes-decaying iteration, central Dublin seems to be somewhat frantic and hostile for all of cyclists, pedestrians, buses and private cars. Plus the Luas has to wait at pedestrian crossings. Not ideal.

Mysterious to me what the context of this intervention even was. Is there a bit of the Seanad day where everyone just shares their news like primary school?

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He's been listening to the Pope.

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While we're all having fun making fun of Americans for not knowing how to eat food or whatever, we should be humble and remember that they never have to manually burp waist-height metal water tanks in order to stay warm.

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You wouldn't believe the number of Octobers I've had to buy a radiator key. And yet, despite the objectively sufficient number of radiator keys I have already purchased: I don't have a radiator key and need to buy a radiator key.

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Yes and as a result of this approach they are way more likely to cut up the entire meal into forkable pieces in one go so they don't have to pick up the knife again. Astonishing.

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Busy man. I remember Jason Sherlock presenting kids' TV and also playing for UCD/Rovers while still on the Dublin panel.

Best thing about GAA imo is that while most people's jobs are fake 'absentee car salesman' or 'consultancy meeting attender' things, you sometimes get a player with a PhD in microbiology (Clare hurler Shane O'Donnell) or an actual medical doctor (Dublin legend Jack McCaffrey). Jocks can be smart!

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Great pub. The locals/well-behaved tourists mix kind of makes it. Am also fascinated by the staff's ability to serve Irish customers in the brusque fashion expected and then discover the ability to smile when the chance of selling expensive whiskey approaches.

Well he is captured in various poses and locations holding a bag and the headline wonders "what's he got in that bag". Has completely supplanted Late Late related scams.

It's the literal CEO of Pepsi talking about how bad it is and how they need to improve their sodas!

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Maybe the consumer horrors are a consequence of them feeling bad about the beverage business rather than a cause.

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Uninvent the new flavours of Pepsi Max then.

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This is so funny. Exactly what Britain needs: even more money locked up in large houses owned by the elderly.

Baines back on the byline! I'm locking in

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Interesting. And is it in any way robust or do you just ask the computer whether people like chocolate or whatever

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Hadn't considered which bit of Vienna I'm getting but I do have Venice, Marseille, Genoa and (I think) Florence so I should be competitive on the art front

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A reasonable choice. It's no Pinsk but a lot to recommend it

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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

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Which kanton you going for? Probably Kanton Marseille for me.

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This is, tbf, an ad for surveys. Like they are just telling people who might pay for market research that they won't get the right answer by asking Claude.

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I'll stick to normal food I think, sexy casual snacking protein brand and retail multinational!

Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get this ad a lot (my gym is beside a Circle K so I'd say my Meta targeting has sirens going off for this) and it seems weirdly uncanny to me. An unsettling ad. Not sure why.

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There are of course a limited number of natterjacks in Kerry but it would be classic Kerry to have flouted the decree of a central authority on a matter like this.

Next time a Green canvasser comes I am going to cause them zugzwang by demanding to know if they're going to go back into government and start building cycle lanes again without indicating tonally what I want the answer to be.

Luckily the frozen budget will reawaken after its hibernation and go up again in like 12 years when the Greens get in again.

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No newbuilds in Dublin for less than than the €500,000 max anyway so the capital will luckily be unaffected by the change.

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