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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

jd vance is the literal embodiment of gobshite. Irish English lexicographers need to get on this.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's looper pedal backs out of tour in stunning, if repetitive, press statement.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Maybe this Test Student never comes to class, but I respect that they also never whine when marked absent.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hi, i'm Kevin McGowan, you might know me from such hits as "fixate cross" and "look at the pictures" or "now look at..."

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You guys, I liked having regulatory agencies and a functional government

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

my jade plant died of neglect is how I'm doing.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

github needs a 'block this developer' feature.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

not only are we stuck dealing with the same old bullshit, we're now dealing with that bullshit in a world without glen hansard

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

don't let the door hit you on the arse

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Carville is not yesterday's man, he's the last millennium's man, and he should be the first but not the last of the centrist talking heads to get the gate. They've done a lot of damage, and they should be resolutely ignored.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

alas, to a cat, the bin of future cat litter and the pans of current cat litter are not distinguishable in the moment of need

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

just to be clear, if you try to add me to a Microsoft Team and I say, “oh, no, I couldn’t possibly! no, thank you” I am _not_ initiating the thing where I pretend to say ‘no’ but eventually drink the tea, eat the biscuit, or enjoy the meal.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

on one walk to work this morning I watched two separate drivers blithely, intentionally drive the wrong way on two separate one way streets. on the bright side, this seems to be the one time people observe the posted speed limits.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I sometimes hate that you can't say, "actually, we linguists don't correct people."

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

we used to, not all that long ago, have this vast information resource of which one could ask questions like “can my pitcher filter cyclospora cayetanensis?” and be reasonably assured that the answer was at least directly related to the question.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

one of my kentucky senators is a girl who lives in canada; you wouldn't know her, but she's very real and very alive

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Netflix currently approaching Platner to see if he’d like a special

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I feel like the name TransUnion should have been reserved for a MUCH more interesting and less evil organization of human beings.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

the sheer number and variety of ads i've been shown for this new simulacrum of ground beef suggests to me that it must taste like sawdust and regret.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the only thing I know for certain about the author of connections is that she has cot/caught merger causing us to routinely disagree about homophones

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

we named this cat Salainn (Irish, “salty”) before we knew of his obsession with licking sweaty humans. Nominative determinism?

Home from a run, I sit on the floor to stretch and the grey cat, Salainn, immediately starts licking me. The ginger cat, Géar, looks on from the kitchen.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

someone comes and knocks on our door every weekday morning and it’s almost too bad there’s no way we’ll ever find out what they want.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

woke up to my cat vigorously sniffing my nose and the whole day is going to be a little bit sideways

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Almost 200yrs ago, the French novelist Honoré de Balzac wrote these words: ""Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oubli parce qu’il a été proprement fait.” "The secret behind great fortunes without an apparent cause is a crime, forgotten because it was well-executed."

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

unknown dogs get ‘tu’ but unknown cats are always ‘usted’, even in languages that don’t make the distinction.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

When they said “demographic cliff” I guess I thought they meant we’d run out of people not “we’d run out of people who arrive able to read"

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I have 1916 unread messages in my inbox and I feel so patriotic. Might go write a proclamation and occupy the post office.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

to my cats, I am the annoying coworker who keeps greeting you all day long like it’s been weeks since we’ve spoken.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

considering interrupting the lecture the 13yo is currently giving the living room on pokémon to tell him everything I know about aquarium filtration in considerable detail

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

maintaining a native garden is mainly hunting, gathering up, and detaining foreigners and it's *uncomfortable* how much i enjoy it

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

if i don't open your email or text, you didn't send it. that's just math

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I know parents who are thrilled when their kids grow up and move away. I KNOW these parents, but I will never understand them.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

All of the white republicans who claim not to be racist and live in freshly gerrymandered districts could do the funniest thing right now

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

the gardening/seed planting internet has convinced me that plants cannot/do not occur in the wild. huge if true.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was accused of running my lab like an echo chamber and I am *livid* that someone imagines I wouldn't put up sound deadening panels and bass traps in my chamber.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

if you're very careful and keep your head down at my university, you can stealthily pursue its core mission to educate people

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

my kid is salutatorian of her graduating class which is wild because I was ranked second too! but in my case it was from the bottom

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wild that the white racists in the US who chose to fill our swimming pools with concrete rather than share water with Black bodies would choose to convert our Republic to a dictatorship rather than share representation with Black minds.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

he isn't sure why i finally put down the laptop so he could take over my entire abdomen with no competition, but he approves

a ginger cat is sleeping in my chest. his paws are curled up and he is a floof.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

the maintenance really was scheduled, just not by canvas

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I would like the Internet to know that my bf made this joke three solid hours before jerry but I didn't skeet it because it was too obvious, classic jerry

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

this morning a licensed, phd-holding, audiologist told my daughter that with her hearing she, "might have difficulty hearing the little pauses between words or the longer spaces between sentences” and she side-eyed me. 🐦🐦

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Anyone willing to try an online experiment for one of my students? She’s investigating listeners’ ability to discern a real human voice from a deep fake synthetic voice: 🧠💬 uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Deadline 31 May: Postdoc, perceptual inference in the auditory system w/ A. Tabas, Basque Center on Cog. Brain + Lang. www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I can't imagine the horror my son lives with, being the only person in a 4 person household who can actually see in the shower.

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Jupiter is looking especially lovely tonight, but I can't ignore that he could have hoovered up the entire inner solar system billions of years ago and saved us all a lot of trouble

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A university with free tuition, a very low faculty: student ratio, and no professional administrators

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