caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My most expensive hobby is paying research participants out of my own pocket. 180
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026jd vance is the literal embodiment of gobshite. Irish English lexicographers need to get on this. 000
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ed Sheeran's looper pedal backs out of tour in stunning, if repetitive, press statement. 082
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Maybe this Test Student never comes to class, but I respect that they also never whine when marked absent. 071
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hi, i'm Kevin McGowan, you might know me from such hits as "fixate cross" and "look at the pictures" or "now look at..." 060
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026You guys, I liked having regulatory agencies and a functional government 181
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026my jade plant died of neglect is how I'm doing. 140
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026github needs a 'block this developer' feature. 030
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026did they solve it for you!? asking for a friend with a reservation at the same place on the 18th 110
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026not only are we stuck dealing with the same old bullshit, we're now dealing with that bullshit in a world without glen hansard 060
Reposted by caoimhín an gabharkɛbɹah zmɪeʒd @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Carville 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. 2274
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026alas, to a cat, the bin of future cat litter and the pans of current cat litter are not distinguishable in the moment of need 291
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026just 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. 1100
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026on 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. 030
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I sometimes hate that you can't say, "actually, we linguists don't correct people." 1111
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026we 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. 0102
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026one of my kentucky senators is a girl who lives in canada; you wouldn't know her, but she's very real and very alive 060
Reposted by caoimhín an gabharJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Netflix currently approaching Platner to see if he’d like a special 1512012
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This is an inane take. I’ve raised two kids with a 2010 Honda Fit. We moved from Texas to California to Kentucky in that car. We do all of the shopping, school runs, band rehearsals, bike riding trips, holiday road trips, IKEA runs over an hour away, everything. Big cars are just not necessary. 010
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I feel like the name TransUnion should have been reserved for a MUCH more interesting and less evil organization of human beings. 030
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026the 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. 041
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026the 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 1100
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026we named this cat Salainn (Irish, “salty”) before we knew of his obsession with licking sweaty humans. Nominative determinism? 070
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026someone 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. 070
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026woke up to my cat vigorously sniffing my nose and the whole day is going to be a little bit sideways 2140
Reposted by caoimhín an gabharBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Almost 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." 616260
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026unknown dogs get ‘tu’ but unknown cats are always ‘usted’, even in languages that don’t make the distinction. 0185
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026When 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" 010
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I have 1916 unread messages in my inbox and I feel so patriotic. Might go write a proclamation and occupy the post office. 040
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026to my cats, I am the annoying coworker who keeps greeting you all day long like it’s been weeks since we’ve spoken. 082
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026considering 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 060
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026maintaining a native garden is mainly hunting, gathering up, and detaining foreigners and it's *uncomfortable* how much i enjoy it 130
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026if i don't open your email or text, you didn't send it. that's just math 020
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I do frequency, pitch, and intonation first so vowels are the most natural way for me to start talking about segments 010
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026do you know we have a photo of him in the grad office still? 110
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I know parents who are thrilled when their kids grow up and move away. I KNOW these parents, but I will never understand them. 170
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026All of the white republicans who claim not to be racist and live in freshly gerrymandered districts could do the funniest thing right now 051
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026most citations to Niedzielski 1999 get the vowel she used wrong. I made a map once trying to find taɪphoid mary and there were too many possible origins. 041
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026the gardening/seed planting internet has convinced me that plants cannot/do not occur in the wild. huge if true. 150
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I 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. 081
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026if you're very careful and keep your head down at my university, you can stealthily pursue its core mission to educate people 181
Reposted by caoimhín an gabharAhmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026There 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. 379114263776
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026yeah, no idea? she's headed to hopkins in the fall and i'm going to MISS her! 010
caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026she got only As, but maybe had 1 AP class less than her bestie who is valedictorian? But this was *absolutely* what she was aiming for since freshman year. She wanted no part of the valedictory address. 120
