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Agree with this, also worth noting that it happened in spite of what almost seemed like a vendetta against Heimir Hallgrímsson among certain "sensible football men"

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Whoever hung up that AI-generated "You'll never beat the Irish 'til the end" flag should eat the damned thing after that prediction came true, it's a cursed object

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If you enjoy any part of your job as much as Kristinn enjoys that part, consider yourself very lucky

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 13/03/2026

The Icelandic commentator on Viaplay, Kristinn Kjærnested, has this particular delight in pronouncing "Joh-hny Keh-hny" every time he reads the list of names for the Irish subs bench

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Were you addressing one Mr Head? First name Richard?

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 01/03/2026

I'm sure nobody would choose to be eulogised in a podcast (scratch that, plenty would) but there's something beautifully fitting about QAA carrying this. From everything I know about the man, Fred Brennan was a difficult person to grasp, but QAA and his partner were in a better position than most.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 28/02/2026

Wild how little coverage I’ve seen of Fred’s death, even six days after I’d first heard about it. QAA did the best job so far, summing up a very contradictory guy with warmth and empathy: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/q...

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The Life of Fredrick Brennan feat. Jay Brandstetter (E361)

Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 27 February · 1h 9m

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 24/02/2026

If anyone is reading the replies to this, please tell me how many make J'Accuse/Jack Hughes jokes, because I'm not doing the legwork on this one

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 10/02/2026

I've finally found a use for AI

Screenshot of conversation with ChatGPT

Who was the most jacked member of the Frankfurt School?

Short answer: there isn’t a canonical “most jacked” Frankfurt School member, but if you’re forcing the question, Herbert Marcuse is the closest thing to a defensible answer.

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 03/02/2026

The bubble is getting bubblier

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 31/01/2026

It's like pop music's Rosetta Stone. Would never have imagined except for Bailey's demonstration of a segue from Canon to Lipps Inc's Funkytown and back.

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 31/01/2026

About two years ago, Bill Bailey told me (and an audience of many others) that Pachelbel's Canon had inspired many pop songs. Since then, every couple of months, a new song is added to my personal "Canon canon", where the influence is undeniable. The latest: the Beach Boys' God Only Knows.

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 27/01/2026

One of the more individualised tragedies of Brexit is whatever the hell it did to Goodwin. 10 years ago he seemed like a serious person, it's been extremely sad to watch him strip away his own dignity bit by bit since then. Now the final transformation into a Faragist glove puppet is complete.

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/01/2026

Are we, as a society, ready to move on from "current affairs vox-pops in shopping centres" content? #kastljós

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/01/2026

The way my heart sank when I heard the Irish accent on one of them, knowing that it would somehow be producing some of the most brain-dead content 💀 Of course he was going to be the one complaining about curry houses on Brick Lane 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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Just found out about this free and straightforward QR code generator in R: library(qrcode) qr_code("add_your_url_here") |> plot() That's all! No registration or subscription required. thierryo.github.io/qrcode/

thierryo.github.io

Generate QRcodes with R

Create static QR codes in R. The content of the QR code is exactly what the user defines. We don't add a redirect URL, making it impossible for us to track the usage of the QR code. This allows to gen...

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 28/10/2025

So sorry for your loss. RIP Chelsea

Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/10/2025

If only there had been some way to know sooner, maybe like approximately seven years in advance? Though most of those people could be given seven decades and still wouldn't get their act together in time

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/10/2025

Aside from anything else, right-wing and indeed reactionary candidates can and do already get nominated (see the 2018 ballot paper for evidence). The idea that the nomination process was the reason for a short ballot paper this time out is just ridiculous, it was the dearth of plausible candidates

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 26/10/2025

This would be an incredibly stupid, self-defeating move. Ireland's nomination processes work perfectly well (though the age bar remains odious). If FF now feels like voters deserved wider choices on the ballot paper this year, it should reflect on how it selected its own dead-duck candidate.

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Again, "stonking" territory. In 2011, having started with just over 700k, MDH had a bit over 1 million votes by the end of Count 4. CC got 91% of that just on first preferences (and with much lower turnout).

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We can put this winning margin in the categories of "thumping", "stonking", etc. The spoils deserve analysis but the FPVs for Connolly stand independently of those. The abstention factor was much more significant than spoils but still probably wouldn't have changed the outcome based on this

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I have truly no idea why anyone is bothering to interview Declan Ganley today, or any day. If you really want a quote from an enemy of the environment who's wrong about everything, you've got so many AI chatbots you could ask instead

Presumably it will *not* be FF's people correcting the record, as they try to forget the whole thing ever happened, but perhaps a journalist might see it as their responsibility?

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 23/10/2025

Following #Áras25 count coverage, it seems FG has briefed its people to push this line "we were the only party to put forward a candidate". Demonstrably untrue; FF's candidate was right there on the ballot, even if he didn't want to be. Is anyone challenging them on that narrative?

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Would the secret ballot be in jeopardy under Baxter's beady eye?

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/10/2025

Humphreys is further behind Connolly than she is ahead of "I no longer want the job, please don't vote for me". This must be one of the worst-run campaigns in Irish history, even allowing for the fact that she wasn't FG's first choice of candidate. Might nearly be better for them to ship oars now

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 22/10/2025

One of my favourite topics to discuss with my employer: "have you noticed that we seem determined to rest our entire IT infrastructure on a single point of failure?"

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 22/10/2025

Are you a little confused about how Ireland’s Presidential Election works? Fear not: I have once again picked up some 🔴 popular 🟠 coloured 🟡 chocolate-based 🟢 confectionary 🔵 treats 🟣 to show how the #aras25 votes are counted. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 20/10/2025

Keep going, it only makes me stronger! 🤣

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 20/10/2025

I'm in the English Market. I've just eaten a spiced beef sandwich. There's a pint of Beamish in my near future. My accent will be completely incomprehensible when I return to Iceland. These are the days, my friends

A redbrick wall on Dalton Avenue in Cork City, festooned with a variety of Beamish-themed graffiti. This, my friends, is raw culture.

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 18/10/2025

I make a point of never trusting anyone who won't eat curry or a kebab, so a person who will eat neither is some kind of monster

Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 12/10/2025

One of the worst gigs (any type) I've ever sat through was at UCC, when a clearly uninterested Maxwell kept telling the crowd that he didn't have to make any effort for us because we were students (this "gag" was used about five times in an hour). I'd nearly feel sorry for them

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 03/10/2025

When I talk to people about the generational shift in the Irish language, how Irish people of my age came to embrace our linguistic heritage in a way that our parents typically didn't, Manchán's name is the first in my mouth. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann

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Luke Field 🌃🦉 @lukefield.ie · 23/09/2025

In that we wouldn't have an arbitrary age barrier that has nothing to justify it, yes, for sure! As for whether it would have resulted in extra prospective candidates who would have added gravitas to proceedings… no idea :-) But presumably not worse than the exploding clown car we've witnessed.