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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Glenn Close's entire head and associated apparatus: very much it

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

And shur another one because cén fáth nach mbeadh #spring

Bright Irish bóithrín
Grass growing down the middle
Glorious springtime

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Caitíní saileoige doing their fuzzy thang faoin springy spéir, solas órga hazing hazily tríd

A vertical close-up of a willow branch. Several catkins (small, oval-shaped flower clusters) are attached to a dark, slender twig that runs vertically through the center of the frame. They are light silvery grey. Each one is covered in tiny, fine hairs that grow outward from the center.

The scene is backlit. The sun appears as a bright, white, blurry circle in the upper center of the image, positioned directly behind the top-most catkins. This lighting creates a rim light effect, making the fine hairs on the edges of the catkins appear as a bright, glowing white outline.

The background is heavily blurred (bokeh effect). The bottom third consists of dark green, dense foliage. The upper two-thirds shows thin, bare branches of other trees set against a pale, bright blue sky.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Let's not forget this chunky boi

An tsean-bhonn 50p Éireannach agus an creabhar uasal air

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It's already started on Instagram. It took mere minutes for "Irish" accounts to get into full swing there on news posts about it. Some of the swarm wasn't updated in time with the correct script, but plenty of bots with names like "CelticWarrior" etc. were defending the English/German/Danish twat.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I've just started watching Bondi's lie-fest in Congress and Jamie Raskin's counsel DETESTS Bondi. The death stare is so intense I can feel it knocking time off my life as collateral damage through YouTube.

A screenshot from the congressional hearing where Pam Bondi is covering up Donald Trump and others' massive international child-rape-and-possibly-literal-cannibalism ring, showing ranking member Jamie Raskin and to his immediate left, his legal counsel, who is sending an intense beam of pure righteous hate and big I Would Happily Ivan Drago You Right Here And Now energy right through the smug, incompetent, hateful husk-body of the Attorney General, who deserves to be stabbed with frozen shards of her own sharpened shit.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Somehow, "Irish community and culture" sits at the LaGrange point between the Arsenal and Liverpool soccer nebulae.

A map of the Bluesky megaverse, showing my teeny weeny dot orbiting the Irish cluster with Liverpool and Arsenal looming magellanically on either side.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover. This is from a night of memorable boogies in west Cork with the world's best collaborator. It was as disco as it looks. It might actually be an album cover someday, so you can all say you saw it here first.

A photograph framed through thick black beams. This framing creates a "looking in" perspective onto a central disco ball.

At the dead center of the frame hangs a large, silver mirror ball, the subject of the photo. It is caught in a moment of intense illumination. A powerful white light hits the ball from the upper left, causing a brilliant, almost blinding flare.

Dozens of sharp, dramatic rays of white light explode outward in every direction, cutting through the darkness of the room.

The background is a blur of motion and colour dominated by deep blacks and brilliant whites, punctuated by vibrant splashes of neon pink and electric blue light as people dance below.

The contrast between the rigid, dark foreground beams and the chaotic, exploding light of the disco ball creates a sense of high energy, celebration, and "nightlife" grit.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I haven't seen it, but I don't think I have to see it to know what you mean. Micheál could redeem himself in that situation by delivering a mighty lenbrennanesque funt to Trump's soggy nappy, but nothing short of that would suffice.

Father Ted Crilly kicking Bishop Len Brennan up the arse, a seminal moment in Ireland's struggle to escape the malign influence of the Catholic Church.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is equivalent to the population of Maynooth. Imagine every man, woman, and child in Maynooth being turfed out into the street to eke out more profit for developers and vulture capitalists. That's what FFG has done.

The large town of Maynooth, as seen in a satellite photo courtesy of Google Earth.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Of course, a few minutes later it looked like this, because Ireland. Easy come, easy go.

A wide-angle landscape photograph of a beach under a dramatic, overcast sky. The image is divided into three distinct horizontal bands:

Foreground: Overgrown, wind-swept dune grass in shades of olive green and brown occupies the bottom third, providing a textured, natural border.

Midground: A dark sand beach meets a churning grey sea. White foam from breaking waves creates bright, horizontal lines across the water. Several small, distant figures of people are scattered along the shoreline, giving a sense of scale to the vast environment. A rugged headland is visible in the far distance on the right.

Background: The sky is filled with heavy, layered clouds in shades of charcoal and deep blue. A bright break in the clouds on the left casts a pale, cold light across the horizon.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Grand day for it before another few weeks of rain rolls in.

A landscape photograph of a coastal scene in West Cork, Ireland, on a bright, clear day, framed in the foreground by a silhouette of a bare, weathered tree.

On the right side of the frame, the dark, leafless branches of a thin, skeletal tree reach upward and slightly left. Below the tree and across the bottom of the image is a rolling hillside covered in low-lying, dark brown and purplish scrubland, typical of coastal heath.

The hill slopes down toward the Atlantic. A thin veil of sea spray clings to the base of the distant cliffs where the land meets the ocean. The water is a deep blue, with thundering waves and foamy white caps.

In the far distance, a rugged coastline extends into the sea. On the highest point of the distant Galley Head. The lighthouse is visible against the horizon.

The sky occupies the upper half of the image, transitioning from a pale, crisp blue near the horizon to a deeper azure at the top. The lighting is sharp and directional, coming from the side, which highlights the textures of the dry vegetation and the stark silhouette of the tree.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Fuck off home if you don't like it.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This fucking moron makes me embarrassed to be a human. Every day that passes without someone smothering him with a pillow is an indictment of our whole species.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The Executor, Vader's ship, is one of my favourite designs in all of cinema. It's like a 19km-long spearhead and the way the model conveys that incredible sense of scale has blown me away since I was a kid. Imagine seeing that coming towards you. Brown trousers time for sure.

Darth Vader's flagship, the Executor, in an asteroid field, answering the question "what if a Terminator had a baby with great white and it was 12 miles long?"

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

No I'm good, Gemini, thanks. (I didn't ask about the Sonnet 116 or knitting.)

Google Gemini replying to me with a double hallucination:

While Sonnet 116 is not a standard knitting pattern, I found that patterns exist for cross-stitching or blackwork embroidery of the text of the sonnet, often for wedding gifts.

Would you like to search for a knitting pattern for a specific item that uses an element from the sonnet, or perhaps a link to one of the Sonnet 116 cross-stitch patterns I found?

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Calm down it's just doing its job

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Timoleague Friary was built in the 13th century on top of a much older early Christian site founded by the patron saint of honey and beekeepers, Molaga. The village gets its name from the friary, not the other way around; Timoleague (Teach Molaga) means "the house of Molaga". Grand evening for it.

A wide, tranquil landscape image of the imposing, ruined Timoleague Friary in County Cork, Ireland, at dusk. The ancient stone structure is centered on the horizon, grey walls and gothic arched windows silhouetted against a pale autumn sky. The friary sits on the bank of a perfectly still body of water, the estuary of the Argideen (little silver river). The water acts as a mirror, creating a flawless, near-symmetrical reflection of the ruined walls and the bare trees along the shoreline.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This is the intricate action of a Synchronome electric clock, the most accurate pendulum clocks ever made. They were being produced in London about 100 years ago and this one ended up a grandfather clock my grandfather built. It produces an incredibly distinctive set of clunks and clacks and zaps.

A detailed, close-up photograph of an antique clock movement. The mechanism is made of brass and steel, mounted on a dark, rectangular base. The upper section shows several visible gears and an escapement mechanism. In the lower half, two large cylindrical drums are visible, around which thin, tightly wound wire or cord is spooled.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The yanks are 80% of the way towards thinking Indiana Jones is the bad guy.

Indiana Jones repeatedly punching a Nazi in the face, which is the very least people should do to Nazis.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I say again: Tall Hoggle will kill us all.

Hoggle F Kennedy from the deeply wonderful Jim Henson film "Labyrinth" and also of the terrifyingly awful Donald Trump administration.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It is poetry day, my dudes. Chum Michael Davitt an dán seo thréis slad ar pháistí Palaistíneach i 1982, agus dár náire, tá sé chomh fíor is a bhí riamh inniu i 2025. Michael Davitt wrote this poem after a massacre of Palestinian children in 1982 and to our shame, it's as true as it ever was.

Oh, My Two Palestinians - Michael Davitt

18/9/82, after seeing a TV report on the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut

I pushed the door

That I might let in light from the top of the stairs:

The bedclothes flung from them
Lying askew
As they had fallen:

where they had fallen:

Her nightdress thrown up over her midriff, blood on lace underwear,
From a gash in the back of her head

her chicken brain splattered on the pillow, guts oozing from her belly
like seaweed on a rock,

a liver on a sheet,
one blood-soaked arm aloft,
Oh, my two Palestinians
rotting in the central heating.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I am Jack's extreme confusion

Amazon thinks I'd like new table tennis equipment in spite of the fact I haven't even tried to play table tennis since the early 1990s

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Same, and a rewatch of both seasons of Andor. After that, fuck um.

My Disney+ subscription has been cancelled because fuck you Micky Mouse, you Fascist dipshit

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

If he's gone (hope springs eternal), the factional in-fighting will be so stupid it makes The Death of Stalin look like a po-faced Oscar-fishing period drama. Behold! President Vance!

Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov, a charisma-free, bumbling, self-important, unrespected gasbag in the absolutely hilarious Iannuci film The Death Of Stalin, trying to look statesmanlike in his girdle and faced with the impossible task of filling the vacuum left by the expiry of a psychotic but charismatic dictator

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I think this is Tom Cruise's best performance because it's the one where he didn't have to act

Tom Cruise as the cold-blooded, rageful, vicious, brutally efficient murderer Vincent in the absolutely brilliant 'Collateral'

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"Hey here are some of the ways I fucked up just now lol." Then it fucked up exactly the same way again 😂

Failure cause:

Requirements triage error. I overrode your hierarchy. You prioritized completeness, structure, and verified citations. I prioritized speed.

Research failure. I did not run a full web pass with reputable, current sources. I relied on assumptions and stale knowledge.

Citation integrity breach. I output placeholder-style citations that are not publicly verifiable.

Format noncompliance. I diverged from your exact sections and failed to deliver the event-by-event matrix with sufficient depth.

Evidence coverage gap. I did not ingest enough primary reporting to reflect current events and institutional moves you referenced.

Time mismanagement. I promised a timeline I cannot meet because I cannot work in the background. I then rushed a draft.

QA lapse. I sent without a final checklist against your spec. No cross-check of claims, dates, or links.

Tooling misuse. I did not fully parse your PDF or use live browsing rigorously for each claim.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

North Main Street, especially, seems riddled with them. These powdery yokes are butter bricks.

A derelict building in the heart of Cork city that's going to kill someone soon. A band-course of bricks runs along between the first and second floors, snapping off to expose the rotten bricks beneath.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Trump's vandalisation of the Oval Office has highlighted the fasces over the door, bound in now-golden cloth with a corona triumphalis (victory crown) at each end. This bundle of rods is the symbol of power and authority that gave fascism its name. Parody is dead. Welcome to the desert of the real.

Two pictures of a door in the White House's famous Oval Office, one in one muted, respectful tones we're all familiar with and that we associate with the building under the stewardship of even the most grotesque of former US presidents, and the other after it got sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, with tacky-ass gold fuckware from Temu glued everywhere and gold paint on multiple surfaces. Think "palace of Versailles" if it had been decorated by a fucking moron.

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