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Kevin Lehane @kevinlehane.com · 25/09/2026

A writing career is hard. Sometimes it feels more like a gambling habit: it costs more than it gives back. Even if you love it, as I do, while it pummels you into submission (after submission), you just can’t quite quit. They call it a vocation, but it's really just a bad habit.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As with many roaming beasts, the dpd van is at it’s most vulnerable when drinking.

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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

just in case you wondered how graham is doing lol

Graham Lineham (Bluetick) on Twitter. @Glinner

"Also, in real life, you know some of those hobbits got raped"

...as quote tweet reply on a picture of four happy hobbits and the OP, Happy Captain's, caption about how the hobbits in a scene near the end are calmly drinking beer and it's like "oh wow no one knows what these guys went through"

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 29/07/2026

Really begs the question how much he has donated to 'Progress Ireland' to push his deregulation agenda doesn't it? Calls for wealth taxes on the super-rich are growing across the world and People Before Profit will renew our call for a tax on multi-millionaires in Budget 2027.

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Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax

Building a Better California opposes proposal that would require California’s billionaire residents to pay a one-off tax on their assets

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Time to reshare my "Don Draper pitches Jared Leto" memes.

Don Draper beside a sign saying "bad actor"

Sign says "other stuff we can't discuss"

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Am I sexual"- Backstreet Boy who doesn't know he's ace yet but is beginning to have suspicions

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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 23/07/2026

Johnny Depp is like the Jared Leto of Mark Wahlbergs

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“Hey! Search it up, kids! Do it up, Daddio! Yeah! Jazz!”

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Kevin Lehane @kevinlehane.com · 30/06/2026

Here's the thing, though, and take this for whatever it's worth to yourself: receiving a rejection is like seeing a signpost on the side of the road for somewhere you're not heading. Keep going where you're going.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

When masked men organise violence, patrol neighbourhoods, intimidate families and drive people from their homes, Northern Irish people recognise patterns that many English commentators seem unable to see. This is an attempt by loyalist gangs to make themselves releavant. 3/

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Romarin et Corbeaux @romarinetcorbeaux.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Amazing!!! 💚💚

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Someone’s finally done it - a co-op taxi app, run by the drivers, charging only the meter fare with no commission to gougers. Uber and their ilk only drop fares to shove them sky high again when they’ve killed the competition. Support Irish Co-ops! #SpeirGorm

An ad on the back of a Dublin bus for an app called Tap a Taxi.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

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Jamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

just fyi, it is spelt “HAMNET” but it is pronounced -

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Jamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Checking out this @deadline.com story about the Mees Peijnenburg-directed A FAMILY (which looks pretty good!). Who’s mentioned… cast, director cinematographer, producers, sales agents… No writer, because apparently these things just write themselves! 🤷‍♂️ deadline.com/2026/02/a-fa...

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‘A Family’ Trailer: Carice Van Houten Stars In Emotional Berlin-Bound Divorce Drama Told Through Children’s Perspective

'A Family' Trailer: Carice Van Houten Stars in Berlinale Divorce Drama Told Through Children's Perspective

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Currently at the ‘words are jiggling up and down on the page’ stage of working-while-poorly…

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A very happy Women’s Little Christmas to all who celebrate 🍾

A black and white photo of two women in 1940s clothing, talking to each other while each holding a stack of wrapped presents. Over is the text: ‘Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh’ which, roughly translated from Irish, means ‘Happy Women’s Christmas to you all’.

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Tony Wrenn @tonywrenn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The Irish embassy in Germany puts on a screening of the Late Late Toy Show tomorrow and has been doing it for years. That's brilliant. #latelatetoyshow

The Irish embassy puts on a screening of the Late Late Toy Show tomorrow and has been doing it for years

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Toy Show: This is Child 1 Ireland: I would die for Child 1 Toy Show: Goodbye Child 1. Now welcome Child 2 Ireland: Never mind, Child 1 is dead to me. I love Child 2 now. #Toyshow #LateLateToyShow

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Anyone else’s autocorrect getting worse and worse? Mine keeps correcting you to yoi, about to aboit and just corrected public to ‘pie liv’ - is liv even a word?

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Watching The Horse Whisperer with my dad, and the late-90s sure did have a lot of movies about middle aged women dabbling in picturesque adultery, didn’t they?

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Wish we had more political discourse like this in Ireland right now, or that the media were covering it - the current leader of Green Party UK explaining in plain, accessible terms why taxing billionaires doesn’t mean penalising businesses and hard workers: youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Hey! Lots more fun here now. Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

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Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

So how often *do* I have to turn motion smoothing off on my telly before it stays off?

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

You wouldn’t want to be using public transport to get to work or anything silly like that. Sure why wouldn’t it take over two hours to get from Whitehall to Donnybrook? #DublinBus #SpeirGorm

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Remembering Ken Harmon who slipped out the back of life’s Story Room a year ago today. We could have told you, Ken, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. amp.rte.ie/amp/1473475/

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Ken Harmon remembered - Jimmy Fay on an 'outstanding' writer

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Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice

It's time to talk about something very personal.

Receiving an invoice from a freelancer is very triggering.

There, I said it.

The thought of money leaving my account gives me distress.

That's why it can take me 6, 10, sometimes even 15 months to transfer it.

There is nothing more anxiety inducing than having to pay someone for a job they've done for you.

I once received an invoice from my gardener and immediately threw my phone into the ocean.

It's debilitating.

I wish I could pay people on time, but my emotions won't let me.

So please, if you are upset, just remember the person on the other end refusing to pay you is also a human.

And they're going through a lot.

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We should all contact your councillors and let them know that if they endorse McGregor, they lose our votes forever. They’re probably already being inundated with bot emails, claiming to be local residents, trying to persuade them to back the rapist. We need to counteract that.

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Big thanks to all the amazing staff at @dublinairport.bsky.social and Aer Lingus who helped me and my injured dad navigate assisted travel for the first time. It was a stressful and unplanned journey, but everything went as smoothly as it could and people were lovely x

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Dublin Airport (@dublinairport.bsky.social)

Dublin Airport’s official Bluesky account. Ireland’s busiest airport ✈️ Tag us in your 📸 #dublinairport

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Drinking new recipe Football Special for the first time - WTF is this gash?!?

A can of McDaid’s Football Special soft drink.

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Went to the self checkout at Bershka and first it asked if I was ‘resident or non-resident’. Then it asked for my ‘zip code’ and at that point I walked out. No one needs all my personal info for me to buy a pair of shorts, WTF?

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Lonely pub, Manchester by John Bulmer.

A man in a flat cap who is carrying a bag walks towards the camera. In the background is a single building visible through mist. All around the ground is flat and shows signs of demolished housing.

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

some thing

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Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

He sings a Vespers Psalm He sings a Compline Psalm He sings a Matins Psalm He sings a Lauds Psalm He sings the Psalms that remind him of the good times He sings the Psalms that remind him of the better times

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Nothing makes me feel more out of touch than the idea of using AI to cheat your way through school/university. What’s the point? Actively making yourself useless and unable to contribute post grad when access to education is such a privilege- one that was so emphasised to my generation in NI

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When my kids were very small, sometimes people saw me give them my phone to play (sound muted) games in a cafe. They did not see the previous several hours of playgroup, walks, library, park where the kids had my full attention. Sometimes parents just need to be able to drink one cup of tea in peace

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Michelle Duffy @mduffywrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Google maps having a very normal one, by suggesting that I get from my location in Whitehall, to another address in Whitehall, by driving in a big loop down to Irishtown in South Dublin and back again…

A pic of Google maps showing three suggested routes, all of which head from North to South Dublin via Irishtown and back up to Whitehall on the Northside

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 05/05/2025

You have to use a touchscreen menu to open the glove box on a Tesla. Anyone who buys one deserves this

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

Snippet of text: What a wonderful thing it would be if the Motion Pictures Producers Association had said to Mr Thomas, ‘Sure, I guess we have Communists in Hollywood. We don't know who they are. How would you expect us to? We're not the F.B.I. But even if we did know, there's an Attorney General in this country. He hasn't accuşed these men of any crime. Congress hasn't legislated anything that would cause their present or future membership in the Communist party to be a crime, and until it does we propose to treat them just as exactly as we treat anyone else.’ You know what would happen if the producers had the guts to say anything like that? They would start making good pictures, because that takes guts too. Very much the same kind of guts.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

[8] The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 16/04/2025

Right, because I've now seen misunderstandings of this enough times that it's got me worried that people don't know this - transgender people in the UK are protected by the Equality Act 2010 under the category of gender reassignment. *That* was not under discussion today and hasn't changed.

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