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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone see any blackberries? We went up the mountains yesterday and they were all rotted and dead, and the leaves of the briars mottled and sickly. I’m wondering if it’s due to the uncommon heat we’ve had.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This was one of my top ten episodes. As a squeaky-voiced balladeer myself, it's to my shame that I actually don't know much about the early Bee Gees stuff. So I really need to check out Odessa and others.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And off it goes, David Collard’s Personal Anthology, clanking, stumbling down from Selston, passing the house and studying the lighted square of window, leaving a thin cloacal trail all across the walls and the ceiling, groaning like a thing possessed, waiting for the geranium…

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A Personal Anthology of Debuts, by David Collard

In a slight departure from tradition, Jonathan has allowed me to submit a selection of short stories that mark their author’s first appearance in print, presented (more or less) in chronological order...

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really hoping they make the right decision. Stating the obvious but it’s a chance to do something properly symbolic, like the Dunnes Stores strikers back in the day.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got to try that thing of having an umlaut and punctuation in my band's name, makes you immediately seem edgier. e.g. The Bёe Geёse Bӓy Cit'y Rӧllers Whӓm?

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dudley has the tunes every Friday morning, making life worth living.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thursday 24th September at 7pm (BST) join me and authors Kevin Boniface, Susanna Crossman Paul Kavanagh & Tony White for POST MODERN, an online event featuring writers connected with postal services. Free & all welcome. If not already invited email me via m'website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

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Dudley Colley @thecorpo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Terrifying robots, ahoy! And a stream of last night's Click Clack, have at it. tinyurl.com/3nje8hxb #Try8radio #NoAiUsedInTheMakingOfThisShow

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fab couple of days with the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social gang and the other writers as part of the International Debut Novel Competition winners’ pitching day.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A couple of days pitching The Setlists at the Irish Writers Centre, I’ve met some fantastic writers, publishers and agents, as well as the lovely IWC gang. Great fun.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The latest astounding episode from Andrew Hickey, this time about Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. I take a while to get through these longer episodes but they’re worth it. Sugar and spikes der ner ner

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

16 years ago Lie Ins played the first Popical Island all-dayer. And we shall return this year! (As a three-piece now.)

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows anything about it said would happen, happened. Oh gosh. Maybe another moral panic will do it? Or maybe we should give "pretending to care but not actually asking the tech companies who are responsible to do anything" another go?

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Posting this for no other reason that it popped up on my socials and it's an astonishing performance by everyone involved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qia...

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Ry Cooder - At The Dark End Of The Street - Live 1977

YouTube video by HoneyboyWalter

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Andy Burnham’s ruling out of a border poll in NI says more about him than any amount of Smiths jams. Disappointing.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yay. Another diverting episode. I'm surprised how many of the songs on this I know.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My 12 year old kid, having little experience of AI (he has no phone or computer) can spot AI-generated imagery a mile off, and finds it to be tacky without really analysing why.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Apparently Muhammad Ali coined “diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks”.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sorry to hear Dolly’s gone. But also not sad, because she made everyone who saw or heard her happy. So that’s good. Safe travels to her anyway.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This year I’m having a belated birthday. People with them seem to get a lot of attention on the internet.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Galway-bound to meet up with homies. Always good to head west. The train is my favourite mode of T these days. Good for reading and a bit of an old sleep.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trying to get a morning photo of a Labrador, competing with licks and stretching.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It begins... fight them on the beaches.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tender is the meat/The meat I like to eat/Here inside my stew/You can almost hear it moo And people say I can’t write songs.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Quite enjoying these guys Ugly. Twice Around the Sun ep. youtu.be/vASs97HPAwY?...

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Ugly - The Wheel [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Ugly Official

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wow. What a run by Mark English in the 800, apparently six years older than the nearest competitor. Hope for me yet. Also a great result from Rhadisat Adeleke. Holy moly 🇮🇪

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very nice. The announcement about the International Debut Novel Competition in the paper of record. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My local post/parcel thingy is moving to Lucan and must be stopped. Sign this.

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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

This album didn't get much attention when it came out, emerging as it did in the time of masks and begrudgery. skelocrats.bandcamp.com/album/boy-bi...

skelocrats.bandcamp.com

Boy Bitten by a Lizard, by Skelocrats

12 track album

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