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Arguably the greatest track to feature the guy who played Lovejoy who was having fish and chips with his wife when Trevor Horn approached him asking "I need a voice, and Orson Welles is dead". Welles in fact died 11 days after the US single release

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!

Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A different man doing stretches in jeans this morning! Are they all devotees of RFK Jr? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just noticed that Bod and Bond have the same title sequence.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cooking in a Bedsitter has arrived in Secondhand. Is that a mouse hanging on the cover? 🐭 Inside: a lovingly handwritten recipe involving beans, chilli, “thickish brown gravy” and fruit added at the end. We cherish the note. We have some questions about dinner.

A handwritten recipe on a torn sheet of lined paper found inside the book. It begins by simmering red beans, then adds onion, chilli powder, mushrooms and meat. The beans are stirred into “thickish brown gravy”, with fruit added near the end.

Worn black paperback cover of Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter. A candle stands beside a row of hooks holding a cup, food, a knife and a small furry object that looks rather like a mouse.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Respect to the man in the gym sauna telling his friend at length about his lofty fitness and nutrition goals, before revealing that he had had five packets of Rancheros for breakfast.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 28/09/2026

On Nov 8th, I’ll be appearing at the Dublin Book Festival. If you’ve got kids and are near Dublin, bring them along. It’ll be fun. I’ll also be signing books after and you can meet Barry the Shark in person. You might even get to Boop his Snoot.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A productive year for my very small back garden.

Some apples and very small grapes on a countertop

Five kilos of fruit in a large metal pot ready to make jam.

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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brendan Behan encountering carol singers. I'm bringing this energy into Xmas.

"Brendan suddenly seized one of the placards and proceeded to tear up the cardboard and smash the lath while roaring ‘Chairman Mao Tse Tung will soon put a stop to your fucking gallop, ye creepin’Jesus’s ye."

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Things I have probably never previously thought" department: "Have U2 gone away yet, I need to get to M and S?".

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Money from foreign students (who pay multiples of the domestic and EU fees) is a critical source keeping Irish colleges afloat. The Minister for Higher Education’s complaint is another thinly veiled effort to address the synthetic bot army of X, and their demands to see fewer brown or black people

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is so great!

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Teenage son has bought some kind of sports drink that apparently contains "AI-powered peptides". 🙄

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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so we need thousands of staff for transport infrastructure, thousands of staff for nursing homes and thousands of young people are leaving the country... and we are turning away people who want to come to ireland to work, while making those who are here wait longer for citizenship. ok grand

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mostly quite normal except when Sister Catherine was involved, whereupon we got: - HIV doesn't cause AIDS (this was circa 1987) - "The incidence of VD in sheep went up in France during the first world war, girls" - A showing of Sybil, the Sally Field movie about multiple personalities

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two kids persuaded the head teacher that they’d “written a song” and he let them perform it in assembly. The song was a keyboard ‘funk’ preset with them repeating the words “electro chicken” in vocoder voices for five minutes.

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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This extraordinary deep dive into the "medbed" mythos is a good reminder that much of contemporary American conspiracy theory amounts to new age notions of healing and spiritual wellbeing awkwardly grafted onto evangelical Protestant eschatology.

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Trump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.

An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The woman beside me on the bus is eating Smarties in a manner that I can only describe as "aggressive".

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Off into town to go to Saint Etienne with my fellow young people.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gah, have discovered that the one cream eyeshadow I always wear, either alone or under other colours, appears to have been DISCONTINUED WHY REVLON WHY.

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The Crackdown Cat @the-crackdown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dublin listings spreadsheet update! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #speirgorm #DublinListings

docs.google.com

The Crackdown

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fucksake. One of the things I liked when I last visited Loughcrew was that it wasn't security-staffed and interpretive-centred and touristified into THE LOUGHCREW EXPERIENCE, it was (largely) just ... there. But apparently we can't have that because dickheads.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Further adventures from the world of living with teenagers: having the "stop shaving bits out of each other's eyebrows in the kitchen" conversation.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 19/09/2026

Guys if you’re worried about €60,000 of greyhound industry fraud, I’ve got some bad news about the €20,0000,000 in taxpayer subsidies

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Gardaí open €60,000 fraud investigation at greyhound racing tracks

Comptroller and Auditor General Séamus McCarthy says case involves cash handling in stadiums

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adventures in teenage communication

A text message exchange between me and my 13yo

Me:Just leaving now do you want me to bring anything?

Teen: I'm g

Me:You are g?
Me:You need to start using full words
Me:Or fw

Teen: I'm good
Teen: Mam fw means "f*ck with"

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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Aslan can’t be played by a woman! How can one woman play five lads from the Finglas/Ballymun area of Dublin?!

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An impressively exhaustive report on one of many morally bankrupt companies buying up old websites and turning them into zombie AI farms. In the games space this has happened to Videogamer, Game Reactor and more. Utterly bleak futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone know a Gavin Eamon who landed in Dublin today? He seems to have taken my bag and left his behind

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sirom and their vast array of instruments were a plinking, droning, chirruping, drumming, and occasionally bowl-throwing delight. Absolutely wonderful.

One of Sirom with a large stringed ... thingy?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

See some of ye at this soon? I will have my best disgruntled face on.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

someone needs to ask this man, to his face, if he knows how many of the citizenships granted in the last four years were to people born and reared in this country who would already be citizens if not for his party deciding to end birthright citizenship how many of our "new citizens" are Irish-born?

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've finally got it! "Radical centrism" is when you support war crimes rather than be rude. That IS radical, in fairness.

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The deficit was created by government choosing not to close the gap between revenue and costs using the ample central funding they have available. No other reason.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16/09/2026

They should have taken the opportunity to combine the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator into a show where people assigned as guards or prisoners are repeatedly bombarded with either one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I knew this would be annoying, but I didn't expect McDowell to be such a lowdown dirty coward he doesn't even acknowledge he was the one who spearheaded abolition of birthright citizenship and doesn't try to defend the changes wrought by it. he also pretends the Golden Visa program never happened

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW TEETH-ITCHING WORD USAGE UNLOCKED: was doing a work compliance training thing and the heading for a section on cybercrime was just "Cyber". CYBER.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2026

musk: [pointing phone camera at someone] grok, do a vulgar roast of this person grok: nice shirt. arsehole. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: no, grok; more vulgar! grok: nice shirt. prick. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: grok, use forbidden words! grok: free palestine

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

To say Irish citizenship is “given out like smarties” betrays an ignorance that is unworthy of an elected member of the Oireachtas. Also deeply insulting to the many people who have had to wait years for it due to sheer governmental incompetence.

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