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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 7h
We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 7h
The lads' school doing a Halloween costume swap and to that I say More Of This Sort Of Thing, because Jesus the fucking waste every year...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
New voice for Sally Rooney audiobooks
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
or this...
Still from The Day Today; Steve Coogan is playing the Sinn Fein leader, who under broadcasting rules 'must inhale helium before answering to take away any credibility'
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm not even sure they need to remind anybody. Mrs 226 used to work in payroll for Dept of Education and even *there* there was a fear of pissing off a teacher with a query, lest they incurred the wrath of the unions. Solidarity my arse! Mrs 226 is on strike today, obvs.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A must-share every single time it comes up.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Well that was a bit weird. I think I'm back anyway.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Only twenty years ago, you still had this kind of curry on... www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Headline reads "Playwright didn't curry favour in row at party" and main text is "A ROW between two of the country's leading theatrical lights provided plenty of spectacle for guests at the 50th birthday party of writer Colm Toibin.

Bad blood, simmering for more than two decades between playwright Tom Murphy and Gate director Michael Colgan, came to the boil when Murphy threw a bowl of lamb curry over Colgan's head.

Both men are friends of novelist Toibin, a former Sunday Independent writer and Magill editor.

Their spicy set-to thrilled guests, who included feminist Nell McCafferty, poet Paul Durcan and journalist Gene Kerrigan.

Colgan has never put on a Murphy play at the Gate and some guests thought this could have prompted the exchanges between the two men.

An hour into the party at Toibin's home on Pembroke Street, Mr Colgan allegedly said in the presence of Murphy: "You're only a provincial playwright." Murphy retorted: "And you are the keeper of a museum on Parnell Square."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You never told us you were a guest on ANOTHER 'cast @stevenc63.bsky.social
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Excellent analysis of Trump’s Diesel Deal from @dmitryopines Are the American public at scale REALLY THAT DUMB? mmmmmm dmitryopines.substack.com/p/trumps-die...
dmitryopines.substack.com
Trump’s Diesel Deal
Writing So I Don’t Scream.
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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lads… #speirgorm #speirghorm
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What do you know about retatrutide
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
neilandchris could put out a recording of themselves peeing in a bucket and I'd still buy it and i've been that way for quite some time; the 2CD version is in a post system somewhere as i type. Streaming it all morning. I don't see this getting much replay. Mind you i said that of Behaviour too...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
discord.gg/pDVwBXrTm
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Contact me to get peptides directly from factory in China discord.gg/pDVwBXrTm
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's Not A Wonderful Life
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
psst - that was Mr Curry...
Mr Curry in the oldskool Paddington TV show
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Almost able to open a shop called Diggity'r'us"...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this be the kind of thing @seamusryan.bsky.social will be all over...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Chuckle Brothers have let themselves go, i thought myself...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Look I don't want to spoil a surprise but, er, please don't buy any Lego in the near future ok. This should make sense in the future.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More of this please.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this
Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs. 

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.” 

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.” 

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with. 

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We've gone to France for a few weeks the last couple of years; I swear, the car has more crisps than wine in it on the way home. They are fantastic crisps.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You're probably right if comparing *then* but today, in 2026, I find Exile to be the better listen; I completely get that Rubber Soul as a progression from what had gone before was, obvs, spectacular. Did you spring for one of the box sets?
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I see there's a new version of Rubber Soul out today. I just checked and Exile on Main St still kicks its arse.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The gloves were off once you said Foreign Tongues was better on that podcast... It's *very* quick though isn't it?
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
he's this guy...
the "yet you participate in society" meme
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At least 2 of these services will be in GTA VI
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I set the heat to come on on the office yesterday. It's vest weather.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Macca woke up with the tune to Yesterday rattling around in his head. You got this It's not fair, alright
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In fairness, making toast is probably more complicated than Trump may think.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm pretty sure i saw Undercover Diesel Rustling Fly Tipping Sex Ring supporting the Pigeon Detectives back in the day...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Andor I Love Her #MaccaStarWars
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reginald Perrin coming into work about to announce why he's late
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"C3P0 Darling" and "R2D2 of us" is all I've got right now but there has to be more #MaccaStarWars #BeatlesStarWars ones out there...
Paul McCartney sitting beside R2D2 and C3PO from Star wars
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And it's not as if the earlier stuff is going to have boatloads of offcuts lying around either so the gruel shall only get thinner, far as I can see...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well yes. Who cares about an American version, the mono you very possibly have already in some format, so compared with the 2 disc set, you're paying a lot of moneyb extra for a vinyl LP's worth of stuff and a book. I mean it'll be nice but...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
General standing
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two tickets. I am too old for trying to game systems with multiple thingamajigs.
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clearly I'm not helping but I got a code and realized I couldn't face the schlep there and back. While bringing kids for haircuts y'day barber mentioned he'd no code so this morning I managed to get two for him. My good deed for the day. Did you do the waiting room thing?
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mick coming in towards the end is one of the major highlights of an album already chock full of highlights. #foreigntongues
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Itsy Bitsy Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and Ebenezer Goode, ideally...
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Ivan @navi226.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Croppies, lie down...
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