Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#Justread One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. “This is an account of a fracture, a breaking away from the notion that the polite, Western liberal ever stood for anything at all.” A book for the moment! - 4.5/5 000
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world. 22564182
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Justread Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne. Book #1 of The Bloodsworn Saga - 3/5 000
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorGeordie @geordiecalgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Famed Italian opera singer Enrico Palazzo will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran 15120
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies The Slasher Edition - Part I 0380
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#Justread Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. Was best described by someone else as “A novel length Hieronymus Bosch painting”. Didn’t love it but it might be worth a second look down the road - 2.5/5 100
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Should’ve kept my mini-disc player. Told you these iPods would never catch on! 100
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorStephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Many thanks to the Toronto Star for inadvertently showing us why we should all use the Oxford Comma. Apparently Sylvia had some, let's say, complicated hobbies: 1202652477
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 05/07/2026#amreading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 000
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 05/06/2026#Check-in Stewart Lee vs the Man-Wulf at The National Opera House, Wexford 010
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that 393148664
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf... 7054511636
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A Short Poem for Star Wars Day Her name was Yoda, A showgirl she was. 15653146
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 20/04/2026While being dragged to the bottom of the sea: Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That's over 150 atmospheres of pressure! Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one. 1140
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’. 10619118
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore 19708203
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Slim pickings in January but I did, at least, enjoy two of the three. #Letterboxd 000
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month. 201195361
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world. 10436791179
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorAlan Monaghan @apmonaghan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Just waited 37 minutes for an F3 bus (supposed to come every 15 to 20 minutes). When it did show up, there was no number displayed- we had to ask the driver. #Busconnects is an absolute joke. 001
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 05/10/2025media.tenor.coma man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a shelf and says brilliant .ALT: a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a shelf and says brilliant . 0100
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorMolly White @molly.wiki · 01/10/2025slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross 17369341225
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorJordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 24/09/2025In a surprise victory, crafty Retiarius nets mighty Murmillo! Retiarius will proceed to the next round. But first... Today's match: ♥️Like for THRAEX ♻️RT for SCISSOR 04511
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorConcern Worldwide @concernworldwide.bsky.social · 19/08/2025In 1968, a small group of Irish people saw suffering and famine in Biafra, and they didn’t wait for the world to act. Our community has grown, but our mission remains the same - because ending extreme poverty, wherever it is in the world, is our Concern. #ItsOurConcern #ConcernWorldwide 011
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/08/2025THIS. IS. THE. WAY. 362108841983
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/04/2025My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 7250061894
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 09/04/2025"You boy! What tariff is it today?" 7562361320
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 25/03/2025A judge once ruled that I was “the antithesis of Paddington Bear”. 1163167
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorNicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency. 15249607926500
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorSam @irishwol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Very sad to see the poet and general sharp observer of life Pat Ingoldsby has died. So, as he prepared for this event, here's to Pat. 🥃 4518146
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorSamuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed. 35116
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorJohn Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Work hard in school kids and some day you might be able to afford to live in someone's shed 33217
Reposted by Steven O’ConnorDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/02/2025Increasingly worried that asking me to forecast Trump's use of tariffs is a bit like asking an aviation expert to predict the behaviour of a knife wielding pantsless man on the bus just because he happens to be raving about chem trails. 201158237
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Leaving #Rathmines today after having lived here for over ten years. It’s a great area to live in, and I have a lot of happy memories, but it’s time to move on #movingday 110
Steven O’Connor @oconnor-steven.bsky.social · 03/01/2025#Justseen #Nosferatu initial impressions are good. Cinematography and performances top notch. I hear there is an extended cut confirmed for release. Will be really interested to see this. 020
![LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.
[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].
After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:
Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon.
bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,
Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon
To earth's hard oblivion.
[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibpyscry7bddmufqnk7wsfuxsflv4fkn4brwvkzxqurjkz7z67yoi)
