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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So sorry, everyone. I’ve been here for a bit, which is why I’m now missing out on all the pub day fun. It’s tiresome, but what—apart from a spectacular suicide involving a funicular and a porpoise costume—can you do? I’ll be back soon. Love and peace, weirdos.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Honestly, if it had been up to me, she’d have won again the following year just for this.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Rhetorical questions; what’s that all about?

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I see that Connections has its own little scoring bot now, which is nice. I’m especially tickled by this screen, where it gamely tries to piece together what those hapless meat puppets can possibly have been thinking.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What idiot called it The Lord of the Rings and not Unexpected Item in the Baggins Area?

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

On special at Lidl today: • A vacuum robot • A blood pressure monitor • Kangaroo steaks • A cocktail shaker • A flame gun If we could but live the lives that have been dreamed for us.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Wanna go back downstairs and unsee my etchings?

Jordan Peterson shows off his collection of fash-adjacent kitsch.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

British Amazon ratings: A primer ⭐ : Good lord, no. ⭐⭐ : Still a no, I'm afraid. ⭐⭐⭐ : Well, if you absolutely must. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Fine, if you like that sort of thing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Quite interesting, actually.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Tomorrow! Join @paraicodonnell.bsky.social author of The Naming of the Birds The Writer's Center !🖤🐦‍⬛💙🗡️✨ In convo w/ Tin House Publisher & Editorial Director Masie Cochran. 4pm PT / 7pm ET - Tues 1/7/25 Free, but pls register: writer.org/event/paraic...

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

When you do a demonstrably perfect joke and it gets precisely two likes.

A still from Buffy the Vampire Slaying in which Dawn questions the reality of her existence.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My favourite episode of Frasier? Gotta be the one where the irresistible farce meets the immovable objet d'art.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Just tweaking my list of all-time favourite games for 2025. One new entrant, but otherwise no major upsets. • The one where everyone is undead, so it's nice and quiet. • The one where you get to ride around gathering herbs on a horse. • The one where you get to tidy up a whole planet.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Probably not ideal that I keep forgetting this is happening. In my defence, though, pretty much nothing else that's happening feels remotely plausible just now.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

`...thinned / To an air-sharpened blade...‘

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Today marks 6 years since the passing of my friend Simon, who many of you will know as @simonnricketts on the other place. He was a good boy, who I miss terribly. If you knew Simon in any way, please remember him. Thank you. x www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXj...

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Morecambe & Wise - Bring Me Sunshine

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My friends, I have discovered the existence of decorative electrical tape and nothing is ever going to be the same.

A pair of Sony headphones repaired using decorative electrical tape.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri. Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of Irish and international fiction for the year ahead www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri

Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of fiction for the year ahead

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Well, the people outside are frightful.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Molière walks into a bar. Bartender says, why the long farce?

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Unresting death, a whole disco slide closer now.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

21.XII.24 In deference to festive custom (and by way of belated introduction), here’s my thing about gardens and dying again. CW: Swearing, dying, miscellaneous filth. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Paraic O’Donnell: MS is meticulously destroying me. I am being unmade

In this moving essay, the writer charts his disease’s progression against the seasons

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Then Jesus turned to me and said, ‘Child, where you saw only one set of footsteps, it was then that you started in about your cold press technique.’

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Etiquette of Kisses in Publishing Emails: A Concise Guide "xxxxx": We remain on speaking terms. For now. "xxxx" – Fuck it, maybe you'll actually earn out that $750. "xxx – You’re still under contract, just about. "xx" – I had to ask who you were. "x" – I’m having you killed.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Why are ads for fragrances so violently weird. Like, it's a just a pleasant scent with notes of sandalwood and vetiver, why are there eight-foot androids doing S&M in a Hamburg bus shelter?

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'm still mainly not talking about AI, because spending decades adjacent to tech bros will do that to you, but a thing that continues to be underappreciated in mainstream coverage is that literally every unicorn tech product you know about is held together at some level by open-source code. [1/n]

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My cherished friend Melissa Harrison isn’t just a gifted nature writer. She’s a gift *to* nature writing, and I can’t think of anyone who’s done as much to make its wonders and consolations available to everyone. Do yourself a favour. apps.apple.com/ie/app/encou...

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‎Encounter Nature

‎Encounter is a guided nature journal that lives on your phone. Create beautiful diary entries complete with images, your location and the weather. Find inspiration and ideas specific to your area and...

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I took my first US road trip in 1997 (yes, I'm that old). First stop I made was at a Barnes & Noble in Columbia, MO (yes, I'm that boring). Since then, I've never once got in the cab to the airport without stopping off at Union Sq. So, yeah. Some feelings. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/best-bo...

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Best Books of January 2025 - B&N Reads

As you pack away your holiday decorations and say farewell to visiting family members, let these new releases welcome you into a new year of epic reading. With the latest from Rebecca Yarros, Charmain...

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Oh, bless. Look what the tech bros have invented again. Yes, typewriters have been a thing for a century and a half, but just act excited when they show it to you, okay?

An advertisement for another stupid product that doesn’t need to exist.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A magical realist novelist walks into a bar. Somewhere an old black dog stirs in its death crib, troubled by the resurgent sunlight, and for the first time in a century, the orange blossom in the churchyard at Santa Aña is brought to a shy ecstasy of flowering.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Taking a device-free day today. Just some lazy seasonal tunes as we decorate the tree together and remember what matters most.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My sister is coming for dinner, so we’re doing half of the roast potatoes with goose fat and the other half with lies.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

At least it'll be a dry inexorable heat death, am I right?

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Pretty ballsy of the all the other reindeer to start namecalling when they all went by Grommet or Ditzklieg or some stupid shit.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I̶͍͒ ̷̲̇a̸̩͊m̷͔̈ ̵̖͋n̴̨͝ę̴̉v̷̗̕e̸̼͝r̶̳̚ ̶͓͋d̴̯̓i̸̢̇s̴͕̚e̶̳̐n̸̙̊t̷̠̋a̴̩͐n̷͗͜g̴̖͒l̵͚̽ị̶̍n̸̨͂g̶͇͛ ̸̙͊t̷̨̀h̴͙̓ê̶̦ș̸͑ë̷̬́ ̶̱͒f̵̹͝ú̸̞ć̷̙k̴͍̇i̴̩̾n̵̠̊g̴̬͝ ̵̙͌f̷̫̐ã̷͎i̴̕͜ŕ̸̡ỹ̴͔ ̵̥̂l̸̗͊i̷̪͒g̶̜̓ḥ̴̿t̶́͜s̴̘̒, ̴͈̔a̴͇̒m̷͍̍ ̶̞̈I̷̻̍?̴̬͌

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Well, I say 'memory palace', but it's really more of a boiler room where we keep Mother's old mannequins and some of the furs she was allowed to keep.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Oh, mother of fizzling christ, the game theory guy is here. Someone give him a Hefty bag full of shredded flight manifests, keep him occupied until his parents get here or the tartrazine wears off.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

So, that pangram this morning. I trust that I was not alone among the faithful in feeling the teensiest frisson of gratification?

David Rose gets it, and can 100% get it.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Passion fruit really are an exquisite pleasure, once you get past handling a leathery grenade full of suppurating alien protozoa.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I swear to god, Hannibal Lecter could die and the NYT obituary would still be some milk-and-water bullshit about ‘the controversial gourmet and polymath’.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024