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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If we could but lift our eyes to the light of grace.

In a scene from Schitt's Creek, the actor Dan Levin wears a shirt on which the word NONCHALANCE appears in all caps.

Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Bless you, sir. And although I can’t comment on your recent byline for fear of violating the sacred covenant, please know that it didn’t pass unnoticed. Anyone can be reviewed favourably, but to be reviewed *well* requires the intercession of another talent. That’s how you get really lucky.

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

Patiently awaits arrival of love. 🏥 (represents patience)

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

Bless you, dear heart, though I cannot tell how I might have deserved it, being so much remiss in my affections and affairs.

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

Oh, that’s so lovely. Ans what a resplendent Dog our gracious Lady is. I have two pairs of ANC buds in hand and the heavy duty over-ears on the way. Trust me, noise-cancelling is *always* the first consideration on any excursion. xx

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

I think it’s rather splendid, and I’m not usually in the demographic. Also you’re clearly doing right by it.

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

The seventies colour palette is emphatically a vibe, and I am 100% using it as my laptop wallpaper.

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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

He consumes all his media while coiled naked on the floor in a morass of sacrificial viscera, presumably.

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

Spelling Bee out here rejecting the word EFFING like it isn’t literally the only available effing vocabulary item that’s even remotely well effing adapted to the panoptic effing hypercalamity unfolding all effing around us.

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Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

You might want to check again. I'm pretty sure I'm the one who's listed alongside bestselling writer Jo Callaghan.

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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 · 06/01/2025

Thanks so much, Mat. Those are extraordinarily kind words.

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

Haha. Didn't really think this one all the way through, did I?

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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

Honorable mentions: • The one where you get to pretend that literary novelists get on talk shows. • The one where you get to make Americans use buses.

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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

YouTube video by SherwoodofRobin

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

Honestly, no. I had to use old-school electrical tape underneath to maintain structural integrity, but I'm still taking the W.

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

Murder *and* bling on the dance floor.

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

I got it from the Bad Place, but there are doubtless less evil alternatives.

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

Will have to withhold that verdict for the long-term review.

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

The NC improvements are noticeable, but the real upgrades are comfort and fidelity. They're consumer cans, so the signature is coloured as all hell, but it's still very pleasing in most genres. Just don't plan on monitoring or doing anything otherwise critical with them.

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

Seriously, though, if you're like me and you spend way more than you should on tech but are also semi-militant about reparability, having options other than nasty-ass PVC feels genuinely huge. We can glam-cycle ALL THE THINGS.

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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 · 25/12/2024

Okay, so I didn’t expect a family favourite, but I also wasn’t *quite* prepared. When I say I’m gonna have to tackle this one in stages, I mean it in the best and most attentive way. Your recs game is now the talk of the ratings agencies. x

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

Finally catching up on that homework. (Some resourcefulness was called for.) Feeling it so far.

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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

Malapropist walks into a bar. Bartender says, why the wrong phrase?

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

David Beckham walks into a bar. Bartender says, why the sarong phase?

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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

Literally the piano part from Pärt’s Alina, I’m pretty sure.

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