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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I don’t agree with destroying her either. I just think she should not be part of the party forming the government of this country that contains millions upon millions of Irish people and their descendants. Her downplaying of centuries of explicit anti-Irish English racism is deeply offensive to me.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

But Diane in her original letter says they didn’t suffer racism at all. Which is not how it felt to my Mum I can tell you as she brought it up only recently still bewildered and humiliated by it, 70 years later. But you know best June.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

You’re obviously not someone who’s ever been told ‘You look so Irish’ then June. Door opened or door closed, it’s still racism in every possible respect. I don’t see the point in creating hierarchies of dehumanising disrespect.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

As the son of Irish parents who were turned away from rooms in Birmingham by signs saying No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish’ I found Ms Abbott’s original comments deeply wrong, ignorant and offensive. You want to see the 19th monkey portraits too? I hope they throw the book at her Robin.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“Research and experimentation “. So not really undergraduate degrees then… It seems logical a lot more of u/g level Stem will be very soon a moment’s work for AI than the arts. Based on HUMAN creativity, imagination and experience… The nerds may created their own demise. Or not. Who truly knows?

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I can see a time in 5 years where there will no undergraduate degrees in Stem subjects? What’s the point? When AI does it all. Whereas English, history, philosophy…

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This will be an absolute must for all levels of writers I’d say.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Sounds fabulous. What a resource. Lucky us.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It’s very noble of them to sacrifice peace, prosperity and democracy itself for clicks, eyeballs and cheap journo drama.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thank you so much Kit. Very good of you.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Just wondering if you could kindly repost @kitdewaal.com. Thanks.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

And Christmas. It would so much more special and enjoyable every four years.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I live in a nice part of London. We’re going to be swamped with all the smart interesting clever Americans fleeing President Trumpski and Comrade Musk. They’ll need to learn we don’t do earnest over here but apart from that, we’ll be fine.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I think I might become a born-again Christian just so I can really 100% believe that Trump and Elon Musk will be really going to Hell one day. At the moment I’m just living on a vague lapsed-Catholic hope that’ll be the case. It’s not quite enough.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It seems someone’s been sitting in Sheldon’s Spot. And he doesn’t like it at all.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just waiting for my data.. and I’m gone.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

You have to remember to Donald Trump everything and everyone - every bit of earth, sea, sky and air, every human soul - is just real estate waiting to be bought or sold. And only by him for his gain. That’s his landscape. Worldview. Narrative. There is no other. Goodnight and good luck.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

After over 100 years of the American Empire, the citizens are finally gulled into electing their first Emperor. It’s a big fat orange shame for them and the world it’s the kind of bonkers one who marries his own horse.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Interesting to come back to Bluesky after a month or so. It’s already perhaps 1.5% crankier, political and less in love with its own loveliness. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. It’s probably only apparent if you’re not here all the time.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

You were always brilliant together. A Spanish literature genius and an Astro-physicist. A match made for a lifetime. Remembering much joy, laughter and scary conversations. Very very very sad. Much love Richard. Px

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just coined a new word reading the first page of ‘Orbital’: Prizey. It felt right somehow. BTW. Is it the thinnest volume ever to win? It’s remarkanbky short for a Prizey book, don’t you think? Maybe the judges were a busy bunch this year and couldn’t be doing with door stoppers.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You know yourself. Just fabulous.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

And they’ll have destroyed it with 20th century reductionist thinking in a 22nd century world. The short-sighted fools.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What’s crazy is that, in about 4-5 years time, when generative AI has made all the maths, engineering and chemistry departments the idiots worship utterly redundant, creativity, critical thinking and yes, philosophy will be the only subjects we can study.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Indeed.Makes this genuine and nuanced debate lesser than it should be. People should be 100% real about this. We all deserve it.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I’m sure you do. Also in unrelated news, let’s not forget the power of that great British myth: it’s only foreigners who are corrupt. The British good folk were just there or near there when ‘mistakes were made.’

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Love that escalator. Very believable.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It’s the only theme worth having. If I was 25 and reading this I’d have everything whipped away so I never had the slightest risk of turning into a parent. You should get sponsored by Durex my friend.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you ever wondered what it would be like for a truly funny real person to visit a centerparcs.. wonder no more. It’s like Samuel Beckett rewriting a riff by Lenny Bruce round at Peter Kaye’s place. Brilliant.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The funniest, bleakest thing I’ve read online ever. Like a night out at a Tory Party conference with Peter Cook and Samuel Becket. Great work Disappointed. Your misery is our delight.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hasn’t it been around ever since the first Bronze Age sawbones said: ‘I’ll just give them a wee drop of tincture of hemlock to help them sleep comfortably’? And every generation since.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It’s a beautiful evocative book about family and memory and grief and growing up. Ian Banks’ finest, to me anyway. He died way way too young.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My experience of Bluesky 6 months ago was of a nice puzzling building with levels and lots of light but no stairs and empty corridors with lots of locked doors. Still not 100% feeling any different but more students around so who knows.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is a real threat to your country’s future. The successful societies in the future will be the ones maximising their Human Capital. Artists. Thinkers. Those who imagine. Feel. Create.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Me too. We had an hour between coming home from school and opening time. I was seriously good then. Utterly rubbish now. But you’re on the way back there Drew.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Do you love a sudden magical thing in a story, a book or, in this case an exhibition? This was in a tiny exhibition about the rise of Nazism I saw yesterday at the CaixForum in Madrid. I have no idea what it is or how it works. But it was a magical moment for me amid the grim reality.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ah thank you Ian. And thank you too for timely intervention when the reality deniers were in full cry. Much appreciated not of sanity.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There’s a lot of talk of menus and cookery in the novels. Cromwell’s first job is in a Bishop’s kitchen I think. Lots of dainty sweets and pastries. Very few lambs legs.

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Paul Dornan @pauldornan.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Hi everyone. Thank you @essiefox.bsky.social for giving me a code to join. I'm brand new here this second and wonder if any of my writing friends and #authors on here might say hello.

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