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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Listened to that while walking the dog this evening, compelling analysis

᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Obviously this is despicable, but I fear it’s just cutting down the extremely narrow middleman until the scumbag AI corporations do it anyway, given that nobody seems to want to rule against them on IP :/

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s astonishing the amount of work being done by the word “imagine” in those tweets

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s wild to see MM say that it’s vital that we recognise the need to preserve democracy, when the union ballot was 96% in favour of industrial action

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some people will sooner subjugate themselves before the altar of something they hate than risk the momentary confusion and wonder of doing something new

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see the important public services are keeping up with inflation

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Running for president on a platform of “Mandatory OutKast.” The people deserve one new album every ten years ✊🏻 I’m sorry Miss Big Boi, (Ooh) I am for reeeeal, I am gonna have to nationalise y’boy, He’s an essential state utility

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I played Rebel Grotz back when Gorkamorka was real and it has served as weird prefiguring of my politics thereafter

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Terminator (T-800) = vertebrate Terminator (T-1000) = invertebrate

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s a big part of the issue. If you’ve got a carapace holding you up, you’re a vertebrate to me!

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starting work on my PhD thesis, which seeks to recategorise such that: Vertebrate = crunchy Invertebrate = chewy

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It also feels extremely relevant that book sales dipped during one of the largest financial downturns in living memory, and didn’t recover during a period of prolonged wage stagnation that followed

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love this! Do you know where we can get it (or even where would be best for us to buy it from your point of view)?

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One wonders if people in the North who don’t speak Irish would need to learn some to claim citizenship…

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is rank insanity, Thunderbird 2 had an assortment of other Thunderbirds that could go in it, like an uncle’s insane van

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Always a pleasant surprise to see Isabel Fall references from someone who actually bothered to read the story!

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have long yearned for “search, but useless” and I hope that its hour has finally come

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Was there just before the pandemic and came away with more Steinbeck than I knew existed

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Always wild to see people get exclusive about what qualifies as Irish. Sure the tuatha de danann were immigrants.

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“They were being rowdy, roaring at each other, effin’ and jeffin’ and all sorts.” Policeman writing in spiral bound notepad, “Suspects effreying and jeffreying.”

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Grok, assemble a catalogue of all of my animated desktop wallpapers. Replace the anime girls with me wearing cool space armour.”

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This one always surprises me, but a new iPhone battery is relatively cheap and always makes it feel like a new phone. Strongly recommend if feasible!

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Had a dream that I was on secondment working for the UK government. They told me that they’d found the Loch Ness monster, but they had to cover it up because she was technically next in the order of succession instead of Charles and they didn’t think the public could take it. Not in my dream book.

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The induction for these long-hours unpaid internships will be shaving their heads and getting barcode tattoos, learning to answer to “47”

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The thing that bugs me most about this is how many local businesses trade well on people who want to support a wee local business. It’s wild to so openly demonstrate that your business doesn’t have the same feeling about paying a wee local artist…

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Of course, *urge* my government reps! Why didn’t I think of that?

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Going back to writing a blog like the good old days. Todays is a quick summer update on street games I’ve played and local newspapers that have covered them <3 mcenteg.art/summer-2026-...

Capoeira game on O’Connell Street a couple of weeks ago, an older woman has joined the bateria to sing and watch the games

Limerick’s Mestre Jamaica playing the berimbau for some more street games, wearing yellow shades that cast a soft glow around his eyes

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Whispering, “I think Sharkman has a boner?” “Actually, sharks only have cartilage, so jot that down.”

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Additional information, “sean bean” is the Irish for “old woman”

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I could be the last man alive, on the run from a killing machine, and still be charmed if it played the old Mac OS boot chime

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ruminating at great length before looking up at the attendees of my symposium, “Consider, if you will… Sheffield Thursday.” Uproar, a wall of sound, I am bludgeoned to death by thrown notebooks.

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Gonna have to save this one to my “in case of personal crisis” folder

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And here I am with nothing to watch and room in my heart to love the same idea two different ways!

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I had suspected just based on the starkness of the image! I’ve read the novel but never seen the film!

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Lovely to see this coverage of the capoeira games that have been going on in Dublin over the last few weeks. Pictured: Me (arse first) being schooled by the inimitable Mestre Jamaica

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The most interesting thing about SNW to me is the sort of Thanatos death shadow, and it felt like they moved further from it with every episode of season two. Does it ever go back?

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Some really bewildering phrasing here. “The spectrum […] can flip into something more radical.”

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Boys only want one thing* and it’s fucking disgusting *Nespresso machine that has a bolt action to load the pod, ejects the spent capsule with the sound of an M1 Garand ping

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᚛ᚋᚐᚏᚉ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚐᚅ ᚈᚄᚐᚌᚐᚔᚏᚈ @sirjolt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I would extremely highly recommend the Ted Chiang story that Arrival is based on, it gets far more into the weeds in it. I think it’s in the collection, The Story of Your Life and Others, which is one of the best collections I’ve read in years!

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