Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'll say this for Marcel Walz - the kid's got chutzpah. 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you have a stubborn stain, rub some lemon juice on it and let it soak in. Then put some vinegar on. It won't do anything but it's a fun activity for a rainy afternoon. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 27/09/2026True story: I was referred to the hospital once by a GP because they couldn't find a pulse. "Am I clinically dead?" "I don't think so but it's best to make sure." SPOILER: I was not dead. 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Let's talk about Brazil! It will be funny and clever. The podcast, I mean. Brazil is already funny and clever. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Creep" being Radiohead's least favourite of their own songs is a hell of a vibe. 000
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new episode The FBI's Serial Killer Scott Lee Kimball youtu.be/Yxw5qkCE0mA?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be70 - The FBI's Serial KillerYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 022
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why the hell are we using "percentile" when no one knows what it means, and some struggle even after it's explained? If you keep having to explain something over and over, use something else. 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Why don't all these anti-solar-wind-power groups that seem to keep popping up around the country organise similarly against data centres? 020
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you only have empathy for people who look like you and agree with your opinions, that's not really empathy at all, is it? That's just solipsism by proxy. 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What the hell is going on at English music festivals? 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 31/08/2026An undervalued aspect of podcasting is the ability to get two or more people to merely show up at the same time. 010
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This Sunday at 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new episode Operation Killer America does Korea youtu.be/_3ALCtTvvBU?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be69 - Operation KillerYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 011
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you are human, then human rights apply to you. Even if you are by any measure a very bad person. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I have finally found an accurate description of my aesthetic. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is the energy I bring to so many situations. I'm not even sorry. You all deserve everything bad that happens to you as the result of an interaction with me. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 12/08/2026OK this eclipse is impressive. I'm getting some passable shots on my S24 extreme zoom. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 12/08/2026One time I was in a hospital and the guy spraying medicine into my face said "it tastes like rotten bananas" and I was like "how can that be - I've never had rotten bananas so I don't know what that tastes like" but blow me down if that shit did not taste like rotten bananas. 010
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026#Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops Operation Silver Part One Argentina's excruciating crawl to democracy youtu.be/wTCqujCGNYU?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be67 - Operation Silver Part OneYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 012
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What is the plural of Spider-Man? Is it Spider-Men? Or Spider-Mans? Or Spiders-Man? 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 25/07/2026If Odysseus had a car, it would have taken him 15 hours tops. 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A Zoom meeting I was attending this week proved difficult to set up so the chairman told us in the chat that a restart might work: "OK. I have shut down hope it clears the problem up". All I saw was this: 020
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Whenever my father goes to hospital, I get separate phone calls from the surgical team, the medical team, the physio team, the geriatric team, the nutrition team, the speech and language team, and the dementia team all asking me the same five questions. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I keep hearing that vape shops and phone shops in Ireland are not doing much actual business and are fronts for money-laundering. Is there any evidence for that? 100
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new one Operation Musketeer How the completely unnecessary invasion of Egypt united Cold War enemies. youtu.be/hxhX_BBHQ9I?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be66 - Operation MusketeerYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 021
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I told the doctor that my right arm has been getting a workout recently and I meant that I was using the recycling machine in Lidl because of the heat and it only occurs to me now, given her reaction, that she thought I was talking about something else. 052
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Good news! I've crunched the numbers and we should be getting another Boards of Canada album in 2047. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I submitted a short story to the Adult Short Story competition at Mullingar Literary Festival. It was highly commended, but I feel like I should apologise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkKF...youtube.comMullingar Literary FestivalYouTube video by Barry Purcell 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I think I may have underappreciated how valuable it is to know when you know fuck-all about something, and should therefore tread carefully when assembling opinions about it. Because many people just don't have that. 000
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new one Jon Burge Chicago's Torture Cop youtu.be/vBoaY2iCyb4?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be65 - Jon BurgeYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 001
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/07/2026A representative sample of the kind of things I DM myself at all hours of the day and night, honestly believing that I will thereby remember what I was talking about and be able to write a hilarious blog post about it, or whatever. 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Watch 1 Nic Cage movie: Wow this guy is terrible. Watch 10 Nic Cage movies: Wow this guy does the overblown psycho thing really well. Watch 20 Nic Cage movies: Wow he's a really good actor. 100
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I'm watching Another World on Netflix (yes, that's Marisa Tomei) and I noticed a lot of the signs in the background are completely garbled. Does anyone know what that's about? 101
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026#HappyPrideMonth Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a Pride Month special The Lavender Scare Part III 1980's were radically Lavender youtu.be/aT7E1NjmgI8?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be64 - The Lavender Scare Part IIIYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 011
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A lot of people yesterday Googling what the heck "Memorandum of Understanding" means. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 16/06/2026My parents called my house "Kyle" in 1978, after a townload whose name means "forest", and before it became a quasi-popular American-style first name. Now people are wondering why my house is called something like "Steve". 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I want to go on Jeopardy but refuse to phrase the answer as a question. Just giving correct answers over and over and handing them over to the other contestants. Make it happen. 010
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Tomorrow 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social continues the tale of America's first Epstein with The Franklin Scandal Part II The Johnny Gosch Connection youtu.be/fTXFyDW4Gzg?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.beJIBJABS: The Franklin Scandal Part IIYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 011
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 04/06/2026There is like zero diversity in my dreams. It's always white people everywhere. Who do I contact about this? 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/06/2026"Thanks a million!" - fine "Thanks a thousand!" - kind of fine "Thanks a hundred"! - feels like not enough thanks "Thanks twelve!" - definitely weird "Thanks a billion!" - you're back in the saddle, cowboy 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 31/05/2026There is no objective truth. Furthermore, anyone who insists that they have some unique access to an "objective truth" is either dangerous or selling something. 100
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a JIBJab The Franklin Scandal Part I Nebraska does an Epstein youtu.be/02mK7mjb0mo?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.beJIB JABS: 9 - The Franklin Scandal Part IYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 011
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you want to see for yourself what effect a propaganda campaign delivered through the public education system can have on someone's understanding of reality, ask a random English person what they think of Oliver Cromwell. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 11/05/2026While Hamlet appears to aware that he's in a tragedy, Polonius seems to think he's in a romantic comedy. He has no character arc and eventually it gets to the point where the play just eliminates him. 000
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Sunday 6pm EST/11pm Uk @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops Iran III The Past and the Spurious: Tehran Drift youtu.be/QFFe8iZD1NE?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be63 - Iran IIIYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 001
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I'd like to know what the Clown Posse were like before they lost their minds. 000
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Bands that do not have "the" in their name: Imagine Dragons Nine Inch Nails Arcade Fire Beastie Boys Eagles Foo Fighters Bands that have two "the"s in their name: The The The Thelonious Monk Quartet 010
Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 30/04/2026While I will concede that it is a fact in the traditional sense of the term, I would not call it fun. In fact, it is a kind of anti-fun which makes everything and everyone around it slightly more boring that before. - Slavoj Zizek after I share a "fun fact". 030
Reposted by Barry PurcellSeamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a episode Iran II - Rise of the Mullahs youtu.be/hgAb02eEVWU?... @solo1y.bsky.socialyoutu.be62 - Iran IIYouTube video by The JIB Podcast 001
