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Barry Purcell

@solo1y.bsky.social
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 8h
Anytime anyone asks if you "want to know a secret", always say no immediately. It's never anything interesting or useful. It's always something like "the guy next door has another family in Chicago". OK? Did Henry II order Thomas à Becket's murder?
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One time after visiting a therapists, she thanked me for helping her work through some of her issues.
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops Brazil Part 2 - Operation Brother Sam CIA does Brazil youtu.be/IHR6PuvvIHE?... @solo1y.bsky.social
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72 - Brazil Part2: Operation Brother Sam The CIA does Brazil
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm so old, when I was a kid, RTE would just sort of stop sometimes for no reason and they'd play Autobahn by Kraftwerk while they were fixing it. No one else seems to remember, but this is it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOp_...
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Kraftwerk Autobahn Animation by Roger Mainwood 1979
YouTube video by Robotussin Vintage Synths
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was on a national television show once and my friends were like "I was not surprised to see you on television, but I was surprised you left the house", which is completely fair.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'll say this for Marcel Walz - the kid's got chutzpah.
He's only gone and directed a movie of The Odyssey. Yes - THAT one.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let's talk about Brazil! It will be funny and clever. The podcast, I mean. Brazil is already funny and clever.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Creep" being Radiohead's least favourite of their own songs is a hell of a vibe.
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new episode The FBI's Serial Killer Scott Lee Kimball youtu.be/Yxw5qkCE0mA?... @solo1y.bsky.social
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70 - The FBI's Serial Killer
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why don't all these anti-solar-wind-power groups that seem to keep popping up around the country organise similarly against data centres?
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What the hell is going on at English music festivals?
A bunch of ridiculous band names I made up for the purposes of comedy.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An undervalued aspect of podcasting is the ability to get two or more people to merely show up at the same time.
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This Sunday at 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new episode Operation Killer America does Korea youtu.be/_3ALCtTvvBU?... @solo1y.bsky.social
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69 - Operation Killer
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you are human, then human rights apply to you. Even if you are by any measure a very bad person.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have finally found an accurate description of my aesthetic.
looking goth to basic people but basic to goth people
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
OK this eclipse is impressive. I'm getting some passable shots on my S24 extreme zoom.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One 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.
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @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.social
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67 - Operation Silver Part One
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What is the plural of Spider-Man? Is it Spider-Men? Or Spider-Mans? Or Spiders-Man?
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If Odysseus had a car, it would have taken him 15 hours tops.
It's a Googlemaps route from Troy to Ithaca today. It's very funny. Trust me.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A 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:
I HAVE SHUT DOWN HOPE
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Whenever 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Oh yes. I understand why people think this. I was wondering if there is a single shred of proof for it.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I 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?
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Sunday 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.social
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66 - Operation Musketeer
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good news! I've crunched the numbers and we should be getting another Boards of Canada album in 2047.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I 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...
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Mullingar Literary Festival
YouTube video by Barry Purcell
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I 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.
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sunday 6pm EST/11pm UK @thejibpodcast.bsky.social drops a new one Jon Burge Chicago's Torture Cop youtu.be/vBoaY2iCyb4?... @solo1y.bsky.social
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65 - Jon Burge
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A 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.
Total gibberish.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
But for those who manage to power through, good things lay ahead.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Watch 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.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is exactly what I needed to see. Thank you.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I'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?
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @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.social
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64 - The Lavender Scare Part III
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A lot of people yesterday Googling what the heck "Memorandum of Understanding" means.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My 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".
It's a photo of the front of my house with "Kyle" in a little wooden plaque. Also, there is a car. The car is not mine.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I 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.
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Seamus ⚛☘🥃🤟 @seamusgeoghan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Tomorrow 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.social
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JIBJABS: The Franklin Scandal Part II
YouTube video by The JIB Podcast
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There is like zero diversity in my dreams. It's always white people everywhere. Who do I contact about this?
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The most we can say about that is we share a sensory apparatus. (And probably irrelevant, but on a quantum level, no one knows what matter occupies what space at any point in time.)
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You will concede that in our daily life, there is no consensus that there is no tree. Everyone agrees the tree is there. So hypotheticals aside, in our real lives, we are faced with the original problem.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
All we have is consensus. There is nothing to say that consensus is reality. How would we know? We have no access to the information you'd need.
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Barry Purcell @solo1y.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
How about this: if there is an objective truth, we have no access to it. The best we can hope for is various degrees of speculation.
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