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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 5h

I could never, never wrap my head around this. People would complain all day long about what they were seeing when for ten years I only saw tweets from the people I chose to follow. Like????

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 6h

what I can’t get over with these crowd work comedians is that like… uh it’s not the audience’s job to GIVE you a funny moment for your TikTok and if that’s why you’re doing crowdwork then you might not be that good at comedy!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

what’s especially mystifying about this answer is that Joe Brolly was vociferously supporting Jim Gavin, so why Catherine Connolly would even be mentioned is not clear to me.

Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 1d

Ivan Yates ‘no more involved in my campaign than Joe Brolly is in Catherine Connolly’s’ – Heather Humphreys on former minister’s comments

Heather Humphreys has said she will not smear anyone but will ask hard questions of her fellow presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

Ivan Yates ‘no more involved in my campaign than Joe Brolly is in Catherine Connolly’s’ – Heather Humphreys on former minister’s comments

Heather Humphreys has said she will not smear anyone but will ask hard questions of her fellow presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

www.independent.ie

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

"in fairness, Catherine Connolly could spend her entire seven years in the office doing nothing but going from school to school doing keepy-uppies and it would probably have a better effect on social cohesion than almost anything else that the president can actually do"

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Susan Adair Farrelly @itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh the digs were flyin into the effin ff-er’s this week! Incisive & amusing as always @carlkinsella.bsky.social

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences jrnl.ie/6837428

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

jrnl.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

🤩🤩🤩

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Slíbhín 🇵🇸 @sareen.bsky.social · 1d

#Áras25 #Aras25

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t want to know the end, look away.

“Catherine Connolly could spend her seven years in the office doing nothing but going from school to school doing keepy-uppies and it would probably have a better effect on social cohesion than almost anything else that the president can actually do.”

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

Focail an-chineálta, GRMA!

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Hannah @hannahmonaghana.bsky.social · 1d

“While Fianna Fáil may well be aggrieved that their actions have had consequences, it’s the public at large who will have to suffer the consequences. So far, so Fianna Fáil.”

Éiríonn le Carl Kinsella tochailt go croí na ceiste agus é a tharraingt chun solais i gcónaí.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 1d

"It might be a bit of a concern for Micheál Martin that a columnist whose primary concern is seeing if he can fit a Muppets reference into his weekly reflections is giving him better advice than his advisors, and for free no less. "

#IrishPol

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much!

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent article 👇 #Aras25 #Speirgorm #Aras2025

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."

This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.

Surrealing in the Years: Fianna Fáil once again aggrieved that their actions have consequences

Jim Gavin’s catastrophic campaign was predictable, but the Taoiseach couldn’t predict it.

www.thejournal.ie

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

and if you ever get back to Hackensack

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

they obviously realised it would be a bit too brazen to give the peace prize to Trump so they did something else which signalled that they, like so many institutions, are prepared to kowtow to him for basically no reason.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

and now, to add further heft to my argument, I will graphically simulate fellatio

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

(guy who used to say ‘Joooooe Duffy’ seeing that the new guy’s name is Kieran Cuddihy) ah shit

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

rehabilitation of prisoners and legal representation without prejudice are principles without which our entire justice system would immediately and completely collapse vs no they’re not

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 4d

you don't hear 'clapped back' so much anymore. there was a time when clapped back was ubiquitous. i supposed we don't clap back as much as we used to. straight to murder now, isn't it

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