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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · Jun 24

Logging it to #spéirgorm to see what existential breakdown the US has had overnight

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 9m

Likely will do that, but I'm sure I'll hear about it when they're logged out of their Minecraft account 😂

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 25m

Despite not being in the UK, I'm getting this shite for an account for one of the kids. I don't necessarily want to send my ID to comply with some act that doesn't apply to me.

Email from Xbox with the following text;

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 9h

All the plaudits immediately after it, all the backslapping by Governments. Didn't even wait a bloody week. Barely a day even.

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 9h

Yikes, never heard anything about that

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 9h

They've no intention of honouring the ceasefire *waves hands in the direction of history books on the topic*

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 9h

Haha, ruining the environment for sext robots. This isn't going to help with the loneliness epidemic, now is it?

The Verge @theverge.com · 12h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 9h

Hah, they could make anything but instead they'll just rehash existing shit, but worse

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 16h

While decrying that the campaigns have been poor! They're the ones trying to generate the controversy.

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 16h

Nothing I've heard CC say is anywhere near the level of absolute shit other leaders have come out with. I keep seeing 'embarassment'.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 17h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 17h

Not to mention a certain main character of a Tribunal

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Andy @imaculthero.bsky.social · 19h

Connolly REFUSES to hire Enoch Burke despite CLAIMING to believe in rehabilitation.

My latest, *only* in tomorrow's Irish Times

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 20h

A group of people have turned up to Catherine Connolly’s canvass in Naas asking about Enoch and Elijah Burke.

They have asked Connolly if she’s a Freemason…

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 17h

TIme to fire the egg-heads responsible for reporting the figures so this never happens again!

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 17h

Negative impact of tariffs starting to show, IMF warns

Washington-based institute says core inflation and unemployment in US are edging up

www.irishtimes.com

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 17h

As she has repeatedly said and all. There's a fair few in the Dáil with past criminal convictions so it's not that unusual.

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 17h

She has I see characterised it as "rural pursuits"

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 19h

Continually asking her why she did it? And not accepting that it was in her past. It's not as if it was Catherine in the van with her. But yeah, mad it's used to damage her.

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 19h

Yeah, just finished it, spent an outsized amount of time on hiring that woman. And Catherine's point about her breaking no rules will fall on deaf ears.

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 20h

People's heads have been screwball scrambled

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 20h

A group of people have turned up to Catherine Connolly’s canvass in Naas asking about Enoch and Elijah Burke.

They have asked Connolly if she’s a Freemason…

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 20h

Honestly what you've said on here already about the PK one which I'm now listening to, but I have heard her being asked a substantive question until today

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 20h

I reckon she must be hard of hearing from all the Orange Order Flute Band... Eh... Picnics she's been at previously

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 20h

I can't get over this as an answer. Like, did she hear the question, or just not want to hear it?

#Áras25 #SpéirGhorm

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPE6YYm...

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 21h

This will come as a shock to absolutely nobody.

Gareth O’Connor @garethoconnor.bsky.social · 21h

Sky: Israeli troops open fire on 'suspects' in Gaza after 'violation of ceasefire agreement', IDF says

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 21h

I honestly feel many people are sick of performatively confrontational presidential candidate debates.

The constant interruptions, prickly haranguing, random hypotheticals, repetitive dredging of controversy instead of hearing about values, character, vision.

We deserve smarter discourse.

#Aras25

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Take a wild fucking guess

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

Will Trump lose interest in Israel Gaza peace process?

www.channel4.com/news/will-tr...

Will Trump lose interest in Israel Gaza peace process?

We heard from our US editor Anushka Asthana in Washington.

www.channel4.com

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 1d

Remember when you had limited space for both contacts and messages. Those were the days. No recriminating evidence remains.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?