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Mike McGrath-Bryan

@mikemcgb.bsky.social

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A scribbling, squabbling, strácáiling eejit, that got blown along the N20 and out to Cork City, Ireland. Bestselling co-author. Foghlaimeoir, bleeding-heart, AuDHDer. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest scut-acting.

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 7d

Hard times for US psych-rockers Darsombra, who were in Ireland not too long ago, following the death of drummer Ann Everton - if you saw 'em live, consider helping if you can.

#music #gofundme #psychedelic

gofund.me/2ac7d9edc

Donate to Stand with Brian in Memory of Ann, organized by Nicole Evanshaw

As you're aware, Ann Everton tragically lost her life on October 3, as she and Brian… Nicole Evanshaw needs your support for Stand with Brian in Memory of Ann

gofund.me

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 22h

Torment Nexus Gone Wild: Hot, Wet Trepidation and Unknowing on Spring Break!

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 22h

The Torment Nexus Will Never Love You Back: A Reasonable Critique

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 22h

This is arse, Sora is arse, AI is arse; you boiled a lake for ten seconds of nonsense

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 22h

Incels

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 23h

I hope ye can eat the money, lads

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 23h

a reminder, as Naoise Ó Cearúil defends building more and more data centres on #TonightVMTV, that he thinks there's no conflict of interest in sitting on the Oireachtas AI committee while he holds shares in an AI company

www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

AI committee FF TD has stock in IDF-vet-founded AI company

It was co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces.

www.ontheditch.com

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, sweet Mother of Jaysus, yeah.

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 1d

"We all remember the first hit." 🎶 Read 👉 buff.ly/6xdwX3J #GCNnews

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure I’m not the only one who was always dreaming of D’Angelo reemerging with another classic album. It always felt tantalisingly possible because he had done it before. That’s the kind of mystique that nobody else has and may never have again. RIP

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

This being, of course, the same Green Party that helped Fianna Fáil decimate a generation with the bailout and bank guarantee.

Then, later on, the very same Green Party that sold out a nascent broad-left movement to facilitate a historic conservative super-coalition.

#spéirghorm #ireland

Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 1d

There are a few people expressing surprise that members of the green party in Ireland might be against left wing politics enough to resign from the party over backing Catherine Connolly for president...

I am curious how this could possibly still be surprising?

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

DEMOCRACY DONKS IN DORKNESS

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Real wrasslin' newz!

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🌟 Flighty Buttlass 🎀🧸🏪💥 @flightybuttlass.bsky.social · 3d

🌼 #wrestlesky / Hangman Adam Page

a little chibi hangman reminding you that you are not immune to propagnada

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Bad investments and a commercial broadcasting sector that would shit itself inside-out if it had to anything new or inventive

Consaidín @constantineoneill.bsky.social · 1d

How is absolute cretin Pat Kenny still a thing in 2025?

a man in a plaid shirt is making a funny face while sitting in a crowd

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is making a funny face while sitting in a crowd

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, just thought of a wrestler I don't think should join AEW, miracles never cease.

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

The Rock always was built like a golem of some sort, and at his wrestling peak in 99/00, warn't there no steroids testin'

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

FOR THE LAST TIME, MAJOR LABELS NEED TO PICK ONE SONG FOR SINGLES-CHART ELIGIBILITY ON AN ALBUM'S RELEASE DAY.

If nothing else, the charts are now worthless as it stands if a whole album can block off the top 10.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

What’s your favorite song in the top 10 on this week’s Hot 100?

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

FIGHT!

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

My mistake. There are SIX.

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Also, how fucking stupid is it that the Trump family - OF ALL FAMILIES - is doing its best now to try and generate a House of Kim-type thing by using the rubes' own language against them?

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Time Crisis and Dragons

Fight Without Honour and Dragons

Glenroe and Dragons

Now That's What I Call Music! and Dragons

Labour, Nationality and Religion and Dragons

Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 1d

look, the truth is, you can add 'and dragons' to any title ever and it will make it 100 times better

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Dog willing I never end up in one!

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

FIGHT!

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

There are FOUR Lansdowne Roads in Manchester??

Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely cannot wait to be the possessor of skills and experience that I've repeatedly been told that genAI will replace, when this happens.

I am going to crack a bottle of affordable, sensible-percentage bubbly and laugh, until I too find that all the companies who need all that are also gone.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW