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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 1h

The House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons
The Keep - Jennifer Egan

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thought I had posted it on here before but apparently not

CHILDREN YELLING: MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!

Where would the Taoisigh stand on this:

We have food at home:
Harris, Dev, the Cosgraves, Costello
Garret

*Pulls into the drive through as children cheer*
*Orders a single black coffee and leaves*
Varadkar, Bruton, Kenny

"MCDONALDS!
MCDONALDSI MCDONALDS!"
Lemass, Lynch, Bertie

“Fry”
Cowen

“Ortolan”
Haughey

Doesn’t make it to McDonalds
Reynolds

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 5h

I think if you’re not a very online person then people like Rowling are not as far down on your gradient of “awful people” because you haven’t seen first-hand the depths of just how fucked they are. Not only that, but if you try to explain it to people, you’re the one who ends up sounding crazy.

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 8h

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19h

Peter Thiel turning out to be this stupid honestly messes with my idea of him as the eminence grise behind the Gawker lawsuit, maybe Hogan pitched him on it and kept having to explain like “a lawsuit is like when they blew up the Death Star brother”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Aideen Blackwood @aideen.bsky.social · 1d

I have always found the idea that people will vote for someone because they are good at GAA to be incredibly condescending to the electorate. I like Real Housewives, I wouldn’t vote for any of them

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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 1d

When life imitates art

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 1d

Saw Gilla Band live for the first time last night, they were fantastic and I now I need to figure out how Alan Duggan makes his guitar sound like it’s shitting itself and dying (complimentary)

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Zach
@zach116.bsky.social • 1d
Show this post to your mother if you believe it is something acceptable to say to a stranger

Grey Them Pronouns @greythempr... • 1d
You are a waste of time for everyone you know. You are merely tolerated. Never fully embraced. And fuck your flags in bio nonsense

Grey Them Pronouns @greythempronouns... • 1d
You know what? Bet. One sec

Kim Williams @towandakim.bsky.social • 1d
Hi there, Grey's mother here. I've always been proud of my kiddo. The free thinking was hard during teen years because I had some growing up to do. I support whatever opinion or stance Grey takes, with respect, whether I agree or disagree with it. Always proud to see a display of 1st Amendment.

Grey Them Pronouns @greythempronouns... • 1d
Holy shit Zach my mom just joined Bluesky specifically to prove you wrong

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 2d

I was in the barber’s and I saw Catherine Connolly walk past outside, I missed her, sorry everybody

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 2d

Actually she’s in town today, might head in and ask her

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 2d

Catherine Connolly’s favourite Rory boyfriend is Dean

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 2d

“Why did he need a second medical checkup?”
“Oh you know…look over there!”

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d

US president Donald Trump is in "excellent overall health," his physician said Friday after the 79-year-old - the oldest elected president in US history - underwent his second medical checkup of the year.
jrnl.ie/6841674

Trump is in 'excellent health', doctor says

The 79-year-old is the oldest elected president in US history.

jrnl.ie

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 3d

The job’s Garron Noone’s for the taking obviously, it’s the role he was born to play

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 3d

Cuddihy needs to assemble a new Funny Friday crew, the success of his show depends on it

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d

Newstalk presenter Kieran Cuddihy to join RTÉ Radio after Ray D’Arcy exits

Speculation rife that Cuddihy may be in line to replace Joe Duffy as host of RTÉ Radio One’s Liveline afternoon show

www.irishtimes.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

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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Karl @karlusss.bsky.social · 3d

A fella on Irish personal finance Reddit is trying to foment a general strike over the way investment profits are taxed

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 3d

It feels like Kate Garraway might get banished from #CelebrityTraitors because she’s just a bit too ITV for the rest of the celebs?

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Micheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 3d

The all channels attacks on Catherine Connolly are because, as with Irish Water, Ireland's right wing establishment have an unpopular project (de facto joining the "Western military alliance") that the hoi polloi aren't sophisticated enough to grasp the necessity of and desperation is setting in.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 3d

Tumblr, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn

Four pics of four Young Conservatives, each with different visual characters because of their clothes and presentation

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 4d

Brett Domino: Young Tory style icon apparently? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn4YX42/