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Mike Spilligan
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Speaks Esperanto like a Native. He/him
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When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks.

The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.

But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.

There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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On what would have been his 61st birthday, a knotty, unsparing and thoughtful tribute to Mark Lanegan, from his nephew Paolo Bicchieri, who travelled to Killarney to make sense of his uncle's death.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
Mark Lanegan, my uncle, died out of the blue after moving to Ireland
My uncle, who was in Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, died after moving to Killarney at the height of the pandemic. Our family have been trying to fit the pieces together ever since
www.irishtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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darach.bsky.social
A "red beret in Waterford" moment.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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walkaways.bsky.social
I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard
July 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Can't believe the amount of heat we used to get for downloading an mp3 when every tech company is downloading the sum total of human expression to sell a scromited version back to us
February 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"
February 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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stacycay.bsky.social
Hi guys, my name’s Stacy Cay. I’m a transgender comedian and I really don’t like Trump or Elon or any of his fans. I’m trying to use bluesky more because I can’t stand the right wing propaganda machine anymore. Can you please repost to help me find my friends? 🥺
December 3, 2024 at 5:42 PM
mikespilligan.bsky.social
Check out the books I added on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/friend/i?inv...
November 12, 2024 at 5:24 PM
mikespilligan.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,776,278!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,776,278, Mike Spilligan ‪@mikespilligan.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 30, 2023"
September 24, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
“my god, there is nowhere to go.”
There is nowhere to go. Rafah is the southern-most town in Gaza and there is nowhere to go. Egypt is closing its border and there is nowhere to go. There is no aid entering, no Palestinian leaving. There is nowhere to go. Israel isn't demanding Palestinians evacuate because they know there is nowhere to go. When they drop leaflets over Rafah what they're actually saying is "we're going to kill you because we know there is nowhere to go." We can keep repeating "it can't get worse than this" but it will and it is getting "worse than this." This is the final solution because there's nowhere to go. My god, there is nowhere to go.
May 7, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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bowiesongs.bsky.social
"It has become merely an adjustment to lifestyle": Bowie on the state of the music industry, January 2004 (Chicago Sun Times)
DB: It's all luck; none of it was planned. I kind of think it's a little bit like photography, where the photograph itself at the beginning of the last century was such an iconic thing. It was thought of almost in a religious manner, and the people that made it were thought of in a special way. And now, people just put everything into Photoshop and change the faces around; they're their own factories of image. One sees a certain similarity in what's happened with music. I think the context of the music has changed immeasurably since I started making it. Like it or not, it has become merely an adjustment to lifestyle rather than the kind of manna from heaven when I was a kid. It just seems to have a different kind of context altogether - it's like water from the tap or electricity from the plug. Kids kind of presume it's just there for their taking, and you can't dispel that idea. That's what they believe and they won't change their ideas."
January 12, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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self.agency
You are ruining ARMISTICE DAY with your calls for a CEASEFIRE!
biggs.bsky.social Merry Christmart @biggs.bsky.social · Nov 3
Don't ruin our remembrance of the war dead by reminding us that people are still dying because of war
November 3, 2023 at 1:27 PM