Richy Craven
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Richy Craven
@richycraven.bsky.social
· Nov 27
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
As much as we enjoyed our wedding and mini-moon, a week is simply too long to not be looking at this beautiful, stupid face.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As much as we enjoyed our wedding and mini-moon, a week is simply too long to not be looking at this beautiful, stupid face.
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[evil voice] Yesssss, good. The world will soon be dominated by the most insufferable autistics (me).
How Warhammer won
The maker of the fantasy figurine game is now valued at £5.25bn. What keeps the battle raging on?
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
[evil voice] Yesssss, good. The world will soon be dominated by the most insufferable autistics (me).
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Re: that Observer interview with Linehan. The interviewer is clearly desperate to give a sympathetic portrayal (in line with much of British media which frames him as simply a martyr for free speech) but keeps bumping up against the fact that Linehan is clearly obsessive and unwell.
Graham Linehan as portrayed in much press reporting: a well-loved comedy writer who has been cancelled for wanting to protect women's sport.
Linehan in real life: a guy whose obsession with hating and harrassing trans people led to his marriage disintegrating.
Linehan in real life: a guy whose obsession with hating and harrassing trans people led to his marriage disintegrating.
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Re: that Observer interview with Linehan. The interviewer is clearly desperate to give a sympathetic portrayal (in line with much of British media which frames him as simply a martyr for free speech) but keeps bumping up against the fact that Linehan is clearly obsessive and unwell.
I've had a wedding ring for a week now and it's great. It's like a wearable fidget toy.
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've had a wedding ring for a week now and it's great. It's like a wearable fidget toy.
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition as a non-American is watching Thanksgiving episodes of TV shows that were clearly filmed in May.
Actors doing their best "brrrr" and rubbing their hands together in puffer jackets and earmuffs while fighting heatstroke.
Actors doing their best "brrrr" and rubbing their hands together in puffer jackets and earmuffs while fighting heatstroke.
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition as a non-American is watching Thanksgiving episodes of TV shows that were clearly filmed in May.
Actors doing their best "brrrr" and rubbing their hands together in puffer jackets and earmuffs while fighting heatstroke.
Actors doing their best "brrrr" and rubbing their hands together in puffer jackets and earmuffs while fighting heatstroke.
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Five years since I originally posted this on the other place. Mad!
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Five years since I originally posted this on the other place. Mad!
Five years since I originally posted this on the other place. Mad!
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Five years since I originally posted this on the other place. Mad!
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Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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An Escape Room but it's just figuring out how to turn off the light in a hotel room
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
An Escape Room but it's just figuring out how to turn off the light in a hotel room
An Escape Room but it's just figuring out how to turn off the light in a hotel room
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
An Escape Room but it's just figuring out how to turn off the light in a hotel room
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It looks like every Irish outlet (that I've seen so far) has just transcribed a wire services report about the Linehan trial that is *dripping* with anti trans bias, misgendering the victim, calling the teenage victim an "activist" but not Linehan, and eliding the fact that the victim was a child
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It looks like every Irish outlet (that I've seen so far) has just transcribed a wire services report about the Linehan trial that is *dripping* with anti trans bias, misgendering the victim, calling the teenage victim an "activist" but not Linehan, and eliding the fact that the victim was a child
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Father Ted co-creator and anti-trans campaigner Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage after clash outside a conference last year
Anti-trans writer Graham Linehan guilty of criminal damage but cleared of harassment
www.thenational.scot
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Father Ted co-creator and anti-trans campaigner Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage after clash outside a conference last year
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My partner & I are a team when we go food shopping. She takes care of trivial things like whether the items I'm picking up are in-date and actually within our budget.
Whereas I focus on the important part, ensuring that all goods are arranged on the till belt in optimum order for efficient packing.
Whereas I focus on the important part, ensuring that all goods are arranged on the till belt in optimum order for efficient packing.
May 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My partner & I are a team when we go food shopping. She takes care of trivial things like whether the items I'm picking up are in-date and actually within our budget.
Whereas I focus on the important part, ensuring that all goods are arranged on the till belt in optimum order for efficient packing.
Whereas I focus on the important part, ensuring that all goods are arranged on the till belt in optimum order for efficient packing.
We had two young Australian guests at the wedding and they viewed the dancefloor all night like confused anthropologists.
Debrief on day 2 with them trying to explain the concept of Saturday Night by Whigfield and why everyone knows the dance
Debrief on day 2 with them trying to explain the concept of Saturday Night by Whigfield and why everyone knows the dance
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We had two young Australian guests at the wedding and they viewed the dancefloor all night like confused anthropologists.
Debrief on day 2 with them trying to explain the concept of Saturday Night by Whigfield and why everyone knows the dance
Debrief on day 2 with them trying to explain the concept of Saturday Night by Whigfield and why everyone knows the dance
Me: I'm a husband now. I'm going to do husband things.
Wife: Like what?
Me, immediately panicking: Have an affair?
Wife: Like what?
Me, immediately panicking: Have an affair?
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Me: I'm a husband now. I'm going to do husband things.
Wife: Like what?
Me, immediately panicking: Have an affair?
Wife: Like what?
Me, immediately panicking: Have an affair?
It's finally cold enough that I can start wearing my nice, wool overcoat.
I definitely don't walk around intermittently pulling up the collar and lapels, pretending I'm in a spy thriller. What a ridiculous and specific thing to suggest.
I definitely don't walk around intermittently pulling up the collar and lapels, pretending I'm in a spy thriller. What a ridiculous and specific thing to suggest.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's finally cold enough that I can start wearing my nice, wool overcoat.
I definitely don't walk around intermittently pulling up the collar and lapels, pretending I'm in a spy thriller. What a ridiculous and specific thing to suggest.
I definitely don't walk around intermittently pulling up the collar and lapels, pretending I'm in a spy thriller. What a ridiculous and specific thing to suggest.
Our wedding band decided that we should do a conga line down two flights of stairs, out onto the road and back up.
So if you were on Exchequer street and saw fifty people singing Olé Olé Olé led by a sweaty groom visibly worried that some of his older relatives wouldn't make it back up that was us.
So if you were on Exchequer street and saw fifty people singing Olé Olé Olé led by a sweaty groom visibly worried that some of his older relatives wouldn't make it back up that was us.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Our wedding band decided that we should do a conga line down two flights of stairs, out onto the road and back up.
So if you were on Exchequer street and saw fifty people singing Olé Olé Olé led by a sweaty groom visibly worried that some of his older relatives wouldn't make it back up that was us.
So if you were on Exchequer street and saw fifty people singing Olé Olé Olé led by a sweaty groom visibly worried that some of his older relatives wouldn't make it back up that was us.
Okay, the best part of my wedding day was seeing my bride at the bottom of the aisle but the *second best* bit was when I was in the bathroom of the pub and a random guy looked me up and down and then, in the strongest Scottish accent, said "Congratulations big man."
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Okay, the best part of my wedding day was seeing my bride at the bottom of the aisle but the *second best* bit was when I was in the bathroom of the pub and a random guy looked me up and down and then, in the strongest Scottish accent, said "Congratulations big man."
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Form a dragnet.
He'll pop out from wherever he's hiding to protest anything with "drag" in the name.
He'll pop out from wherever he's hiding to protest anything with "drag" in the name.
Gardaí have been unable to locate Enoch Burke after twice calling to his house yesterday to imprison him for contempt of court.
A High Court judge ordered the former teacher's return to prison on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie/6880578t
A High Court judge ordered the former teacher's return to prison on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie/6880578t
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court
Burke was ordered back to prison by the High Court on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Form a dragnet.
He'll pop out from wherever he's hiding to protest anything with "drag" in the name.
He'll pop out from wherever he's hiding to protest anything with "drag" in the name.
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My new book is out next year (literally, it's out on the 1st of Jan)! I've tried hard to make The Grapples of Wrath both a funny mystery book for wrestling fans and a funny wrestling book for mystery fans. If you fall into one of those categories, check it out atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-gra...
The Grapples of Wrath – Atlantic Books
The unputdownable cosy crime mystery set in Brighton about pro-wrestling, ghosts and much murder______________________________‘Come for the spooky humour, stay for the satisfying twists’ Kristen Perri...
atlantic-books.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My new book is out next year (literally, it's out on the 1st of Jan)! I've tried hard to make The Grapples of Wrath both a funny mystery book for wrestling fans and a funny wrestling book for mystery fans. If you fall into one of those categories, check it out atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-gra...
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
Ireland's commitment to our "rats out" philosophy is being sorely tested today.
Gardaí have been unable to locate Enoch Burke after twice calling to his house yesterday to imprison him for contempt of court.
A High Court judge ordered the former teacher's return to prison on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie/6880578t
A High Court judge ordered the former teacher's return to prison on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie/6880578t
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court
Burke was ordered back to prison by the High Court on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ireland's commitment to our "rats out" philosophy is being sorely tested today.