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Richy Craven

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Half man, half-wit. Dublin, Ireland. I have a book. https://linktr.ee/richycraven

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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%.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 2h

There should be more comedy novels published and also everyone should buy my comedy novel.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · Aug 15

with your help we can change this

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 17h

The whitewashing begins, I actually think a big driver for this ‘peace’ deal was to protect Israel from total ostracisation on the global stage, they should still be punished and made to account for their genocide

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17h

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

www.rte.ie

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Cage from National Treasure
"I'm going to steal the Cliffs of Moher"

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 19h

If they have to exist then they should be eccentric and fun.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 19h

So strange all right.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 19h

Oh good shout. Thanks.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 19h

The worst thing they can say is no.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

Gotta respect the grift, of nothing else.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

Like, I didn't realize that the Lord Lucan who disappeared in the 70s for example was the Earl of Lucan in Dublin.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

Has anyone ever met an Irish peer?
I feel like my knee-jerk reaction to someone telling me they're the Lord of Meath or whatever would be an (admittedly lazy) Irish Republican equivalent of a werewolf seeing the moon but I can't say I'm not fascinated.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

Some still own the land, or part of the land, in their hereditary estate privately like Lord Mount Charles and Slane Castle.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, that's another layer. There are the ones like, the Lord who recently passed that owned Slane castle, that still own large tracts of land in the hereditary estate privately.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 21h

The more I read about it, the more genuinely confused I get. The Irish State obviously doesn't recognize the titles and no new peerages can be created but the ones that existed still get passed down through families so there's still (I think?) a hereditary Duke of Leinster, for example.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 21h

A weird rabbit hole I've fallen down is Irish Peerages. There are way more Dukes & Earls of Irish estates knocking about than I thought, even if they're just in-name-only these days.

Like, there's an Earl of Cavan, which sounds like a slang term for someone who's particularly cheap.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 22h

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Craig Connick @swoopersonic.bsky.social · 1d

A View to Achill

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 22h

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Sean Murphy @mrtaytohead.bsky.social · 1d

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 23h

We all know if it were possible to steal the Cliffs of Moher they'd be on display in the British Museum.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 23h

Not any more, they don't.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be honest. My first thought, as a rugby fan, was to go down to Thomond Park and steal an incredible international player from Munster and bring them back to Leinster but I remembered that we already did that loads.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

I have gone on record that a thing that completely short circuits all of my higher critical brain functions is seeing voice actors do their characters live.

I am immediately a child again.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

Dog keeps barking at the postman no matter how many lectures I give her on not conforming to harmful stereotypes.

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