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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Nov 13
So you feel like buying my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died but aren't sure if it's as good as I keep saying. So here's a few pieces from - and about - the book, which might entice you to buy a copy right now from mammybook.com
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...
Me, My Film, and My Massive Brain Tumor
David Freyne directed and co-wrote a film about death. Then, he learned he had a brain tumor the size of an apple.
time.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
there are books i've loved but can't remember a single line from and then there is this one youtube comment i will recall every single week until i die
September 19, 2023 at 2:43 PM
seamas.bsky.social
People dunking on Glenn Beck for this but it's dazzling to see American conservatives move on from "making up a guy to be mad" at and instead using AI to "make up a weirdly swole, christian George Washington that they're so horny to fuck they should be put down".
rightwingwatch.bsky.social Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 1d
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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paulduane.bsky.social
I was once in a small Soho members club where Richard Littlejohn brought his staff for their weekly drinks, he also forced them all to listen and laugh as he read his latest column to them in its entirety, one of the most humiliating spectacles I have ever witnessed
miles-online.co.uk 🎄Neil Miles (but festive)🎄 @miles-online.co.uk · 1d
Hello, I need the worst Christmas special you have. No that's too bad
Screengrab from a trail for Richard Littlejohn's Christmas Offensive (LWT 23/12/94). The opinionated arsehole is handing a whip to Cynthia Payne
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
mckelvie.bsky.social Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 2d
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
seamas.bsky.social
Can anyone tell me how to reach a HUMAN Ryanair customer service person? Tried every conceivable prompt on their phoneline and chat service, for 3 straight days, and am yet to converse with a human being. Yes, I know this is deliberate. Yes, I know that's the point. But surely there must be A way?
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
seamas.bsky.social
"The Guardian called him a ‘mystic’, and Intel execs commissioned a caricature of him as a many-armed deity, each hand clutching fags and pints."

An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.
thefence.bsky.social The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 1d
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Tamlin Magee remembers his father, Michael Magee, the man who brought Tantra to the UK.

www.the-fence.com/father-of-li...
Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, His Name Chaos
The Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala
www.the-fence.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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gogdog.bsky.social
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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culturecrave.co
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch

"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"

(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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alejandrobot.com
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
May 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
seamas.bsky.social
I been saying.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
It’s weird that Americans call an abrupt departure an ‘Irish goodbye’. If you’ve ever grown stubble waiting for two Irish people to leave each other’s company you’ll know just how bizarre this term is. Whole afternoons of my childhood were spent outside our front door, saying goodbye to visitors. And that’s what this feels like; those extended, clingy little stand-offs we had every weekend as kids, when visitors were ushered out to their car by the entire family. At this point, unless your parents were psychopaths or had started a small fire that demanded their attention, another full-length conversation would kick off, extending their visit by 40 minutes at least. This took place over the roof of the car, or a gate post, and the game was for each adult to make it clear they didn’t want it to end, but without ever being so gauche as to say so. It was basically an extended rendition of ‘no, you hang up’, but for taciturn Irish dads. In the hands of a true master, this parting chat could last longer than the original visit. Fresh rounds of tea would be discreetly placed nearby, at which point all the children would have neatly slipped away to get in some bonus playing.
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
this administration is doing a great job of cataloging demonstrating all the indignities and burdens and pain that can be inflicted on people just on a whim
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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stephencward.com
with alt-text
Ms Carroll-MacNeill told TDs that she has previously raised her concerns about the "divisive debate that seemed to be seeping over from the United Kingdom". "We could see it coming, and I recall speaking with trans people prior to that, who had said to me the sort of fearful things that were being touted at that time, that people were going to come into changing rooms, for example, dressed up as men. "I mean, the nonsense of it. The sheer nonsense of it, we all know that. That a man was going to dress up as a woman come into a changing room for the purposes of attacking me, as though, with all the conversations we've had about femicide in this room, we ever needed a man to dress up to attack a woman? Did you ever hear such nonsense ever? "And did you ever have examples of it from any of the time since the Gender Recognition Act was passed, until this different movement seeped in- somehow- in 2021, 2022 and changed the narrative and made it cruel, and made it cruel for trans people, and I never understood why." She said she "always regretted that it seeped over here", adding that she recognised there was work to be done in healthcare provision for "gender-diverse people", adding that the Government was committed to appropriate pathways for gender healthcare.
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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cathalmalone.bsky.social
My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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gregk.co.uk
I can't help but feel as though all this heat over whether Nigel Farage was a racist bigot fifty years ago is a distraction from the same discussion the press and political class continue to dodge: That the party he leads, right now, is a, racist, bigoted, far-right political party.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5d
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
John Swinney responds to Nigel Farage's 'racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren
www.thenational.scot
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
For years I've told people our family was so big, our christmas turkey had to be cooked by nuns.

In reality, the nuns replaced that turkey with one the size of a hatchback. I swear one year it came stuffed with a cooked ham.

Again, for all these stories and many, many more - hit mammybook.com
Some things about having such a large family are stranger than people even think to suggest. I remember standing with my father in the kitchen of Nazareth House convent, waiting on them to deliver the truly gigantic turkey they cooked for us every Christmas. Officially, they were cooking the self- same large turkey we had brought over, since our own oven was too small to cook something big enough to feed the entire clan. But, in practice, they gave us a brand- new, much larger turkey, bearing little resemblance to our own. The turkey we were... handed by Sister Angela, which had gone in the size of a ruck sack, was now the size of a Fiat 500, resplendent in garnish and trimmings. It was the kind of thing you could imagine being taken out of the oven by a forklift, rather than a kindly nun, but that’s underestimating Sister Angela, a lovely, burly woman from the west of Ireland who had a smile that could melt glass and forearms that bent steel. She was effectively Popeye in a habit, and seemed to enjoy nothing on Earth more than pre paring us a turkey that, once eaten, we could happily strip to the bones and convert into a back bedroom. This subterfuge was, of course, never directly acknowledged.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
As Christmas draws near, I can confirm that one very good gift would be my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died, which is much, much funnier than its title makes it sound.

Here's a little taste, featuring the joys of Christmas with ten siblings.

BUY HERE: mammybook.com
There’s a story my family tells around Christmas. As kids, that time of year was obviously pretty manic, but made more so by the fact each of us fancied ourselves as having prom inent careers in showbusiness. We all sang in choirs at one time or another, and some of us in several at the same time. I was less involved than most, yet even I sang in choirs for at least ten years, and the Christmas period was a time of constant shuttling between different masses or meetings or festive per formances. Most of us were then also in school shows, nativities or orchestra recitals, and in the run- up to Christmas, a few of us even did the fully produced commercial pantos in town. I somehow never made the cut for those things, which I found odd because my kind eyes and easy way with people reminded many of a young Marlon Brando. In any case, quite aside from the rigmarole of cooking and presents and the management of infant expectations that Christmas would demand from a single parent of eleven children, my father was rushed off his feet getting us to and from these various functions, and dealing with the preparations for overlapping performances. Walking through our house over Christmas was like a trip through the Warner Bros. lot in late- seventies Hollywood, only instead of showgirls and spacemen there would be assembled children dressed in their Sunday best, or as shepherds, or in the costume of some brutally crowbarred topical character favoured by school plays at the time. Many will remember my delighted turn as Reuben, the inexplicably French brother in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, not least for my having done the entire thing dressed as Eric Cantona. One of those Christmassy mornings, my brother Shane was singing at three Masses in a row. That’s the 10, the 11 and the 12:15. After each, my dad would talk to a few fellow parishioners here and there, and pick up others of us who were at other Masses or concerts nearby. Owing to the comings and goings, headcounts got twisted, and on the drive back Shane turned round, surveyed the contents of the minibus and noticed that Dearbhaile was missing. She had been there in the chapel after the service, but had obviously stayed too long chatting to a friend and Daddy, understand ably frazzled and depleted, had taken off without realising she wasn’t on board. He turned tail and raced back to the church to pick her up. He was furious. ‘How did none of you notice she was missing?’ he fumed, and everyone felt chastened at their lack of aware ness, imagining her now crying on the steps of the church alone, or worse, in the company of scandalised and judgemental parishioners – or clergy – wringing their hands, apt to be tell ing tales very soon about the poor, rudderless O’Reilly clan, demented by grief, incapable even of counting themselves. When the bus finally reached Dearbhaile, however, she was smiling and happy, and neither in the company of some sour- faced scold among the congregation, nor alone. I was standing there, unmissed, beside her.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
seamas.bsky.social
It's very obvious that if any other prominent politician had been so racist in school that it's haunted 20+ former classmates ever since, it would be treated like a bigger deal. We should examine how and why "still being very racist four decades later" is acting as Farage's protective shield.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
seamas.bsky.social
This article is a perfect example of a gag so obvious you can't believe no one's done it before, but which is also so well executed that my only complaint is that it's not ten times longer. A true Christmas treat.
An interview with Santa Claus formatted in the exact form of Isaac Chotiner's New Yorker pieces. IC: I have to stop you there for a second because you just said something interesting. If you can see into every child’s heart throughout the year, don’t you feel that you have a moral obligation to help them when they’re in crisis rather than waiting for December to give them a Hatchimal? SC: Look, you have to understand that the magic of Christmas is limited. IC: Limited to flying to approximately 2.6 billion Christmas homes in one night and changing your body’s shape to slide down chimneys? SC: I didn’t say it’s not powerful magic, Isaac. I said it’s limited magic.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM