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Duncan Casey
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Designer of gadgets, start-up builder, geek. Quite bad at quite a lot of things. Science, tech, festivals, rock music, and rugby in no particular order of priority.
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This is poetry.
Cutting from the Irish Times review of Ed Sheeran's new album, Play: "Such cheeky cross-pollination isn’t a first for Sheeran. Let us not forget – we haven’t! – the appalling Galway Girl, which stomped all over Irish traditional music like a thousand Michael Flatleys performing a mass war dance at the gates of hell."
September 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Poetry.
A screenshot from the FT piece analysing Sam Altman's kitchen, with a small section highlighted. The highlighted section reads: "It’s impossible to know whether its oddness is the result of individual human creativity, or is an incoherent mash-up of disparate elements that may look impressive at first glance but doesn’t stand up to any kind of scrutiny. See where we’re going with this?"
May 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Crude, but effective.
A mocked-up inclusion note to accompany a "Claim for a missing tooth". The UK government letterhead sits above a green panel reading "Claim submitted: your reference number TF-230/[random number string]", to which I've (pretty crudely) appended boxes for name, date of birth, and the address of the bedroom to which the claim should be delivered.
March 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Not a great photo, but these are the magic stained-glass windows. Polarising filters, an LED lighting panel, and much, much sellotape makes for a cool nanomaterials & optics demo.
Rainbow colours appearing against a black background, suspended from some frankly crappy cardboard shapes. Outside the lightbox, the frames just contain colourless sellotape, but in the polarising light box you see "magical" rainbows. Ain't physics cool?
March 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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A blue, yellow, and red sign on the beach proclaiming the name of the beautiful Spanish town of Peñiscola. Fnarr fnarr.
January 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Galway bay is showing off again.
Sunset in Galway bay. Golden striations run across the clouds above the sea, with the Burren in the distance. A white, gabled house is in the foreground.
January 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Doing #DryJanuary properly: Guinness Zero, with a Kentucky bourbon chaser. It's like having a diet Coke with your cheeseburger to make the calories vanish.
Managing my post-Christmas drinking: a pint of alcohol-free Guinness, a tall glass of black beer with a creamy white head. Unfortunately for my liver, it's next to a crystal whisky glass and a litre of amber Longbranch bourbon in a square bottle.
January 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Took my daughter to see Royal Blood at Benicàssim this summer - probably the first gig she'll remember. Kiddy rock gigs are the best.
A small girl with blonde curls wearing blue ear defenders being carried by her dad, a 40-something bloke with dark hair wearing a linen shirt. It's dark and the pair are surrounded by a crowd, the girl has a big smile on her face and her right hand in the air, throwing devil horns.
September 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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That merits an unsolicited Dik Dik pic.
A Dik Dik (a small deer with a short snout and horns) stands on the grass by a roadside. It's kinda cute.
September 4, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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A scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail, where a collection of dirty, downtrodden peasants begin screaming "Burn the witch" - because she weighs as much as a duck. It's a fair cop.
August 6, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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#SciCom achievement: unlocked. The Circus of Climate Horrors is at #Glastonbury and open for business.
The Circus of Climate Horrors is a large marquee decorated with the global warming stripes running blue to red. The crew are in steampunk carnival clothes and delivering games of skill and chance explaining climate science.
June 28, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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The aurorae in Ireland tonight have been *spectacular*. Although if the solar storm is this intense, I guess I've absorbed enough rads to glow in the dark myself.
Streamers of light, running purple to green, over trees and a suburban house in Ireland.
May 10, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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It's Wizbit!
A deeply disturbing-looking children's TV character from the 1980s, created by magician Paul Daniels. Wizbit is (loosely) an ambulatory and anthropomorphic yellow wizard's hat with human arms and legs. Don't ask.
January 17, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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I'm a sucker for good marketing.
A can of Original Stormtrooper SNIPA: "Guaranteed to hit the mark!" The can is branded with a Star Wars stormtrooper's helmet with "Born to brew" stencilled on it.
December 11, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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Twitter seems amusingly borked. I wonder who they forgot to pay this time?
A Twitter timeline, showing every posting date as 1st Jan 1970 and no content in anyone's tweets. Oops.
December 9, 2023 at 1:46 PM
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I've been staring at a webcam and ring lamp for 6 solid hours today (relax - I was judging start-up pitches, not launching a podcast) and it's left me with eyes like a Marvel baddy.
Mads Mikkelsen in makeup as Kaecilius from Doctor Strange, with eyes seemingly burned and cratered: purple-rimmed, with the skin of his cheeks looking like cracked concrete.
December 6, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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Your wish is my command. Unusual physics and chemistry questions are always welcome.
Silhouette of a man in a frock coat, bowing and doffing his bowler hat.
November 13, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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What's a perfect album that came out when you were 16?

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The album cover of Foo Fighters "The Colour and the Shape": 7 spheres connected by narrow beams like a molecular model.
November 7, 2023 at 10:18 PM