I know someone whose family home in Dublin was used for a scene in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold back in the 60s. Richard Burton played football with him and his friends on the street, and he and Liz had a drink in the local pub with his parents. How lovely is that.

Why did God decide to bless me again with acne in my 40s?

Met an auld lad earlier who told me his family dog ran out on to the set of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) during filming in Smithfield, Dublin, and his family all went to see it to see their dog on the big screen.

Left Twitter over 2 years ago, and delighted to have done it, but I do miss retweeting this whenever the mood would strike me

My diagnosis is that these people are saps

The Waugh to end Waugh A fine heading over a review of a fat book on Evelyn Waugh in the Irish Times back in the '80s (probably a review of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory). And yet, though I have looked in the archive, I cannot now find what I once beheld with my own eyes.

Of all the kickings I ever did have I got them in the Northside suburbs 🎶

Did you read this Kelly Earley piece about just how much safer things are, it's v good kellysrubbish.substack.com/p/is-dublin-...

My pet theory on that is that lads that felt safe going pretty much anywhere as teenagers/20 somethings/30 somethings are feeling the effects of age and don't feel as safe, but can't see that the call is coming from inside the house.

Next thing I'll get knifed.

I keep meeting people from the Northside suburbs who tell they're afraid to go into the City Centre. It's so at odds with my experience, I still maintain it's safer or at least feel safer than when I first started hanging there in the 1990s.

Sometimes I go to a different Lidl just to feel something. Aungier St is the best one in the area.

Walking around Dublin listening to REM is good for men's mental health. That's a secret those fat cats in big psychiatry won't divulge.

Truke-tarán na hÉireann

President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

170 schoolgirls are its enemies.

It was Ruth Jones and she was lovely and is an absolute babe. If she were French they'd call her La Renard etc.

I met my 20 year long absolute number one celebrity crush last night and to say fumbling happened doesn't even cover the scenario.

I get confused everytime i hear a football pundit mention Benjamin Sesko

The cognitive dissonance of meeting someone somewhat younger than you who doesn't know memes.

Some guy told me to get the fuck out of his way earlier on Capel St. It did not go the way he expected.

All I've ever really wanted was an

With the Athmospheric Railway to follow post-2030

More money than sense, and I don’t have a lot of money

Ireland should invest in reinstating the Howth Summit Tram, Bray Head Cable Car, and the Lartigue Monorail.

I need new earphones but the lad in the nearest shop that sells them tried to fatshame me one time when I returned a faulty pair. Fuck that guy.

One of the funniest things about midlife crisis is Ancient Egypt. Once it gets its claws into you you don't want to know or care about anything else.

Sometimes I get the impulse to go away for the day, but what's the point? I'm just going to feel like shit somewhere else that is less close to my bed.

A rare trip out to Slateford to see CMAT. Total class.

When I didn't WhatsApp you back I had a lot going on, when you didn't WhatsApp me back you're a disgusting indolent parasite.

Did anyone ever give you back that USB stick?

I love when past me leaves present or future me a banana. Potassium premonition.

Oh jfc...

Insanely massive moon on the horizon will devour us all, God willing.

Who was the best footballer in the Gamma Quadrant? Wayoun Rooney

Heard this plummy accented English lad saying earlier "When you told me we were going to Matt The Thresher's, I thought we were having dinner in a goth nightclub."

Heard this plummy accented English lad saying earlier "When you told me we were going to Matt The Thresher's, I thought we were having dinner in a goth nightclub."

How hungry am I?

It's Bandcamp Friday today, folks!

Why do the Yanks talk like they're promoting some x-treme new flavour of Mountain Dew and not openly and unapologetically committing war crimes for all the world to see?

On a typical day in Galway city, you step outside your front door, immediately dodge a unicyclist, greet your fire-eating neighbour, roller-skate to work in the giant papier-maché heads factory, narrowly avoid becoming part of a druidic dance troupe, then end up in a drum circle anyway

I know Turkey is a big country but funny seeing ads for holidays there. Do people know it borders Iran?

That Paddy Power Cheltenham ad is the most abysmally unfunny and depressing shit ever.

Normal service is resumed. @wildstate.bsky.social weather, you're solely responsible.

Amazing how many people cannot spell the word tongue.

‘Going to eat a box off maltesers’ Did you mean of…? Lola: no

I really hope the chicken i just put in the oven hasn't gone off. See, this is why I can't live alone.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

I'm still not over Mr Kipling being approximately my own age. Fuck that.

I feel about as useful as Emirati Air Defences.