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Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Combine a television title and a movie title. My Mother the Carnage.

TIL that in the UK there’s a “Mexican” food chain founded by a white British lady named Thomasina. I’d like you all to guess what the name of said chain is. Do not spoil it if you know.

The Gen X urge to be sitting in a sand pit playing music for the sad man.

The 1998 Godzilla movie had a scene where a helicopter was being chased through the city, flying level right at the monster’s eye level as it walked behind it on the ground.

Do you have prince Andrew in a can? Yes, yes we do.

If you see this, post a character that starts with S.

Can’t. Flying so high with some guy in the sky.

Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes

College Green and Dame Street public consultation now live here: engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...

Wuppertal is my new favourite small opera house, it’s an Art Nouveau treasure. #OperaSky

Me: I wonder if there's a version of Pádraig Ó Séaghdha's "An Buaiceas" online anywhere? #SpeirGorm #Gaeilge Google:

Reducing - and enforcing - speed limits for ALL vehicles to 30km/hr in urban areas & cameras to detect cars breaking traffic lights would save scores of lives annually, but it might annoy some motorists so instead we get this performative BS from gov’t. www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

The latest @qi.com food podcast features Dublin’s spice bag: pca.st/episode/274d... #speirgorm

The Vettweiß-Froitzheim Dice Tower featured in Legion: life in the Roman army, which began at the British Museum #OTD in 2024. It reads PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LUDITE SECURI, 'The Picts are beaten, the enemy annihilated, let us play without a care'. 📸LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn #medievalsky

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

Timeline cleanse: the Muppet Show, but overdubbed as gaeilge (in Irish)

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Small businesses who only have Facebook as a website, did you know you are losing potential customers who don't use Facebook?

It's like when a dad wins a giant stuffed animal at the fair for his toddler. The kid feels like a superstar walking around dragging that huge bear behind him for the rest of the day, but everyone who sees him knows that two-year-old didn't toss those darts at the balloons himself.

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

Hot buttered whiskey is the best winter beverage.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

The Glasgow union is in the last chance saloon. This is not a drill. Please share far and wide.

Manhattan Peanuts Ltd have taken a judicial review against the Luas Finglas project This is an important time of year for crisp companies… lots of hungry people in pubs Remind them with your wallets that they shouldn’t hold up essential public infrastructure

If a train wore trousers would it wear them like this or like this?

The Corrs and their brother, Enoch. #totp

You want niche? Oh, we got niche.

Whatever spin you may hear from politicians, there are only two actual positions on healthcare. “Universal healthcare that covers everybody,” or “we must protect the huge industry of insurance middlemen making money off of it.”

"there's a new serif in town"

COUNTY PARADE. #LateLateToyShow

You see Captain, it was the 32 County Toy Show vehicular parade that led directly to Irish re-unification in the 2020s. #LateLateToyShow

It's just not the #LateLateToyShow if a 9 year old doesn't sing with the voice of a 94 year old pub singer who looks like they're made out of turf.

This month's Distributed Proofreaders (DP) Blog is a book that was one of the special projects to celebrate DP's 25th anniversary. "Here foloweth a lytell treatyse of the beaute of women." blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/01/o... The book at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77124 #books #literature

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

Anyone else notice that when the Irish press is reporting on someone, often a cyclist or pedestrian, being killed by a car driver, the default stock image is a Garda sign saying the road is closed (to cars)?

Happy holidays to me - my editor at Clarion just told me my #kidlit Advent holiday title, JINGLE ALL THE WAY HOME, has earned a spot on the Indie Bestsellers List! Illustrated by Kathryn Selbert. Available at your local independent bookstore (or wherever books are sold). 🎁❄️🐶🎄📖

So it turns out Skynet’s Achilles’ heel is…poetry?

the only bad part about not having a car inzanelyrejected.printify.me/product/2303...

The significance here isn't that the Pope is groovy or progressive, but rather that the Pope sets the standard for mainstream conservative thought. Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.

Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all. #COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft

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