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As we enter the season, remember the most unheralded vegetable of all time, the parsnip .

You'd get less for murder .

Our biggest flaw as a species is not remaining humble in the magnitude of mother earth .

We are into the zone of shit present idea adverts . Now is the time to be at your most vigilant. Don't end up gifting someone a photo of themselves that you've had made into a jigsaw or having gotten a star named after them . A hug is better than these gifts . You're nearly there . Don't buckle .🌲

Way back when these were on the Santa list.

𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘓𝘔 𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘴 + 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘹𝘮𝘢𝘴 🎄 ☃️ 🎁 🎅 ❄️ 🌵 🐫 tr.ee/GildedFestAl... #IrishBluesky #speirgorm #Spéirghorm #musicsky #defythealgorithm #music #christmas #holiday #winter

Buy ~ Things that people have made with their hands. From craft makers . Artists . Painters . Writers . Musicians . Illustrators . Ethical food producers . Give ~ Time to people . To charity. Think less of the self , more of the other . 🌲🎄

Truly, it's half price .

We is pooped .

Bumped into a beautiful dear friend today in a coffee shop. Unbeknownst to me he'd buried his father this week . We did some deep hugs & when he was leaving I said to him " I love you ". A woman sitting beside me smiled at me " That was a lovely thing to see " she said. I replied " Normalise love "

Dublin, drunk on shopping.

As traditional as turkeys running for their lives , my annual chat with @klaher.bsky.social for No More Work Horse . Always a pleasure. nomoreworkhorse.com/2025/12/19/p...

We vote for them less and less every time. When I was a kid FF and FG had 80% support, now it’s less than 50 and they can only retain power by teaming up and drafting in a load of headbanger indos. Their time is coming to an end.

2nd Christmas without me ould man , 3rd without the Mama Bear. Freezing wind blowing down the Liffey this morning on my walk with the baskerville hound. I could hear his voice down the river in my ears , " it's bitter out" . The heart is never so far away.

Republic of Ireland footballer Troy Parrott and double Olympic boxing champion Kellie Harrington are backing a campaign to save a local sports pitch on Dublin's Portland Row

The Dublin Mammy, the Smyth's Stores Santa swag on the back of the buggy. The chisler sleeping in the front, unaware. Were we ever that innocent and beautiful again?

A comprehensive list of my favorite things of 2025 . 1 . We got a dog .

I suppose you can’t have mortgage arrears if you can’t find a house to take out a mortgage on in the first place. It’s 4D Chess.

Many a dentist has put his kids through college thanks to these .

LinkedIn sending me highlight videos . What a world we live in .

How has Norma Foley forged a career?

Tonight at the Dublin Central Branch of the Social Democrats we elected Dublin 1's own Cllr Daniel Ennis to contest the forthcoming By- Election. Powerful energy in the room . Moving forward together.

And Christmas still to come.

Ears pierced while you wait .

Pat Ingoldsby ©️

Vital piece from Gary Gannon. open.substack.com/pub/garygann...

Pat Ingoldsby ©️

I'm doing all my Christmas shopping in 2 places , Books Upstairs and The George's St Arcade . End ..

United left can’t wait for the next election. It needs to build a housing movement

150% this .

Marty with the information nuggets.. today is Don Johnson's birthday.

It's been a good year... youtu.be/NMxg9x-8nk4?...

"It’s harder to date. Harder to think about having children. It’s harder to come to your own conclusions about what you earnestly want from life. It’s harder to realise who you are. It’s impossible to feel as though you are meeting your potential." This week's column, more personal than usual.

A piece written for a generation, or quite possibly two . www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

Europe has its Christmas markets, Dublin has Henry St with tables of Gerry "The Monk" Hutch t-shirts.

Wrapping up a creative year. Took all my music off Spotify. Bandcamp sales raised €1000 for Brain Tumour Ireland in memory of Niall Crumlish. And €585 went yesterday to DEPAUL IRELAND. Released 2 Arrivalists albums, connected with so many beautiful souls yet again along the road . Grateful x .

I'm calling on Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeil to scrap plans to charge people for blister packs, making life even harder for people who take regular medicine. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sc... @uplift.ie #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

I spent the last 2 years of both my parents lives caring for them. Blister packs were and absolute godsend. Imagine we are living in one of the richest countries in Europe and these wizened fucks are planning on charging old people for the privilege. my.uplift.ie/petitions/sc... @uplift.ie

George Michael's Listen without prejudice is a Christmas record in the same way Die Hard is a Christmas film .

Post a photo of the stage of the week you're at .

If you sat JR Tolkien in the Iilac centre for a week Lord of the rings would have been more than a trilogy.

€585 of a donation from my Bandcamp community and extended friends and family went over this morning to DEPAUL IRELAND. From the bottom of my battered heart , thank you all . It will help the most vulnerable at the worst possible time of the year. x .