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Books I picked up in chapters second hand sectionearlier

Released lots of videos and different music this year, which you can find in this playlist among other stuff. From the doomy blues tinged drones of The Broken Path, For Paul -a tribute to Paul McCartney and the slightly alt country singer/songwriter stylings of Spilt Milk youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Christmas is the best time of year to seduce people you fancy because you can entice them with the fact that their chances of finding ham in any given crevice of your body is marginally higher than normal

Quick! Hide the snakes!

Wolf in the morn www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDj...

Lá an Dreoilín shona daoibh Wren Day greetings The Mummers from my home town on national tv in 1964 - they were part of my childhood - "Prince George" is played by accordionist Ned Sheridan who was well known for selling & repairing bicycles his son was in The Bards www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCjJ...

If you do get one of these for Christmas please be a responsible owner and pick-up after them.

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

"Come ... It is time to keep your appointment with The Snowman."

I saw someone posting about red sprites the other day having never heard of them, and I don't know about the rest of you but if I saw something like these in the sky I would completely shit myself www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

This is wild, and seems like it might be related to DMT or maybe it's just a merch tie-in for S2 of Common Side Effects

A short history of mummers, straw boys and Wren Boys www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

www.gov.ie/en/office-of... Tomorrow morning

I've a book out next year, Experts in a Dying Field, a bittersweet ensemble novel about creativity that's ALL MADE UP linktr.ee/expertsinady... In the meantime, if you're looking for presents, OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is still available & is ALL TRUE www.penguin.co.uk/books/315303...

They are defragging the church to speed up the Mass storage

he's making his list checking it twice gonna figure out who's naughty or nice Hercule Poirot is visiting your stately home

My favourite thing this year. A while back I dug a pond hoping for frogs, and eventually we had thousands of them. Now I’m having some building work done which meant filling in the pond. The foreman texted me: “Don’t worry about the frogs. We cut them an escape channel into the field next door.”

RIP Hofner guitar.com/news/industr...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

My piece from Lithub about the walk: lithub.com/how-pretendi...

happy birthday, mothership... 50 yrs old today, december 15th.

Drop A zero. 10k oil painting for only 1k. Perhaps a portrait of newlyweds, a child and their pet , a parent and child immortalised for all time in oil paint

Christmas tunes...

Met this lady while I was hanging up xmas lights outside earlier.

being mostly ignored doesn’t mean your work isn’t good I’m extremely proud of our work ampwall.com/a/tremospher... tremosphere.bandcamp.com/album/satura...

Drop A Zero - A Painters Project

My best friend Dave has made a new web #sitcom called "Totally my bad" which you should watch the first episode of www.instagram.com/reel/DRzh5Pw...

Episode 4 www.instagram.com/reel/DSGQoEn...

Episode 3 www.instagram.com/reel/DSAV3R5...

That time of year...

Releasing new paintings real soon, to get the early bird link to the sale website, sign up to my newsletter mailchi.mp/93bde7ba112f...

New Paintings Dairelynch.com

Christmas tunes...

I witnessed a miracle on my way to work this morning

Watch me eat Christmas sandwiches or read me describing eating Christmas sandwiches (if that’s your thing) www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/12...

My wife @ginalynchart.bsky.social has exquisite original artworks for yiis, for next to nothing!! ginalynchart.bigcartel.com/product/jell...

...we all stand togetherrrr dum dum

"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.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

ICYMI here is the video for "They whirl in the wide above", full of processed footage of trees and light and water and mushrooms and roots and life. Hopefully something of an antidote to the ongoing grimness of the world at large youtu.be/-GgnbNGII20

Eee-leccc-triii-cityyyyyy youtu.be/rhYMz_7eUz0

dairelynch.com New Paintings, ready to ship

Strongly encourage you to check this out for #bandcampfriday, it's only deadly #irishmusic

Here is a #bandcampfriday EOY review of what has been an unusually productive year for me in a variety of genres If you like any of it, use this discount code for an extra 15% off: bluexmas calicojak.bandcamp.com/track/spilt-... Alt country song featuring Miriam Ingram #irishmusic #ireland