Such a great Metaphor. 😂 The robot looking creased after the kick, is hilarious!

How I’m walking out of 2025 #SpeirGorm

Out in Dundrum and pleasantly surprised to find Big Bang comic shop has moved just around the corner. Looking good! #SpéirGhorm

Newgrange at Solstice

Sun’s up #SpéirGhorm

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Gary Númenor

The shopping centre car park was BLASTING out the most unhinged piped/background music today #SpéirGhorm

Gil Gerard bowing out at 82 has me reminiscing what a major part he played in my Saturday evenings in 1981.

We've been code switching since the Vikings stuck up a fence in Dublin in 838.

The old band from the Northside of Dublin are back live busking for the festive season but the years are beginning to show their toll … #SpéirGhorm

Today is 2025-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:45 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 02 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack

I braved Bram last night for the launch of the book “Arts Education in Ireland” edited by Jane O’Hanlon and Dervil Jordan in DCU St. Patrick’s. Also caught sight of this library display of Colum children’s books … #SpéirGhorm

What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians

ok, this is my favorite so far:

Share a smile

Hands up if you have ever been in an Irish maternity context where you didn't think "wow, they could REALLY do with at least twice the number of staff in here". Nobody?!

Insert a movie into another movie: Clockwork Orange County

Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland

Celebrate Scottish Comic Book Day open.substack.com/pub/comicsce...

“The Blankety Blank chequebook and pen”

Me when your Bluesky post isn't what I was expecting/hoping for

Your kids watch stranger things season 4 and they are like ‘ohhh Eddie is so fun’ and you are like ‘I WAS LITERALLY A TEENAGER METALLER WHO PLAYED AD&D IN THE 80s AND MY HAIR *ALTHOUGH FINE* NEVER LOOKED THAT GOOD’ I mean it was Ireland so we never had the Satanic panic, but still. Triggering.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Dolphin Hummingbird Vulture Wolf or Coyote (still unsure, probably a Wolf) Pheasant (a few weeks ago. In my mid-fifties. Driving through the back roads of North Dublin, there in a field I saw my first pheasant)

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen Prince Tinariwen Nirvana Public Enemy Television

My BlueSky 2025 Unwrapped is just going to be a gif of me punching the Microsoft authenticator app

I will never tire of this...

Still makes me laugh

15 years ago. ha ha ha ha ha ha, aahhhh, ha ha ha ha ha, AAAAHHH, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA, BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA

“you’ll be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:

Rest in Peace Jimmy youtube.com/watch?v=U7dB...

One time there would’ve been one guy who would’ve been quite enthusiastic about such a text arriving on his screen 🦸‍♂️

A movie that takes place where you're from. There is a historic house in that town named for my great-great grandmother's family.

Me, resting from my timeline on social media these days.

A movie that takes place where you’re from

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed that people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to a legal filing that was released on Friday.

Drop someone bald

Me as your Bluesky therapist:

Apple Bough, by Gráinne Dowling

When it’s 1922 and you think the Irish War of Independence is done and dusted but turns out not everyone is satisfied with the resulting treaty

Eternal comics truths, from a 2006 article in the Hackensack, NJ, Record:

I absolutely LOVE this AI-generated image of Dublin City Hall (read the alt text!) - nice job @dublininquirer.com

Baby Groot, in the window of this flat in the aptly named Vulcan place.

Post your favourite robot character.

What’s your favorite song about the rain? youtu.be/jGsOmKZXDvo?...

Reading any given headline this week like

Reading any given headline this week like

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.