Getting the response "You have the sloping forehead of a drunken Tipperary jennet and cart driver" in my next rejection letter.

trying to explain to an alien that you can make a stinky face when music is bad but it’s also normal to do so when it’s good

My school friend meeting my college friend for the first time: “[greeting in outrageous Longford accent]” College friend to me talking out of the side of his mouth Clareman-like in outrageous Clare accent: “Is this lad for real?”

Dealing with the public I’ve a developed a highly sensitive radar for conversation directions that need immediate rerouting “I don’t watch TV or read, I listen to podcasts” [inhales to continue] Me: [starts throat singing loudly]

The Mill, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25803

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

Otis Redding when the subject of tenderness comes up

Fintan there, looking at you like he has you incapacitated in a shallow grave and he’s about to start shovelling

A story that I will tell until I'm blue in the face, that I will ensure is carried down from one generation to the next, is of the sex education class my mother got at school. It's the 1970s in Ireland, so naturally they're being taught by a nun.

This is an unprecedented personal attack on me by David Murphy

The solution to the crisis, same as it ever was, is a massive program of public housing delivery, built by the State, provided to people free or cost-rental or whatever other way you want to manage it. State provision and definancialization. As long as a house is a speculative asset we are fucked.

A friend just sent me on a photo of a Longford Leader article with a photo of me at 11. What a headline.

I think it’s safe to say the person who condescendingly quote-posted me recently, saying I was misguided to believe FF/FG would immediately pivot harder Right after the Presidential election, was wrong. Yes, everything is about me.

Deireadh ag teacht le leaganacha aipe ‘Foclóir.ie’ agus ‘Teanglann.ie’

Good news @jaseomcn.bsky.social just heard on the RTÉ news that there will be a new exhibition about iar-thaoiseach Albert Reynolds opening in Longford

Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank (Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich) from the series Inventions (Inventionen) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/62643

For those keeping count, Simon Harris "took to social media" to decry the shooting of Charlie Kirk the following day. He's gone cycling today, apparently.

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

"This is all written in pen?" "Terrifying how advanced it's gotten"

Me if anyone ever found my diary from when I was 17. “That’s. ..that’s AI”

Not tonight pal

Reading a headline on social media laundering some disgusting right-wing bullshit Link: [paper of record].com Reading a headline that aligns with my worldview Link: clownreport .tv

parents, please keep an eye on your children's sweets this halloween. I was just reading on whatsapp that a child from the area arrived home with an innocent-seeming pack of haribo that turned out to be full of photofits of the infamous yorkshire ripper.

We sent the dog on holidays to North Longford for Halloween. The only time anyone let fireworks off near us was when two of my mates let off a banger on the windowsill to mess with me, but in response my grandfather went outside and fired the shotgun in the air a few times.

The notion that difficult times inevitably lead to rising xenophobia is a myth. What leads to that is politics and media coverage. Difficult times could easily lead to anti-billionaire sentiments instead because they’re the ones actually profiting from your misery - not random asylum seekers.

I just posted the final episode of 31 Murders to Midnight for paid subscribers of patreon.com/sfultra, covering the last seven films of the series. Topics discussed: technicality draculas, japanese horror intersecting with lovecraft, getting blindsided by Child's Play 2 and Dennis Cooper (sort of).

that’s right beg you miserable worm

Always get a laugh out of my mam’s mug selection

Pretty brutal quotes when put side by side

"...back then Halloween would have been more about getting revenge on people, that sort of thing..." says my mother, wistfully

The Irish Times has a “think-piece” written by a registered Arms Industry lobbyist without mentioning that he’s an arms industry lobbyist. #BuyAPaper

An relic from a world that no longer exists and feels so alien that you doubt it ever did

In these dark times When so much is so fucked up And when I need an instant pick-me-up I pull out The image of DJ with the phone charger stuck up his nose There is hope in joy

"Re-enforcing". bsky.app/profile/bloo...

The curry’s coming out in a little metal bowl with a mound of rice on the plate beside it? I know exactly how to eat this. It’s going to cause me no anxiety at all

Watching my father watching a game of 25 after he was knocked out, he's the designated lift of two remaining players

U.S Army officer Col. Steve Gabavics has gone public on his participation in the Biden Administration's "investigation" into the Israeli assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, alleging that the USG softened its conclusions about the murder of the Palestinian American journalist to please Israel.

To a friend, excusing yourself momentarily

Everyone* is James Randi until the ghost stories are broken out and you have to then retire to your childhood bedroom *I’m everyone

Done. Great book. Wouldn’t exactly fill you with hope.

Re-sharing this in light of Sutcliffe's yesterday's Instagram story, which featured an extremely hateful and violent commentary on a ballot paper.

Me when I wasn't planning to go to the pub but I've had a few cans at home

Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest Israeli military restrictions and over 150 settler attacks in the past two weeks have prevented many Palestinians from harvesting this year’s crop. www.972mag.com/olive-harves... @mekomit.bsky.social

FF/FG will listen to the spoiled tally but what they’re going to hear and act on is “Be more racist”

Study for the Human Body (Man Turning on the Light) https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/study-for-the-human-body-man-turning-on-the-light-1974

Partner (Listowel native) watching Nationwide repeat: [briefly excited] Tralee! [superego intervenes] Kip!