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POV: You are watching TV in 1994 as my grandfather tries to use the remote to increase volume but pumps up the contrast instead.

Son just stopped his electric toothbrush, said “Freestyle!” and kept brushing.

Remember Disney is still high on the #BDS campaign from Palestinians, being a priority target along with Axa, HP, Sodastream, Dell, Siemens, Reebok and others.

What’s the goalie daein’ Tom? What’s the goalie doin’?

Cian McPhillips' family have expressed their pride in their son following his fourth place finish in the men's 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo

Lá breá le haghaidh máirseála ar son cearta teanga

My Leaving Cert English teacher’s son is in the world 800m final. Always knew I was destined for greatness

Saw Stephen Collins on the street today. Jarring to see the head without a headline crafted to spike my blood pressure beside it

This is kind of the official position of the German state

Jesus should come back

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Son has taken to putting on KFM in the evenings. The children crave ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’ by Crash Test Dummies

Watching Gaza City high rises be levelled this week while thinking of this line that I overheard an Israeli tour guide say in late July:

Jack B Yeats should’ve got an Olympic rings tattoo

-This is bollocks. -Even if they do something that turns out to be actually necessary and useful, they’ll still be the same pain in the arse all glasses are. -This is something they can presumably fix, but these specs on him, look like shit.

Picked up something important from the archive

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

reading is about seeing a painting referenced in the text, looking it up and saying ‘nice’ to yourself

Reading this book. My brain kept telling me the cover was similar to Relationship of Command, so I eventually looked and it’s not, really. In spite of the evidence, the brain persists.

“Edit button please”, 1852

"political violence has no place in society, except in all the ways it's absolutely integral to our society"

Seeing cogs of the imperial core posting "political violence has no place in our society" almost two years into a genocide they've been aiding and abetting. Man, fuck you.

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

War-readiness lines being spun out of the same head that you can’t see without thinking of relentless Dublin supremacy. Yes, I’m coping here. . seething also

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Oh, you want an aspect of the drawing you commissioned changed from what I’d recommend to something worse? No worries. Now you don’t like that even though it’s been done in pen? Sound.

Everything you need to know about the western press: Reuters called its own camera a “Hamas camera” because Israel called it a “Hamas camera” after they bombed the Reuters camera.

I'm an immigrant, and I reckon theres a chance I'd know more about Ireland's culture over the millennia than Maria Steen. One important aspect of Irish culture is that it isn't a static fossil. It changes & flows, absorbing from other cultures at the same time as others adopt Irish culture in turn

DUBLIN! FREE BOOKS! #SpeirGorm Outside 17 St Clement’s Road, Drumcondra. Apparently another skip is coming with more books tomorrow, too. Today’s was much lit crit, religious studies, Irish & museums.

Can’t believe* I get to use this again *I can believe it

bsky.app/profile/noch... If you want to see this quilt (and lots of other equally fantastic work), you should head to the Irish Guild Of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers' 50 Years On exhibit in the Lexicon Library in Dun Laoghaire before September 19th.

“The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab & other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past 2 years.” This is what solidarity looks like

Bosch never produced a triptych as unsettling as this

It's not like Radiohead haven't been asked nicely over and over and over again to stop being bastards about this, for years, and their response is always condescending bullshit www.nme.com/news/music/b...

Surely the worst ellipsis in pop

A copy of Tarry Flynn went for €13,000 today. Actual copy produced in court case where Kavanagh denied he and Brendan Behan had been friends, upon which was exhibited the inscription: "For Brendan, poet and painter, on the day he decorated my flat, Sunday 12th, 1950."

Fucking hell

Lighting a candle for hypertension

If Starmer is seen playing 5-a-side in that Donegal top again someone should tear it off him

“Where would they have been in 1916?” Geldof

They can do as they please , no sanctions, no repercussions. Germany, US, UK etc will just turn a blind eye or issue another vacous statement but do absolutely nothing. Issue sanctions, expel them from International sports, make them the pariahs that they are.

there's a powerful moment of human connection I feel when I learn about a big mountain and I find out the name translates to "big mountain"

My kids interacting with a deadbot generated from who I’ve presented myself as online: “Who the fuck is this guy?”

Three hand-drawn pieces for the @dublinmaker.bsky.social event this weekend, celebrating traditional crafts and Irish makers, and the process of creating. They're also available as prints here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...