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Trying to be more active online.
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Demented Mole
about 11 hours ago
There’ll be no World Cup then, I’ll tell the children — In Search of a Scrum Philosophy — The Bajada — Props and Game-Time — Backs Rugby vs Forwards Rugby — Boks Tactical Discipline — Emotional Ireland — Bundee's Rugby Mortgage — Lessons from Dev — Going forward
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Molecast #179 | The Molecast
In Search of a Scrum Philosophy
https://shows.acast.com/the-molecast/episodes/692810bacaf6efa703ef1e4e
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The Foggy Jew
3 days ago
Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid
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Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/ladies-football/looking-for-answers-to-case-closed-following-troubling-events-at-a-girls-football-match-in-cavan/a690925722.html
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Demented Mole
8 days ago
Apologies for the poor sound quality on one of the microphones! — Ireland romp against Oz — Paddy Mac arrives fully formed — Sam's highs and lows — Baird's hard yards — Aussie woe — Northampton influence — Delectable Pumas — SA conspiracy
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Molecast #178 | The Molecast
Apologies for the poor sound quality on one of the microphones! — Ireland romp against Oz — Paddy Mac arrives fully formed — Sam's highs and lows — Baird's hard yards — Aussie woe — Northampton influ...
https://shows.acast.com/the-molecast/episodes/691ec9f5cce7a2a56506dd3d
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Ireland playing the basics of wet weather rugby much better than Australia.
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Demented Mole
14 days ago
Skills and confidence ebbing — Lineouts, Attack, Defence, Kicking — Charismatic Strongmen all the way down — Possibles flow while Probables stutter — MacKenzie's Murrayfield Moments — Rassie and Siya's Mentality Monsters strike AGAIN
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Molecast #177 | The Molecast
Support the Molecast by donating at https://ko-fi.com/dementedmole — Charismatic Strongmen all the way down — Possibles flow while Probables stutter — MacKenzie's Murrayfield Moments — Rassie and Siya...
https://shows.acast.com/the-molecast/episodes/6915ad5561157d146c24529d
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zatapatique
15 days ago
The equivalent of what the Americans are going through right now would be me being handed the actual voice recording of DGSE operatives explaining the exact tramadol dose they subreptitiously gave Ronaldo on the evening of 11 July 1998
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Daniel Kibblesmith
17 days ago
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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Demented Mole
21 days ago
Ireland's new normal: good moments, largely stodgy, dodgy set piece — Counterpoint: actually quite good, all things considered? — Ringrose, lineouts, execution errors — Hyper-Rationalisation —Middle-Aged Man yells at cloud — “Friendlies” — Japan Selection
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Molecast #176 | The Molecast
The Molecast is not paywalled, but you can support its production by making a small donation at https://ko-fi.com/dementedmole — Ireland's new normal: good in moments, largely stodgy, dodgy set piece ...
https://shows.acast.com/the-molecast/episodes/690d84de77626ebfbfa2a0d9
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
21 days ago
Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Kahn Lusth
22 days ago
Nan mais y'a un moment quand on charge avec des T'au aussi faut pas s'étonner du résultat
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The Foggy Jew
about 1 month ago
A post on on the Presidential Election - mainly going deeper into the poll numbers, but also some discussion about what each outcome might mean beyond just this election, and thoughts on the broader conversation about democracy.
#Áras25
irishelectionprojections.com/2025/10/21/2...
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2025 Presidential Election
Hello. It’s been a while. Barring one set of projections – that I have as yet been unable to find the time to do a full post for – I know things have been quiet here. This is a co…
https://irishelectionprojections.com/2025/10/21/2025-presidential-election/
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
about 2 months ago
I meant to publish this a while ago but life intervened. But here's some thoughts on baseball and why I like it despite following a bad team.
open.substack.com/pub/brightey...
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Some Thoughts on Baseball
Baseball is something which, like public transportation and lesbianism, I only learned to love as an adult.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brighteyedessays/p/some-thoughts-on-baseball?r=1pwsql&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Nick (derogatory) ✨
about 2 months ago
I always thought it was funny that Za/um chose to give the insane bigot the most cogent argument against the fascism of nostalgia. Man, what a game.
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Coming around to the idea we should just randomly permaban 20% of the site a year. I think it would be healthier if you knew you were gone in a few years most like and it would let people get on with their lives. And if you manage not to get get banned then congratulations God wants you to be here !
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Emily Pawley
about 2 months ago
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
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Sarah Creighton
2 months ago
The Burkes turning up at the DUP Conference to accuse them of promoting the LGBT community is a funny bit, gotta say
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Marwood
3 months ago
6. Mainie Jellett, The Virgin of Eire (1940s)
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
3 months ago
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
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@drjennings.bsky.social
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Marie Le Conte
3 months ago
published my Guide To Reading More Books nearly exactly a year ago so I guess it's time to post it again
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/learning-h...
[free to read!]
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Ian Coldwater 📦💥
3 months ago
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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This would be my read on it, with the caveat I haven't kept up too much on scifi books the last while. I would wager that over the last 10-20 years fantasy has significantly outsold scifi.
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Annika Bärwald
3 months ago
This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇
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Unzoomed #577 5/6 🔴🔴🔴🟡🟢⚪️
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Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
https://unzoomed.com
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Maybe that Joe Schmidt is actually a good coach after all 🤔
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋
3 months ago
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
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Never in doubt Unzoomed #576 6/6 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🟢
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Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
https://unzoomed.com
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Chesto
4 months ago
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Unzoomed #575 3/6 🔴🔴🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️
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Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
https://unzoomed.com
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Bit of a last gasp guess Unzoomed #573 6/6 🔴🔴🔴🔴🟡🟢
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Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
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I need to actually start learning where these countries cities are. Unzoomed #571 6/6 🔴🔴🔴🔴🟡🟡
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Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
https://unzoomed.com
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Unzoomed #570 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
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Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
https://unzoomed.com
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Tamar
4 months ago
The 75% here is an 'absolutely hysterical' view that the 'left/centre' cannot give any oxygen to if it wants to survive, btw
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Punished “Venom” Asphodel
4 months ago
로그 트레이더의 수행원
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Karen Sugrue 🏳️⚧️🌈🇵🇸
4 months ago
“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Demented Mole
4 months ago
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— Molecast Summer Symposium — The Lions Phenomenon — Rugby and Media Landscape — Ireland on Tour — U20s Catastrophe — Espoirs in NZ
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Molecast #171 | The Molecast
Support the Molecast at https://ko-fi.com/dementedmole — Molecast Summer Symposium — The Lions Phenomenon — Rugby and Media Landscape — Ireland on Tour — U20s Catastrophe — Espoirs in NZ
https://shows.acast.com/the-molecast/episodes/688c6d69be8bca0ca23f880e
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merritt
4 months ago
John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good
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The Irish Times
4 months ago
‘I am disappointed in myself for believing we were more than just a number’: AIB staff angered by cut to hybrid working
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‘I am disappointed in myself for believing we were more than just a number’: AIB staff angered by cut to hybrid working
‘Be under no illusions of where we stand and how we are “valued” by the organisation,’ one staff member said
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/07/23/i-am-disappointed-in-myself-for-believing-we-were-more-than-just-a-number-aib-staff-angered-by-cut-to-hybrid-working/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
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Hannah Posts 🍂
4 months ago
I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
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derek guy
5 months ago
late 1800s garment storage. would do spring/ summer one one side and fall/ winter on the other, then just turn each season IG oldhouseadam
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Abby
5 months ago
I wrote about different kinds of medievalism and finding comfort in history during times of crisis. I’m slightly mean to gritty 2010s medieval shows and there are cameos by Pangur Bán and Leonard Cohen.
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The Comfort of History
In times of crises, what comfort can we find in the past?
https://buttondown.com/arobertswrites/archive/the-comfort-of-history/
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Unzoomed #523 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com
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Demented Mole
5 months ago
Bulls neutered — Leinster Forwards just kept rollin’ — “This Means More”? — Paean to Jordie — Sam puts his head where it hurts — U20s slide — The flying Bayonnais
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Molecast #170 | The Molecast
You can donate to the Molecast at https://ko-fi.com/dementedmole — Bulls neutered — Leinster Forwards just kept rollin’ — “This Means More” — Paean to Jordie — Sam puts his head where it hurts — U20s ...
https://shows.acast.com/the-molecast/episodes/6853e8f668b0c25e386e3c14
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Kenny Logins
over 1 year ago
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Garrett Merz
5 months ago
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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