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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Nov 13
So you feel like buying my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died but aren't sure if it's as good as I keep saying. So here's a few pieces from - and about - the book, which might entice you to buy a copy right now from mammybook.com
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
Pre-order now:
mammybook.com
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 8h
In all the horrible news Israel & the US generate when they work together, it is instructive that I learn that Israel’s strike on Qatar didn’t even kill the Hamas officials it was allegedly targeting *from an article about how Trump will personally profit from the ceasefire.*
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 22h
An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3h
Hahaha started watching Common Side Effects, the superb new (to me) show from Joe Bennett & Steve Hely & then saw this quote from Hely
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17d
These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.
Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.
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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 4h
I have never related to anything more: Past Bridget is my worst enemy, and Future Bridget a phantasm to whom I owe no fealty.
I envisaged I’d have a job ahead of me the following morning, but that is a problem for future Séamas, who I’ve always considered something of a bore.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5h
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We are standing at the threshold and my daughter is distraught. Four weeks into her new nursery and she’s finding the trip there harder every day. This, despite the fact that said nursery is inside the school her brother attends, a school so close to our house that if I stand in our living room, I’m closer to my kids than I am to our kitchen sink. It’s not merely close but directly opposite. In fact, our doors line up so neatly that, were there ice on the roads, I could skim her there successfully with a single well-placed shove. And, still, each time I depart, she wails like a wartime evacuee, appalled at being on her own. She has developed, as her brother did before her, a strain of homesickness so profound that it kicks in over distances barely measurable by science. In his case, I cited my own rural upbringing, the hour-long trip from school each day, utilising several buses, with a two-mile walk at its terminus. When this failed to impress upon him the concept of relative hardships, I pointed to our bedroom window and told him we’d be right there. Sadly, he took this so literally that any time he looked up at our window and didn’t see us, he was devastated, since he had taken those warm words as a commitment to surrender all other responsibilities and stand at the window of our bedroom, engaged in the legally inadvisable practice of staring into a primary school for eight hours each day.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5h
My 3yo daughter leads to my discovery of the quantum theory of homesickness: missing us while attending a nursery 15 feet from - and directly opposite - our front door.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
‘My daughter gets homesick when she goes to nursery – opp...
More surprising still are the random objects she clings to for emotional support
observer.co.uk
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5h
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We are standing at the threshold and my daughter is distraught. Four weeks into her new nursery and she’s finding the trip there harder every day. This, despite the fact that said nursery is inside the school her brother attends, a school so close to our house that if I stand in our living room, I’m closer to my kids than I am to our kitchen sink. It’s not merely close but directly opposite. In fact, our doors line up so neatly that, were there ice on the roads, I could skim her there successfully with a single well-placed shove. And, still, each time I depart, she wails like a wartime evacuee, appalled at being on her own. She has developed, as her brother did before her, a strain of homesickness so profound that it kicks in over distances barely measurable by science. In his case, I cited my own rural upbringing, the hour-long trip from school each day, utilising several buses, with a two-mile walk at its terminus. When this failed to impress upon him the concept of relative hardships, I pointed to our bedroom window and told him we’d be right there. Sadly, he took this so literally that any time he looked up at our window and didn’t see us, he was devastated, since he had taken those warm words as a commitment to surrender all other responsibilities and stand at the window of our bedroom, engaged in the legally inadvisable practice of staring into a primary school for eight hours each day.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5h
My 3yo daughter leads to my discovery of the quantum theory of homesickness: missing us while attending a nursery 15 feet from - and directly opposite - our front door.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
‘My daughter gets homesick when she goes to nursery – opp...
More surprising still are the random objects she clings to for emotional support
observer.co.uk
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 8h
Oh yeah I think I read about this being a possibility in DUH DOY Magazine
My wife and I had couples therapy on TV. It nearly wrecked our marriage
After Jessica and I received expert counselling from the hit show Couples Therapy, I became public enemy number one. Here’s what didn’t make it to the screen
www.theguardian.com
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d
Also keep an eye out for the one that has a gloriously self important afterword from Aubrey superfan Charlton Heston where he all but says "if I was a legendary British naval commander, and I absolutely could have been, I would have been exactly like this one".
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d
Have read all the way to 20 over the years, but have never been able to bring myself to read the last one. Absolutely peerless stuff. Ready to start from the start again soon. Just let the bits about sails glide right over your eyes.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2d
Ha, yes I think it was specifically that he reminds me of a non-speaking character they'd gone out of their way to present as so Northern Irish that you wouldn't even need to hear his voice to get the gist.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 3d
I did the cover drawing and a quadrillion* interior illustrations for the new issue of The Fence, on sale now. (*number of illustrations may be exaggerated for rhetorical purposes. No responsibility is taken. Contents may settle in transit)
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 3d
Issue 26 is here 📸

With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more

www.the-fence.com/shop/
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3d
Once again, the best we've ever done, by the best to ever do it, on sale now for, by some distance, the best price in British publishing.
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 3d
Issue 26 is here 📸

With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3d
I have been studiously kind and wise in not engaging. Did feel like replying to a few with the Wikipedia page for "character limit" tho.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d
“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.
Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3d
I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3d
I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 4d
Keith Urban just trying to go about his goddamn business.
Image shared by Geoff The Toking Mongoose with the following alt text: AEW wrestler Orange Cassidy sitting on a chair with his feet up playing with a rubix cube while other AEW wrestler Thekla does her trademark spider pose where she arches backwards and walks on her hands and feet while looking at Orange
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 4d
this bong rip is for you boys. cheers on the frameworks
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Nature @nature.com · 4d
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
A Nobel medal
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5d
Guy I used to play football with claimed his uncle had been in the IRA (not, in itself, a major bit of news where I'm from) but had to quit after a bombing he did that left him with no outward signs of trauma, save the fact he had to "eat all his meals standing up" (a dazzling additional detail).
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 5d
Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?
A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 5d
Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?
A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 4d
Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”
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