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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 1d

It's weird to be so happy and proud for someone I've never met, but here we are

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 1d

I would buy one. UK size large, US size medium. Let me know where to send the money, please

davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, I'm so impressed. Your place looks terrific! And it's always fascinating to me to see how folks live in other countries.
Good job and best wishes

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 2d

I hear there's a popular new restaurant in Cork that is getting a lot of attention. Never change, Corkans, you're the best!

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

Even I know that those are fighting words

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

Kylemore Abbey looks great

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

We'll be in Dublin for at least 3 days. That looks like our kind of place

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

I'm really hoping we can make it to Newgrange after watching the Solstice? Sunrise last year

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

simply appreciating beautiful scenery. Call me shallow. I've been called worse 🙂💚

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davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

Is the Ring of Kerry worth our time? I hope that doesn't sound horribly insulting, but from what we could tell, it seems like not much more than a pleasant drive through the countryside. What are we missing? We like visiting old buildings and museums and other interesting historical sights more than

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ScaryMary Hinge🎃 @maryhinge.bsky.social · 4d

share TF out of this 🚀

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

This clap-back is 🔥

“You think my self-worth is determined by your opinion of me when in reality I know for a fact that I was better than you the day I was born.”

"Your grandparents were born on third base, mine were born in the parking lot but still managed to score before you.” Holy shit!

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Lynnie @lynnie3.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes you have to take a deep breath and count to 10; realize you wouldn’t look good in prison clothes and walk away.

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𝖼𝗋𝗄Ⓥ @crk5.bsky.social · 6d

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 6d

A newer #painting for you. "Roscommon Bog", finished only a few weeks ago, came out of a lifetime of enjoying the bogs in the middle of Ireland. Many of my earliest days of cycling involved 200 km loops out into the bog of Allen. This painting came out of a later day. #ArtYear #Scape #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. The horizon is very high, about one sixth from the top of the painting and everything below it is the bog. The bog is rendered in horizontal bands of varying widths and hues of purples and oranges, giving a warm rusty effect overall punctuated by dark bands. Loosely the bog gets lighter the further away it is, but the immediate foreground is lighter than the next band, and between them is a bright horizontal puddle, in shades of very pale blues and yellows as it reflect the sky. About two-thirds of the way up is a very narrow horizontal strip running the full width of the painting, of pale grass growing. Beyond the bog along the horizon sits a gently undulating landscape of a distant patchwork of very pale green fields with pale blue-green hedgerows, trees and bushes. The sky is a very pale smokey blues and teal. Signed in blue in the bottom right corner, Liam Daly

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go.

They think he's an idiot and a buffoon.

Because that's what he is.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 7d

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7d

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.

It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.

Always punching down

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7d

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 8d

Ah here, have another #painting. "Ormond Quay" was done 3 years ago. I based it on a lifetime of loving Dublin City's quays. I like buildings, squares, rectangles, right angles, that sort of thing, and my head is full of them all the time. Sometimes they come out like this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in ink lines, water media and white gel pen. Terrace of 6 narrow buildings, with the leftmost having 5 stories but each of the rest 4 stories and 2 bays wide with shop fronts at street level. They are all different shades of orange and pink with brick indicated sometimes, except one building in the middle which is white over a dark blue shop front of three narrow dark arches. The building at the left end has balconies at the corner windows on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors. Roofs are slate of blues and purples. The river stone wall runs across the bottom in purples and greens and greys with isolated stones highlighted by solid shape or outline in black or white. The river is purple brown green blue sort of. Roofs are blue or purple slate. Windows mostly black. The tops of cars and vans can be seen between the river wall and the shop fronts. Sky is left blank white. Signed bottom right Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 9d

"Portrush Station", a #painting from a time I spent on my bicycle in Ireland's Antrim coast. After starting the day in Derry I cycled by Lough Foyle and Magilligan and around Binevenagh. I was sick when I reached Portrush so conked out and the next day walked around and painted. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format, loosely painted in acrylics on mat board. Street with maroon surface runs from bottom bending away to right. On left is green 4-story hotel building with yellow detailing and seven peaks in roof accommodating 4th floor windows. Five more 3-story retail buildings complete terrace to its right until it bends and is obscured by building on right side of street, a half-timbered white and black mock tudor tower with clock and weather vane. Lower parts of tower are red brick with wide arched window below a small horizontal one. Square wooden planters mark right edge of street in foregound with shadow side of bluck planks facing street, and sunshine sides facing viewer of bright green. White railings run down centre of street, with segments of blue shadow caused by planters to their right. A three-light lamp-post on left is tallest structure. Sky is unclouded blue albeit painted in a smokey style with hints of red breaking through. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly

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Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 9d

Try it!

Keith @shrillockholmes.bsky.social · 9d

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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 10d

A little more about why I can’t
just “go out for a walk” by myself.
Some people have suggested I go
outside more even just for a short
walk on my own. I know they
mean well, but I need to explain
something important. 🧵1/5

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 10d

A #painting from a happy time. "Derryreel 4" is a north County Donegal work of the hills that were directly behind the cottage where I briefly lived with my little American dog. This is the far side, where we would walk through the bog on an old railway line. #ArtYear #MountainMonday #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in heavily textured acrylics on mat board. Under a sky of white and grey is two hills, brown with on the hill on the right a couple of stand out straight edged green fields and on the golden brown hill on the left a small wooded plantation rendered as dark green with blue blobs, also in an area with straight edges. The foreground is a yellow-green field with a stone wall around it, and along the bottom an orange field with dark blue showing through the broken brush strokes. Due to the heavy texture there is a lot of broken colour throughout the painting.

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