Darren Leathley
@dmleathley.bsky.social
From Yorkshire, in Dublin.
Leeds United Bielsa widow. #lufc
Films, music, crosswords and other puzzles, #CalendarMaths, swimming, beer, stuff.
May contain puns.
Professional data wrangler. Won't fit all your concerns in a CHAR(300).
Not an owl.
Leeds United Bielsa widow. #lufc
Films, music, crosswords and other puzzles, #CalendarMaths, swimming, beer, stuff.
May contain puns.
Professional data wrangler. Won't fit all your concerns in a CHAR(300).
Not an owl.
SWIM REPORT
70 lengths / 1.75 km / 1.09 miles
Late leaving home, so drove - nowhere to park on the street 😬
Eventually parked, in the pool at 8.40
Swam more or less constantly for 50 minutes
One faffer, one bloke taking a rest in my lane, one French woman taking exception to bloke... I just swam.
70 lengths / 1.75 km / 1.09 miles
Late leaving home, so drove - nowhere to park on the street 😬
Eventually parked, in the pool at 8.40
Swam more or less constantly for 50 minutes
One faffer, one bloke taking a rest in my lane, one French woman taking exception to bloke... I just swam.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
SWIM REPORT
70 lengths / 1.75 km / 1.09 miles
Late leaving home, so drove - nowhere to park on the street 😬
Eventually parked, in the pool at 8.40
Swam more or less constantly for 50 minutes
One faffer, one bloke taking a rest in my lane, one French woman taking exception to bloke... I just swam.
70 lengths / 1.75 km / 1.09 miles
Late leaving home, so drove - nowhere to park on the street 😬
Eventually parked, in the pool at 8.40
Swam more or less constantly for 50 minutes
One faffer, one bloke taking a rest in my lane, one French woman taking exception to bloke... I just swam.
Rename it The Den
T1: Zig
T2: Zag
Cooooooo-el!
T1: Zig
T2: Zag
Cooooooo-el!
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Rename it The Den
T1: Zig
T2: Zag
Cooooooo-el!
T1: Zig
T2: Zag
Cooooooo-el!
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*playing guess who with werner herzog*
werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards
me: yes
werner herzog: is it clive
werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards
me: yes
werner herzog: is it clive
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
*playing guess who with werner herzog*
werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards
me: yes
werner herzog: is it clive
werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards
me: yes
werner herzog: is it clive
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Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
I following? Predictive keyboard gone to shite, again.
It's happened again. I'm now aware of the name of yet another terrible (probably American) journalist/propagandist, courtesy of a journalist I following reposting something saying 'look at what that terrible journalist/propagandist has done now!'
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I following? Predictive keyboard gone to shite, again.
It's happened again. I'm now aware of the name of yet another terrible (probably American) journalist/propagandist, courtesy of a journalist I following reposting something saying 'look at what that terrible journalist/propagandist has done now!'
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It's happened again. I'm now aware of the name of yet another terrible (probably American) journalist/propagandist, courtesy of a journalist I following reposting something saying 'look at what that terrible journalist/propagandist has done now!'
25.11.2025 ➡️ 25 × (1 + 1) = (2 + 0) × 25
#CalendarMaths
#CalendarMaths
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
25.11.2025 ➡️ 25 × (1 + 1) = (2 + 0) × 25
#CalendarMaths
#CalendarMaths
Do the end of The Great Escape on him. Wish him good luck, but in Russian. #ThePolitics
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Do the end of The Great Escape on him. Wish him good luck, but in Russian. #ThePolitics
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1716
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1716
Amorim "has turned this football club around, again" #TheFootball
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Amorim "has turned this football club around, again" #TheFootball
49 years? That's marginally longer than I've been alive. You're still a big racist, Nigel - evident in 2016, evident many times since. And many times before.
Отвали, ублюдок.
Отвали, ублюдок.
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
49 years? That's marginally longer than I've been alive. You're still a big racist, Nigel - evident in 2016, evident many times since. And many times before.
Отвали, ублюдок.
Отвали, ублюдок.
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In Ireland, there are 122 landlords with 101+ tenancies. A further 130 with 50-101 tenancies. There is quite literally no need for anyone to own that much property.
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In Ireland, there are 122 landlords with 101+ tenancies. A further 130 with 50-101 tenancies. There is quite literally no need for anyone to own that much property.
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But today is also the 30th anniversary of an absolute triumph: this marvellous speech that did the rounds after The Great Gambon’s death, which he gave at the Evening Standard Drama Awards in 1995
Sir Michael Gambon - 1995 Evening Standard Drama Awards
YouTube video by Pip
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
But today is also the 30th anniversary of an absolute triumph: this marvellous speech that did the rounds after The Great Gambon’s death, which he gave at the Evening Standard Drama Awards in 1995
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The power of Ian Wright
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The power of Ian Wright
24.11.2025 ➡️ 24 + 11 = (20 × 2) - 5
#CalendarMaths
#CalendarMaths
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
24.11.2025 ➡️ 24 + 11 = (20 × 2) - 5
#CalendarMaths
#CalendarMaths
(Sid James-like guttural laugh)
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
(Sid James-like guttural laugh)
International Brighton Thing #PlaceASong
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
International Brighton Thing #PlaceASong
F1 seems more like WWE these days.
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
F1 seems more like WWE these days.
23.11.2025 ➡️ 23 + 11 - (2 + 0) = 2 ^ 5
#CalendarMaths
#CalendarMaths
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
23.11.2025 ➡️ 23 + 11 - (2 + 0) = 2 ^ 5
#CalendarMaths
#CalendarMaths
Gone to watch Sisu: Road to Revenge again. The joys of a cinema membership. I'm sat three seats to the left of where I watched it last night. #FilmSky
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gone to watch Sisu: Road to Revenge again. The joys of a cinema membership. I'm sat three seats to the left of where I watched it last night. #FilmSky
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Shabana Mahmood is an awful character.
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Shabana Mahmood is an awful character.
Wrote about Sisu: Road to Revenge
I might go see it again tonight, for want of anything else to see (seen most other films that are out, Wicked For Good can wait for fulfilment of parental obligation, promised after the first one)
#FilmSky
boxd.it/bNsccj
I might go see it again tonight, for want of anything else to see (seen most other films that are out, Wicked For Good can wait for fulfilment of parental obligation, promised after the first one)
#FilmSky
boxd.it/bNsccj
A ★★★★ review of Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)
The original Sisu was one of my favourite films of 2023 - a giddy blast of war comic-style excess, introducing Aatami Korpi, a one man army, who is "not immortal, he just refuses to die." A sequel was...
boxd.it
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wrote about Sisu: Road to Revenge
I might go see it again tonight, for want of anything else to see (seen most other films that are out, Wicked For Good can wait for fulfilment of parental obligation, promised after the first one)
#FilmSky
boxd.it/bNsccj
I might go see it again tonight, for want of anything else to see (seen most other films that are out, Wicked For Good can wait for fulfilment of parental obligation, promised after the first one)
#FilmSky
boxd.it/bNsccj