The Looney
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Poems, paintings, dinos and tales
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Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
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From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
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I don’t need a movie about Bruce Springsteen. I need a movie about what the hell happened to the chicken man.
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I don’t need a movie about Bruce Springsteen. I need a movie about what the hell happened to the chicken man.
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in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
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October 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
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Fascinating article with Don McCullin talking about 19 of his greatest photos.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures | Photography | The Guardian
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Fascinating article with Don McCullin talking about 19 of his greatest photos.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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It is a special kind of cruelty to neither own a dog nor have any friends within a commutable distance that own a dog you can visit. There should be state-allocated dogs for petting in such trying circumstances.
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It is a special kind of cruelty to neither own a dog nor have any friends within a commutable distance that own a dog you can visit. There should be state-allocated dogs for petting in such trying circumstances.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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Blood is food for vampires so this scene in Blade is basically the same as when they used to serve chicken curry at a rural Ireland disco
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Blood is food for vampires so this scene in Blade is basically the same as when they used to serve chicken curry at a rural Ireland disco
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Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…
October 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
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Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?
A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.
I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.
I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1
The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?
A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.
I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.
I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
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Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.
Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.
October 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.
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Label Guy "OK so Mariah is doing a cover of an old Phil Collins song with some Irish boyband. Just take a normal photograph. You don't have to make it look like a Caravaggio painting or anything".
Photographer:
Photographer:
Your favourite song was no. 1 in Ireland this week in September 2000: Mariah and Westlife's version of 'Against All Odds' irishnumberones.com/2022/10/27/m...
Mariah Carey ft. Westlife – ‘Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)’
23 September 2000 Like a summit between rival superpowers of souped-up, watered-down schmaltz, Mariah Carey and Westlife meet on Capri in the cheaply-made video for their duet ‘Against All Od…
irishnumberones.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Label Guy "OK so Mariah is doing a cover of an old Phil Collins song with some Irish boyband. Just take a normal photograph. You don't have to make it look like a Caravaggio painting or anything".
Photographer:
Photographer:
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So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?
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Huge news for a particular type of guy
September 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Huge news for a particular type of guy
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If wrestling isn’t real then how do you explain this?
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
September 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If wrestling isn’t real then how do you explain this?
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Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".
August 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".
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Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
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Regarding "speaking ill of the dead" - lying is speaking ill.
September 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Regarding "speaking ill of the dead" - lying is speaking ill.
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Thanks to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for sending me this absolutely gorgeous leabhar on Irish names today. Some absolute stunning names in here.
September 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Thanks to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for sending me this absolutely gorgeous leabhar on Irish names today. Some absolute stunning names in here.
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Graham Linehan is like when the Animaniacs drive someone insane, but then he has to live the rest of his life like that
September 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Graham Linehan is like when the Animaniacs drive someone insane, but then he has to live the rest of his life like that