Kevin McGee
@jigtime.bsky.social
Dublin. Writer, drummer, fumbler at a tenor banjo.
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
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Children's books don't get the respect they deserve. This one here has managed to distill the very essence, the very core message of every single Irish novel into one easy text!
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Children's books don't get the respect they deserve. This one here has managed to distill the very essence, the very core message of every single Irish novel into one easy text!
I wonder who will win the Oscar in 2029 for playing a conflicted ICE goon.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wonder who will win the Oscar in 2029 for playing a conflicted ICE goon.
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I feel I've an article or two for a newspaper or magazine bursting to come out of me about the current landscape for trans people but don't know how to go about pitching it with publications. Anyone know how?
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I feel I've an article or two for a newspaper or magazine bursting to come out of me about the current landscape for trans people but don't know how to go about pitching it with publications. Anyone know how?
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I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea: From Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
In-person scriptwriting course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Turn an idea for a film into a detailed outline or script. Starts Tues 11 March 2025.
irishwriterscentre.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
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I love this poem,
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love this poem,
I oversold On The Town to a couple of friends, got them really enthused, and then had the longest 90 minutes of my life.
What a movie you recommend to people with enthusiasm but find that few people you recommend it to like it as much as you do?
Me: Probably Prometheus, which has its fans but is objectively, fundamentally flawed. Also Pandorum.
(My non-genre tastes are very conventional.)
Me: Probably Prometheus, which has its fans but is objectively, fundamentally flawed. Also Pandorum.
(My non-genre tastes are very conventional.)
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I oversold On The Town to a couple of friends, got them really enthused, and then had the longest 90 minutes of my life.
I think they’re not doing this because the natural follow-up is about the sailors currently murdering Venezuelan fishermen, and the Democrats have NO INTENTION of prosecuting them.
Shouldn’t every other elected Democrat be posting videos of them telling military members to refuse illegal orders?
Where TF are they? #TheBriefing
Where TF are they? #TheBriefing
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I think they’re not doing this because the natural follow-up is about the sailors currently murdering Venezuelan fishermen, and the Democrats have NO INTENTION of prosecuting them.
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What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
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I wonder if horror movies are a sly nod to the darkness within us all. If so, hilarious
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I wonder if horror movies are a sly nod to the darkness within us all. If so, hilarious
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Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
I have never read an article which so clearly deserves to be a movie. If it’s not on every desk in Hollywood tomorrow morning, I will be astonished.
“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'It was chaos': The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable TV ad
The million-dollar shoot resulted in $74,000 in broken windows.
www.sfgate.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I have never read an article which so clearly deserves to be a movie. If it’s not on every desk in Hollywood tomorrow morning, I will be astonished.
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New discussion: Online Whistle Classes Starting Monday
Online Whistle Classes Starting Monday
Just a wee post to let you know I’ll be running some online Whistle Workshops starting from tomorrow (Monday 24th Nov)😎
thesession.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
New discussion: Online Whistle Classes Starting Monday
Sometimes it feels like editors are putting their reporters in the firing line for clicks.
Variety - VARIETY - has a tv critic who has never seen a single episode of Friends. And who is willing to admit that in print. variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
I Watched Those Eight Unreleased Episodes of ‘Joey,’ Despite Never Watching ‘Friends’ — and They’re Terrible
'Friends' remains a cultural phenomenon, but I never watched a single episode. I watched the final 8 unaired episodes of "Joey" and they are terrible.
variety.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Sometimes it feels like editors are putting their reporters in the firing line for clicks.
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FACT: The fictional character who has featured in the most films is the Invisible Man. He has been in the opening shot of literally every movie ever made.
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
FACT: The fictional character who has featured in the most films is the Invisible Man. He has been in the opening shot of literally every movie ever made.
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In 2000 I went to a party in Dublin that an American friend of mine was going to and had offered to make guacamole for all the guests. The party host said he'd buy the ingredients. My friend had to email him a picture of an avocado
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
In 2000 I went to a party in Dublin that an American friend of mine was going to and had offered to make guacamole for all the guests. The party host said he'd buy the ingredients. My friend had to email him a picture of an avocado
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
Ulysses takes place on Stan Laurel’s sixteenth birthday.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Ulysses takes place on Stan Laurel’s sixteenth birthday.
Feargal Sharkey’s two biggest hits were opposing views of the same marriage break-up, each written by one of the former spouses.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Feargal Sharkey’s two biggest hits were opposing views of the same marriage break-up, each written by one of the former spouses.
My one weird skill is that I can translate pretty much any prose into rhymed formal verse. Is it about to become saleable?
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My one weird skill is that I can translate pretty much any prose into rhymed formal verse. Is it about to become saleable?
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All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
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I believe they prefer to be called Americans
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I believe they prefer to be called Americans
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Brian Simpson.
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Brian Simpson.
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they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
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Wow, he looks just like him!
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wow, he looks just like him!