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Ken Mooney

@kenmooney.bsky.social

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Ireland, gay, knows what it's like to be awake while getting your skull drilled open (thanks brain cancer.) Writer of Godhead, Apocalypse...Whenever, Tackling The Issue et al. Punk shit, tattoos, horror/SF, queer stuff, video games. He/Him.

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Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · Nov 7

IF you are gonna follow me here...

Social media should be SOCIAL.

If this is nothing more than an egotistical marketing study, go fuck yourself. (Try for eight fingers, go on.)

I'm fed up playing nice with the world.

My tongue lives in my cheek.

Pronouns, trans lives & black lives matter.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

I remember talking to a peep once (and this is years ago) who genuinely had such a bad map/geography education and knowledge that they had it in their heads that every English-speaking country in the world were just US states that hadn't been recognised as such yet.

It...was weird.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

Does speak volumes though that, even whomever built the bot/AI (whatever phrasing you want to use) also didn't think that maybe, just maybe, there were other countries and thoughts out in the world.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

The head is a bit all over the place today because of that, and certainly not helped that today is also World Mental Health Day.

THIS IS NOT A BAD THING, I'm just...in a really aware place of where my head is. (It's a weird place.)

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

Today, eleven years ago, finished off radiotherapy on my lovable (shit) of a brain.

Still feels uncomfortably like yesterday; the sunburn-type vibes on my skull, the nausea (oh god, the nausea) and the claustrophobia (oh god, the claustrophobia.)

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

Hah, I thought same myself. The reply looked like a LOT of babbling text (meaning nothing) and when I looked at the profile, seemed to be similar elsewhere too.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

I hate saying/thinking like that and yet....

I'm just prepared to shrug and go "so no matter what, we've an older woman who has worked as a TD and promised a LOT of things, but can't even remember them."

And yeah...not vote at all because of it.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, just like the olden days wherein you make a post about something even vaguely political and you get a lengthy ranty reply about US politics, because the poster assumes that everyone is in their country.

Part of the problem, yo.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 2d

Dude, I'm still trying to catch up on LAST week's books, gimme a chance!!!

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell, neither of these presidential candidates are good enough to get my vote, FFS.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 4d

New Dragula.

Yay.

YAYYYYYYY BITCHES!!!!!!!!! (Middle of the episode now, shush. I SAID SHUSH!)

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, he is burly!

I think it's the face/hair are all very "boyish" or "still in college" type...vibes. Possibly also cos he's so...dumb a character.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 5d

Not like I was going to vote for Jim anyway, but *pauses and takes a deep breath*

WHO THE ABSOLUTE FUCK DECIDED TO PUT THAT MESS FORWARD FOR PRESIDENT?!?!

Everything that's fucking wrong with this country, wrapped into one microcosm

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 5d

No, it's an alternative universe dammit!!!

If you're up-to-date, there's a fancy house in it and when watching the other day was thinking it was Oliver's house in (early) Arrow, so...yeah.

As for Vigilante, bit TOO twinky, but I DO NOT DISAGREE COS OMG!!!

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 10d

Totes gonna still check the page accidentally when I'm just opening my browser and remember what sites to check for the day.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 11d

Based on my own personal experience...

never.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 11d

Oh god.

The initial story was thinking, "family."
Then, seeing we had a kid with special needs, a nurse (and can't remember the dad) the heart broke a bit. My brain kinda figured it would be another son.

A son with mental health issues, punch.

Another son. FUCKingHELL...

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 11d

Fuck fuck fuck.

Bad enough of a murder of three people...and then it gets deeper and deeper and...fuck.

Man charged with murder of three members of his family

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of three of his family members in Co Louth.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 13d

Blade Trinity has a great plot too...

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 13d

Oh, I know.

Some of them are alcoholics too

a cartoon dog is covering his mouth with his hand while smiling .

Alt: Muttley, the animated dog from Wacky Races, laughs.

media.tenor.com

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 13d

Hahaha, it's funny you say "lazy." Based in Dublin, so seeing all the promo for it. And, promo aside, every single person in Dublin is going "but...it's just rugby, or GAA, with extra protection. What's the point."

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 13d

If you see this, repost with a game from the year you were born

An an 8-bit colour beat, Mario jumps at the VERY first block of boxes in Super Mario Bros 1

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 13d

Watched a couple of mere seconds of the pomp and ceremony of the NFL match at Croker.

Wasn't expecting myself to be SO offended and angry at US military (or the implication thereof) bearing guns in Dublin.

After leaving a VERY bad taste in my mouth.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 17d

What if....

The #Rapture actually DID happen, but none of the cunts qualified for it, so got left with the rest of us like the sinners they think we are?

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 17d

Couldn't say it better.

For me, it's the marriage ref. Always felt excluded in a sense, never significantly, but was always that line of separation.

Seeing the numbers (and with other things since) makes it clear that we don't like those lines.

Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social · 18d

I really really really REALLY want the US who love their Irish heritage to see who's after winning #traitorsirl and what this country is really and actually like these days.

Gender, skin colour, you name it. What a fucking statement of trust and faith in people.