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Richy Craven

@richycraven.bsky.social

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Half man, half-wit. Dublin, Ireland. I have a book. https://linktr.ee/richycraven

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · Nov 27

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 8h

I am one minor inconvenience away from being the subject of a true-crime podcast.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 9h

I've great news. It's there already as my pinned post.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15h

One day, when I am far enough away from the event that thinking about it no longer causes me psychic damage, I will talk about how I tried to describe the thread to an increasingly confused Dr. Marie Cassidy, former Sate Pathologist.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you Serena!

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 15h

I migrated the thread over here and It's my pinned post. Maybe wait until Christmas though.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 16h

Again, I'm reminded of the time that I went into the student bar at UCD when the Young FF society were having some sort of event and, in my memory, they all just turned to look at me, simultaneously, silently and unblinking, until I slowly backed out.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 16h

I can believe that young people need to be more active in politics *while also* thinking that everyone I've ever met from the youth wing of a major political party was a weird freak.

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 21h

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Geoffrey Card @rangutang.bsky.social · 23h

LOL weird juxtaposition of sincerity and comedy in my feed 🤣

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 16h

I got drunk on two bottles of wine, wrote a rambling thread about getting a cheap turkey from M&S at Christmas which led to me, amongst other things, getting an agent and a book deal.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 19h

I'm reminded of this scene I wrote in Darth Vader, which is born of me pitching "Okay - the reason Droids don't generally beat humans in Star Wars is they don't have blood, as that's where midichlorians are. So, how about syringe-powered vampire robots?" and (rightfully) being told no, kieron, no.

Page from Darth Vader 19, drawn by Salva Larocca. Triple Zero makes a speech to scare the humans attacking teh robots, claiming all the robots are definitely NOT vampires.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

It says here that Cuomo is in the Hamptons wearing a light blue polo with visible nipples talking about how Gaza real estate will be hurricane proof.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think we appreciated what a landmark this was for representation in cartoons.
As someone who also lives with an angry, vengeful monster where my stomach should be, this was huge.
We Stan an IBS king.

Kang from the 90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon: A weird malevolent brain-like creature that lives in the stomach of a robot.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland picking a President: ‘Someone thoughtful and wise, please, a noble spirit who reflects our better selves.’

Ireland picking a Taoiseach: ‘What can you show me in a Shameless Chancer?’

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 2d

If Wikipedia goes, that's the last redoubt of the usable internet-as-knowledge-repository gone. Truth will be whatever this deformity says it is.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d

Elon Musk says he's launching a competitor to Wikipedia called Grokipedia

Elon Musk's Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster

Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2d

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2d

Keith Urban just trying to go about his goddamn business.

Image shared by Geoff The Toking Mongoose with the following alt text: AEW wrestler Orange Cassidy sitting on a chair with his feet up playing with a rubix cube while other AEW wrestler Thekla does her trademark spider pose where she arches backwards and walks on her hands and feet while looking at Orange

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 2d

I'm starting to think I don't empty the bathroom bin enough. The sheer density of all the compressed toilet roll tubes has created a small event horizon by the toilet brush.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 2d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Your english teacher and gym teacher are getting married and here's a song about his giant hog.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2d

Guy I used to play football with claimed his uncle had been in the IRA (not, in itself, a major bit of news where I'm from) but had to quit after a bombing he did that left him with no outward signs of trauma, save the fact he had to "eat all his meals standing up" (a dazzling additional detail).

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 2d

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

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