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S.C. Flynn

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Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025). https://scflynn.com

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · May 26

It's publication day for my new poetry collection "An Ocean Called Hope" @downingfield.bsky.social
#poetry

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An Ocean Called Hope

From the windswept Famine Trail of Ireland to the starlit skies of the Southern Hemisphere, this collection by S.C. Flynn explores places and the memo...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16h

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards.

And it's getting worse.
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Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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IndifferenceEngine @guyware.bsky.social · 1d

#NotAllStraightWhiteOftenOlderMen

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 1d

Do you guys have any hinged literary opinions?!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Catweazel?

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 2d

You're not supposed to snort them

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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 2d

Science!

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The 'Skeets' @continuitytweets.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the Two Ronnies and that bloke who's in charge of Argentina has turned up.

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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 5d

- you boy, wait, where are you going?
- I'll be back

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 2d

"Help me put the body in bodhisattva"

S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, very good

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · Oct 12

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 4d

Just typical anti-frog propaganda from the Toadygraph. And to think they used to be a newtspaper

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 3d

I saw that!

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 4d

A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven.

God says, “I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

“At last! Who shot JFK?”

God says, “Oswald, acting alone.”

Conspiracy theorist says, “Shit. This goes even higher than I thought…”