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merritt @merrittk.com · 8h

i wrote an instruction manual for a fictional CD-i game where you play as an executive at a company that produces RC cars in the 90s 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/nerd...

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 11h

Just in case you don’t believe me

Screenshot from Slow Horses by Mick Herron.:

A small piece of meat fell, leaving a mayonnaise smear on his trouser leg. 'Damn. I hate it when that happens. He stared angrily at the yellow streak for a moment, which wasn't noticeably larger than any other stain on that leg, then looked back up.

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 13h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 13h

Show me someone who’s ever been genuinely confused by this and I’ll throw them in a river

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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 18h

Adam Scott, best known for his role as USS Defiant Helmsman in 1996 Jonathan Frakes film Star Trek: First Contact

Adam Scott in a Starfleet uniform at the helm of the Defiant. Worf sits in the captain’s chair in the background

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 13h

AI Guys: AI can unlock your creativity! The sky’s the limit!
AI Guys When They Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters: I’m out

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14h

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Eyepatch Wolf but like spooky or a ghost or something @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social · 14h

The irish presidential election is basically now between "dog fighting transphobe" and "woman who destroys children in soccer matches"

I will be voting for Connoly in support of her war on childrens egos.

Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 1d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 19h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 18h

The opening track also has the vibe of an album three Gomez b-side

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve noticed Americans being a lot more enthusiastic about this Geese album than others and I think it’s because the opening track reminds people on this side of the Atlantic of bands failing to sound like The Beta Band in 1998. The rest of the album’s fantastic though

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine if Vetinari disguised himself as Foul Ol Ron and became a Watch Captain, that’s Jackson Lamb

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 18h

I’m reading the first Slow Horses book and I hadn’t realised how Pratchetty it is? In a lot of ways, it’s a City Watch novel set in modern London

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 19h

Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson might fit the bill? At one point he sneaks into Bohemian Grove with Alex Jones

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 1d

That was nice wasn’t it? A bit like 2013 Twitter, not particularly funny but joke-shaped and not about the news

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 1d

*Cameron Winters voice*
There’s a SNAKE in my boot

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 1d

We all want everything a good neighbourhood but how money pay for it??

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

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Aoife Barry @sweetoblivion.bsky.social · 1d

What's that? Oh, you want to listen to an Irish arts & culture podcast fronted by two gals who this week chat about... The Walsh Sisters, why Cillian Murphy's film Steve left us shook, Taylor Swift's mid album, A Want In Her AND interview director Hugh O'Conor? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Previews & Reviews: Taylor Swift, Steve, The Smashing Machine... and Tilly Norwood

Podcast Episode · Get Around To It · 10/05/2025 · 58m

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 2d

This is causing a lot of confusion so there's a handy mnemonic you can use:

If your Gavin be gruesome, you'll find he's a Newsom.
If your rent he be havin', you've got a Jim Gavin.

#spéirgorm #MainCharacterSky

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Alan @alanmaguire.bsky.social · 1d

This looks amazing!

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Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · 1d

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵

Contents page of An Alternative Irish Christmas, listing stories by: Jessica Traynor, Sophie White, Mike McCormack, Roisin Kiberd, Niall Bourke, Maggie Armstrong, Arja Kajermo, Sue Rainsford, Soula Emmanuel, Briana Fitzsimons, Belinda McKeon, Tim MacGabhann, and Anne Enright.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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