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Alec Coakley
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🌐 Somewhere down the crazy river
📔Spinoza
🎼 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
👁️ 'I don't believe in coincidences' Clotho
🍔 I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
Pinned
Fleece Navidad 🐑
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It's an Irish twist on chilli con carne. A chilli con Donnycarney, if you will.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Out now: Almost 70 years after the first German edition, Günther Anders' masterpiece ›Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen‹ is finally available in English 👇 upress.umn.edu/978151791265...
Huge thanks to my brilliant colleague Chris – you did a fantastic job!
December 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Just want to find someone who knows me as well as the Irish husbands who, after 50+ years of marriage, still burst into shops at 5pm every Christmas Eve, wild panic in their eyes, yelling that they need "SOMETHING FOR A WOMAN"
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What a day that was, the weather made it
Garden of Earthly Delights
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Idk what religion this is but I’m listening
#Solstice #Stonehenge
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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In Chinese folk paintings, “Fishing, Woodcutting, Farming, and Studying (漁樵耕讀)” symbolize both rustic peace and quiet ambition. Beneath pastoral scenes lies a yearning—not just for harmony with nature, but for the scholar’s path to courtly honor. 1/2
🎨 《漁樵耕讀圖》清
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Escalate any disagreement by saying “here we go” whenever someone starts talking
December 13, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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The Wasatch Back
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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A woman writing on Eastbourne beach with the pier in the background. Some large-looking gulls are looking disappointed she hasn't got a bag of chips for them to steal. it was great to explore Eastbourne and bring a sketch home.
#art #pleinair #watercolour #Eastbourne
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Stretch is on the way...
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Solstice Sunrise 🌄 #SpeirGorm #WinterSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Beef up your charisma stats by calling people "big dog" now and again. People like being called big dog.
December 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I never thought, as a 60 year old lesbian, that I’d be falling in love with two drunk frat guys, but here we are 🤷
December 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Let he/she/they who has never stolen and hidden a bra cast the first stone...
On a happier note, though, stuffed in a pocket at the back of the same notebook:
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Now that I've spent December celebrating everyone else's books, it seems only fair to mention my own! Here’s my trilogy of visual grimoires exploring magic, darkness, and wonder for occult enthusiasts, gothic souls, and fantasy world-builders unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Nice to see that Age of Atrocity, which I edited with David Edwards and Pádraig Lenihan, is being reprinted by Four Courts Press. It will be available just in time for Valentine's Day next year! www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/archiv...
Four Courts Press | Age of atrocity
Violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland by David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan, editors
www.fourcourtspress.ie
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This little fkr found and ate an always ultra knicker sticker after getting into the girls room last night. He's grand today but he's got some thirst on him
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The Jetty (2022)

Oil and acrylic on canvas
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM