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Carl Kinsella

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Pull apart the double helix like a wishbone. Wrote a book called AT LEAST IT LOOKS GOOD FROM SPACE and you can preorder it here: https://linktr.ee/AtLeastItLooksGoodFromSpace

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · Jul 15

With heartfelt thanks to the team at Hachette Ireland, I can now share that my first book, At Least It Looks Good From Space, is coming out this October.

I thought I was more emotionally prepared for this moment but it turns out I'm absolutely not. I hope you like it.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 7h

you don't hear 'clapped back' so much anymore. there was a time when clapped back was ubiquitous. i supposed we don't clap back as much as we used to. straight to murder now, isn't it

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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 1d

I’ve rambled about this before but of all the many facets of fascism shown in 1984, it bothers me that everyone latched onto “surveillance bad!” as the moral of the book and completely ignored the bit where they reduced the English language specially to make it harder to formulate improper thoughts

Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 2d

It will never not bother me to hear “unalived” or “graped”. We’ve more than proved that banning language only creates different words for the same topics that we absolutely need to be talking about. Stop making serious issues sound less serious by banning the real heavy words. They’re not the issue

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

ah there he is

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

me: everybody loves the Borgo, the new— *finger to my ear* oh it's a real thing? forget it

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

disappointed to learn that Borgo is just a restaurant and not some kind of hallucinatory concept that I would have gotten a lot of mileage out of characterising.

Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 1d

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage.

This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories.

The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

A post from Instagram stories with a swipe up link for the Irish Times. A composite image of Leinster House, Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe is titled "Budget 2026: Main Points" but the bullet points that follow comprise non-sensical filler text (Lorem ipsum) and snippets apparently borrowed from a restaurant review (One point reads: "Borgo review: Well-priced and welcoming", the next "everything a good neighborhood", and finally "restaurant needsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet")

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

here i'll tell you this for free. child poverty in ireland will be worse in 2030.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

in english, a target is understood as an objective or result towards which efforts are directed. in hiberno-english, however, a target is understood as never in a million fuckin years mate

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

and tell me now jack, how does the government usually fare with the auld 'targets'

Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 1d

Jack Chambers just now.
The government has an aim to ONLY have 3% of children living in poverty by 2030...
Jfc.
Not a single child should be living in poverty.
We need rid of this cruel government
#Budget2026

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

they're installing a big book incinerator so we can burn all those stupid books

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to give them an actual heart attack.

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d

have we started messing with them by throwing the word 'republican' into the mix yet?

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

why would Mr Tayto keep a creature like this

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe when Humphreys said it needed to be looked at she meant that she’d never looked at it before

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not being funny but if I was that tenant and I still, as of 2pm on 6 October 2025, hadn't been paid with interest, I would be losing the absolute rag

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

i know i'm just repeating what we all already know, but the side-by-side of a football manager candidate forefeiting his campaign while his 68-year-old opponent demonstrates preternatural keepy-uppy skills and wins unanimous praise for it is historically funny

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

now deputy, you’ve implied that you crashed it in top bins with a first time volley but we’ve heard from some onlookers that in actual fact it took quite a heavy deflection. what do you say to that

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

pushing Catherine Connolly for a hard yes or no answer on whether she can do an Around The World or a Maradona 7

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

it takes a certain kind of mind

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

look, columns, they're not for everybody

Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 3d

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

god the more i think about how messy this is the more i realise Fianna Fáil have absolutely fucked us once again haha

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

exclamation mark was probably a little overdramatic

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

it's too late, Jim Gavin's name will still be on the ballot!

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

*gave any thought

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 3d

look, obviously Gavin wasn’t great, but I sympathise a little because it doesn’t look like Fianna Fáil remotely prepared him for it, doesn’t look like they even have any thought into making him their nominee honestly. what a bizarre howler.

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