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Shane Glackin
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Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear.

(senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
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Marty Stuart looks like someone crossed Steve Bannon with a Lion.
Marty Stuart looking like, well, what I said.
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Cover of legendary trad album Doublin' by Paddies Glackin (no relation) & Keenan
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Liam o maonlai, looking craggier and older than Una-Minh's husband.
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Claire Lehmann, Joe Lonsdale, and Helen Lewis are all awful.
Town hall guy meme
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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(I'm virtually certain this is the explanation...)
Guardian's The Knowledge column with a headline about palindromic footballers, but which opens discussing a previous column's topic and mentioning Louis Page.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Hall of Fame hallucination here:
Google's AI overview responds to a query about palindrome footballers with suggestions of Ozan Kabal, Sheyi Ojo, David Hannah, and... Louis Page.
December 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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About what you'd expect from the teamsheets:
BBC team lineups: Team Lineups Bath 15 Reid, 14 Pepper, 13 Bayliss, 12 Ewels, 11 Roux, 10 Stuart, 9 Dunn, 1 De Glanville, 2 Cokanasiga, 3 Ojomoh, 4 Redpath, 5 Arundell 6 Russell, 7 Spencer, 8 Obano Munster 15 Coombes, 14 Hodnett, 13 Beirne, 12 Ahern, 11 Kleyn, 10 Ryan, 9 Barron, 1 Daly, 2 Kilgallen, 3 T Farrell, 4 Kelly, 5 Abrahams, 6 Hanrahan, 7 Casey, 8 Milne
December 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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FIFA prizes in full:

Peace - Donald Trump

Literature: Olivia Nuzzi

Economics - Liz Truss

Medicine - Bryan Johnson

Chemistry - Juan Orlando Hernandez

Physics -
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Headline: "Rotation of Earth plunges entire North American continent into darkness", with partial picture of starlight shining on a planet surface.
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Anthony Scaramucci
December 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Insofar as she produced generally coherent English that was not wholly irrelevant to the reading, Sarah Fulnecky deserved at least 5/25.
It's the town hall guy meme.
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Me: Ooh, what about a philosophy-themed Mamdani generator meme?

Skynet:
I ask google for a famous philosophy paper with "for" in the title. Its AI overview suggests G.E. Moore's "A Defence of Common Sense".
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Meme of Hungarian man with forced smile eksdotcom post by Elon Musk: 'Grok Imagine prompt: she smiles and says "I will always love you"'. There is an AI-generated picture of a woman with the same forced smile as the man in the other meme.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Drake/hotline bling meme; Frowning to "at least he didn't bring up her husband again", smiling to "in this moment,Trump truly became president"
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This is a better post if you don't expand the thread, sorry Liam.
It's just the OP and the post I'm responding to with "view full thread" in between.
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Good Idea Bad Idea meme; man tapping his temple knowingly. Caption says: "Libs can't harvest adrenochrome/ If the children are dead"
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Screengrab from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eth.12282, featuring the phrase "(should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?)"
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Rev. Willie McCrea with Accordion
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Yes, although...
Cover of Robert Putnam, "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community"
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Bit harsh from his own national broadcaster, this:
Screengrab from translation of Sporza's live commentary; one section reads, in bold, "Prick Evenepoel"
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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RIP :(
Famous "The Far Side" Cartoon; two apes sit on a tree branch, one wearing women's glasses is grooming the sheepish-looking other. Caption says; "Well, well - another blond hair. ... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Yes, that's right.
WSJ headline; "Who is Tyler Robinson, the 22-Year-Old Suspect in Charlie Kirk Shooting?"
September 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Yes.

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Donald Trump wearing a suit with an oddly-draped sleeve, as detailed in the linked thread, suggestive of glenohumeral subluxation.
September 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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When he's right, he's right.
2022 tweet from Farage; "I had the misfortune of watching and listening to Nadine Dorries this morning. If she is the PM's defence then he really is a goner."
September 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM