Patrick Kinsella
@paddykinsella.bsky.social
Writer, on the lookout for hidden trails, adventure tales & good ales. Gutter-based stargazer. Drum basher. Taekwondo try hard. Fan of books, bands, bikes, boats, boards, beaches, beers. Anti-fascist always. Antisocial when hungry. Political southpaw.⚒️
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Remember when Musk lied about the reason he bought Twitter was to get rid of the Bots and trolls?
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Remember when Musk lied about the reason he bought Twitter was to get rid of the Bots and trolls?
bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Is it? I’m a pasty middle aged fella, so perhaps partially blinded by proximity, but I thought the female and younger (and older for that matter) characters were written with a decent degree of empathy and realism. Felt like an accurate snapshot of a country town in cusp-of-collapse Ireland to me.
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Is it? I’m a pasty middle aged fella, so perhaps partially blinded by proximity, but I thought the female and younger (and older for that matter) characters were written with a decent degree of empathy and realism. Felt like an accurate snapshot of a country town in cusp-of-collapse Ireland to me.
Meant to say ‘each’ gets their own novel within the book… Even my own copy has a backstory: it looks ragged because it was stolen in a smash & grab from my car in the Wicklow mountains, but the thieves lobbed it out the window as they riffled through my bag while driving off & I found it by the road
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Meant to say ‘each’ gets their own novel within the book… Even my own copy has a backstory: it looks ragged because it was stolen in a smash & grab from my car in the Wicklow mountains, but the thieves lobbed it out the window as they riffled through my bag while driving off & I found it by the road
Morning Womble. Just finished The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - both brilliant, and a bit infuriating. Murray’s ability to create complex characters is exceptional though - gets virtually their own novel within this masterfully written book. Say what you want about the ending, but it will haunt me.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Morning Womble. Just finished The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - both brilliant, and a bit infuriating. Murray’s ability to create complex characters is exceptional though - gets virtually their own novel within this masterfully written book. Say what you want about the ending, but it will haunt me.