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Pádraig Barry (PJ)

@pjbarry.bsky.social

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Retired shaggy guy. Nurses and surgeons are my heroes. An English Major Should Have Been, LH Guy explains a lot, Married to a Saint, What a Great Life We Are Having Together 🚫porn

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2h

She didn’t need forgiveness. She needed respite; from the gaze, from the performance. The kind of quiet that doesn’t ask her to explain, doesn’t press her to smile. She had spent years curating softness for survival, offering grace where none was returned. Now, she wanted stillness.
#blueskyrelay

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 3h

Charlie waltzed over to our table. Amanda had an immense dislike of him. She called him a libertine. Her words hung in the air like smoke. I drank my wine and poured myself another. The wine was mellow. Right now I needed mellow.
#vss365

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 3h

At Penn Station, she adjusted her collar with smooth precision, each gesture a quiet declaration: I am not returning as the girl they remember. She had left her hometown another nameless faceless teen. Now she was coming back as a best selling author. No one back there saw it coming.
#2WordPrompt

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 3h

He stood at the edge of the bog, boots sinking into the soft earth, listening to the promises in the wind: his mother’s voice, his father’s silence, the troubles that never quite ended until it took his brother. Broken promises, all of them, but he couldn’t help listening.
#moonmystic

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely no need. It was the stupid AI art. Bad AI art and too lazy to find/make another.

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t be. You only did it once and you were right to do so.

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

I have been hit by you’re sharp tongue before and maybe even learned from it😀. I wear armor all the time now. 🤣🤣🤣

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Host = at most. My goof not a/c

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

You are a strong woman! I await the day when you can throw snark at my silly writings.

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Hurry back!

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Sonder hit Jim hardest in airports: so many lives mid-transit, each carrying a story he’d never read, each face a chapter he’s never be invited to annotate. He always liked to think of himself as the centre of the universe, but there he knew he was host a bit player in a grand design
#blueskyrelay

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Maureen wore her solitude like a satellite dish. She tuned to frequencies no one else could hear, catching fragments of old love songs and half-spoken truths. It so much easy for her than being sociable.
#vssmagic

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

She didn’t smoke anymore, but she kept the ashtray. it’s crusted edge was a reliquary of nights when silence was the only answer. The cherry ash scent of her Vogues were an invitation to start again but she resisted, one day at a time.
#vss365

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

For decades, global visibility came at a cost for actresses. Fiona was able to dodge that cost and maximize its benefit. She wielded technology like a blade and a balm; editing her image, encrypting her truth, choosing when to be seen and when to vanish.
#2WordPrompt

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

@lms2025.bsky.social we just got back from our River Cruise. It was the same one you took 4 months ago plus we added the Salzburg Munich extension. Thank you Linda for your encouragement and offer to help! It was a great trip!

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! She was very kind to offer help but with Viking everything is pretty much set up. I’ll tell her how nice the trip.

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I talked a little bit with your traveling companion (forgot her name she’s in the crew) about it. I figured just to roll with the free excursions and a couple of other paying ones. The Salzburg Munich extension was well worth it. Plus it was still Octoberfest in Munich. Good timing.

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

No common sense.

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

He couldn’t sleep. The jasmine outside the window was sweet, too much like the way he smelled when he left. The ledger was open, blank but for his name. He had teased him about that—said he’d tempt him into ruin and then walk away. He had. The nights were long now. Insomnia was the price.
#inkmine

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

You’re welcome! Enjoy your Tuesday!

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

Nice work Harley!

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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Kunai!

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

He was a Jet quarterback. One of the most irrelevant of creatures. 😀

Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2d

Amen Beth!