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Richy Craven

@richycraven.bsky.social

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Half man, half-wit. Dublin, Ireland. I have a book. https://linktr.ee/richycraven

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · Nov 27

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1h

It says here that Cuomo is in the Hamptons wearing a light blue polo with visible nipples talking about how Gaza real estate will be hurricane proof.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think we appreciated what a landmark this was for representation in cartoons.
As someone who also lives with an angry, vengeful monster where my stomach should be, this was huge.
We Stan an IBS king.

Kang from the 90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon: A weird malevolent brain-like creature that lives in the stomach of a robot.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 6h

Ireland picking a President: ‘Someone thoughtful and wise, please, a noble spirit who reflects our better selves.’

Ireland picking a Taoiseach: ‘What can you show me in a Shameless Chancer?’

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 22h

If Wikipedia goes, that's the last redoubt of the usable internet-as-knowledge-repository gone. Truth will be whatever this deformity says it is.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

Elon Musk says he's launching a competitor to Wikipedia called Grokipedia

Elon Musk's Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster

Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?

gizmodo.com

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12h

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20h

Keith Urban just trying to go about his goddamn business.

Image shared by Geoff The Toking Mongoose with the following alt text: AEW wrestler Orange Cassidy sitting on a chair with his feet up playing with a rubix cube while other AEW wrestler Thekla does her trademark spider pose where she arches backwards and walks on her hands and feet while looking at Orange

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 20h

I'm starting to think I don't empty the bathroom bin enough. The sheer density of all the compressed toilet roll tubes has created a small event horizon by the toilet brush.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 21h

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 21h

Your english teacher and gym teacher are getting married and here's a song about his giant hog.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

Guy I used to play football with claimed his uncle had been in the IRA (not, in itself, a major bit of news where I'm from) but had to quit after a bombing he did that left him with no outward signs of trauma, save the fact he had to "eat all his meals standing up" (a dazzling additional detail).

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 1d

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 23h

Terrible puppet and you can see his lips moving. My daughter’s birthday party is ruined.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 26d

I take protein powder after the gym to try make everything less sore.
They all come in these obnoxiously huge tubs that I can't help but associate with "alpha-mindset" influencer types but I try to combat this by pretending I'm Winnie the Pooh with a big jar of honey every time I open it.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

This is "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" levels of missing the point of a work.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

I do like how sports is the only arena in life where an adult will earnestly be like "Congratulations, ma'am your child has no survival instincts and a concerning degree of aggression. What a delight"

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

Is it considered a good budget when financial analysts start speaking in tongues?

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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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

My fiancée is leaving me. She witnessed me trying to skip ahead in a podcast to get through an ad break, overshoot and end up mid-banter with the hosts, then over-correct and end up back in the ads.

I don't blame her.

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

- You owe me 3 grand!
- Pfft, what are you gonna do about it? Become the deputy editor of a national newspaper and bring this to the country's attention shortly after I announce my candidacy for president of Ireland?

Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 1d

From the Phoenix - x.com/ThePhoenixMa...

There was much detail in the Indo about the investigative efforts the paper made in uncovering Gavin’s behaviour. What the newspaper and its editorial staff did not say is that the scoop was handed on a plate to them by Gavin’s tenant who happens to be a fellow colleague in Mediahuis, owner of the Indo and various titles, including the Sunday World. That former tenant is the deputy editor of the World, Niall Donald.

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Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 2d

a pokemon is an employee. if you call a pokemon your friend it's like when your boss says this place of work is a family. you got a direct power imbalance.

now a digimon. thats a friend. me and kokabuterimon are getting beers.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

Dealing with customers like "Ah yeah, you were quick to increase the price, weren't you?"

Sir, I am 19 and visibly hungover. I do not have a say in how expensive anything here is.

Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

Also, you know, I graduated school in 2007 so all the budgets I remember were like "We're cutting all benefits, raising the price of everything fun and killing your, that is to say specifically you Richy Craven's, dog."

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

Budget day is aways a bit triggering for me because I used to work in an off license and I would have to re-price all the wine bottles and fags after the tax increases.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 1d

It's harrowing seeing some clueless North Americans accidentally stumble into Irish Bsky.

It's like one of those nature documentaries where an ant colony strips an antelope to the bone.

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