No, I don't *need* to go into the Irish pub, cunningly called "Irish Pub", that's a five minute walk from my hotel.
Darren Leathley
@dmleathley.bsky.social
-2005: Leeds 2005-: Dublin Films, music, crosswords, #CalendarMaths, swimming, #lufc, stuff - may contain puns. Professional data wrangler. Amateur cat wrangler. Not fitting every concern into CHAR(300). Not an owl.
SWIM REPORT: OLYMPIASTADION 40 lengths / 2km / 1.24 miles 50m pool! Very busy Two lanes in half the pool, chaos in the rest (a booming ARSCHLOCH! could be heard from the opposite end) Despite this, quite manageable - once I'd moved into the faster lane, away from Germany's slowest swimmers
A jaunt through the available channels on the hotel TV yields an ad for the German equivalent of "WeBuyAnyCar.com" The more prosaic "WirKaufenDeinAuto.de"
You're wandering around Berlin, and suddenly a track from @tim-burgess.bsky.social debut album just pops in your head #MusicSky open.spotify.com/track/5RNlPA...
Held in Straps
Tim Burgess · I Believe · Song · 2003
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All the young people in Berlin looking (metaphorically) hot and sexy. Me in Berlin looking (literally) hot and sweaty.
True story.
Dara O'Reilly@daraor.bsky.social · 8h agoThere's a heartwarming story, in @seamas.bsky.social ' best-selling memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" (available in all good, and many mediocre, bookshops) where Séamas is forgotten at Mass, and we only realised we'd lost him because we'd also lost another sibling, who we returned to collect.
There's a heartwarming story, in @seamas.bsky.social ' best-selling memoir "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" (available in all good, and many mediocre, bookshops) where Séamas is forgotten at Mass, and we only realised we'd lost him because we'd also lost another sibling, who we returned to collect.
#Keywords > 5 August 2026 I found all 5 words! 🟩🟩🟩🟩 3✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 3✗ 💡 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🏆 Win streak 1 🔥 Play streak 5 keywords.bagpuss.org
Keywords
Can you discover today's five connected words?
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One of the more tolerable parts of departing from Dublin Airport is looking for hares on the airfield as you taxi to the runway. Saw about a dozen this morning.
catfishing.net #773 - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐟 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 And I was in the right area with the one I got wrong
catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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TIL Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, was a big ol' fascist
Some absolute bangers playing as I nurse my coffee, waiting for the plane. open.spotify.com/track/6BxLhB...
Always There - Edit
Incognito, Jocelyn Brown · 90s Soul · Song · 2001
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Just wait until a week on Friday - the Clacton result announcement will have a commercial break. #ThePolitics
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 14h agoit's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything
New @90minfilmfest.bsky.social! I spoke to screenwriter @edsolomon.bsky.social about Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (90 mins), his latest screenplay, The Christophers & how he got started in the industry 🎙️ pod.fo/e/4f0492
I'm beginning to suspect that The Markets don't do object permanence.
As it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay - my profile pic is a very young burrowing owl that we saw in York, in Easter 2022. An owl sanctuary had it (they didn't know the sex, difficult to tell, I was told) with them along with some other magnificent birds they'd rescued.
Parseword #188 ⚡️ 8s 💎 Perfect That felt like a trap
Of all the objections to this - some much more valid than others - loss of golf facilities can do one #AbolishGolf Hundreds object to plans for Ireland’s largest new town www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...
Hundreds object to plans for Ireland’s largest new town
New town of 18,500 homes planned on 1,000 acres beside what was once Dublin’s main landfill
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PSA: Hundreds of Beavers is available through the Letterboxd Video Store.
We go on holiday in a couple of weeks and our finances are currently sub-optimal so I’m opening up ten Silly Little Guy slots. Usual rules apply: ⭐️ No portraits ⭐️ £30 each (via PayPal) ⭐️ Just simple silly guys My DMs are open! As ever, any and all shares are appreciated x
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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