You ever stare at your dog like I can't believe this is free. He could easily charge for this

Forgot to do the -ai thing before googling an episode of Inside No 9, and the poxy AI overview spoiled the twist 🤬

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content

Reminder to all writers to enter the @frazzledlit.bsky.social short story competition - judged by the amazing Donal Ryan. And Frazzled Lit is a wonderful journal - they're so decent to submitters and give so much generous help to the writing community ❤️ www.frazzledlit.com/p/opens-at-m...

Opens at midnight: The Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2026

Judged by twice-Booker-longlisted Irish author Donal Ryan!

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Many such cases! from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

This looks interesting, but I fear Jeremy Strong has way too much character in his face to portray Mark Zuckerberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4L...

THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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No Photoshop, AI or Jim Henson muppeteering involved, this is what my brother's dog looks like in real life. Isn't she DEADLY 😍

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

Weather's so good in Dublin, me and my writing group are gonna meet by the canal instead of online. Blare some audiobooks from our boombox 🌞

Really delighted to have a short story of mine featured in the current Interrobang Literary Journal - www.interrobanglit.com/fathers-day/

Father's Day by JM O'Brien - InterrobangLit - Fiction

The new white shirt Vinnie was going to wear for dinner on Father’s Day, didn’t Mam go and wash it with something red. Fiction by JM O'Brien.

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Looked at the 1926 census with my Dad last night, trying to find his dad. My dad didn’t know: his father’s birth year, the town he grew up in, or how to spell his first name. To be clear: his dad raised him, he didn’t disappear or anything. Apparently he was quite nice 🙃

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

Shorts: Animated Shorts curated by Whoopi G | 2026 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca

Tribecafilm.com: Home of the 2026 Tribeca Festival

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2y ago

For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵

There's an instinct to blame the left that these agri protests are often right wing or led by people who are right wing cause "the left" didn't engage but that ignores that many of these people have their own conservative to right wing ideologies.

Tom Waits has recorded a song with Massive Attack and it is UNREAL 🙌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground

YouTube video by Massive Attack

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the official conservative position in Ireland is that as they get less popular and representative of the population, they deserve more of a voice in public discourse, an obviously absurd position that is nonetheless constantly validated by the Irish press for some reason

Daithi@daithig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Both the Times and Irish Times, who once were in court because people might confuse the two, featuring a Steen article on consecutive days, either points to a lack of conservative voices in Ireland or sheer laziness. I'll let the reader decide.

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

People doing wacky April Fool's posts on LinkedIn

a man wearing a white shirt and a gold chain is smiling .

ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and a gold chain is smiling .

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Been working on a list of nicknames for people from specific Irish places, along the lines of ‘Galwegians’: Limerichards Celbridgerators Traleejits Will update as more occur to me kthnxbye x

I feel like I am taking crazy pills - for every 1 rental property in Cork, there's 4 Airbnbs - this is lunacy in the middle of a decade-long housing crisis. Like, wtf are we doing here?

Airbnb-style short-term lets outnumber homes to rent by 4 to 1 in Cork

Renters are locked out - developers are looking to build an 11-story short-let tower in Cork city centre

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Just came up with a deadly name for an Irish drag queen: Úna Bomber

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

Best ever adaptation of Wuthering Heights was by the genius @katebeaton.bsky.social ❤️

Best ever adaptation of Wuthering Heights was by the genius @katebeaton.bsky.social ❤️

AI nailed by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social - “It is not a revolution in computing, but a revolution in accepting lower standards”

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

“In fairness, we also seem to believe that over one-in-three Irish people are accessing social housing compared to the real figure of 9.2%, which begs the question: how much social housing do these people think that Ireland has?” Here is this week’s column.

Surrealing in the Years: We've found out we know nothing about a lot of Very Important Things

Maybe it’s a bad thing that we’re completely clueless.

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Got myself a Xmas gift of a print subscription to @theonion.com, first one arrived this week and it’s **unreal**. The fake ads are particularly great.

The wonderful writer and all round lovely person @jmcm.bsky.social needs to raise money for a new laptop - she gives so generously to the writing community in Ireland, please support her with a small donation or by sharing ❤️ gofund.me/365b21652

Donate to Help a working writer to purchase a new laptop computer, organized by Jennifer McMahon

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