Darach Ó Séaghdha
@darach.bsky.social
That @theirishfor guy. Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him.
The fact that Joyce Carol Oates clearly loves beating the shit out of Musk invites us, the readers, to revisit and reconsider our assessment of her famous work, "On Boxing".
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The fact that Joyce Carol Oates clearly loves beating the shit out of Musk invites us, the readers, to revisit and reconsider our assessment of her famous work, "On Boxing".
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Post a non religious photo you think of as holy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Post a non religious photo you think of as holy.
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And in this lesser known but great version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses
www.imdb.com/title/tt0098...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0098...
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
And in this lesser known but great version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses
www.imdb.com/title/tt0098...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0098...
Fairuza Balk should have been a bigger star. She'd have been amazing in the Jack Sparrow role in POTC or the Catherine Zeta Jones role in High Fidelity.
Any fans of the 1996 film, The Craft?
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Fairuza Balk should have been a bigger star. She'd have been amazing in the Jack Sparrow role in POTC or the Catherine Zeta Jones role in High Fidelity.
Post a non religious photo you think of as holy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Post a non religious photo you think of as holy.
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this, and the fact that airlines don't pay any tax on the fuel they use, are things more people should know
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
this, and the fact that airlines don't pay any tax on the fuel they use, are things more people should know
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Me: The Two Johnnies are playing St Anne's Park next year.
Wife: What do you mean? Are they playing chasing or something?
Wife: What do you mean? Are they playing chasing or something?
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Me: The Two Johnnies are playing St Anne's Park next year.
Wife: What do you mean? Are they playing chasing or something?
Wife: What do you mean? Are they playing chasing or something?
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I took an electromagnetism course as part of college and the thing they don't tell you about magnets is the more you learn about them, the less sense they make.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I took an electromagnetism course as part of college and the thing they don't tell you about magnets is the more you learn about them, the less sense they make.
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If politicians are weighing in on magnets, the brilliant thing is that they are both entirely made of spin
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
If politicians are weighing in on magnets, the brilliant thing is that they are both entirely made of spin
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joyce carol oates has the worst possible opinions ever and then, once in a while, she publicly wrecks an elon musk or a jk rowling.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
joyce carol oates has the worst possible opinions ever and then, once in a while, she publicly wrecks an elon musk or a jk rowling.
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"We had never read anything quite like it."
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. jrnl.ie/6870574
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. jrnl.ie/6870574
Hungarian-British author David Szalay wins Booker Prize 2025 for Flesh
Judging panel chair Roddy Doyle said the judges had “never read anything quite like it”.
jrnl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"We had never read anything quite like it."
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. jrnl.ie/6870574
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. jrnl.ie/6870574
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The paradox is neatly encapsulated by the thought experiment 'what if Ronnie Drew had ever covered I Touch Myself, by Divinyls'
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The paradox is neatly encapsulated by the thought experiment 'what if Ronnie Drew had ever covered I Touch Myself, by Divinyls'
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a very hardbacky year, I thought publishers had learned their lesson after Milkman
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
a very hardbacky year, I thought publishers had learned their lesson after Milkman
Magnets and eels, the final frontiers of science now that the moon turned out to be a massive anticlimax.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Magnets and eels, the final frontiers of science now that the moon turned out to be a massive anticlimax.
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*benny hill theme plays*
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
*benny hill theme plays*
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Fucking magnates, how do they work
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Fucking magnates, how do they work
Any thoughts on Flesh winning the Booker Prize?
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Any thoughts on Flesh winning the Booker Prize?
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Oíche mhaith Shane, Annie & Scottie @brilliantshane.bsky.social Blish @blishbarson.bsky.social Ciara @ciaraioch.bsky.social Siobhán @nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social Darach @darach.bsky.social & Phil @philbraun.bsky.social Slán Abhaile to our outgoing President Michael D Higgins & especially his dog(s)
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Oíche mhaith Shane, Annie & Scottie @brilliantshane.bsky.social Blish @blishbarson.bsky.social Ciara @ciaraioch.bsky.social Siobhán @nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social Darach @darach.bsky.social & Phil @philbraun.bsky.social Slán Abhaile to our outgoing President Michael D Higgins & especially his dog(s)
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This post was a ride. No pun intended.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This post was a ride. No pun intended.
In prestige TV, a female masturb8n scene is always presented "as she slowly began to decolonise her own body, the borders of repression dissolved into a republic of ecstasy"...
...while male ones are "lol and then the big dopey horny eejit started choking his herring - look behind you, eejit!"
...while male ones are "lol and then the big dopey horny eejit started choking his herring - look behind you, eejit!"
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In prestige TV, a female masturb8n scene is always presented "as she slowly began to decolonise her own body, the borders of repression dissolved into a republic of ecstasy"...
...while male ones are "lol and then the big dopey horny eejit started choking his herring - look behind you, eejit!"
...while male ones are "lol and then the big dopey horny eejit started choking his herring - look behind you, eejit!"
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa born in Galway; Nuala Ní Chonchúir lives in Galway; Elaine Feeney. Nearly a football team
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Doireann Ní Ghríofa born in Galway; Nuala Ní Chonchúir lives in Galway; Elaine Feeney. Nearly a football team
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Catherine Connolly has no shortage of fine Galway women poets she could quote from - Mary O’Malley, Eva Bourke, Tita Ann Higgins, Sarah Clancy, Caitlin Maude - I hope she will
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Catherine Connolly has no shortage of fine Galway women poets she could quote from - Mary O’Malley, Eva Bourke, Tita Ann Higgins, Sarah Clancy, Caitlin Maude - I hope she will
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Torquemada and Tortilla, probably.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Torquemada and Tortilla, probably.
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Fajita and fascist share an etymological root, as to nacho and nazi.
I know what you're thinking: do other Mexican foods share a link to hateful far right scumbag groups?
I know what you're thinking: do other Mexican foods share a link to hateful far right scumbag groups?
May 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Fajita and fascist share an etymological root, as to nacho and nazi.
I know what you're thinking: do other Mexican foods share a link to hateful far right scumbag groups?
I know what you're thinking: do other Mexican foods share a link to hateful far right scumbag groups?
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Her husband?!
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Her husband?!