Richy Craven
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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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I want to write the new James Bond just so I can name the sexy femme fatale character Polly Amorous.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I want to write the new James Bond just so I can name the sexy femme fatale character Polly Amorous.
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I had a revelation on the dog walk last night that means I need to revise 20,000 words to change something fundamental about it and writing is truly for people who hate themselves, isn’t it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I had a revelation on the dog walk last night that means I need to revise 20,000 words to change something fundamental about it and writing is truly for people who hate themselves, isn’t it.
I want to write the new James Bond just so I can name the sexy femme fatale character Polly Amorous.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I want to write the new James Bond just so I can name the sexy femme fatale character Polly Amorous.
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
I wanted a muscly woman fighting a dragon with a sword on the cover of my debut novel but my publisher wouldn't let me because of woke. Also because there weren't any swords or dragons in it.
RETVRN to stupidly horny hand-painted schlocky sword-and-sorcery covers
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I wanted a muscly woman fighting a dragon with a sword on the cover of my debut novel but my publisher wouldn't let me because of woke. Also because there weren't any swords or dragons in it.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
A few book clubs have reached out this year to say they're reading Spirit Level.
I'm always thankful for new readers *but* I did pay a therapist a lot of money to convince me that there weren't groups of people talking about me while I'm not there and now that feels a bit of a waste.
I'm always thankful for new readers *but* I did pay a therapist a lot of money to convince me that there weren't groups of people talking about me while I'm not there and now that feels a bit of a waste.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A few book clubs have reached out this year to say they're reading Spirit Level.
I'm always thankful for new readers *but* I did pay a therapist a lot of money to convince me that there weren't groups of people talking about me while I'm not there and now that feels a bit of a waste.
I'm always thankful for new readers *but* I did pay a therapist a lot of money to convince me that there weren't groups of people talking about me while I'm not there and now that feels a bit of a waste.
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KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
July 17, 2023 at 3:57 AM
KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
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A decent argument against the 7 year Irish Presidential terms is that two terms is enough time for people to become emotionally attached to the President's pets and be devastated nationally when they pass away.
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A decent argument against the 7 year Irish Presidential terms is that two terms is enough time for people to become emotionally attached to the President's pets and be devastated nationally when they pass away.
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My spiritual beliefs can be summed up: Atheist but still asking my mum to put out the Child of Prague the night before my wedding.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My spiritual beliefs can be summed up: Atheist but still asking my mum to put out the Child of Prague the night before my wedding.
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
If I were Catherine Connolly, I'd carry a big portrait of Lenin into the Áras, past the photographers, and tell them I was going to hang it in the foyer, just to see if I could get an Irish Times columnist's head to actually explode.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If I were Catherine Connolly, I'd carry a big portrait of Lenin into the Áras, past the photographers, and tell them I was going to hang it in the foyer, just to see if I could get an Irish Times columnist's head to actually explode.
One of the neighbors got a new kitten that is fascinated by dogs and it has Rio driven demented.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
One of the neighbors got a new kitten that is fascinated by dogs and it has Rio driven demented.
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lol at ms rachel correctly instructing the nyt about the work of real journalism & then just being like no, i don't think we will be doing that.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
lol at ms rachel correctly instructing the nyt about the work of real journalism & then just being like no, i don't think we will be doing that.
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
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Ivan Yates being interviewed is not a great advertisement for Ivan Yates Media Training...
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ivan Yates being interviewed is not a great advertisement for Ivan Yates Media Training...
Go well Michael D Higgins. I often forgot you existed for long periods of time.
I now know what a gift that was for a Head of State.
I now know what a gift that was for a Head of State.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Go well Michael D Higgins. I often forgot you existed for long periods of time.
I now know what a gift that was for a Head of State.
I now know what a gift that was for a Head of State.
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
Bernese Dog guard of honour!
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
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Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bernese Dog guard of honour!
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Do you really want a relationship, or do you just want to be wanted (in 17 different countries after a daring jewellery heist from the stately home of an elderly marquis)
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Do you really want a relationship, or do you just want to be wanted (in 17 different countries after a daring jewellery heist from the stately home of an elderly marquis)
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The Large Adult Son of Prague.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Large Adult Son of Prague.
My spiritual beliefs can be summed up: Atheist but still asking my mum to put out the Child of Prague the night before my wedding.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My spiritual beliefs can be summed up: Atheist but still asking my mum to put out the Child of Prague the night before my wedding.
Partner is reading the first draft of the next book and I am being very chill about it.
I'm definitely not meticulously noting every chuckle and frown out of the corner of my eye like some sort of creepy anthropologist.
I'm definitely not meticulously noting every chuckle and frown out of the corner of my eye like some sort of creepy anthropologist.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Partner is reading the first draft of the next book and I am being very chill about it.
I'm definitely not meticulously noting every chuckle and frown out of the corner of my eye like some sort of creepy anthropologist.
I'm definitely not meticulously noting every chuckle and frown out of the corner of my eye like some sort of creepy anthropologist.
I can get behind greeting people in a work meeting with "Happy Friday", I can even tolerate an ironic "Happy Monday" but somebody tried "Happy Wednesday" there the other week and this just won't stand. Where does it end?
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I can get behind greeting people in a work meeting with "Happy Friday", I can even tolerate an ironic "Happy Monday" but somebody tried "Happy Wednesday" there the other week and this just won't stand. Where does it end?