Ryan Shirlow
@ryanshirlow.bsky.social
Irish 🇮🇪 in Yorkshire 🏵️ Fortean Times writer & PhD student, study folk music 🪕 & folklore 🧚
Also ❤️old 🚙 cars & homebrew 🍺
Dad to 2 wee girls
Music on Woodford Halse and Fenny Compton https://ryanshirlow.bandcamp.com/
Also ❤️old 🚙 cars & homebrew 🍺
Dad to 2 wee girls
Music on Woodford Halse and Fenny Compton https://ryanshirlow.bandcamp.com/
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Ryan Shirlow
@ryanshirlow.bsky.social
· Oct 4
The shitter it all gets, the more I’m going to post about mandolins and fairies.
That’s it, that’s the plan.
That’s it, that’s the plan.
oh my god no
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
oh my god no
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Pan still up to his old tricks creating panic via the medium of a @helleborezine.bsky.social jumper
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Pan still up to his old tricks creating panic via the medium of a @helleborezine.bsky.social jumper
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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I’m 49 now. I thought the accordion was cool when I was six. What is cool is subjective. You don’t have to be up to date. Just live your life, like what you want, and learn some more. Pop culture is just a snapshot. You’re along for the ride.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I’m 49 now. I thought the accordion was cool when I was six. What is cool is subjective. You don’t have to be up to date. Just live your life, like what you want, and learn some more. Pop culture is just a snapshot. You’re along for the ride.
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I *think* I have coloured it in such a way that the sense of gloom is not diminished but there are hints of decayed finery in the landscape. I am, however, running a bit of a fever. Will look again tomorrow.
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I *think* I have coloured it in such a way that the sense of gloom is not diminished but there are hints of decayed finery in the landscape. I am, however, running a bit of a fever. Will look again tomorrow.
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Never forget
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Never forget
There’s a used car showroom full of 1980’s family saloons and hot hatches that doesn’t exist but is extremely consistent from one dream to the next.
I often test drive or haggle over their cars all night. A happy place.
Last night they got fed up with me tyre kicking & banned me from coming back.
I often test drive or haggle over their cars all night. A happy place.
Last night they got fed up with me tyre kicking & banned me from coming back.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
There’s a used car showroom full of 1980’s family saloons and hot hatches that doesn’t exist but is extremely consistent from one dream to the next.
I often test drive or haggle over their cars all night. A happy place.
Last night they got fed up with me tyre kicking & banned me from coming back.
I often test drive or haggle over their cars all night. A happy place.
Last night they got fed up with me tyre kicking & banned me from coming back.
100%
Becoming old and uncool is very much a process of caring increasingly less about the encumbering rules of coolness created by, and to torture, the young.
Becoming old and uncool is very much a process of caring increasingly less about the encumbering rules of coolness created by, and to torture, the young.
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
100%
Becoming old and uncool is very much a process of caring increasingly less about the encumbering rules of coolness created by, and to torture, the young.
Becoming old and uncool is very much a process of caring increasingly less about the encumbering rules of coolness created by, and to torture, the young.
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I hope they check one last time before burying him.
Living In A Box singer Richard Darbyshire dies aged 65
The star scored three top 10 hits between 1987 and 1989 before launching a career as a songwriter.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I hope they check one last time before burying him.
I hope they check one last time before burying him.
Living In A Box singer Richard Darbyshire dies aged 65
The star scored three top 10 hits between 1987 and 1989 before launching a career as a songwriter.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I hope they check one last time before burying him.
Watched Equalizer 3 last night, with no subtitles and no ability at Italian, and I have to say it was perfectly possible with a little effort to follow the plot and what was going on, and whilst it was a weird production decision I did really enjoy it.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Watched Equalizer 3 last night, with no subtitles and no ability at Italian, and I have to say it was perfectly possible with a little effort to follow the plot and what was going on, and whilst it was a weird production decision I did really enjoy it.
ha niche fact, I went to a school that was older than the country it was in!
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
ha niche fact, I went to a school that was older than the country it was in!
This is Moorlands school in North Leeds - like a mini Hogwarts - it’s easy to sneer that private schools are some kind of cancer, but now that it’s *gone bust* us locals have lost both a sports ground and a swimming pool that were used by the wider community.
Will become swanky private flats.
Will become swanky private flats.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is Moorlands school in North Leeds - like a mini Hogwarts - it’s easy to sneer that private schools are some kind of cancer, but now that it’s *gone bust* us locals have lost both a sports ground and a swimming pool that were used by the wider community.
Will become swanky private flats.
Will become swanky private flats.
This is my favourite recent picture of me, on a Swedish island looking for trolls, with a feather in my hat and a 1950’s sci-fi anthology tucked into my breast pocket.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This is my favourite recent picture of me, on a Swedish island looking for trolls, with a feather in my hat and a 1950’s sci-fi anthology tucked into my breast pocket.
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Back in the late-90s I answered the door to an elderly woman who wanted me to sign her petition against the internet. She said “I’ve not really used it to be honest but I know it’s not a good thing,” and by god, she was right.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Back in the late-90s I answered the door to an elderly woman who wanted me to sign her petition against the internet. She said “I’ve not really used it to be honest but I know it’s not a good thing,” and by god, she was right.
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the estate looks great for dumping a dead body in woodland
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
the estate looks great for dumping a dead body in woodland
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Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Simca 1500
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Simca 1500
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Chinese porcelain pattern on the bonnet of my car, Sawston
#SundayShadows
#SundayShadows
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Chinese porcelain pattern on the bonnet of my car, Sawston
#SundayShadows
#SundayShadows
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"Vladimir, look into my eyes not around the eyes and denuclearise."
Zack Polanski: "I want to see everyone denuclearise, including Vladimir Putin."
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Vladimir, look into my eyes not around the eyes and denuclearise."
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My dad sings in an incredible semi-professional choir in Portland and I’ve heard them sing this so many times and I cannot tell you how jealous I am that I don’t get to be one of the voices you never hear but you couldn’t live without who makes this sound possible
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
My dad sings in an incredible semi-professional choir in Portland and I’ve heard them sing this so many times and I cannot tell you how jealous I am that I don’t get to be one of the voices you never hear but you couldn’t live without who makes this sound possible
Everyone going crazy for this but I don’t feel its the win for the Roman Empire they think it is. Arguably these maps are just too late to make a real difference. They should have been coming out with this shit 1800 years ago.
Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)
The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It's Mind-Blowing
A new study identified over 68,000 more miles of ancient Roman roads than were previously known.
gizmodo.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Everyone going crazy for this but I don’t feel its the win for the Roman Empire they think it is. Arguably these maps are just too late to make a real difference. They should have been coming out with this shit 1800 years ago.
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Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)
The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It's Mind-Blowing
A new study identified over 68,000 more miles of ancient Roman roads than were previously known.
gizmodo.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)
Increasingly I see these young writers trying to use cool references from my generation and failing so hard.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Increasingly I see these young writers trying to use cool references from my generation and failing so hard.
I have never regretted making the effort to maintain a valued friendship, nor the effort to actively cut someone negative out of my life.
What I do regret is where time and distance just erode things over time.
What I do regret is where time and distance just erode things over time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have never regretted making the effort to maintain a valued friendship, nor the effort to actively cut someone negative out of my life.
What I do regret is where time and distance just erode things over time.
What I do regret is where time and distance just erode things over time.