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So you feel like buying my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died but aren't sure if it's as good as I keep saying. So here's a few pieces from - and about - the book, which might entice you to buy a copy right now from mammybook.com
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
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November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Last week, I took my kids to a city farm in Dublin, and had a magical adventure in the World Of Soil.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
No half-term visit to Dublin would be complete without a visit to World of Soil | The Observer
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
My simple ask is that Ron The Murderer stops killing people the way bad faith leftists assume he does.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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
Last week, I took my kids to a city farm in Dublin, and had a magical adventure in the World Of Soil.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
No half-term visit to Dublin would be complete without a visit to World of Soil | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Honestly I am eating these White House renovations up. It's a perfectly formed running gag in a sitcom
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I was literally just telling someone on Wednesday that this had died down and then this airs last night. Poor Tommy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.

"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".
Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I see we've reached the point where news organs are putting out deeply harrowing, and incredibly reported, stories like this every single day, without it making even the slightest dent in ChatGPT's constant fellation by all other sections of the press.
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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I think it's been long enough now that we can admit "Your Highness" was a very good name for a stoner medieval fantasy movie, and we should have acknowledged this at the time.
March 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Hate it when someone finds themselves between, say, two people called Greg, and they describe it as a "Greg sandwich". If you're in the middle then it's a YOU sandwich, on Greg bread. You idiot. You fucking moron.
November 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM
I, for one, believe him.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Since I'm a famed sappy dad, the Observer asked me to interrogate the John Lewis Christmas Ad Industrial Complex. On this oddest of cultural lodestars being stripped to its bare wires; a confusing, crass, and effective bit of emotional weaponry.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The John Lewis Christmas ad is machine-tooled schmaltz – ...
Expensive, creative yet weirdly formulaic: this annual extravaganza has nearly collapsed under its own weight
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November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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I think we fall into the trap of thinking they have to think of their money in percentages, as if it's just our money but in larger amounts. It's not. Jeff Bezos could buy every single player in the premier league, and then buy every single club, and still be richer than the richest man in the UK.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Are none of them attracted to the completely available option of being, say, the one guy who spent 90 billion on tackling climate change, and becoming, forever after, the most beloved man on planet earth, all while still retaining more money than he could spend in a thousand lifetimes?
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Maybe I'm a big dumb dingus but I've never understood why, even for purely selfish reasons, none of these mega-billionaires spend the gigantic sums of money they spaff on space shit or AI on world hunger. Surely, even for an amoral cunt, being the guy who did that would trump building some rockets.
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Zohran says you’re trans now
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM