Mícheál de Brún
@thriftonaut.bsky.social
Charity shops, puns and Dad jokes. West-Cork-ish based. Interests; records, history, film and Vintage kitchenalia.
I’ve left behind my family, my friends-everything. The only thing for me is this-the battlefield.
I’ve left behind my family, my friends-everything. The only thing for me is this-the battlefield.
Shared in Boise Idaho, hope he’s found. Poor scared fella…
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Shared in Boise Idaho, hope he’s found. Poor scared fella…
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Mr Blobby meets The Chuckle Brothers
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Mr Blobby meets The Chuckle Brothers
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Anyone know anything about this?
I know it’s from pharmaceutical company Menley & James and Contac was a brand of decongestant.
I posted a clip of “D-Troit Soul” below, it is frantic funk with bass playing bordering on the ludicrous.
I know it’s from pharmaceutical company Menley & James and Contac was a brand of decongestant.
I posted a clip of “D-Troit Soul” below, it is frantic funk with bass playing bordering on the ludicrous.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Anyone know anything about this?
I know it’s from pharmaceutical company Menley & James and Contac was a brand of decongestant.
I posted a clip of “D-Troit Soul” below, it is frantic funk with bass playing bordering on the ludicrous.
I know it’s from pharmaceutical company Menley & James and Contac was a brand of decongestant.
I posted a clip of “D-Troit Soul” below, it is frantic funk with bass playing bordering on the ludicrous.
Slippery slope; I had a friend who messed around with the Dan and the Mac. Poor bastard is listening to Brothers in Arms and The Road to Hell back to back on a hitachi these days… it’s no life.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Slippery slope; I had a friend who messed around with the Dan and the Mac. Poor bastard is listening to Brothers in Arms and The Road to Hell back to back on a hitachi these days… it’s no life.
Today is the deadline for signing up for #VinylSanta. Participants are needed so an Ireland based leg can run. So if you like getting records in the post, sign up! Check out the hashtag to get a sense of how it works.
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Today is the deadline for signing up for #VinylSanta. Participants are needed so an Ireland based leg can run. So if you like getting records in the post, sign up! Check out the hashtag to get a sense of how it works.
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No need to burn an actual dinosaur, like. Just calm down people.
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
No need to burn an actual dinosaur, like. Just calm down people.
Shitehawk, aye…
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Shitehawk, aye…
I see that after failing to get a conviction against the Sandwich Guy yesterday they’re now trying to charge him with Aggressive Panhandling… get it Aggressive PAN Handling!!!! I kill me…
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I see that after failing to get a conviction against the Sandwich Guy yesterday they’re now trying to charge him with Aggressive Panhandling… get it Aggressive PAN Handling!!!! I kill me…
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Tonight! Drop by Room 23 if you fancy listening to my favourite visionary music, from Popol Vuh to Eno, Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze, and putting a blindfold on to produce your own archetypal art.
HELLEBORE x TATE BRITAIN
Save the date: 7.11.2025, 6-10pm
Founder @mjpcuervo.bsky.social will guide you into HELLEBORE’s Cave of Mysteries as part of the Hidden Folklore celebrations.
Save the date: 7.11.2025, 6-10pm
Founder @mjpcuervo.bsky.social will guide you into HELLEBORE’s Cave of Mysteries as part of the Hidden Folklore celebrations.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tonight! Drop by Room 23 if you fancy listening to my favourite visionary music, from Popol Vuh to Eno, Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze, and putting a blindfold on to produce your own archetypal art.
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN:
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children who dig for records in charity and junk shops to come and participate in the 10th annual #VinylSanta.
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children who dig for records in charity and junk shops to come and participate in the 10th annual #VinylSanta.
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN:
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children who dig for records in charity and junk shops to come and participate in the 10th annual #VinylSanta.
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children who dig for records in charity and junk shops to come and participate in the 10th annual #VinylSanta.
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Tomita, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Uriah Heap (inevitably), War, Dr Feelgood. Can’t read the others -- anyone?
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Tomita, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Uriah Heap (inevitably), War, Dr Feelgood. Can’t read the others -- anyone?
Even as a ‘Michael’ I had never heard of this.
Have you heard of the line of St Michael? It’s even more intriguing, and begins even before St Michael’s island in Cornwall. 🪽
Saint Michael's line - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Even as a ‘Michael’ I had never heard of this.
Words fail me as much as they failed whoever came up with the text on this geansaí.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Words fail me as much as they failed whoever came up with the text on this geansaí.
Opinion columnists heads exploding scanners style.
As the dust settles following the election of Catherine Connolly, what will the Áras look like during her term? One thing that will be different from previous terms: Irish is to be the working language in the Áras. #Gaeilge #Aras25
jrnl.ie/6856354t
jrnl.ie/6856354t
Irish will be working language in Áras an Uachtaráin during Catherine Connolly's term
Catherine Connolly outlined her ideas relating to Irish and the Presidency in a response to Conradh na Gaeilge’s GaelVóta questionnaire.
jrnl.ie
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Opinion columnists heads exploding scanners style.
I’ve done this many times, would recommend to any vinyl/ charity shop heads.
This is a 32 county shout-out to anyone in Ireland that wants to participate (we do need numbers for to run an Irish leg successfully).
Please read rules before committing. Check out #VinylSanta to see more.
This is a 32 county shout-out to anyone in Ireland that wants to participate (we do need numbers for to run an Irish leg successfully).
Please read rules before committing. Check out #VinylSanta to see more.
🔔🔔🔔 #VinylSanta applications for 2025 are now live. Please see rules, regulations and directions below. 🎅
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I’ve done this many times, would recommend to any vinyl/ charity shop heads.
This is a 32 county shout-out to anyone in Ireland that wants to participate (we do need numbers for to run an Irish leg successfully).
Please read rules before committing. Check out #VinylSanta to see more.
This is a 32 county shout-out to anyone in Ireland that wants to participate (we do need numbers for to run an Irish leg successfully).
Please read rules before committing. Check out #VinylSanta to see more.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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3 weeks today!
Think this is almost sold out now so do book quick.
It's a free event but ticketed.
Scan the QR code at the end of the clip below.
Think this is almost sold out now so do book quick.
It's a free event but ticketed.
Scan the QR code at the end of the clip below.
Three weeks tomorrow I'm in Lewisham at the Deptford Lounge performing a live soundtrack to the Fritz Lang classic Metropolis - a rare 1 hour edit of the silent black and white film
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
3 weeks today!
Think this is almost sold out now so do book quick.
It's a free event but ticketed.
Scan the QR code at the end of the clip below.
Think this is almost sold out now so do book quick.
It's a free event but ticketed.
Scan the QR code at the end of the clip below.
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Any Canadiens out there following that want to be part of Vinyl Santa? If so submit a DM with info (see pinned post) and let’s see if we can get the numbers for 🇨🇦
Just leaving us Canadians out eh? 🙃😕
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Any Canadiens out there following that want to be part of Vinyl Santa? If so submit a DM with info (see pinned post) and let’s see if we can get the numbers for 🇨🇦
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Congratulations to Dr Aaron Deter-Wolf, one of our PhD by publication students, who successfully passed his viva yesterday. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos & was recently featured in National Geographic magazine: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
How scientists are cracking the secrets of the world’s oldest tattoos
Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Congratulations to Dr Aaron Deter-Wolf, one of our PhD by publication students, who successfully passed his viva yesterday. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos & was recently featured in National Geographic magazine: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Ok #Speirgorm #Speirghorm how are we going to claim Zoharn as Irish? 🎶 Mamdani boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling 🎶
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Ok #Speirgorm #Speirghorm how are we going to claim Zoharn as Irish? 🎶 Mamdani boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling 🎶
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If the Irish language is so great then why has it no word for Talibanised?!?!
Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If the Irish language is so great then why has it no word for Talibanised?!?!
Takes! Takes! Get them while they’re hot!
Who’s tracking the best crash out’s? I know one of you are making a thread
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Takes! Takes! Get them while they’re hot!
If the Irish language is so great then why has it no word for Talibanised?!?!
Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If the Irish language is so great then why has it no word for Talibanised?!?!
The John Lewis ad had me thinking if me kid bought me a record from my early 20’s what would it be. Then realised I wouldn’t having a flashback to being out throwing shapes on a dance floor to a first pressing of the Resident’s Third Reich and Roll…
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The John Lewis ad had me thinking if me kid bought me a record from my early 20’s what would it be. Then realised I wouldn’t having a flashback to being out throwing shapes on a dance floor to a first pressing of the Resident’s Third Reich and Roll…