crredwards
@crredwards.bsky.social
Almost absolutely reliable. In Ireland since 2017. Parent to LGBTQ+. Writer of history, studier of literature, creator of cosy magical realism. Just a whole mess.
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crredwards
@crredwards.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I want to share with you the single funniest thing I have ever read in my life. I first read this around 1993 in a copy of the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose that I picked up in a bookshop in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Top five movie genres:
* I hate him and therefore I must have him
* He hates me and therefore I must have him
* Someone needs to know/receive something, so I'm gonna write a letter/ride a horse about it
* 10 minutes of silent looks that could give a yeti a hot flash
* BATTLES WITH SWORDS
* I hate him and therefore I must have him
* He hates me and therefore I must have him
* Someone needs to know/receive something, so I'm gonna write a letter/ride a horse about it
* 10 minutes of silent looks that could give a yeti a hot flash
* BATTLES WITH SWORDS
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Top five movie genres:
* I hate him and therefore I must have him
* He hates me and therefore I must have him
* Someone needs to know/receive something, so I'm gonna write a letter/ride a horse about it
* 10 minutes of silent looks that could give a yeti a hot flash
* BATTLES WITH SWORDS
* I hate him and therefore I must have him
* He hates me and therefore I must have him
* Someone needs to know/receive something, so I'm gonna write a letter/ride a horse about it
* 10 minutes of silent looks that could give a yeti a hot flash
* BATTLES WITH SWORDS
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Every mention of Thomas Massie reminds me of this legend about a famous debate in the puritanical English parliament in 1656 about renaming Christmas
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Every mention of Thomas Massie reminds me of this legend about a famous debate in the puritanical English parliament in 1656 about renaming Christmas
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Reposting this given there are even more postal restrictions in place now
Hello our International Readers👋🏼 Do you have people in Ireland you'd like to send a book (or three) to but are hesitating because of the price of postage and/or a concern about the parcel getting caught in Customs? We can help! >> 1/3
(🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)
(🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposting this given there are even more postal restrictions in place now
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I need urgent medical attention
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I need urgent medical attention
The Golden Age of Tiny Piracy is ended.
There were 92,400 Lego cutlasses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. This one was found in August by Laura Dale on a beach near Newquay some 28 years after it plummeted into the ocean.
Photo: Laura Dale
Photo: Laura Dale
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Golden Age of Tiny Piracy is ended.
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'It's called The Cones of Dunshire.'
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
'It's called The Cones of Dunshire.'
I would take these gals shopping with me anytime. I'm a "you get what you get and you don't complain" sort of sale shopper, but they'd make it super fun and probably be able to talk us all into getting an extra bag of random goodies at the checkout.
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages
Claire’s sis u ok? #fyp #claires #mysterybag @🖤milaois 🖤
TikTok video by Shan 🖤
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November 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I would take these gals shopping with me anytime. I'm a "you get what you get and you don't complain" sort of sale shopper, but they'd make it super fun and probably be able to talk us all into getting an extra bag of random goodies at the checkout.
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Look, about the ghost.
We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.
(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)
So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.
That said...
Her name is Claire.
🧵
We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.
(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)
So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.
That said...
Her name is Claire.
🧵
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Just saw a meme with alt text that read “some white woman wearing gold” and it was Leslie Hall.
The children are forgetting the old ways.
The children are forgetting the old ways.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just saw a meme with alt text that read “some white woman wearing gold” and it was Leslie Hall.
The children are forgetting the old ways.
The children are forgetting the old ways.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I suppose Ireland is the only country where you can wear zogabongs, but hardly anyone does that anymore.
So what ARE you allowed to wear in Ireland?
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I suppose Ireland is the only country where you can wear zogabongs, but hardly anyone does that anymore.
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"LLMs can't be uninvented."
I have lived through too many data storage devices to believe that.
I have lived through too many data storage devices to believe that.
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"LLMs can't be uninvented."
I have lived through too many data storage devices to believe that.
I have lived through too many data storage devices to believe that.
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My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
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'A History of England in 25 Poems' by @cathamclarke.bsky.social has something for everyone, including nerdy historical linguists. While reading it, I seized upon an archaic H in a Middle English poem about happy animals as my chance to write about lost English sounds.
dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a...
dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a...
A Voice for the Voiceless: English’s Lost Consonants
In September this year, Catherine Clarke, professor at the Institute of Historical Research, published A History of England in 25 Poems. This chronological hike through England’s history via verses…
dannybate.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
'A History of England in 25 Poems' by @cathamclarke.bsky.social has something for everyone, including nerdy historical linguists. While reading it, I seized upon an archaic H in a Middle English poem about happy animals as my chance to write about lost English sounds.
dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a...
dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a...
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How your email finds me
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
How your email finds me
We've spent so long dodging the rain this past month that a gust of wind outside just made me yell, "We have an hour left! You're too early!"
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We've spent so long dodging the rain this past month that a gust of wind outside just made me yell, "We have an hour left! You're too early!"
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Up for preorder on the site now is Tullamore native Raymond Daly's Ten Faithful Years 1913-23 - part history, part songbook , and examining the history of Revolutionary era Offaly (and the wider midlands) through song.
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Up for preorder on the site now is Tullamore native Raymond Daly's Ten Faithful Years 1913-23 - part history, part songbook , and examining the history of Revolutionary era Offaly (and the wider midlands) through song.
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*right clicking you on the forehead to look up the meaning of the word you just used*
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
*right clicking you on the forehead to look up the meaning of the word you just used*
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@mjohnharrison.bsky.social giving it to us unvarnished.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social giving it to us unvarnished.
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Yvonne Blomer, "Broadening"
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yvonne Blomer, "Broadening"
The low-news members of the household have discovered the article about the iPhone Pocket.
"It looks like the Borat suit for a phone."
"It looks like the Borat suit for a phone."
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The low-news members of the household have discovered the article about the iPhone Pocket.
"It looks like the Borat suit for a phone."
"It looks like the Borat suit for a phone."
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Pope Leo is the best Film critic to come from Chicago since Siskel and Ebert
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Pope Leo is the best Film critic to come from Chicago since Siskel and Ebert
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Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
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Boomers are killing the art of incriminating letter-writing.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Boomers are killing the art of incriminating letter-writing.
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A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.