Frank
@frankiewhelan.bsky.social
Maker of music, books and questionable impulse food choices.
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We're so thrilled that @griffski.bsky.social, author of EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE, SPARE AND FOUND PARTS, and OTHER WORDS FOR SMOKE, is nominated for the 2025 @irishbookawards.bsky.social @laibluesky.bsky.social Author of the Year Award! 🎉
Vote now! Voting ends Nov. 16 🌱
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We're so thrilled that @griffski.bsky.social, author of EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE, SPARE AND FOUND PARTS, and OTHER WORDS FOR SMOKE, is nominated for the 2025 @irishbookawards.bsky.social @laibluesky.bsky.social Author of the Year Award! 🎉
Vote now! Voting ends Nov. 16 🌱
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Vote now! Voting ends Nov. 16 🌱
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A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
www.irishtimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?
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To the people saying it’s undemocratic that their preferred candidate didn’t get a nomination for president: local and national elections are and always have been an option for them. And arguably more effective than the role of president when it comes to deciding policy and affecting daily lives.
September 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
To the people saying it’s undemocratic that their preferred candidate didn’t get a nomination for president: local and national elections are and always have been an option for them. And arguably more effective than the role of president when it comes to deciding policy and affecting daily lives.
#StrangeNewWorlds series 3 is committing some solid hate crimes with the state of their space Guinness. If Wham! can survive intact, I assume a creamy head on a Guinness can too! Harumpf! And in the token Irish character episode too! #outrage #BringBackPicard #StarTrek etc etc.
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#StrangeNewWorlds series 3 is committing some solid hate crimes with the state of their space Guinness. If Wham! can survive intact, I assume a creamy head on a Guinness can too! Harumpf! And in the token Irish character episode too! #outrage #BringBackPicard #StarTrek etc etc.
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For so many reasons, it’s time to rethink the “perfect” lawn. We can transform our yards, our communty properties, local school yards, & more into bird & pollinator-friendly habitat.
For ideas to get started, read my article, "Our Freedom Lawn.” greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...
For ideas to get started, read my article, "Our Freedom Lawn.” greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...
September 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For so many reasons, it’s time to rethink the “perfect” lawn. We can transform our yards, our communty properties, local school yards, & more into bird & pollinator-friendly habitat.
For ideas to get started, read my article, "Our Freedom Lawn.” greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...
For ideas to get started, read my article, "Our Freedom Lawn.” greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/05/our-...
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If you're intending to vote in the Irish presidential election, you have until October 7th to register or change your details on the electoral register.
Check the Register
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you're intending to vote in the Irish presidential election, you have until October 7th to register or change your details on the electoral register.
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we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content
@paulscheer.com I was surprised neither you nor Amy mentioned the Anvil documentary in the Spinal Tap episode. For years it's felt like both the real life Spinal Tap & the Spinal Tap sequel, but with Canadians.
September 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@paulscheer.com I was surprised neither you nor Amy mentioned the Anvil documentary in the Spinal Tap episode. For years it's felt like both the real life Spinal Tap & the Spinal Tap sequel, but with Canadians.
@ezraklein.bsky.social I wish you'd pushed on Ben Shapiro's inability to see what was uniting all of those protestors in London. The elephant in the room must have been wearing Predator camo-tech.
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@ezraklein.bsky.social I wish you'd pushed on Ben Shapiro's inability to see what was uniting all of those protestors in London. The elephant in the room must have been wearing Predator camo-tech.
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God I hate reading chatty blogpost type things that are clearly written by an LLM. I think there are good uses for LLMs! But not for lifestyle/personal essay style writing which is ALL ABOUT VOICE. Ugh. This post brought to you by having been suckered into paying for an LLM-written thing.
September 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
God I hate reading chatty blogpost type things that are clearly written by an LLM. I think there are good uses for LLMs! But not for lifestyle/personal essay style writing which is ALL ABOUT VOICE. Ugh. This post brought to you by having been suckered into paying for an LLM-written thing.
Absolutely amazed that @irishtimes.com likely spoiled the Traitors tonight for many by having not only the result in the headline but also having the banished person in the image. Avoid. Unfollow. Who knows when they might strike next. Folks we've had news on social media for years 😝 #TraitorsIRL
September 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Absolutely amazed that @irishtimes.com likely spoiled the Traitors tonight for many by having not only the result in the headline but also having the banished person in the image. Avoid. Unfollow. Who knows when they might strike next. Folks we've had news on social media for years 😝 #TraitorsIRL
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The yank brain epidemic has struck the Taoiseach it seems. What an absolutely bizarre thing to feel compelled to comment on
Genuine question - did our Taoiseach post anything similar when Melissa Hortman, an actual US elected official, was assassinated a few months ago?
September 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The yank brain epidemic has struck the Taoiseach it seems. What an absolutely bizarre thing to feel compelled to comment on
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Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?
I'm amazed no self awareness was gained between being banished and appearing on the sofa. You'd think watching it all back would spark some revelations, but no. Not a great personality trait unfortunately. Delighted with how tonight played out 😌 #TraitorsIRL
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'm amazed no self awareness was gained between being banished and appearing on the sofa. You'd think watching it all back would spark some revelations, but no. Not a great personality trait unfortunately. Delighted with how tonight played out 😌 #TraitorsIRL
First practice with Irish trad musicians. Blown away by how good they are at just playing by ear and picking up tunes. And quietly confident with how ok anything sounds on the guitar in DADGAD tuning... not great, but ok to the point where nobody stopped and said "What the fuck, like?" 😌 #learning
September 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
First practice with Irish trad musicians. Blown away by how good they are at just playing by ear and picking up tunes. And quietly confident with how ok anything sounds on the guitar in DADGAD tuning... not great, but ok to the point where nobody stopped and said "What the fuck, like?" 😌 #learning
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If you have children, either minors or adult children, and you object to building more housing in the community in which you raised your children, you are fumbling the parenting test right in the end zone. Making housing unaffordable for your kids so they have to leave their hometown is selfish.
September 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you have children, either minors or adult children, and you object to building more housing in the community in which you raised your children, you are fumbling the parenting test right in the end zone. Making housing unaffordable for your kids so they have to leave their hometown is selfish.
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everything about this video, from the weird pauses to the robot's posture and walk, lead me to think that they have invented a robot capable of shitting itself mid-conversation
September 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
everything about this video, from the weird pauses to the robot's posture and walk, lead me to think that they have invented a robot capable of shitting itself mid-conversation
Tonight I'm mostly learning how to accompany Irish trad music on guitar, mostly. I've tuned to DADGAD. It's a very different beast but it's quite fun knowing it's mostly a rhythm gig 😊
September 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tonight I'm mostly learning how to accompany Irish trad music on guitar, mostly. I've tuned to DADGAD. It's a very different beast but it's quite fun knowing it's mostly a rhythm gig 😊
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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This is my nightmare. If I was Nick Delahanty I’d run off to the woods and never be seen again, a new cryptid, The Owned Man
🗣️ "Those laws don't exist, Nick."
Kieran Cuddihy rebuts claims made by Nick Delehanty regarding flag laws in Denmark.
#TonightVMTV
Kieran Cuddihy rebuts claims made by Nick Delehanty regarding flag laws in Denmark.
#TonightVMTV
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is my nightmare. If I was Nick Delahanty I’d run off to the woods and never be seen again, a new cryptid, The Owned Man
I haven't engaged in broadcast event TV in so long, but #TraitorsIRL has really made me miss the buzz. There's the build up, the tea & snacks prep and not only the glorious main event but the companion show afterwards. It's all so good & such a lack of poor cousin "Irish version budget" cringe. 👏
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I haven't engaged in broadcast event TV in so long, but #TraitorsIRL has really made me miss the buzz. There's the build up, the tea & snacks prep and not only the glorious main event but the companion show afterwards. It's all so good & such a lack of poor cousin "Irish version budget" cringe. 👏
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What a lovely thing it was to love a podcast for so long and eventually end up co-hosting it. I've been a very lucky girl. Night night Juvenalia, sleep well 🛌🌙
We have An Announcement: we’ve decided to end Juvenalia. There’s a larger statement over on insta but we just want to say thanks to everybody that’s supported the podcast over the last (almost) ten years www.instagram.com/p/DOGOz4eDDl...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a lovely thing it was to love a podcast for so long and eventually end up co-hosting it. I've been a very lucky girl. Night night Juvenalia, sleep well 🛌🌙