Michelle Duffy
@mduffywrites.bsky.social
Sometime writer, sometime watcher
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So I was just wondering how #IrishTwitter are finding each other on here, but this helps
Anyone else’s autocorrect getting worse and worse? Mine keeps correcting you to yoi, about to aboit and just corrected public to ‘pie liv’ - is liv even a word?
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Anyone else’s autocorrect getting worse and worse? Mine keeps correcting you to yoi, about to aboit and just corrected public to ‘pie liv’ - is liv even a word?
Watching The Horse Whisperer with my dad, and the late-90s sure did have a lot of movies about middle aged women dabbling in picturesque adultery, didn’t they?
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Watching The Horse Whisperer with my dad, and the late-90s sure did have a lot of movies about middle aged women dabbling in picturesque adultery, didn’t they?
Wish we had more political discourse like this in Ireland right now, or that the media were covering it - the current leader of Green Party UK explaining in plain, accessible terms why taxing billionaires doesn’t mean penalising businesses and hard workers: youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...
Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Wish we had more political discourse like this in Ireland right now, or that the media were covering it - the current leader of Green Party UK explaining in plain, accessible terms why taxing billionaires doesn’t mean penalising businesses and hard workers: youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...
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Hey! Lots more fun here now.
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
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Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
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Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey! Lots more fun here now.
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
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Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
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So how often *do* I have to turn motion smoothing off on my telly before it stays off?
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
So how often *do* I have to turn motion smoothing off on my telly before it stays off?
You wouldn’t want to be using public transport to get to work or anything silly like that. Sure why wouldn’t it take over two hours to get from Whitehall to Donnybrook? #DublinBus #SpeirGorm
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
You wouldn’t want to be using public transport to get to work or anything silly like that. Sure why wouldn’t it take over two hours to get from Whitehall to Donnybrook? #DublinBus #SpeirGorm
Remembering Ken Harmon who slipped out the back of life’s Story Room a year ago today. We could have told you, Ken, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. amp.rte.ie/amp/1473475/
Ken Harmon remembered - Jimmy Fay on an 'outstanding' writer
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September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Remembering Ken Harmon who slipped out the back of life’s Story Room a year ago today. We could have told you, Ken, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. amp.rte.ie/amp/1473475/
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please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
September 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
We should all contact your councillors and let them know that if they endorse McGregor, they lose our votes forever. They’re probably already being inundated with bot emails, claiming to be local residents, trying to persuade them to back the rapist. We need to counteract that.
Conor McGregor has posted a video on social media outside Government Buildings calling for people to contact their councillors to ask them to support his presidential bid
McGregor urges public to ask councillors to back Áras bid
Conor McGregor has posted a video on social media outside Government Buildings calling for people to contact their councillors to ask them to support his presidential bid.
www.rte.ie
September 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We should all contact your councillors and let them know that if they endorse McGregor, they lose our votes forever. They’re probably already being inundated with bot emails, claiming to be local residents, trying to persuade them to back the rapist. We need to counteract that.
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The Irish Times view on the Central Bank and Israeli bonds: a victory for the protestors
The Irish Times view on the Central Bank and Israeli bonds: a victory for the protestors
The fact that an Irish institution will no longer authorise the fund-raising is welcome
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September 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The Irish Times view on the Central Bank and Israeli bonds: a victory for the protestors
Big thanks to all the amazing staff at @dublinairport.bsky.social and Aer Lingus who helped me and my injured dad navigate assisted travel for the first time. It was a stressful and unplanned journey, but everything went as smoothly as it could and people were lovely x
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August 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Big thanks to all the amazing staff at @dublinairport.bsky.social and Aer Lingus who helped me and my injured dad navigate assisted travel for the first time. It was a stressful and unplanned journey, but everything went as smoothly as it could and people were lovely x
Drinking new recipe Football Special for the first time - WTF is this gash?!?
July 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Drinking new recipe Football Special for the first time - WTF is this gash?!?
My long time Fair City compadre and Story Editor non pareil has launched a new way for all creative types to get the Writers’ Room experience: www.rte.ie/culture/2025... #SpeirGorm #IrishWriters
How do you go about making up stories?
Veteran TV writer Trevor Colgan introduces his new project StoryPower, a fusion of creative perspectives that aims to empower individuals with storytelling stills.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My long time Fair City compadre and Story Editor non pareil has launched a new way for all creative types to get the Writers’ Room experience: www.rte.ie/culture/2025... #SpeirGorm #IrishWriters
Went to the self checkout at Bershka and first it asked if I was ‘resident or non-resident’. Then it asked for my ‘zip code’ and at that point I walked out. No one needs all my personal info for me to buy a pair of shorts, WTF?
July 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Went to the self checkout at Bershka and first it asked if I was ‘resident or non-resident’. Then it asked for my ‘zip code’ and at that point I walked out. No one needs all my personal info for me to buy a pair of shorts, WTF?
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Lonely pub, Manchester by John Bulmer.
May 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Lonely pub, Manchester by John Bulmer.
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He sings a Vespers Psalm
He sings a Compline Psalm
He sings a Matins Psalm
He sings a Lauds Psalm
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the good times
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the better times
He sings a Compline Psalm
He sings a Matins Psalm
He sings a Lauds Psalm
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the good times
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the better times
May 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
He sings a Vespers Psalm
He sings a Compline Psalm
He sings a Matins Psalm
He sings a Lauds Psalm
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the good times
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the better times
He sings a Compline Psalm
He sings a Matins Psalm
He sings a Lauds Psalm
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the good times
He sings the Psalms that remind him of the better times
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Nothing makes me feel more out of touch than the idea of using AI to cheat your way through school/university. What’s the point? Actively making yourself useless and unable to contribute post grad when access to education is such a privilege- one that was so emphasised to my generation in NI
May 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Nothing makes me feel more out of touch than the idea of using AI to cheat your way through school/university. What’s the point? Actively making yourself useless and unable to contribute post grad when access to education is such a privilege- one that was so emphasised to my generation in NI
When my kids were very small, sometimes people saw me give them my phone to play (sound muted) games in a cafe. They did not see the previous several hours of playgroup, walks, library, park where the kids had my full attention. Sometimes parents just need to be able to drink one cup of tea in peace
saw a family out to dinner the other day and both parents and both kids were glued to their own separate screens at the table. nightmarish bsky.app/profile/cnr....
the rise of cheap children’s tablets is genuinely catastrophic i’m afraid
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
When my kids were very small, sometimes people saw me give them my phone to play (sound muted) games in a cafe. They did not see the previous several hours of playgroup, walks, library, park where the kids had my full attention. Sometimes parents just need to be able to drink one cup of tea in peace
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Renny Harlin is diving back into the water to helm BLACK TIDES, a survival thriller inspired by real-life orca attacks that have occurred off the coast of southern Spain and Portugal.
Renny Harlin to Direct Orca Attack Thriller ‘Black Tides’ with In-Camera Effects
Not to be confused with his upcoming shark thriller Deep Water, Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2) is diving back into the water to direct Black Tides, Deadline reports. Written by Chris Sparlin...
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May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Renny Harlin is diving back into the water to helm BLACK TIDES, a survival thriller inspired by real-life orca attacks that have occurred off the coast of southern Spain and Portugal.
Google maps having a very normal one, by suggesting that I get from my location in Whitehall, to another address in Whitehall, by driving in a big loop down to Irishtown in South Dublin and back again…
May 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Google maps having a very normal one, by suggesting that I get from my location in Whitehall, to another address in Whitehall, by driving in a big loop down to Irishtown in South Dublin and back again…
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You have to use a touchscreen menu to open the glove box on a Tesla. Anyone who buys one deserves this
May 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
You have to use a touchscreen menu to open the glove box on a Tesla. Anyone who buys one deserves this
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Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
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[8]
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
April 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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Right, because I've now seen misunderstandings of this enough times that it's got me worried that people don't know this - transgender people in the UK are protected by the Equality Act 2010 under the category of gender reassignment.
*That* was not under discussion today and hasn't changed.
*That* was not under discussion today and hasn't changed.
April 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Right, because I've now seen misunderstandings of this enough times that it's got me worried that people don't know this - transgender people in the UK are protected by the Equality Act 2010 under the category of gender reassignment.
*That* was not under discussion today and hasn't changed.
*That* was not under discussion today and hasn't changed.