Lisa Carey
@msleedy.bsky.social
does words and music, though not at the same time. relax in a panic-free atmosphere.
Three excellent nights of music down, two to go. I do feel a bit like I'm at a very slow-motion festival...
Someone please explain to my elderly knees why I have somehow filled in the one night when I'm not going to a gig this week with another gig.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Three excellent nights of music down, two to go. I do feel a bit like I'm at a very slow-motion festival...
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If there are an infinite number of universes, it is therefore inescapable that every possible outcome exists somewhere in the multiverse. We could be living in the universe where Burke – in the finest Irish tradition – has gone on the run dressed as a woman.
Gardaí have been unable to locate Enoch Burke after twice calling to his house yesterday to imprison him for contempt of court.
A High Court judge ordered the former teacher's return to prison on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie/6880578t
A High Court judge ordered the former teacher's return to prison on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie/6880578t
Gardaí can't find Enoch Burke after calling to his house to imprison him for contempt of court
Burke was ordered back to prison by the High Court on Tuesday.
jrnl.ie
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If there are an infinite number of universes, it is therefore inescapable that every possible outcome exists somewhere in the multiverse. We could be living in the universe where Burke – in the finest Irish tradition – has gone on the run dressed as a woman.
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I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
a hippopotamus is standing in a puddle of water next to two crocodiles
Alt: A crocodile doing his best to stay calm while a baby hippo noms on him.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
This is a great and infuriating story about a wonderful musician (listen to anything you can get your hands on! he's great!) who's been royally fucked over by a record company.
Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is a great and infuriating story about a wonderful musician (listen to anything you can get your hands on! he's great!) who's been royally fucked over by a record company.
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Endless austerity combined with tax giveaways to multinational business is not “the centre”. It is the right. Donohue is a right-wing politician. He’s a nice man who read books and listens to records and enacts right-wing policy positions. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Paschal Donohoe: prudent steward of the economy or minister for status quo?
Olivia O’Leary, Gerard Howlin and Stephen Collins assess the departing Finance Minister’s legacy
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Endless austerity combined with tax giveaways to multinational business is not “the centre”. It is the right. Donohue is a right-wing politician. He’s a nice man who read books and listens to records and enacts right-wing policy positions. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Beidh Enoch amárach i bPríosún Mhuinseo
Judge orders ‘grotesque’ Enoch Burke be sent to prison for fourth time www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
Judge orders ‘grotesque’ Enoch Burke be sent to prison for fourth time
A judge has ruled that anti-transgender schoolteacher Enoch Burke should be sent to prison for a fourth time for contempt of court orders requiring him to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School.
www.independent.ie
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Beidh Enoch amárach i bPríosún Mhuinseo
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gave a man a fish and he got really mad and asked how I got into his office
July 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
gave a man a fish and he got really mad and asked how I got into his office
Someone please explain to my elderly knees why I have somehow filled in the one night when I'm not going to a gig this week with another gig.
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Someone please explain to my elderly knees why I have somehow filled in the one night when I'm not going to a gig this week with another gig.
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Hello humans! I have updated the Dublin event listings spreadsheet. New gigs include Wire coverstar Claire Rousay, shoegaze sensation Maria Somerville, another night for the Big Star Quintet, The Nightingales (with Ted Chippington), and CABARET VOLTAIRE
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm
The Crackdown
docs.google.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hello humans! I have updated the Dublin event listings spreadsheet. New gigs include Wire coverstar Claire Rousay, shoegaze sensation Maria Somerville, another night for the Big Star Quintet, The Nightingales (with Ted Chippington), and CABARET VOLTAIRE
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm
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Maybe there really is someone out there who wants to text like a cross between Chaucer, a deeply drunken Dutch person & Kryten trying to call Rimmer a Smeghead in Red Dwarf & so is absolutely overjoyed with how autocorrect “works” now
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Maybe there really is someone out there who wants to text like a cross between Chaucer, a deeply drunken Dutch person & Kryten trying to call Rimmer a Smeghead in Red Dwarf & so is absolutely overjoyed with how autocorrect “works” now
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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We have hired a carpet cleaner for the weekend and anything even vaguely upholstered/carpeted is being carpet-cleaned within an inch of its life. Considering trying it on the teenagers.
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We have hired a carpet cleaner for the weekend and anything even vaguely upholstered/carpeted is being carpet-cleaned within an inch of its life. Considering trying it on the teenagers.
My sister has written another book! About writers! Meta! You can pre-order it now.
I’ve written another romcom! It’s about two scriptwriters who can’t stop arguing but have to work together to save a TV show. Also there is kissing. I loved writing it and you can pre-order it here! linktr.ee/LoveSceneAnn...
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My sister has written another book! About writers! Meta! You can pre-order it now.
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constantly explaining to my foreign friends that, in Ireland, zogabongs at a funeral isn't disrespectful.
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
constantly explaining to my foreign friends that, in Ireland, zogabongs at a funeral isn't disrespectful.
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DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
BATH, ENGLAND—Saying the discovery shed new light on the infamous German dictator’s life, University of Bath researchers revealed DNA sequencing Friday showing that Adolf Hitler was a type of fern. “A...
theonion.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
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There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"
Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral
Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"
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"Open the pod bay doors, nan"
"I can't do that, David. It costs a fortune to heat this place. And take your spacesuit off. You won't feel the benefit."
"I can't do that, David. It costs a fortune to heat this place. And take your spacesuit off. You won't feel the benefit."
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Open the pod bay doors, nan"
"I can't do that, David. It costs a fortune to heat this place. And take your spacesuit off. You won't feel the benefit."
"I can't do that, David. It costs a fortune to heat this place. And take your spacesuit off. You won't feel the benefit."
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
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Miaow! I have updated the Dublin events listing spreadsheet! New gigs include concerts by Tinariwen, the UCD Composition Ensemble & the UCD Gamelan Orchestra (together at last!), and Bristol "trip hop" sensation Tricky
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm #DublinListings #DublinGigs
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm #DublinListings #DublinGigs
The Crackdown
docs.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Miaow! I have updated the Dublin events listing spreadsheet! New gigs include concerts by Tinariwen, the UCD Composition Ensemble & the UCD Gamelan Orchestra (together at last!), and Bristol "trip hop" sensation Tricky
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm #DublinListings #DublinGigs
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm #DublinListings #DublinGigs
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn