Ryan Shirlow
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Ryan Shirlow
@ryanshirlow.bsky.social
Irish 🇮🇪 in Yorkshire 🏵️ Fortean Times writer & PhD student, study folk music 🪕 & folklore 🧚

Also ❤️old 🚙 cars & homebrew 🍺
Dad to 2 wee girls

Music on Woodford Halse and Fenny Compton https://ryanshirlow.bandcamp.com/
I appreciate your forthright defence of the concept of sweet potatoes, whilst agreeing on the specific focus at hand that they must never be fried and passed off as a chip substitute.
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I hate sweet potato, fake potato more like. Either eat a carrot or a potato, both totally legitimate choices, not some gawd awful bastardisation of the pair.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
low rise is the worst
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
inventor of the barre chord
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I remember their lead singer Risk E
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reposted by Ryan Shirlow
I’m 49 now. I thought the accordion was cool when I was six. What is cool is subjective. You don’t have to be up to date. Just live your life, like what you want, and learn some more. Pop culture is just a snapshot. You’re along for the ride.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
accordion is very cool
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
You have it nailed. Occasionally there is a weird Japanese microcar!
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Look at the absolute genius of this

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November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Lovecraft’s old professor disappearing into a cyclopean vault full of adapters. So many hideous possibilities. Things that should never be connected.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ah man that’s a rookie error, the very act of throwing out the mystery cable conjured the drive back into existence, you need to maintain a small nest of incomprehensible wires to prevent having to access anything on these old drives in the first place
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yeah this is great work, don’t touch it!
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yes but they aren’t cool as in trainers cool, have they even heard of Sabrina Carpenter? Do they 6/7?
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I woke up absolutely distraught.

But the manager was fair enough, they can’t have me spending hours there every night wasting their time, they have a living to make. Er.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
nicely observed, I think this is probably true, because you care less and less about fitting in with an in-crowd or conforming to their ideology
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
biodegradable
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM