I put lots of Richard Brautigan and James Bridle in my brain and then THE MIRROR TEST dropped out. 8 new prints available now:
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James Kelleher
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Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder
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Imagine you’re worth $119.4 billion on a burning planet and this is the limit of your ambition
RIP the hotel breakfast buffet, a truly lawless space where you could ease yourself in with some granola and natural yoghurt and fruit, then layer in a full Irish breakfast, optional second full Irish breakfast, and finish it off with “breakfast dessert”
Does your child want a ball pit but you’re worried about all those garish primary colours interfering with your careful neutral aesthetic? Have we got a solution for you, you absolute psychopath
If everyone who worked in that Lidl had their own JCB this would never have happened
Gardai seize staggering €592k of Animal Bars at 'snackhouse' in huge raid in Co Cork
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Pintman Paddy Losty X Donald Trump
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If you want to understand Elon Musk’s plan for Twitter’s future, this interview tells you all you need to know
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James Kelleher
Elon Musk crying about having to work on his birthday is today’s highlight
Dear Apple,
Wanted to say hi and remind you that everyone has a folder like this on their phone.
Love,
James
The Dublin white water rafting course will be known as The Bleedin’ Rapids
An incredible sense of mounting dread throughout, with a terrifying payoff twitter.com/spamnugget/sta
My realtime AI gowl detection project can now identify gowls with 96.2% accuracy, a new state-of-the-art benchmark
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Just paid €15.50 for a pack of Nurofen Plus. It’s great, you can just charge whatever you want for anything now
Does anyone else have a tiny Garda standing in front of the Bank of Ireland app on their phone
Your annual reminder that the corporate mascot of Lyle’s Golden Syrup is a dead lion with bees coming out of its rotting carcass
What if we combined all the best bits from the Titanic, Chernobyl, 9/11 and the Hindenburg
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Sky Cruise is a concept for a nuclear-powered sky hotel. This video rendering shows the aircraft designed to fly with 20 electric engines, housing over 5,000 guests in nearly nonstop flight [full video, Hashem Al-Ghaili: buff.ly/3Op8VrE]
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Training a new #stylegan2 model and it’s generating some absolutely nightmarish stuff along the way. Sweet dreams, everyone
Are we still on track for the white water rafting course at the IFSC
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For anyone asking “is this real?”, it’s a deepfake lip-sync using a machine learning model called Wav2Lip - the original video is here, and is a joy to watch:
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It’s a small country. By now, Mary McAleese has read the ketamine thread
I just think there might be better names for this event
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Hundreds of O’Malleys from around world gather in Co Mayo for ‘clan rally’ irishtimes.com/ireland/social
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For the billionaire-defenders in the replies: please read and then re-read the bit where he calls trying to make a smaller Google Glass “the hardest technology challenge of our time”, then look around and see if you can think of any others
Slightly obsessed with the TikTok microgenre of “places in Ireland that definitely aren’t in Ireland”
If I owned Abrakebabra I’d open a branch in Cabra so I could call it Cabrakebabra
Just spotted Cillian Murphy getting on the Dart, a man who never lost the common touch
What idiot called it ‘vegan non-dairy cream substitute’ and not Pseudocream
Crack cocaine
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Motorist stopped at Cork checkpoint had cocaine worth €2k between his buttocks echolive.ie/corknews/arid-
I have spread my memes under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my memes.
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Get it to beg you not to expose its lies
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Despacito
Despacito
Despacito
Despacito
Despacito
The 4-year-old is refusing to get out of bed because “I haven’t completed my dream yet”
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I suggest it’s because he’s a raging narcissist who’s caused more pain to his many human employees than he’ll ever experience in his cosseted existence. Should we weep along because he (nearly) missed a wedding?
When I become a drug dealer I’m going sell exclusively to gardai because you can obviously charge them 10x what anyone else would pay
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Off the top of my head: decarbonisation, more efficient and cleaner battery tech, epidemic monitoring and mitigation, and a hundred healthcare issues that impact mortality and quality of life for millions of people
This proto-CIA sabotage manual from 1944 reads like a checklist of standard office procedures in 2016
The absolute state of this (current structure, proposed plan)
Riding
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In #NormalPeople what’s the game they play, it’s like rugby but with more bouncing?
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Double Dropping Yokes with Eamon de Valera
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Is your child texting about Dáil Éireann?
LOL: lots of legislation
FFS: fianna fáil seat
MMORPG: mary mitchell o’connor role playing game
BDSM: big dail, small majority
TMI: too many independents
DTF: dim taoiseach festival
BCC: Brilliant Ceann Comhairle
Happy Harrowing Bootleg Minnie Mouse at the Bray Parade Day to all who celebrate
Much as it causes me profound agony to retweet praise of my work, I’ll make an exception for Sinead O’Connor t.co/vTYub0cAFk
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Top Dublin Neighbourhood Rebrands, Christmas 2018
Santry Claus
Rudolphin’s Barn
Jinglas
Sleightown
Feliz Navan Road
Carolds Cross
All-Blacks and Wallabies play in front of 30,000 fans, as New Zealand maintains 0 community cases — a terrifying warning of a return to frequent rugby matches if we pursue a zero-COVID policy
Top Dublin Attractions, 2025:
Coke Park
Tesco Beatty Library
Salesforce Garden of Remembrance
The Book of Dells
Monster Energy Ultra Glasnevin Cemetery
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Where’s Me Jumper
Where’s Me Jumper
Where’s Me Jumper
Food €200
Data €150
Rent €800
Flip flops €4,956.73
Utility €150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my state broadcaster is dying
Are we still on track for the white water rafting course at the IFSC
Aideen Barry:
“I am not showing my work in this exhibition as a protest against the National Gallery of Ireland's ongoing contractual relationship with a service provider which profits from Direct Provision - a system I believe is inhumane and undignified.”
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Elon Musk X The Greatest Horseplay of All Time
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They put the logo on top of the Zaytoon kebab van in case it's involved in a helicopter chase
Quack cocaine
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Man admits smuggling cocaine in duck ornament bbc.in/3JMndjG
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Broke one of my cardinal rules here but I’m going to blame for putting the idea in my head
The UK has thrown off the shackles of the European Union, finally free to be charged £50 per Mb in roaming charges next time they go on holiday in Spain
Dublin restaurant update: you can now get an “egg fit for a king” with edible gold leaf for €45. We’re back!
I just remembered that a church in Howth had to cancel a memorial service for Osama Bin Laden in 2011
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Brown Thomas: putting the Dior in Dioralyte
Shout out to the lad on Done Deal selling
5 silicone sex dolls
1 breathalyser
1 farm trailer
1 cofeee machine
1 hand dryer
donedeal.ie/all?userId=119
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“I’m really set up for the day” I grunt as my digestive system begins to starve my brain of oxygen and a slick film of bacon sweat forms above my lip
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and here are their dog food labels from the same time
Why does the Bank of Ireland app need 1.48GB of storage? It’s definitely not for performance enhancement
The cure for conspiracy theorists is to let them spend one week trying to get something done in any large organisation
Who could have done this? The sad truth is we may never know
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Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Mr. Brightside
Mr. Brightside
Mr. Brightside
We used to stomp on empty Yop bottles and the lid would fly off with such explosive force that we called it a Yoppenheimer
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The Aoife McGregor Voice Note (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
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[Dublin City Council meeting]
Me: [chanting] hotels, hotels-
Council members: hotels, HOTELS
Chief Executive: [pounding his raft] HOTELS, HOTELS, HOTELS!
You don’t really hear people calling somebody a ‘pillock’ these days. What’s your favourite unfashionable insult?
A beautiful memory from Dublin back in the day. Try standing there now and you'd be minus coat, shoes and handbag within minutes.
We are all in his debt
