Carl Kinsella

41% of people supporting a war for oil started by a rapist and probable paedophile who is enacting fascism domestically, hastening climate destruction, and abetting a separate genocide, is actually catastrophic, and not at all heartening.

hey. i made a little money

Surrealing in the Years: Is it the biblical End of Days? Yeah, sure, why not? What’s the difference, at this point.

'Patchflow was obviously visited overnight by the three ghosts of Everyone Finds Your Behaviour Despicable, had a change of heart and withdrew the eviction notices on Friday evening.'

This week's column is on Iran, oil prices, evictions, the St Paddy's Day visit, and the end of days.

hoping that they don’t take out our entire Cabinet in one airstrike due to some kind of AI-driven alphabetisation mix-up at the Pentagon?

Surrealing in the Years: Is it the biblical End of Days? Yeah, sure, why not? What’s the difference, at this point.

'Patchflow was obviously visited overnight by the three ghosts of Everyone Finds Your Behaviour Despicable, had a change of heart and withdrew the eviction notices on Friday evening.'

This week's column is on Iran, oil prices, evictions, the St Paddy's Day visit, and the end of days.

i love the bit in the Prancing Pony where Frodo is asking the innkeeper if he's seen Gandalf and he like... takes a minute to remember who Gandalf is. yeah man, enormous, pointy hat, grey beard man, robes, staff, you know, the wizard who is active in this area

right on

do the books say how long he got to chill there? movie makes it seem about a week, maybe less. he'd probably barely have gotten in gear. god that sucks

can you imagine how much sex, drugs and partying Frodo got up to between inheriting Bag End and finding out he had to save Middle Earth. goddamn

Haha, this is PERFECT (and the kids laughed nearly as much as I did), @carlkinsella.bsky.social has it spot on!

Surrealing in the Years: There was never any chance that we wouldn't draw Israel Also this week: the government has finally solved the tourism crisis.

"In case you haven’t noticed, Micheál Martin has been doing this thing lately where he’ll wash his hands of just about anything he can, like Pontius Pilate after he’s just had a bulk delivery of Jo Browne."

This week's column is on Ireland vs Israel, Dáil debates and housing.

Brilliant piece by Carl, as always.

I do wonder if Micheál (probably distracted by sneering) has even momentarily considered what will happen when the fans (most of whom will be current or former IDF soldiers) descend on Dublin? Previous matches show they're violent & disrespectful of local laws.

Brilliant column

Surrealing in the Years: There was never any chance that we wouldn't draw Israel Also this week: the government has finally solved the tourism crisis.

"In case you haven’t noticed, Micheál Martin has been doing this thing lately where he’ll wash his hands of just about anything he can, like Pontius Pilate after he’s just had a bulk delivery of Jo Browne."

This week's column is on Ireland vs Israel, Dáil debates and housing.

man united: on their first good run of form in five years
man united owner: i have something to say

As @carlkinsella.bsky.social and others have pointed out, this is becoming a habit for our Taoiseach. When challenged by the opposition in the Dáil about government policy, his comebacks are increasingly spiteful, personalised and utterly lacking in substance.

Finally had enough time and brainwidth to finish @carlkinsella.bsky.social 's excellent book.
It is, of course, hilarious andincludes:
- A genuinely nostalgic recollection of peak Irish Twitter
- One of the better discussions of OCD and Intrusive Thoughts that I've ever read.

you know how some jokes never get old? what's the opposite of that

It is actually unbelievable that this guy still has a job.

Covid bringing back QR codes and AI bringing back Mozilla. What's it going to take to bring back vBulletin messageboards?

We are all lying face down in that puddle
#speirghorm

Surrealing in the Years: Oh good, something else that Magic Wand Micheál is powerless to solve We’re not talking about orcs here, man.

'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.'

This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.

the sun’s brief reappearance is worth a hundred northern lights

The fact that the prompt even begins with ‘Everybody play along 🤣😬!!’ like how is that alone not the most offputting thing in the world

"housing cannot be solved ‘overnight’ even though Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have now been in government together for 3,567 nights in a row..."

Great article. No one is expecting magic wand solutions, but they do expect some sort of preparedness from the powers that be. A lot of the problems we face - as a society, as employees, as renters, as victims of disease - are entirely predictable.

If Carl could make “the Luas is free” stick, surely he can also make “magic wand Micheál” stick aswell. For the greater good, like.

"Still, irrational as the electorate can be, the mention of a magic wand only ever seems to come from those who do actually control the non-magical resources by which non-magical problems such as flooding might be addressed, either preemptively or after the fact."

Sadly I am a shadow of the man I once was.

Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m confident in saying that nobody has ever actually asked Micheál Martin to solve anything using the magic wand method.