Alan Kelly

Alan Kelly

@akellyucc.bsky.social

Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social

3,004 Followers 2,989 Following 3,171 Posts Joined Oct 2023
15 hours ago

Those Oscars were magic. Stayed up to watch it win

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15 hours ago

Yeah maybe but I have a big soft spot for My Left Foot so that was enough for me

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15 hours ago

Does Daniel Day Lewis count?

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15 hours ago
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I was in a ceremonial hall in a Norwegian university last week and was fascinated by the Celtic looking decorative features. Who stole from who???

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18 hours ago
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Donald Trump’s mixed messages on Iran leave questions unanswered More than a week into the US-Israel war on Iran, president has provided little clarity on how the conflict might end

He is itching to use a bloody nuke, and no one around him would discourage him

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19 hours ago
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Pretty accurate

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1 day ago

Nice

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1 day ago

It’s GUBU

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1 day ago

WTAF? Seriously? Makes Melania look like a little indie movie in cost per minute

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1 day ago

It must be the 1980s because my feed is full of Dire Straits

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1 day ago
LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.

[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].

After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:

Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon. 

bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,

Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon

To earth's hard oblivion.

[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.

[Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

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1 day ago

Ah jaysus it’s yourself is it?

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1 day ago

The origins of the rhetorical Irish greeting “ how’s it going?” (to which the correct if confusing response is “ how’s it going?”) remain unknown

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2 days ago

Abolish ice

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2 days ago

Fair enough!!!

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2 days ago
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a man is smiling with the words its bonkers mate above him ALT: a man is smiling with the words its bonkers mate above him
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2 days ago

The pope’s favorite cheese is Swiss

Because it’s the holiest

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2 days ago

Me: feeling remarkably like Spring today!
Irish weather: ha ha fooled ya

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3 days ago
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Some cool trivia…Mount Everest contains marine rocks, proving that the highest point on Earth was once at the bottom of the ocean. 😎💙😎

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3 days ago

Maybe it’s all a plot to get everyone buying Teslas for Elon?

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3 days ago
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Jeepers but there has been some change in petrol and diesel prices in Cork over the last few days

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3 days ago

Just left Oslo yesterday lunchtime so this sent weird shivers.

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3 days ago

I mean how the hell???

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3 days ago

I watched the Long Walk recently and it feels kind of a bit like that

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3 days ago

Maybe not actually!

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3 days ago

All makes perfect strategic sense

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3 days ago

So let me get this straight, if Iran picks a new leader the countries attacking Iran don’t like they will just kill them and keep doing that until they pick someone they approve of? WTAF?

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3 days ago

Died of time travel complications

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4 days ago
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

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