Joe Culley

My Hallowe'en horror came early today because some nearby ABSOLUTE FUCKOES started up their piledriver at half-seven and it's still going.

May they rot in hell for eternity.

Here's one for you:

Excellent

@paulduane.bsky.social

May I ask your wife's opinion on that strategy?

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Tom Wasn't Very Happy With Me" - Colin Farrell's Birthday Screw-Up On The Set Of "Minority Report”

You won't be surprised to hear that Colin Farrell is excellent. Worth watching both segments.

youtu.be/lpfuIKEBlw8?...

Does AFP now use bots to write its reports?

* still, remarkable story

Critics differ, TV programmes . . . get axed?

Guardian and IT

#DownCemeteryRoad

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Utter nonsense @nytimes

The great Caroline?

I mean, I'd be pretty aggressive towards humans too.

Do you have to click on all the squares that include a leek?

. @news.rte.ie keeps saying that Amazon employees will be "impacted by job cuts".
Do you mean laid off? Then say it.
#lazyjournalism

Seems Google maps is actually tracking #Melissa

As we used to say, thread (short):

Incredibile, it's as if the photo were taken only yesterday, so little has changed.

YouTube video by Comedy Central Africa Jesus Or Trump? | The Daily Show | Comedy Central Africa

Jesus or T*ump
youtu.be/flDaZvGKTn0?...

Irish playwright, author and politician, Terence MacSwiney, died #OTD 1920 after 74 days on hungerstrike. Huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral procession.

Unionists shocked by level of sectarian abuse during election, says Humphreys FG candidate says unionist asked ‘if that’s what they put you through, Heather, what hope have the rest of us?’

And Unionists - or at least their Loyalist confreres - would know a thing or two about sectarianism.

Unionists shocked by level of sectarian abuse during election, says Humphreys

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

A local development (and no, this is not the world I live in).
Two things:
Look at that two-storey gable window (which I think I like, though it offers a magnificent vista only of the side of the neighbour's wall), and
Just how big was the garden of the original house.

I do my best to be green. Was going to buy the "if you care" foil - except it costs just short of FOUR times the regular stuff.

I'll have to give that a try.
Strange thing is, for reasons I don't understand, I more or less stopped reading short stories a long time ago. I did read Barry's most recent, and enjoyed it. When I was younger I read many. (I even had a couple published.)

Quite late to this (came out nearly two years ago) - but my God, what a stunner. Not a loose sentence, smilies that snap like fresh elastic, dialogue that would please Elmore Leonard. The equal to Kevin Barry.
Funny, moving, characters I cared about. I could see a sequel.
#ColinBarrett
#WildHouses

'Betwixt a subtile Priest & cursed Wife / I'm plagu'd for my transgression / The two great Follyes of my Life / Is Marriage & Confession.' c. 1681-1688
As we put in exam questions: 'discuss'.

(British Museum)

Take the name
Straight to Hell

Do it.

My polling station always has one of the highest turnouts in the country. There's usually a queue. At 1:15pm there were 4 people voting.

It is the booksellers who put books into the hands of readers, who host events and signings, who champion Irish writers. Nothing we do would be possible without them.

Support your local bookshops this week - ceannaigh go háitiúil, ceannaigh earraí Éireannacha ❤️

Clondalkin
@IrishTimes