Rowan Manahan

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Many people like to play air-guitar, or even air-drums.
I like to play air-cowbell.
My favourite is “Free Your Mind” by En Vogue, especially that sweet solo at 3:44.

Same problem as the last few general elections - I have have 13-17 candidates on the ballot in my constituency, not one of whom I wanted to vote *for…*

UK and Ireland here we come

On enabling presidential candidates. Some thoughts

[A] I see you’re in favour of eating babies now

Oh no.

[A] But you’re nominating the Baby-Eating Party for President.

Ah, that’s democracy.

[A] Do tell.

Well, baby-eaters are a part of our society. They deserve a seat at the table.

1/10

So RFK *is* the dead cat then?

Bringing in Armando Iannucci to script the final seasons of The UK was a wry choice

Ed Zitron’s take on all this from a few days back - he brought receipts - was superb. @edzitron.com

Standing Against Harmful Speech I feel compelled to respond to recent comments made by Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe In a public post on X (Twitter), Mr. McCabe lamented that “one of the great sorrows of my life has been watching my be...

On monday a reshare of a disturbing Twitter post turned up in my feed in Bluesky. I wrote this in response because this is about people. People who are being harassed daily on our streets and attacked and assaulted. Its on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/standi...

Performative microphoning.

“Are yiew lookin ah moy moh?”

And those same unloved and unappreciated barriers, so excited at having been let out of storage for a day, being totally unneeded during the last papal visit.
#WillNooneThinkOfTheBarriers

(Steve Jobs voice) We can make that violin smaller.

Fuck all the way off.

Maybe some helpful soul will scratch this response into the bodywork of the car? Perhaps a big red spraypainted arrow pointing at the 25 for those who are slow on the uptake?

Fresh meat! #Bwuhahaha!

“You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start imposing tariffs on them. It's like a magnet. Just tariff. I don't even wait. And when you're a President they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the mineral rights. You can do anything.”

‘Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”’ (Auric Goldfinger)

Better Off Dead

Except, of course, Fr or Very Rev - I’m sure @dermotcasey.bsky.social would concur?

Pish taw! Ping a hole in the glass. Bit of mastic. Bush bash bosh!

One does not debate nazis or gravy apostates…

I can’t even *look* at you!

If you’re putting gravy on that tier, you must make shite gravy… 😆

He’s making a list…

Acrylic painting of Newgrange

The dark stretches its hand across these weeks, encroaching on the day.

Swallowing the thin wan light, leaving us straining through shorter and shorter bursts of daylight.

In Newgrange, the stones wait.

Well they asked...

I like to imagine that the delineation is intended to be read in a rather snooty tone, as if to say, “Ah, that explains it.”

From the OED app. (a) I don’t like the phrasing of their example sentence for the correct definition. (b) I’m not at all happy that they’ve surrendered to millions upon millions of incorrect uses - wring is just wrong. (c) But I’m glad they’re rather snootily identifying the perpetrators.