Christopher Murray

When President CMAT takes over from President CMAC, she'll still be able to write and perform songs, won't she?
President Migeldy remained a poet.

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Even I thought this was one of mine!

When driving a rental car in Germany decades ago, I kept grabbing the window winder whenever I wanted to change gear.
These days, even though there's no knob on the door, my hand still goes there for the first day or so.

an open cardboard box filled with 700 Lily O'Brien's milk chocolate truffle balls (9kg)

At last, a box of chocolates worthy of that description 😋

"Irish Spooks" print by Ciaraíoch Art, framed just in time for Samhain, held up outdoors in sunshine among autumnal leaf colours

'tis the season to put a @ciaraioch.bsky.social print into a frame!

Three toilet cubicle doors in an art museum in France (Château d'Oiron). The three labels are "Messieurs", "Dames", and "Artistes".

In France, there's a third gender...

I've found the post you're referring to. You had a different name for the invalid one.

Not intentionally; just another mistake to look out for

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An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

Or Sweden, as he might think that the Peace Prize is awarded by a Swedish institution like the others

Cancellation dialog to confirm that I want a refund for the tickets I bought to take a friend to see CMAT's Euro-Country show in Cardiff because I can't get there for the new date after it was postponed from October to December

Confirmation of refund request

With a heavy heart, I have to cancel my plans to see @cmatbaby.bsky.social in Cardiff 🥹
Get well soon!

Monty Python responses to the troops patrolling our streets are the best responses to the troops patrolling our streets

'I've had sex with a penis the size of a thumb'. A sex worker gives it the thumbs up.

On a podcast, I heard someone claim she had encountered "magic wands" in all sizes: "The biggest was the roughly the size of my forearm, the smallest was the size of my thumb."
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Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey Frances “Frankie” Kathleen Oldham Kelsey. Kelsey was universally credited with sparing the US the damage inflicted by the drug thalidomide to the human nervous system by refusing to approve the drug f...

Yes we were told thalidomide was safe, but the people claiming that were just trying to make money. Frances Oldham Kelsey demanded scientific evidence over worthless reassurances. She was awarded the President's Medal of Service by JFK. www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Just like the determination to end freedom of movement, as if freedom of movement was not something to be treasured

There's a person I follow on Instagram who stumbles across a lot of it in NYC www.instagram.com/karinschall/

Me holding a silver vinyl record, part of CMAT's new album "Euro-Country", and wearing a t-shirt with the text "Always the cowboy never the cow", a lyric from the classic CMAT song "I wanna be a cowboy, baby!"

Support Irish artists! 🇮🇪
(Today, @cmatbaby.bsky.social)

Sharon van Etten & The Attachment Theory on stage in the courtyard of Collins Barracks museum in Dublin on Thursday 20 August 2025

What a pleasure to have no distracting screens beside the stage for Sharon van Etten's concert at Collins Barracks last night 🙂

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Collection of Euro coins, including 2c and 1c coins which are rarely seen in Ireland now that cash prices are almost always rounded to the nearest 5c.

Evidence that I've recently been spending cash outside Ireland 🤔

Those top two are good to see for us physicists 🙂

Three toilet doors, labelled respectively "messieurs", "dames", and "artistes"

Third gender 😂

Assortment of small stones extracted from the foam soles of a pair of worn out Nike Vaporfly running shoes (also shown)

Every time I run in my worn out Vaporfly shoes, I acquire a set of small stones in the foam soles, which I pry out when I get home.
But those shoes are still faster than the non-Vaporfly pair I bought to replace them!

That time I got a friend thoroughly confused when I wrote on her birthday card that she was the answer to life, the universe, and everything!
(She was 42) 🤦🏻

Inside an Irish record shop where shelves of vinyl records predominate

When I started buying CDs, record shops contained mostly vinyl records and had just a few shelves of CDs.
The difference now is that vinyl albums are roughly twice the price of CDs, the reverse of back then.

The other interesting fact we learnt was that Billy himself was almost killed the day before the battle by an artillery shell fired at him while out scouting the site.

Last year on the Twelfth of July, we went to the Battle of the Boyne site only to learn that the battle had been fought the previous day! The Twelfth is the day King Billy's side celebrated their victory.

The relationship advice my grandmother gave is the wisest I've ever had and still serves me well.
"Neither mean nor jealous be!"