Mark Maguire

A giant pomelo over a country estate. The image is part of a book about famous citrus fruits of Nuremberg (VD18 14760916).

What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians

“I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here.”

👏 Nice one, hard won, worth it

Penguin Classics cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot. cover image is a painting of the death of caesar

ok, this is my favorite so far:

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Hoping the place continues on. It was a favourite haunt of mine when I was actually still free to haunt it.

When the hurricanes do come, and they most certainly will, will he be responsible for their destruction (like an ancient Irish chieftain dispatched to the bog on the back of a poor harvest)? I think not.

Hands up if you have ever been in an Irish maternity context where you didn't think "wow, they could REALLY do with at least twice the number of staff in here".

Nobody?!

😄😱 Elevator pitch “Jack Black, Colin Hanks, a bit o’ the ol’ ultra-violence …”

Insert a movie into another movie:

Clockwork Orange County

I just asked, and …
“Jingle Bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost a wheel
And Joker did ballet - yay!”
I said “Ballet? What?!” And the middle kid half looked at me from the Nintendo and said nonchalantly “It’s random “ 🤷‍♀️

Yeah, my kids seemed to have a current iteration a couple of years ago. So it’s still in circulation (Dublin, 2020s)

Ages ago I saw on TV a similar thing from England where the car ended up impaled by the rear on a fence. The police arriving were 🤷🏻‍♂️ IIRC it was an older gent driving and something to do with automatic transmission - after that I’m foggy. But it was baffling like this.

A can that reads "Franco-American Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Shaped Pasta with Tomato & Cheese Sauce". On the can is a lineup of 4 characters from the show The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, in colorful armor and helmets, standing in front of rolling green hills

Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland

Love it. I still have multiple opportunities every year for quote-muttering to myself “I got a letter from the government the other day, I opened and read it, it said they were suckers” 😄

The first time I heard someone playing PE on a cassette downstairs, a few days into college in first year, the noise was like an air raid siren. The urgency, pay attention. Then you get Chuck D’s authoritative tones. 💥

I think this proposal merits more research. A trial period with live feed webcam. Publicly accessible archive of the test subjects response.

Celebrate Scottish Comic Book Day open.substack.com/pub/comicsce...

The Easter Dues are due …”

“The Blankety Blank chequebook and pen”

Framed photo portrait picture in oval mat with young woman from long ago in formal attire who looks mildly disappointed in her facial expression

Me when your Bluesky post isn't what I was expecting/hoping for

Your kids watch stranger things season 4 and they are like ‘ohhh Eddie is so fun’ and you are like ‘I WAS LITERALLY A TEENAGER METALLER WHO PLAYED AD&D IN THE 80s AND MY HAIR *ALTHOUGH FINE* NEVER LOOKED THAT GOOD’

I mean it was Ireland so we never had the Satanic panic, but still. Triggering.

Sounds like a good movie too

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Dolphin
Hummingbird
Vulture
Wolf or Coyote (still unsure, probably a Wolf)
Pheasant (a few weeks ago. In my mid-fifties. Driving through the back roads of North Dublin, there in a field I saw my first pheasant)

Great, even. Man I need that edit button

She rules. Gets to see her in a lead role.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

Prince
Tinariwen
Nirvana
Public Enemy
Television

Yes. One of the key artists in the Seattle-based Grunge movement, Burrough’s early ’90s work went on to have considerable influence on Post-Modernism in the ‘70s, and, some scholars assert, his technique can be heard echoing in the Beat movement of today. Or something.

😇 Martyred by an app but at least I was authenticated

Literally drove me mad Monday morning when I had to use it for both Microsoft and the HR app *and* the MyGov thing as well. Like foothering around with a mess of keys outside your locked front door in the lashing rain.