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I am still languishing at the mercy of my septic throat. It’s all very Jane Austen, at my length in a dressing gown accepting cups of tea.

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Do yourself a favour and read this piece. It is truly lovely. www.thetimes.com/article/e293...

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Spread this around. No curse quite like an Irish one. Thanks @seamas.bsky.social! "Musk is just a blinkered, blundering dunce; a man who thinks his ability to buy companies renders him a Godlike superintelligence, pathologically resistant to the idea...1/ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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Actual name, I checked. I know they like to do a name change upon pope-ing, but with a name like this they should totally reconsider.

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Every time I see the latest news from the US

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Husband is on a quest to refine a REM playlist down to a “burnable on to a CD” size. It’s an intellectual exercise more than anything, that or an attempt to upset himself. I don’t hold with that behaviour. My REM playlist contains entire albums because I will not be editing and you can’t make me.

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Chalk me up as another person who missed this piece when it came out in December. Stunning, luxurious writing on family, friends, and Seamus Heaney, by Caitlin Flanagan. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... H/T @deshocks.bsky.social

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Currently bathing my throat in a soothing soup of penicillin because I have both tonsillitis and a septic uvula (wee dangly bit in the middle at the back). Antibiotics are the business. Their overuse is one of the background threats that lurk. We really need them to not stop working…

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Never let them tell you that Irishness is some set, immutable fact of the blood

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😁. From my past experiences doing home visits there are many in the elder community who have not been available for a new pope since JP2. Someone out there is making a killing selling life sized pictures of himself for front rooms.

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I would like to know less about America

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Day four of a truly epic bout of tonsillitis. My epiglottis has begun to peel. Throat is the colour of red lemonade. It hurts to drink tea. Of all the minor punishments to set before me, I can’t have tea!

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It is enjoyable though, no? I hope the video- taker had snacks.

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Husband has just hiss-shrieked at me “that’s the worst thing you have ever said to me”. What did I say? “You are not Lando Calrissian”. (This in reference to his sudden desire for a cape.)

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I will not fly near the USA or on an American airline again until those fools that decimated air safety are gone. Jeepers. I know the weather in Toronto is rough right now but upside down and wingless? Thankfully everyone seems to have gotten out.

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This this this this this this THIS.

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Bill S Preston Esquire:

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I’m intrigued by the many possibilities offered by “he who saves his country does not violate any law”. Is that a new executive order? “Saves the country” is open to so many promising interpretations above and beyond what that fool intends.

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There are now few pleasant ways out of this. American politicians need to find one of those ways.

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Increasingly guitar obsessed child had a question today: “Why do daddy’s expensive guitars, that I’m not allowed to touch, never go out of tune?” That would be because your father has a problem, child. They stay well tuned because they are both expensive and you aren’t allowed to touch them 😁

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All the commons Hate him perniciously, and, o’ my conscience, Wish him ten fathom deep.

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If that was my horse I would be having words with the “rescuer”. “Marseille - a horse got stuck on the balcony of an apartment. It seems the owner of the apartment was drunk when the horse was rescued”

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This thread! Jeepers. Can I just say, if you are prone to squeamishness. DON’T. This is not for you- consider instead some butterflies, or a pretty meadow. If graphic agricultural pestilence is your thing then by all means enjoy yourself: 😁

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No. The large sea mammals are coming for us with alarming frequency. This is why I may visit the sea, ook at it and admire it, but I do not go in the sea.

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Can we all just announce we are renaming things and have Google obey (since they’re no longer wedded to the whole “don’t be evil” notion)? Tyrone, obviously becomes “not Derry” said with this face:

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