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Want to come to the Royal Irish Academy and hear @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Brian Rossney & myself discuss AI & creativity? Sold out but a few returns now available for tonight www.ria.ie/events/disco...

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I wrote about the government’s quiet capitulation to the anti-immigrant right’s tactic of violence and intimidation www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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We're looking forward to hosting award-winning author Mark O'Connell next Thursday 27 March 2pm. Come and join us! This event is free and open to the public. @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @oonaf.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social @flordtk.bsky.social

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“Mangione gave the Unabomber manifesto four stars, which in relative esteem places it below Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens (five stars) and above Steve-O from Jackass’s memoir A Hard Kick in the Nuts (three stars).”

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I wrote about ole Luigi www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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Believing humans can be reduced to one "smart" score that translates across disciplines--so someone who is "smart" at, say, running a tech start-up or being a reality TV star must inherently be "smart" at international diplomacy--is one of the most childish worldviews you can have. Truly juvenile.

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Nothing beats kicking back, putting on a great movie, and waiting for it to end

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in some ways being the richest man in the world is already kind of like doing the biggest seig heil possible at all times

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international global system international global system international global system

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Pretty much the first I thing I do on Saturday mornings is read @mrkocnnll.bsky.social 's latest for the Irish Times. This week's is essential reading. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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incomparable

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I spoke to @mrkocnnll.bsky.social at @tlrhub.bsky.social last month about difficult men, big second acts, the spectre of the author in non-fiction writing, and his very exciting new book project. Recording available at the link below. www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

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Always enjoyable watching Irish Catholic ethnonationalists try to import UK based conspiracy theories about Muslim paedophile grooming gangs...

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Bannon just called Musk ‘a globalist’ a ‘war profiteer’ and a ‘running dog’ for China, if you were wondering if the H1B visa thing was going to die down.

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Back in the Garden State 🫡

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The Reactionary International

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I like the wording here because it implies that Christmas will be released from prison an hour or two after Enoch Burke, and will hunt him down in a kind of festive “Most Dangerous Game” scenario, for our entertainment

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Nothing I love more in a tv show or a movie than an elderly British gangster wearing huge glasses, saying stuff like “you’ve overplayed your hand, son”

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CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that

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Me when I don’t want to go into the particulars

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Andy Warhol retire, bitch

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Excited to talk with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social about his work later today at @tlrhub.bsky.social. There is no real reason that I am doing this—rather than someone more qualified—other than I really enjoy conversation with Mark, so I asked if I could. Come along and enjoy conversation with him too!

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HALIEY WELCH: today on talk tuah, we're going to be discussing the short-lived coup attempt in korea and the ensuing events in seoul. how did we get here? what's next for the embattled president? with me today is gore vidal GORE VIDAL: thank you haliey, and let me just say a "hawk tuah" to you all

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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"Imports and exports are decided by some corporal or some bureaucrat in some ministry in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem? I mean, seriously? And Palestinians are supposed to say, 'Oh, let's create a nice little utopia inside the prison'? What kind of nonsense is that?" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books

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I couldn't get through more than a couple of paragraphs of that VF Cormac McCarthy piece, but it made me realise that I'll take hell-for-leather bad writing over cautious, dully declarative bad writing. Ultimately I'll avoid both kinds, but at least one of them is trying something

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Harris can’t even maintain the thin performance of compassion required of him during an election campaign, with the cameras rolling. Morality aside, this is a man with no political talent or instinct whatsoever

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Controversial opinion: if you starve innocent civilians, you should face the consequences. www.ft.com/content/0b62...

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Found the absolute worst thing to listen to at the gym. I simply cannot recommend against it enough, in terms of listening to at the gym

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