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Part Time TTRPG Entertainer/Fulltime Dad Irish and Dublinish
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Me (Pitching a Sit-Com): It's about a down on his luck accountant that takes a job with a travelling circus and falls in love with a trapeze artist and it's called: Cheques and Balances. The Ghost of Ted Turner: Bring me the head of Hulk Hogan! Only then can my spirit rest!

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Tuesday got me wishing for...

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There are many flavours of Post-Apocalypse from Zombies to Nuclear Wasteland to Machine Uprising but perhaps least recognised is the one we've all been living in since 1992 when Francis Fukuyama ended history.

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An incredible case study in how disproportionately vocal people that melt your head are. According to the poll results just 1 in 5 people don't rate the track, but of the 39 comments a solid 90% are melts trying to assert their cooler-than-thou-ness by naming equally well known and popular songs

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Trying to form the two word moniker for "Miasma of Ideas" and getting stuck on whether the adjectival form of idea is 'Ideational' or 'Ideative' is the point where the ouroborous chokes itself to death.

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In the explosive season finale of FBI we saw our friends at the Bureau team up with the quirky agents of the CIA. Now follow those same agents in their own spinoff series FBI:CIA. Then in the season finale of FBI:CIA watch the intrepid agents butt heads but ultimately come to respect the...

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3 Little Pigs is propaganda from the Brick Lobby. Big Cement is indoctrinating our children.

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People complain about seeing Easter stuff in the Supermarkets too early, but far more concerning is that it's January 17th and already I'm passing Spanish teens in their dozens on the streets of Dublin. Would they at least wait until Spring!

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I've written a Haiku for Wednesday mornings: My eyes feel sunken More in my head today but Photos look the same

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The ephemeral spirit of "Is this anything?" moves through me sometimes

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How I'm moving in 2025

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Musk is the mask, on the inside he's always been Dittman.

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It's okay folks I'll take on the burden of posting it here today. I know everyone was very worried they wouldn't see it.

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A bowl of sweets left on the counter may seem like a festive treat but in practice it becomes a weapon of psychological torture. Customers approach already muttering their words of warding "I really shouldn't, I'll blow up", but the longer they're at the counter the more their gaze flicks to the...

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🎶And I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 250 more and then walk another 125 miles and after that 62 and a half more miles and then a further 31 and a quarter miles...🎶 - Xeno's Proclaimers

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Thinking today of Emily Dickinson's legendary poem "Because I could not stop the bus, it kindly left me standing at the stop getting rained on"

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"Knowing How To Relax" sounds like something made up by wellness influencers and HR departments but I'm increasingly convinced chilling is a skill that like any, atrophies if you go too long without practice. I am very out of practice.

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Bluesky won't truly take off until it can generate its own homegrown cancellation. Justine Sacco did wonders for Twitter. Everyone start skeeting too close to the skun.

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Dublin Central looks to be a tale as old as time: A colorful criminal mastermind bested by the brilliant Sherlock 😉 #GE24

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