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  My mother reports that one of her friends had acquired a set of Meta Ray-Bans but stopped wearing them when she learned they were known as pervert glasses. #Meta #RayBan #PervertGlasses

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  Robert Del Naja arrested https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music-stage/2026/09/27/massive-attack-singer-arrested-during-pro-palestine-protest/ #MassiveAttack #PalestineAction

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  Join a union. https://jrnl.ie/7174957

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  Sleepy cat #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodaoine

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  "Ireland stands with Palestine" #Dublin #HapennyBridge #PalestineSolidarity

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  Might this be the crime of attempted murder? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/far-right-activist-daniel-thomas-slashes-dinghy-with-blade-while-rescue-worker-onboard

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  I like how culture wars go. When The Odyssey was doing well despite Musk hating it everyone was "haha Nazis" but now Emily Wilson has also come out against it some people are more conflicted. #TheOdyssey

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  I love how in The Odyssey film Telemachus has a mentor whose name is Mentor and I thought "how literal", only to discover that it is his actual name in the Homeric poem and our mentors are named after him. #TheOdyssey

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  A sequel to Fame where we revisit the washed up characters after more than 45 years and hear them moaning about how they could have been contenders, with one of them having randomly become mega famous, could genuinely be fascinating. #TOTP #Fame

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  Visiting my parents. Which meant I could watch TOTP. But not post here. Because that would be rude. #TOTP

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  Jesus Christ these escooter pricks mean they are starting to talk about mandatory hi-viz for cyclists rather than making motorists look where they are going.

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  I've seen more than no stories now about AI written short stories winning competitions, and the thing I find myself wondering is whether gen AI has got a lot better or these were pretty dopey competitions.

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  I have decided to listen and write about every David Bowie album, starting with the first one, which was released in 1967 and is somewhat unloved. #DavidBowie https://secretpandablog.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/bowie-1967/

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  I wonder who will be the first person that I have to cut out of my life because they have acquired a set of the pervert glasses. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o #PervertGlasses #SmartGlasses

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  I am at a science fiction convention. Dave Lally is at the con. But there is no Lally Wall. #Norncon #LallyWall #EndOfAnEra

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  @cstross that's a humour site isn't it?

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  Could Andy Burnham become Britain's first prime minister since Salisbury who sits in the House of Lords?

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  Caturday is a day of rest #caturday

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  I thought I saw JD Vance eating a sandwich in the basement of my work but it was just another guy with a short beard.

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  What is this Hunt for Gollum bollocks I am reading about? Is there a serious expectation that people will voluntarily watch it?

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  Was chopping vegetables with people earlier. Have introduced them to the Beach Boys' Vegetables.

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  hi dere! Here is update to my idiosyncratic Dublin event listings spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1koOd6LfRzT54TmawJcuzJH0rbG218-1wsojIlx1zDtE #DublinListings #DublinGigs #Mastodaoine