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Bernard O'Leary@bleary.bsky.social |
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I write about 90s pop music (and sometimes other things too) over at www.thisweekinthe90s.com (He/ #SpeirGorm)
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Proof of Burden
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A year ago politics knowers were warning that Biden would struggle against the presumptive winner of the 2024 GOP primary and I think we should all reflect on how hard Ron DeSantis is beating Biden right now
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Blue Heron Farm
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I had to go back to Twitter for a minute today, because there's not as much organizing presence on this site yet. Anyway, every time I think we've got the juice I remember what the juice really is.
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Bernard O'Leary
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Rough day for Irish people who support Birmingham City
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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë
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Your move, Hemingway
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Bernard O'Leary
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What age was he when this happened?
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Bernard O'Leary
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Dev in Michael Collins
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Bernard O'Leary
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A process known as Lassoification
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Bernard O'Leary
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Defending myself against you by writing terrible posts
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Just heard about mansplaining. This world is so fucked up.
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marlo
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forcing chatgpt to write erotic Cop Rock (1990, ABC Television) fanfiction complete with unique musical numbers until they shut it down because it has whatever the equivalent of PTSD for computers is
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Bernard O'Leary
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Looks like he’s complaining to a local newspaper about the poor quality of replica jerseys
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Bernard O'Leary
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100% machine code 💪
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Bernard O'Leary
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Oh that’s a relief
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Bernard O'Leary
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HSM3 is also very good. The first one is a bit flat and they don’t let Zac sing.
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Bernard O'Leary
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10 years ago = Britpop 20 years ago = Proper Binmen 30 years ago = WWII
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Bernard O'Leary
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High School Musical 2 is better than Citizen Kane. It would be in my Desert Island DVDs without a shadow of a doubt.
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Bernard O'Leary
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Everyone loved Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman as a normal everyday guy
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Bernard O'Leary
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If you were getting caned in 1994 you should contact the police
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LondonLee
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#makeasongcockney
Bette Davis Minces
The Long and Winding Frog and Toad
The Gaff That Jack Built
Message In an Aristotle
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Bernard O'Leary
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One of the big problems imho is that Alex Kingston plays the role a bit too broadly. It’s like she’s in a panto sometimes, which makes hard to really care about the whole River Song arc.
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John Cullen
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Worm Boys. They're universal.
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Bernard O'Leary
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I’d like you to explain why we should build a mass content creation system in a small internet with a localised population
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Ed Morrish
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I’ve sold AI to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them on the map.
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Naomi Alderman
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if you loved someone's writing and you now find out that their sexual ethics are awful to you... I just want to say that it says nothing about you that you loved their work and nothing about you that you learned from the work. if the work 'changed your life', consider that you did that yourself.
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Bernard O'Leary
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Great read. It Takes You Away is a really interesting episode with the same “hang on, is this still Doctor Who?” vibe of Kinda (although it’s nowhere near as good as Kinda)
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Bernard O'Leary
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Don’t forget: The Travelling Wilburys are eligible
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Sage 🏳️⚧️
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multiple trans women were abused by Sophie From Mars. Sophie is also trying to block anyone mentioning her past abusive behavior. direct link to her account so you can easily block:
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Bernard O'Leary
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Incredible story in the latest @molly.wiki email about IRL thieves stealing cryptocurrency
www.citationneeded.news/issue-61/
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Bernard O'Leary
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If I approach an automatic door and it opens slowly, I assume it's because the door is mad at me.
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J.R.
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She couldn't even get past the third one. pathetic
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Bernard O'Leary
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Bernard O'Leary
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I'm An Anachronism, Get Me Out Of Here!
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Bernard O'Leary
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They're going to relaunch analogue broadcasting just for him
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Simon HB
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Oh, a streaming platform? Isn't that a little too modern for Little Lord Pencil? Shouldn't he have signed a deal with a Zoetrope company?
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James Cooray Smith
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Now Farage has spoken as an MP for the first time, can we please have something approximating scrutiny of him from at least the lobby? Time to stop acting like he’s a lovable eccentric and start treating him as someone on the public payroll, who has to adhere to standards he does not share. Thanks.
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Bernard O'Leary
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I'm doing a bit
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Randy Meeks
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I don't even go there, and this is still the funniest shit
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Bernard O'Leary
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Love to have a bit of an aul hooly on St Patty's Day
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Bernard O'Leary
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It feels a bit like Ted Lasso season 2 and I think the problem with both is that the higher-ups start interfering in the writing process.
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Bernard O'Leary
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None of the recent “here’s what I think of Biden” stuff is journalism. Absolutely fine to criticise that.
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Bernard O'Leary
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Criticising journalism is illiberal but opinion columns are not journalism, and opinion-havers are not journalists.
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Bernard O'Leary
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The Bear season 3 is a bit meh, but I loved the Tina episode a lot
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Bernard O'Leary
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They should, as courtesy, include something that will get the photo tagged. Like an illustration of a woman showing 5mm of ankle.
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Bernard O'Leary
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😂
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Bernard O'Leary
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If this happened today there would be a million Substack posts about how those boys are the real fascists
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Bernard O'Leary
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Thought he was a rocker?
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Bernard O'Leary
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No disrespect to the shirtless bears. Good luck and well done on your body positivity! I’m just wondering why those photos never get tagged.
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Bernard O'Leary
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Weird how the bsky algorithm will tag any photo with exposed human skin, unless that skin belongs to a hairy dude with his shirt off. (And it must be a photo. Risqué cartoons, like Homer in his underpants, will be tagged.)
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Bernard O'Leary
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…where reading is portrayed as this incredible superpower that makes you a teeny bit better than everyone else. Dahl’s version also celebrated reading, but portrayed it as more of a psychic defence against a world gone mad. Subtle but essential difference.
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Bernard O'Leary
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To be clear though, there’s nothing wrong with talking about writing in writing. It’s specifically the Isn’t Storytelling Brilliant trope I was critiquing, as found in the works of Gaiman/Rowling/Moffatt/the GoT guys.
Another example I had in mind was the #Girlboss Matilda musical…
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