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Simon McGarr

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Solicitor, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter


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The Genre of Numbers Games are a mystery to me.

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Nicholas Slayton's avatar Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social
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Wow. Whole lot of people use shopify. And it's run by these people. Not great that so many non ghouls have to use the platform that enriches ghouls.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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For once I am happy to report the terrible people are left doing terrible things.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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I support harmless self-amusing enthusiasms in all their forms, but in particular this colouredy form.

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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reposting with alt text

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Carlos Rocha's avatar Carlos Rocha @onebreathdoc.bsky.social
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Casual reminder, lads. CCS, or carbon capture and storage, is a diversion. It is not scalable, lives off taxpayer subsidies and literally promotes gaslighting.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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The super charming Irish serial Killers. Look at Professor Moriarty!

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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This is a joke about my poor spelling skills.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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🎶And through it all They offer me perfection Two lines and an intersection…🎵

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Keith Decent's avatar Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social
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My cybertruck keeps making this weird noise that sounds like everyone laughing at me. It’s louder when the windows are down, if that helps.

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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Currently

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James Cooray Smith's avatar James Cooray Smith @cooraysmith.bsky.social
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Asking Starmer if a House of Lords retirement age is relevant to the (made up) Biden question is evidence of comprehensive brain rot in a huge chunk of the commentariat. Fundamentally unserious “gotcha” nonsense. Actually deeply embarrassing thing to do.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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That’s how they get ya.

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Ed Morrish's avatar Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social
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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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Margot Finn's avatar Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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Lord Ashcroft's most recent poll. Interesting convergence between voters' views, regardless of party affiliation, on the internet; significant divergences elsewhere. Reform really is an outlier.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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I refer readers back to my statement some weeks ago on courtier panic and disorientation as a long-entrenched power system is displaced and its assiduous adherents thrash about trying to maintain their positions.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Fog on the Irish Sea, Britain Completely Cut Off.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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It appears that Tony Blair has a portrait in the attic which looks eternally young, but which is constantly engaged in unspeakable acts.

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Ursula K. Le Guin's avatar Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.bsky.social
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Happy 57th anniversary of signing the first contract for A Wizard of Earthsea, which you will note was titled, at the time of signing, The Wizard's Quest. Narrow escape!

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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(I was the original intended attendee, but train timetables have interfered with that plan. So, rather than let all those cakes, scones and sandwiches with the crusts-cut-off go to waste, maybe you have a small person you’d like to take instead)

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If you would like to have Afternoon Tea for one adult and one child today at the Albert Hall, I have a prepaid ticket for you at 1.30pm. First come gets the ticket! DM me.

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Gerard Cunningham 's avatar Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social
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The funding from Coimisiún na Meán for court and
local-democracy reporting should not be financial
aid to publishers and broadcasters but rather the
promotion of journalism

villagemagazine.ie/the-meaning-...

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Here’s Victorian naturalist and political grandee Sir Richard Owen, carefully balancing the rivalries of the Houses of the Empire to try to prevent civil war splitting the Klingon Empire.

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If you would like to have Afternoon Tea for one adult and one child today at the Albert Hall, I have a prepaid ticket for you at 1.30pm. First come gets the ticket! DM me.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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One of my main take aways was that the British Natural History Museum was apparently built on the orders of Chancellor Gowron of the Klingon Empire.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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I could have looked at these marine dinosaur fossils all day.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Though my youngest had questions on the wisdom of some of the collection. Some things you come back from “collecting” abroad may be a bit risky.

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Is this monkey carved into the gatepost of the Museum intended to look like Darwin?

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Visited here (Natural History Museum) today along with its neighbor the V&A and let me be the first to acknowledge that Empire can get you some smashing stuff. Much of it someone else’s.

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Carl Winberg 's avatar Carl Winberg @carlwinberg.bsky.social
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I reckon the worst people get reincarnated as seagulls, and just stay being absolute dickheads.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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“Someone keeps smashing my car up, officer. I can’t understand it.”

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Emma Thane of Cawdor's avatar Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social
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My phone calendar seems to think I want to be informed that it's the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne on Friday.

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Adam Rothman's avatar Adam Rothman @adamrothman.bsky.social
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"every trick in the book"* *voting

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Nick Harkaway's avatar Nick Harkaway @harkaway.bsky.social
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And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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STV - Yaaayyy E-Voting and no long count- BOOOOOOOOooooooOOOO!

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G. Willow Wilson's avatar G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me
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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Spectacular choice

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Gwen Pepperoni's avatar Gwen Pepperoni @ladyjimrockford.bsky.social
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Every August, typeface designers flock to the middle of the desert for a week of sex & drugs, and they erect a large wooden word with all the spacing fucked up. They call it Kerning Man

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Karl Stanley's avatar Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social
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Fear of General Woundwort and impending nuclear annihilation are enduring memories of the early 80s for me.

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Concerned my eldest never read Watership Down and won’t know that rabbits are psychopaths.

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"Username Checks Out" Mark Monro 🏳‍🌈's avatar "Username Checks Out" Mark Monro 🏳‍🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social
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The Inside Out characters in my head

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Simon McGarr's avatar Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social
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Two parts to this 1) absurdly heterosexual, but, crucially 2) still good. I am going to go for the furious guitar bombast of November Rain. I might have gone for Thunderstruck, but for the band’s name causing problems re 1 above.

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Emily St. James's avatar Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social
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I'm working on a project rife with heterosexuality, and I need to know: What are the _most_ heterosexual songs that still rule?

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