Exit X

I’ve been on Twitter for fourteen years now. Or I was, until last Halloween. My first experience of the site, the one that hooked me, was watching the Portraitgate story unfold in real time as a group of people on Twitter unpacked the story as RTE tried to memoryhole it. The last straw was the… Continue reading Exit X

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Fin

Fin

One day soon, you will open X-Twitter for the last time.

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Headcount

Headcount

Mordor constituency analysis: Sauron confident he can garner sufficient votes among kingdoms of men to make up for orcs reassigned to Elfland East.

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Message Massage

Message Massage

Don’t worry Boss. It will look great in the election commercials.

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Paradox Lost

Paradox Lost

Does a headline like this break Betteridge’s Law?

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Road Art 2

Clocha na hÉireann Located in Gleann Cholm Cille, Co Donegal, Clocha na hÉireann is a stone map illustrating the 32 counties of Ireland. It was commissioned in 2016, marking the entenary of the Proclamation of the Republic in 1916. Each stone is carved from stone native to the county it depicts, and in most cases… Continue reading Road Art 2

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Caveat Emptor

Caveat Emptor

I’ve never installed Edge in my life. Yet there it is, on every computer, uninstallable.

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James Joyce ‘s The Walking Dead

James Joyce's The Walking Dead

Snow was general all over Ireland… It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through… Continue reading James Joyce ‘s The Walking Dead

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