Scribbling, squalling, strácáiling in Cork City, Ireland. 'Have I Got Your Attention?' out now via Merrion Press. #AuDHD. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest.https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mm2ask24us2oThe party of the Celtic Tiger, Bertie, the Galway tent, and austerity for the poor wants to "give young people hope" - after generations of using young people as fodder for failed ideologies and private capital. In any other country, FF would've been proscribed in 2011. #spéirghorm #ireland [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2ask24us2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlsq3pjb322q(cue whoopsie trumpets) [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsq3pjb322qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlpoj2qdgs2jCorrection re: Glinner [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpoj2qdgs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlondiogmk2sMake a band out of two others? I Dreamed I Dream Academy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlondiogmk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlonbaesic2sFather Ted and its memory are tainted because of this one single Eldritch creature, for me and countless others. So colour me pastel pink (and blue) to realise he didn't write A Song for Europe, and so gets no royalties. 🥳 #spéirghorm #ireland [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlonbaesic2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlnaxb4jtk2lNot true! They wrote the bankers a blank cheque, and bailed the European banking system out of its credit-induced k-hole overnight - entirely at our expense. When they want to, they can - the homeless crisis is the political and ideological choice of the establishment. #spéirghorm #ireland [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 07:22 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnaxb4jtk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlj2cwkv7c23"Scrotal expansion." Dude, just fucking listen to the other person in bed. Jesus Christ. #spéirghorm #ireland [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlj2cwkv7c23https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mldj6hi2ls2oFurthermore: depressing echoes of Ireland's Labour Party and its own mealy-mouthed excuses for facilitating and encouraging the excesses of austerity after getting Ganso Bombed out of government in 2016. "Our differences in private, our compromises in public". 🤮 #spéirghorm #ireland #ukelections [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldj6hi2ls2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mldizrcxvk2oThe pilot is in the middle of being chucked out of the airplane by the goose-stepping equivalent of The Ultimate Warrior, as he grabs the controls and crash-lands at his own personal WrestleMania VI. #ukelections #uklocals #ukpol [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldizrcxvk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mldiwiytlk2oWell done to UK Labour's "centre"-right, and its various flying monkeys - those "adults in the room" whose earnest efforts at evading such horrors as public services, and social solidarity, have re-opened the doors to fucking fascism. #uklocals #ukelections https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/07/elections-2026-local-scotland-wales-reform-green-labour-conservatives-live-news-updates08 May 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldiwiytlk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlbq5ae7xs2qI immediately understood this for what it is, and it took a further few seconds to realise that, had I done so forty or fifty years ago, I'd be on some sort of watchlist for seeming knowledge of something approaching espionage-related code. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbq5ae7xs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlbptcq3222qSky put the former WWF at the centre of its push toward domination of the UK/IE telly market for three decades. Their reward was for WWE, now owned by Zuffa's parent company, to cannibalise the monthly specials that drove its television for their own failed streaming service. #spéirghorm #ireland [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbptcq3222qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemcgb.bsky.social/post/3mlbpgs5cts2qThe problem here is that WWE is an advertising company that runs brief pro wrestling-style exhibitions inbetween product placements and arbitrary celebrity appearances. It's also been content-marketing/a prospective buyout for the Saudi sportswashing effort for years now. #spéirghorm #ireland [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:txa7py4xvbj2xdfoa5mp35ug/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbpgs5cts2q