Hello, world. I’m MacDara Conroy, and this is my blog.

Getting things done today: left my bike in the shop to fix a flat, and picked up bubble tea from a new place in town on the way home #tweet

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New cassettes for our Bob dishwasher just arrived. That should see us through to late spring, at the rate we use it #tweet

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Smart me booked tomorrow off to make it a four-day weekend. Nice going, me! #tweet

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The latest Covid rule changes are so transparently the result of lobbying efforts, it’s the kind of stuff that should collapse a government. But will we? #tweet

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RIP Brendan Kennelly, to whom I was distantly related through my paternal grandmother, fact fans #tweet

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I grew up near Bull Island, and currently live near an estuary; I see the difference. To think the curlew I knew in such numbers are almost gone is unconscionable. Please sign this petition > @Ciaraioch #tweet

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Caught myself off guard to do some tax prep, got all my 2020 figures totted up. Directly or indirectly, I lost nearly €4K in gross income on the year before > @MacDara #tweet

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This is me. I mean, I’ve never been officially tested for it, but yeah > @RealFPJr #tweet

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Anyone else having issues with Google Alerts? I haven’t had any emails since Monday, and I would get usually multiple daily hits #tweet

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Looked up next week’s times at the local fleapit: Venom: Let There Be Carnage is in three screens, Dune is in one. Good luck with that #tweet

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I’m sorry, but who goes around door-to-door selling home alarm systems at twenty past eight in the evening? In the dark? #tweet

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Cancelled my Netflix sub, and really everyone should; hit the TERF defenders in the wallet where it hurts #tweet

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Anyone who worked at or went to that OTT show this evening: I mean this is all seriousness, what are you like?! > @MacDara #tweet

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Took the plunge and finally signed up to Wrestle Universe; now I’m spending my Saturday night watching joshi, like I wished I could do in the ’90s > @W_UNIVERSE_eng #tweet

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Watching last night’s Rampage. How good is Daniel Garcia? Like seriously, what a find #tweet

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Rock for Light back on sale at Juno; just snapped mine up. Maybe yesterday was a blip? No one else is getting it in, it seems > @MacDara #tweet

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Gah, waiting months and Juno sells out of the Rock for Light LP within an hour ffs. How many did they get in, two? #tweet

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That’s our flu shots sorted for this winter, so #tweet

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Do other people get headaches after they shower or is it just me and my crappy sinuses? #tweet

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Got the second-last clear w/splatter LP, lucky me! Now, will it be 33 or 45rpm? I mean, the album’s only 17 minutes long > @Willowtip > @MacDara #tweet

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It wouldn’t be a Saturday morning without Bee hate-watching Titans in the other room #tweet

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Soooo did anyone else here order The Body & BIG|BRAVE’s collab LP direct from Thrill Jockey? Supposed to be out but I haven’t heard a peep #tweet

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New Carcass balances out the boring song titles (“Kelly’s Meat Emporium”? Meh) with one of their finest puns (“Eleanor Rigor Mortis”, ha!) #tweet

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My pen is hovering over “‘Load shedding’ becomes part of the vernacular” on my Ireland in 2021 bingo card #tweet

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Apparently I’m a “far-left extremist globalist”, according to some bigoted gobshite #tweet

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Slept better last night. Not great, but better. And the itching calmed down a lot today; Bee suggested balming with rooibos and it seems to have helped > @MacDara #tweet

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No sleep two nights running and I still want to scratch my legs off but I managed to take a kind-of nap this morning so that’s a win, right? > @MacDara #tweet

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So yeah, those insect bites? My legs are covered in massive incredibly itchy welts. Hydrocortisone cream and more antihistamines to the rescue, I hope > @MacDara #tweet

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Almost missed the promo for the new Kowloon Walled City in my inbox! #tweet

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Got bitten alive by invisible midges while mowing in the front garden yesterday evening. Now doing the back, oh joy! #tweet

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The otters are wonderful, but can we talk about the lord of the manor wearing a Neurosis shirt?? > @rtenews #tweet

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Remember the old days? When people on here would talk like a pirate on the 19th of September? I miss that #tweet

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I was only thinking the other day that I miss when AEW had their logo on the ring canvas, and then they go and make my dream come true on last night’s Rampage #tweet

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Screw Radio. Didn’t even care it was basically an endless loop of Fatso Jetson’s ‘Bored Stiff’, El Bad’s Warp’ and that one Oxbow song > @intrnetdaughter #tweet

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I’ve got a sudden urge to watch Rich Hall’s cinema documentaries. Are they on iPlayer or do I have to scrounge them up by … other means? #tweet

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Come and See is phenomenal so I’m really looking forward to this > @TheFlenser #tweet

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Still waiting on that cover version… > @lowtheband #tweet

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Different levels of fame here, but: Mike Watt (generous with his time and thoughts), Michael Wincott (unfazed by a credit card snafu) and Gerard Butler (20 years ago; seemed excited to be known, but in a sound way) > @DanDotLewis #tweet

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Thread; our govt has no interest in the people’s needs, but every interest in maximising private profit > @RobJCurley #tweet

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I see everyone’s positivity and I want to share it … I want WWE to prove me wrong, that they won’t screw over Big E #tweet

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First time out on my bike in over a week and within minutes I was dangerously close-passed. It’s a disease, it really is #tweet

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If all you’ve ever watched of wrestling is WWE—where all the kinetics are in the shaky/zoomy cam shots and flash cuts—I can see why other companies’ visual styles might look comparatively sedate and “overexpose how fake it looks” #tweet

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The difference now is that back then, the WWF and WCW were competing for the same market: people who watch wrestling. WWE’s market today is B2B, and they’re making more money than ever (on paper) so there’s no incentive to change > @PuroPodcast > @MacDara #tweet

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Someone please remind me I need to stop putting it off and pay & file my tax this month #tweet

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Nice to see all the love for the reunion of a band named after a Minutemen lyric #tweet

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As excited as anyone else for #AEWAllOut but I won’t get to see it till tomorrow evening so I should probably stay off Twitter starting now > @MacDara #tweet

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Hey you know what? That Stardom pre-show match was great. More of that, please #njwgsDay1 > @MacDara #tweet

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Definitely getting to the new Jack B Yeats exhibition at the National Gallery before it closes in February > nationalgallery.ie > @MacDara #tweet

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Antigen test arrived this afternoon … and it’s negative. Phew! > @MacDara #tweet

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