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Love that Eddie Kingston’s gonna be in the G1 before Bryan Danielson (block format means we probably won’t get Eddie vs Shingo, though; boo to that) #G1Climax33 #aside

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You know what’s nice? That chicken Demae Ramen (70c in Lidl) with a handful of microwaved broccoli florets, a dash of Chinese black vinegar and a bit of chopped spring onion > @MacDara #aside

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Booking confirmed: a few days in Paris then the train to Cologne for a few more > @MacDara > @MacDara #aside

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#RoyalRumble thoughts: men’s Rumble was meh, lacked action compared to the women’s; the Quasar match, I can’t even; main event was in really poor taste after Tyre Nichols; the rest left no impression > @MacDara #aside

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Got a 4K monitor for my MacBook and now I’ve discovered Apple completely messed up screen resolution settings in Ventura > @MacDara #aside

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Chorus of “Oh for fuck’s sake” at Portadown station this morning when we’re turfed off the Enterprise for “another set”, no one tells us where to go so we cross the bridge to the other Enterprise, only to be directed back across to the commuter train > @MacDara #aside

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The thing I’m most excited about with tonight’s #SurvivorSeries is the first time ever seeing a two-ring set-up at a WWE pay-per-view (sorry, ‘Premium Live Event’) > @MacDara #aside

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After nearly seven hours I’ve finally copied my media HDD to a new SSD with twice the capacity and that’s smaller than my palm > @MacDara #aside

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Waiting for a parcel all morning; checked online and it says ‘delivery attempted’ but there was no knock on the door. Come on, like > @MacDara #aside

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One of my two purchases for this Bandcamp Friday, and one I’ve had on my wishlist for a while > @orenambarchi > @MacDara #aside

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Win for the weekend: thought the soundbar got frazzled by last week’s lightning but I just plugged it back in and it works! > @MacDara #aside

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Drivers in Ireland ignore Belisha beacons anyway so this doesn’t make any practical difference > www.gov.ie > @MacDara #aside

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Very boring Dublin-centric tweet: that new N4 bus is really handy to get from Whitehall to Blanch > @MacDara #aside

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Feck it, I’ve held my tongue for days but I’m genuinely disturbed by the number of people on here I’d assume to be right-on who think it’s OK to sing “up the ’Ra” > @MacDara #aside

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Am I that guy who likes Halloween Ends? It completely blows the ending, but up till then it kinda won me over? > @MacDara #aside

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This finally arrived this morning, after a two-plus-week break at a warehouse somewhere in the capital > @MacDara > @MacDara #aside

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I’m ringing Revenue about this on Friday, but does anyone have any weird discrepancy between their standard rate cutoff and actual cutoff? > @MacDara #aside

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You know those anniversary CD reissues in the slipcase with a grey panel in the bottom half and a standard phrase on it? What are those called? > @MacDara #aside

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Deep into the promo for the new Mamaleek and my first impression remains: they view the American diner through a Lynchian lens > @MacDara #aside

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My rating for #AEWAllOut: A+ for effort, a D for the booking. That ladder match is the worst thing AEW has ever done. Worse than the exploding ring. Worse than the Librarians > @MacDara #aside

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Just watched the first two eps of The Rings of Power, which I didn’t expect to care about yet seems pretty good so far. But… > @MacDara #aside

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I’ll never forget the look on Gary Barlow’s face when Katie Couric said her fanny was freezing on The Today Show > @ericdharvey > @MacDara #aside

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Wild thunderstorm happening outside right now, maybe 18km and closing in > @MacDara #aside

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Well, that trip to Dublin was a bust. Getting ripped off by the Luas was only the half of it > @MacDara #aside

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Watching SummerSlam out of morbid curiosity and man, Kevin Dunn does not give a toss anymore, does he? > @MacDara #aside

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Watching Doctor Mordrid, which the opening titles say was “based on an original idea by Charles Band”. Was that idea “I’ll rip off Doctor Strange”? > @MacDara #aside

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This point, about people not wanting to change how they make their living, is worth bearing in mind when the current Govt has announced funding for coastal communities to do exactly that > @Tupp_Ed > @MacDara #aside

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Anyone here get anything shipped transatlantic from the US via Asendia? Tracker says ‘arrived at destination’ but if I had it I wouldn’t be asking > @MacDara #aside

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Waiting for our Steam Deck delivery like waiting for Santa to come down the chimney > @MacDara #aside

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The Sound Cellar. If the Ticketmaster at HMV was sold out, odds were the Sound Cellar still had some > @HeavyMetalSvet > @MacDara #aside

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The new black midi LP arrived today (it’s great) and my copy of The Inalienable Dreamless is finally in the post, five months later than scheduled > @MacDara #aside

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Tried the town’s Bulgarian takeaway for a change. I was, er, not a fan of the cheese and smoked meat gyuveche. But the chicken cavarma was very nice > @MacDara #aside

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I love this bit; similar reasoning to their justification for Tubridy’s pay, that they didn’t want him poached by a competitor. I mean, what competitor? 😂 > @Tupp_Ed > @MacDara #aside

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This trend is so depressing, and it’s based on the entirely false and patently absurd assumption that an athlete would be so driven as to change their gender just to get an edge over their competition > @sgevans > @MacDara #aside

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Didn’t take me long to find the owner of this car, who indeed looks like the kind of person who would own a car like this > @hazechu > @MacDara #aside

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Got a new cold brew jug which is currently in the dishwasher. I love my AeroPress but it makes terrible cold brew > @MacDara #aside

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Update: one can indeed bring Greggs sausage rolls in their carry-on bag > @MacDara > @MacDara #aside

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All I have to say on the MJF thing is that, unless there’s s’thing we don’t know about compensation for peripheral obligations, no-showing the meet & greet feels like an actual dick move, not a staying-in-character one > @MacDara #aside

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I think we’re all in agreement that daa are the villains of the month, yeah? > @MacDara #aside

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Let’s interrogate what “affordable” means here. Dublin is hardly lacking for hotel space, but ThE mArKeT turned to surge-pricing for post-Covid* desperation tourism > @rtenews > @MacDara #aside

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Minus five stars for our Tesco delivery this evening. Not the driver’s fault, but whoever fulfilled the order at the shop messed up big time > @MacDara #aside

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QQ: if one were to buy Greggs sausage rolls in London, could one bring them to Ireland on a plane in a carry-on bag? > @MacDara #aside

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Funny you should use the passive voice here, because Al Jazeera didn’t > @nytimes > @MacDara #aside

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My new MacBook Air arrived this morning and it’s currently updating, so I can regale you with the story of why I needed to get it > @MacDara #aside

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Watching 1990: Bronx Warriors which has a, well, loose interpretation of NYC geography > @MacDara #aside

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