Karl McDonald
For if I triumph I must make men mad. Occasional columnist
- Uncritically in favour of any megainfrastructure benefiting Ireland that Britain is willing to pay for.
- Many years of practice booing a specific midfielder who left their club for a rival club as the ball gets passed to him over and over again during patient buildup play.
- Reposted by Karl McDonaldJust saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
- Coincidentally I am reading a Saramago book at the moment that opens at a polling station in Portugal during heavy rain. Things only go south from there. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- You can listen to the earliest recorded sean nós, from An Rinn in 1905 and captured on wax cylinders, online. www.itma.ie/playlists/he...
- Someone pointed out that while everything else is down suddenly, WD40 is doing great. Never gonna not need WD40!
- Increasingly clear that there is a difference between a technocracy and an ascendancy of briefcase wankers. European technocrats go to college for 15 years before becoming fellows of things called like the Wiesenberg-Spontina Institute of Complex Tax Theory. They have theories.
- The approval ratings for "Al" are in
- Má thuiginn tú Gaeilge agus tá tú ag lorg podchraoladh nach mothann cosúil le hobair bhaile, táim ag baint an-sult ar fad as Dúchas ó Raidio Rí-Rá. Ag plé leis an mbéaloideas go ndáiríre ach greannmhar freisin (actually greannmhar not Gaeilge-greannmhar)
- This is admittedly my own set of flaws but as a Dublin Bikes user who mostly cycles down one long straight road and is strongly encouraged by such benefits as "not having to carry around any stuff", it could be curtains for me.
- All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...
- Watched Don't Look Up. Not a film of cultural merit you'd have to say.
- Reposted by Karl McDonaldfor connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News
- Does he not have his own keyboard
- Good seam of rattlement opening up from Arsenal fans who despite being very likely to win the league are annoyed at United for winning three games in a way that the neutral does not consider brainboringly toxic. Focus on your own stuff! Take shots!
- Reposted by Karl McDonaldIn the Irish language, the goldfinch is known as 'lasair choille' (pronounced 'lasser-quilla'), which means... The Flame of the Forest! 🔥
- Sympathetic to the view of the Maynooth academic who does the medieval Irish history podcast that focusing too much on the pre-Christian origins of 'a Brigid figure' is dismissive of the actually existing St Brigid, who was a religious leader with at least as much evidence as the rest of them.
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[Not loaded yet] - I am a man with an enormous amount of respect for Imbolc, the Old Irish spelling of the winter festival of light Imbolg, but I'm pretty sure it's not observed to the extent that hardware shops are closing for it.
- Thinking of buying a normal Bohs home jersey, to show my support for Bohs, the football-playing subsidiary of socially conscious tshirt brand Bohs.
- Discovered that Ranji, the first great Indian batsman, lived in Connemara from an account of an argument in a post office in Máirtín Ó Díreáin in which someone tries to send a telegram to Afghanistan and the fella says "the maharaja back in Ballinahinch couldn't send it further than that".
- Due to having been into indie music during the high period and also due to having been on the other microblogging site, I can't stop relating to content by deciding one type of it is Genuinely Important and the other is a Sham and Disgrace. And so it is with frontfacing Irish language influencers.
- Bishops and kings! Both very good! Even God says it: hurray for bishops and kings!
