willonzo

willonzo

@willonzo.bsky.social

Venerable online identity, est. 2006. Former bastion of Annual Late Late Toy Show Live-Tweeting Current Ireland AM fact checker, focusing on Brian Dowling (unpaid volunteer) (he/him) 🇮🇪🇪🇺

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Doing this again for 2026, logging my reads for reference. First up, really enjoyed Hyperion last year so gave in and got the sequel. Not as good as the original but still enjoyable #BookSky

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This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

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Renewing my occasional appeal for information on video of Zig and Zag saying “Bosco is a bollix” on live TV. If you have it, please get in touch #SpéirGorm

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I think the most suspenseful part of Good Will Hunting is when Matt Damon isn’t sure if the guy in the cafe likes apples or not #FilmSky

I remember feeling obliged to hug and sit on the lap of an uncle who had questionable hygiene as a child. (I was the child, not my uncle.) And I’m not doing it anymore, Mum. All right?? As an uncle myself now, I choose not to force my affection on niblings (while showering regularly)

Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social

Just to add that what DRCC are talking about here is a long-standing, bog standard position in books about parenting and among child psychologists and social workers. This is something that was uncontroversial a quarter of a century ago.

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Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

It is the 22nd century. A cyberperv shelters from the rain in a doorway, using his pervglasses to cyberecord a pervdroid groping some roboboobs in a passing Tesla flying upside down overhead. The footage is useless due to the excess steam from the Tesla’s jets, but he cyberwanks nonetheless

I was a fry cook in a 50s diner for 3 days. I quit due to several on-the-job injuries including gashing my hand on an industrial-sized can of cheese sauce and bleeding into it. It was an assault on human dignity

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I think the most suspenseful part of Good Will Hunting is when Matt Damon isn’t sure if the guy in the cafe likes apples or not #FilmSky

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This looks like when I would put too many action figures inside the AT-AT

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

This photo says everything about why Trump keeps hiring unqualified worshipful young women (who look like his daughter)

This looks like when I would put too many action figures inside the AT-AT

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

This photo says everything about why Trump keeps hiring unqualified worshipful young women (who look like his daughter)

No proper weather forecast on RTÉ News tonight due to the strike, just a brief review of last night’s details, but I think Evelyn Cusack should have still been there with a placard and shouting slogans so we can’t hear the commentary

Am I crazy or did the IFI manage to make their website *worse*? I just wanted to check times for Digger tomorrow, but I guess I’ll consult a magic eight ball or something instead #SpéirGorm

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I very regularly sign off emails/leaving cards/letters with "I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability". George Galloway said that to Saddam Hussein and it sounds good to me.

Just had a most irritating shop experience, followed by an infuriating public transport fuck-up (theirs, not mine), but I’m saving the final outrage for when I get home so I can savour it in comfort

On the plus side, I was in the office at 6:30am this morning and the entire floor smelt of full Irish breakfast. Peculiarity of the AC system or serious neurological event, I may never know

For any non-Irish people wondering, the correct pronunciation of this name is, of course, Sa-oir-se

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social

Not even my Irish girlfriend, Saoirse, knows how to pronounce Saoirse. Her pronunciation changes every week.

Is this what the copilot confessed to under interrogation? Funny, cause it seemed he was pretty intent on taking a nosedive into the Saudi desert though, right? One of several recent news stories that make no sense to me whatsoever, or maybe I’ve just become hopelessly conspiracy-brained by osmosis

In the ad where Deirdre the Tesco worker is in a taxi and asked if she's been busy, it's my contention that when she throws herself backward against the seat, she's actually having a fatal medical episode and the rest of the ad is playing out in her mind in a Jacob's Ladder scenario #SpéirGorm

I know this is controversial but I think Ireland playing Israel in the soccer is good actually, because I heard if we didn’t, Netanyahu was going to order a cyber-attack on the RTÉ Player (not that anyone would ever be able to tell) #SpéirGorm