And that concludes year three of #bootlegfriday. Doesn't time fly? We moved to this venue and discovered the joys of the Internet Archive. Thanks for all your support and wonderful picks. And, as always, goodnight. 😉

@TheBrickovich And our licence fee pays for that charisma and talent free hack. Sure at least he was so dull that even RTE had to scrap his talk show. That is a certain type of accomplishment given the state of their presenters.

@fitzr1122 There is no hint of a proper argument because O'Doherty is just doing the old "Servile Irish hack tells a certain type of Tory what they want to hear about the Paddies" routine. This kind of post-colonial cringe is so bloody clapped out and tedious.

@DavQuinn That's just whataboutery. My loyalties lie with Ireland. The Irish patriot blue tick types are taking their cultural ques from elsewhere.

@fatima_gunning The lesson is that edibles are a better bet.

@Muinchille @1Dunbogue We really should be serious about cyber-defense. We seem to have forgotten that the HSE was hacked and held hostage during Covid.

RT @RadishHarmers: I could swear this site did not used to have so many sputtering racist replies to everything before the blue check prior…

@LouosaurusRex I was a bit disappointed on that score. It was most shrunk down trailers that we've seen before. No real surprises.

#bootlegfriday returns this week with another audience pick. Details to follow this Wednesday

@KeithMillsD7 @realDonaldTrump @MichealMartinTD It's interesting to see the Irish online right openly root against their own country. I suppose it's down to political alienation from our establishment and possibly cultural cringe.

@aigne_aighne Our tendency to project our own colonial history onto the Middle-East.

RT @zoerosebryant: banshees of inisherin ad aimed specifically at extremely online cinephiles and no one else i’m crying

@Andymc1983

@aigne_aighne Good to know. He could also be part of a school of thought that longs for Ireland to be a more right wing and less atypical Anglosphere country. There seems to be little chance of that ever happening.

@aigne_aighne An alienated hatred of our establishment seems to be a common denominator. Perhaps this is a feature of our disporia that was hidden from view before social media? Yearning for and simultaneously resenting the mother country.

@aigne_aighne One of those anti-immigration types who nihilistically long for our economy to be burned down by MAGA in order to bring back proper old fashioned Irishness. And he's living in Germany so he won't have to worry about the consequences.

@_PeterRyan The Common Travel Area strikes again.