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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

6 years

what have i done

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

3 years

the one good thing about the death of radio is that I’ve literally never heard this song and never ever have to

Official Charts

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🏆 @edsheeran makes it six weeks at Number 1 with Bad Habits 👏

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if your university years aligned with the timeline of yikyak then you deserve compensation

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you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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9 years

I've never seen the proletariat and the bourgeoisie more clearly illustrated in one instagram post http://t.co/dL2yAgwTQE

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2 months

really hope that gen z never finds out that the biggest thing on the internet in 2010 was an autotuned song about a dude who climbs in windows and rapes people

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2 years

the natural lifecycle of British writers.

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barry pierce

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9 months

is this the first time the world has ever seen an irish person

God’s favorite customer

@fIeafag

9 months

His side profile… his nose…. The hoop earring… I’m going insane

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barry pierce

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3 months

honestly beginning to feel bad for the actual teens whose books have been hijacked by mentally stunted adult children who just want to get horny to goblins

Children's Bookshelf

@PWKidsBookshelf

3 months

“YA Isn’t Just for Young Adults”: @jiordancastle on the expansive appeal of YA literature

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barry pierce

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1 year

literally at what point recently has the weather in london allowed for an outfit like this

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1 year

the perfect shorts length

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barry pierce

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3 years

will we ever see the likes of Eoghan and Diana ever again

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barry pierce

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1 month

weird film dudes on tiktok: so like, sorry that one of my favourite films is “over the hedge” and not some pretentious, depressing eastern european film from 1963 eastern european films from 1963:

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barry pierce

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2 months

oh, book reviews are so back

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1 year

obsessed with the person who sent Carl Bernstein into deuxmoi

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barry pierce

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2 months

also remember how the dude, like, came out as gay and then kind of transitioned, but then stopped, and then found christ, renounced his homosexuality, married a woman and had a kid, but then went back to being bi

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

4 years

Ireland has left the chat.

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@SkyNews

4 years

China is building a new 1,000-bed hospital in five days to treat victims of the new deadly coronavirus. Get the latest on the #coronavirus here 👉

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take the beginning of this chapter: this is entirely just description, as if someone were recollecting a scene from a film in an overly detailed way. this type of writing used to relegated to the fringes of genre, now it's all over literary fiction. this is not creative writing.

barry pierce

@BarryPierce

1 month

why are so many contemporary novels just characters performing actions? followed by pithy sentences about the act of the action? there's no narrative or insight. it's this character went there and did this, this character reacts to that action, over and over.

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barry pierce

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4 years

choose your fighter

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barry pierce

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2 months

why is it always Americans who propagate this idea that in order to like a book you have to relate to it? is it something that the schools teach?

May Sunshine ☀️💜

@msmaysunshine

2 months

Why is Catcher in the Rye a red flag for me? It's not an automatic no, but I just can't relate to "whiny suburban white boy problems". Sorry not sorry. (Also, I'm not minimizing mental health issues, I'm neurodivergent myself, the book is just off puting/childish to me.)

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barry pierce

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5 years

why does this look like you've just unwrapped your sandwich at your desk and you look down, expecting to see your sandwich, but instead it's madonna and lady gaga

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

6 years

a moment of silence for the important roles that The Ting Tings, The Hoosiers, Scouting for Girls, Alphabeat, Sam Sparro, Daniel Merriweather, Duffy and La Roux played in all of our lives in 2008.

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

11 months

…..anyway!

Under New Management

@cocainecross

11 months

I really need Abel to get dragged for this nasty scene in The Idol

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barry pierce

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3 years

why’d i think peggy gou was with leo varadkar

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

2 years

when the last richard osman came out, penguin bought the no 1 spot on all whsmith in-store bestseller charts so it had to be displayed as the bestseller in every single store, whether it actually was or not

UberFacts

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2 years

What company secrets can you reveal, now that you don’t work for the company anymore? 💭

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

3 years

so glad to have found the greatest irish tiktok again

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

6 months

ireland really presents a difficult quandary in the mind of the hardline liberal because the idea of a nation of white people being colonised dilapidates so many of basic talking points, and annoyingly forces them into having to actually read somewhat deeper into things.

cheer 🔆

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reading an irish person accuse americans of living in the "imperial core" with the implication that they themselves are not also living in the "imperial core" and trying not to actually laugh in class bc it's so ridiculous

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barry pierce

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4 years

I read Dolly Alderton’s novel. I had a very bad time.

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barry pierce

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2 months

billy porter is such an interesting case study for the corrupting power of fame. he simply was not like this when he was just a broadway person. now, he is perhaps the most delusional person on the planet.

The Guardian

@guardian

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‘Those Friends people make $100m a year! I’m getting six-cent cheques! It’s not OK!’: Billy Porter on race, recognition and the Middle East

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2 years

here we have malala responding to the deuxmoi that accused her of being scared of cats

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

5 years

I refuse to believe that the grand prize for Love Island is, if split between the couple, less than what you’d win on the average game of Winning Streak.

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why are so many contemporary novels just characters performing actions? followed by pithy sentences about the act of the action? there's no narrative or insight. it's this character went there and did this, this character reacts to that action, over and over.

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3 years

me when I meet Linda McCartney in heaven

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barry pierce

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5 years

happy #poetrydayirl here is the second coming told in the style of someone spilling tea at a gay brunch

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3 years

lmaoooo this cannot be real

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barry pierce

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5 years

Reeling in the Years 2008 was.......a lot

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2 years

This is a Piss

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barry pierce

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9 months

this has everything. the trail of destruction, “his glamorous wife”, the five people it took to write it.

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barry pierce

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7 months

people will literally defend anything on this website under the utterly performative guise of “being kind”.

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barry pierce

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3 months

“it’s ok to read YA as an adult” actually, no, read a real book you clown

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1 month

there’s also just so much dialogue. characters are constantly directly talking to each other when it should be the job of prose to convey these conversations in a succinct way. more and more these days novels are resembling reportage rather than *novels*.

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9 months

oh i’m so excited to watch a film about privilege made by someone whose 18th birthday party was literally in Tatler

As Emerald Fennell wins a gong at the Oscars, Tatler looks back at her 18th birthday party

Fennell – who scooped up the award for Best Original Screenplay at last Sunday’s Academy Awards for her film ‘Promising Young Woman’ – once hosted a pretty fabulous Romance-themed 18th

www.tatler.com

Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

9 months

Emerald Fennell’s ‘SALTBURN’ is described as “a wicked tale of privilege and desire.” Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn to the charming & aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to his eccentric…

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

6 years

lads what's going on in Fair City at all

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

7 months

presented without comment.

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

i-d.co

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1 year

my mam is sending me back to london with a whole tin of heroes in a freezer bag

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1 year

irish secondary school-core.

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barry pierce

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3 years

these are words that I shouldn’t have been writing for another 50 years. My brother John, my best friend for all my life, has passed away. those who knew him will know how utterly devastating this is for us and for the local area. I will miss him forever.

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3 months

I don’t even understand the compulsion. if you want to read easier “adult” books, commercial fiction is right there. if you want all the weird horny goblins stuff, fantasy is there. these are genres that existed long before the plague of YA took over.

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@BarryPierce

2 years

the absolute smash success of jennette mccurdy's book and the fact that no british publisher picked it up, now leading to mass imports of the american edition, really shows that british publishing needs to have more under-25s in charge

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

4 years

finally my dream of a credit union/cafe fusion is a reality

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I... don’t hate it?

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god that article really fucking rattled them

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2 years

poor Paul Mescal, the man’s 26 years old but his pure potato DNA already has him cast as someone’s dad

i-D

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2 years

Paul Mescal stars as a young divorcee in the 90s-set coming-of-age film from Barry Jenkins and A24, full of beachside antics and melancholy nostalgia.

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@BarryPierce

5 years

is Gaga the first person to win an Oscar AND play live at the marquee?

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

2 years

people who post weekly photo dumps on ig, what is your secret, how do you meet up with people every day, consistently do things, i meet one friend and that’s me done for a week

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@BarryPierce

2 years

the "men recommend books by women" piece was so funny because literally what has gone wrong in your life where reading books by women involves a conscious effort

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@BarryPierce

2 years

saw ABBA last night and I really will never get over it. I was literally standing at the barrier, could not be closer, and it was just all so real. even when the stage is dark you can see them walking around the stage, getting into their places. it’s insane.

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

4 years

every musical number on the Toy Show sounds like this

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

5 years

like congratulations for surviving for two months in essential exile on an island in the Atlantic but a 78 y/o woman called Ciss from fucking Charleville just won €68,000 for essentially humouring Marty Whelan for 45 minutes.

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@BarryPierce

7 months

“a compelling story is often more important than the level of the prose” fucking hell it’s really all over

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2 months

@dvvidmurray Antoine Dodson!

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

4 years

I feel we don’t talk about how Varadkar is a perfect anagram of Aardvark enough

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@BarryPierce

3 years

love that we're living through an era where every vibey novel is called something like I Could Love You But My Hands Are Full of Limes

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1 year

Hugh Grant and I are kindred spirits

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you’d go to lectures just for the yikyak content

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3 years

matt haig’s existence is an act of domestic terrorism

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it took Henry James until page ten before a character even said something.

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absolutely obsessed with this times writer whose whole identity seems to be the fact she’s 25

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the way letterboxd has revived forgotten films, opened up foreign cinema, broadened the tastes of thousands and had a direct affect on the sound & sound poll whilst goodreads became a septic tank

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1 year

bummed a fag off dua lipa in chiltern firehouse smoking area and then proceeded to smoke it despite the fact i do not smoke and doing so makes me extremely ill

Londonist

@Londonist

1 year

What's your best celebrity sighting in London? Extra points if you talked to them!

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

2 years

for @dazed i explore one of the least talked about problems of contemporary british/irish literature — where are all the young dudes?

Where have all the young male novelists gone?

Factions of the internet celebrated the seeming decline of men penning fiction across the last year – but what does culture and society lose when we miss the perspective of young men?

www.dazeddigital.com

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@BarryPierce

2 years

not that anyone was truly under the illusion that a book being a ‘bestseller’ wasn’t an entirely manufactured and carefully planned process

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@BarryPierce

2 years

it’s impossible to emphasise more how André revolutionised fashion writing, he elevated it to an art form, to genuine criticism. his recent memoir detailed how much he nurtured young talent - Galliano, McQueen - his guiding hand ever present. we owe him so much! RIP ALT.

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1 year

where have all the X gone? why don’t we have any X writers anymore? every question asked about literature today is answered in here:

‘Our rental system is rigged’: young novelists on their generation’s housing crisis

With a fiercely competitive rental market and huge price hikes, finding a secure place to live is increasingly difficult. Four writers share their stories of floor-to-ceiling mould, exploitative...

www.theguardian.com

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@BarryPierce

5 months

a deep cut, but a classic.

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The Mount Rushmore of headlines.

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barry pierce

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2 years

really need donna tartt to come back with a NOVEL to show these fragmentary bitches who’s in charge

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3 months

anything to fulfil that reader aesthetic without ever having to read a book

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5 years

how do i delete someone else's tinder?

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5 years

I wonder how Stranger Things will deal with the AIDS crisis

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2 years

random london journo: guess who DID A THING literally just their friends: !!!!!!!!!

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8 months

why are you, as a queer establishment, offering a cocktail with grapefruit in it

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1 year

@toferk yeah, last summer, it’s been grey misery ever since

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4 years

james joyce worked for years to perfect a prose style that my dad can reel off at will on whatsapp

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4 years

trying to explain to non-Cork people that Cork doesn’t have clubbing culture because there’s no actual clubs, it’s more just a collection of smoking areas

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7 years

i think i've just got to face the fact that i'll never be as cool as mel from my parents are aliens

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3 years

good time to bring this back

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2 months

the review — always refreshing to read about Butler from someone who hasn’t been radicalised by the website famed for coining the phrase ijbol

Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler review – the gender theorist goes mainstream

The US theorist and activist, who has been falsely accused of denying the importance of sex, makes a plangent appeal for gender diversity

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

@KevPow3 ok but how about a devastating portrait of modern masculinity shaped by class and society

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1 year

breaking my twitter fast to announce that I finally wrote about BookTok

In the shallow world of BookTok, being ‘a reader’ is more important than actually reading

The TikTok books community is more about a lifestyle aesthetic than actual reading. As a former BookTuber, I can't help but feel partly responsible

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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5 months

sorry I was so right for this

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2 years

I think the funniest interaction I’ve ever partaken in is happening in my mentions rn

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7 months

we also have no proof that the ghostwriter is literate.

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11 months

I feel I’ll be referring back to my piece a lot over the next couple weeks

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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barry pierce

@BarryPierce

2 years

the mariners apartment complex will be closed on Monday to allow staff to mourn.

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it’s been fascinating to see Butler come back to the fore. When I did my undergrad a decade ago Butler was old school, those of us interested in gender theory were reading Kate Bornstein and Jack Halberstam and Paul Preciado. Butler wasn’t punk to us.

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1 year

say what you want about Prince Harry’s book, this is the first time in forever that an actual famous person has written a memoir and revealed some absolutely insane details

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I love how they’ve genuinely convinced themselves that it’s misogyny to point out that the app is full of fucking weirdos who will do anything in their power to never actually sit down and read the thousand books they’ve bought

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1 year

They say never meet your heroes, I kinda get what they mean now. For @i_D , my profile of the one and only Bret Easton Ellis.

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

i-d.co

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@BarryPierce

1 year

I literally don’t know a single Irish artist, be they a musician, writer, actor, dancer, who has been able to foster their talents in Ireland. there is no investment in the arts in Ireland.

Athena Media

@AthenaMediaLtd

1 year

Irish success at Oscar nominations a result of decades of investment says @guardian & UK should take note. Investment, time, talent, creativity and support in arts (whether film or music including opera) is delivering remarkable work from a small country.

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1 year

worst celeb spot ever: walked passed Liz Truss along vicky park canal

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10 months

god the way nothing makes you feel more content with life than being in this exact situation.

Jonathan Chang

@thechangj

10 months

11pm in Europe - streets are bustling, there’s a crafts market still going on, people just starting their meals or grabbing drinks Wish the US had this sort of night culture that wasn’t just focused on clubbing and drinking in major cities

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@scaredofcustard s[he] be[lie]ve[d] — Marcus Aurelius

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