Shane Glackin

@eltorosolo

Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear. (senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)

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Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· 21d

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.

Still from the cartoon Ulysses 31. A blond boy, a long-haired man, a blue alien girl, and a robot, all in space gear, against a parthenon-styled semi-ruin backdrop. The visual detail is basically a distraction here, the entire gag is that it's a still from Ulysses 31.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jul 7

Nigel Farage posing for a press photo in front of a Top Secret house that should never, ever be publicly associated with Nigel Farage by the press.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jun 30

I have questions.

Hand holding a bottle labelled "89% plant based" and "water" in different axes.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jun 25

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. Or *had* got, in our case.

Irish Press sign bearing the headline "NELSON PILLAR BLOWN UP" on a lamp-post, with stump of said pillar in background.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jun 23

Tim Williamson's characterisation of the dept where I was an undergrad has been aptly described as "almost actionably rude". But rarely as entirely false.

Q: How did you land the job in Dublin?

A: The committee that interviewed me for the lectureship at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) consisted mainly of chronic non-publishers. They wanted someone like them. One of the others on the shortlist was Graeme Forbes, who had a much better CV than mine. The department’s logic teacher, whose heart by then was in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, told me later that he noted down “ambitious” during Graeme’s interview, a killer adjective. I had nothing published, nothing forthcoming, nothing at all close to it. Although jobs were scarce, I wasn’t desperate for this one, since I already had the offer of a research fellowship at Cambridge. My brain was on half power, from all the port I’d drunk at an Oxford dining club the night before. I’d forgotten to bring my passport, which fortunately I wasn’t asked for to enter Ireland. I did the interview in a relaxed mood, lounging in the chair, jingling the keys in my pocket. The committee thought they sensed a fellow spirit. They gave me the job as the candidate least likely to succeed.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· May 4

Something something military-age males importing their native ideologies that are incompatible with Irish values.

Xeet by Lazlo Molnarfi; ThOsE mEmBeRs Of ThE lEfT wHo CoNdEmN tHe OnGoInG fUeL pRiCeS pRoTeStS aLoNgSiDe fF/fG aRe TrAiToRs WhO sHoUlD nOt Be GiVeN a SiNgLe VoTe At ThE nExT gEnErAl ElEcTiOn.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Apr 17

A frog, a bowl of soup, and the words "soup time"

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Mar 23

Phil Healy as head of performance, too.

(female) Irish runner Phil Healy during a relay race

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Mar 12

It is not "mad", "farcical", or "crazy" for a sporting tournament to be won by the team which scores the most tournament points as defined in the tournament rules which, in all relevant particulars, are the same as for every other tournament in that sport. #6N

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Feb 9

Front cover of CMAT album "If My Wife New I'd Be Dead"

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Feb 5

Men will literally consciously make not going to therapy into a substitute personality rather than go to therapy.

Elon Musk X/eeting that he wants "never went to therapy" on his gravestone over and over and over and over and over again.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jan 23

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jan 12

I like a good watershed, and that one is 10/10

Distracted Boyfriend Meme; Allegheny River is checking out Gulf of Mexico while Lake Erie looks on disgusted.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jan 11

I continue not to fear The Rise Of The Machines.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jan 9

Leinster stop stockpiling outhalves challenge (impossible)

Pictures of Leo Cullen and Joey Carbery, with caption "We've had some conversations with Joey. Leo Cullen on Joey Carbery's possible return to Leinster."

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Jan 3

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 28

Aha!

"Readers Digest Expanded and Enlarged Edition", with a picture of... gazelles? on the cover.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 28

Post a perfect album from the 1990s that isn't a bunch of American things that basically all sound the same as each other.

Cover of "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 17

Yep. Full disclosure, here was the missive that prompted it:

> Dear Richard,
>
> I was delighted to read that you have received the worst bullying of your life for your pig-ignorant comments about autism and EHCPs. I pray that it continues, and regret only that it did not happen when you were at a more impressionable age. You might have turned out to be a worthwhile human being, but alas...
>
> If you don't like being called both ends of a steaming arsehole, you can always stop being one!
>
> Toodle pip
>
> S

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 17

If this sneering scumhole wants to pretend this is actually all about his compassion and inclusivity, then there are no limits to how far he can fuck off.

Richard Tice
Nov 22, 2025, 4:29 PM
to me

Dear Shane

Thank you for your thoughtful email.

Amongst all those received, it is at the top of the Premier League of being the most abusive.

I have ordered some ear defenders to protect me from sensory overload from any further abuse.

My mental health is now shot to pieces. Hopefully I will now be able to claim PIP and thus a Motability car.

Toodle pip

Richard

Richard.tice@reformparty.uk

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 15

Two chimps on a branch. One, wearing what in Far Side cartoons are "middle aged woman"-denoting glasses, is grooming the other. Caption says;

"Well, well - another blonde hair. ... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 10

Marty Stuart looks like someone crossed Steve Bannon with a Lion.

Marty Stuart looking like, well, what I said.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 10

Cover of legendary trad album Doublin' by Paddies Glackin (no relation) & Keenan

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 9

Liam o maonlai, looking craggier and older than Una-Minh's
husband.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 9

Claire Lehmann, Joe Lonsdale, and Helen Lewis are all awful.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 6

(I'm virtually certain this is the explanation...)

Guardian's The Knowledge column with a headline about palindromic footballers, but which opens discussing a previous column's topic and mentioning Louis Page.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 6

Hall of Fame hallucination here:

Google's AI overview responds to a query about palindrome footballers with suggestions of Ozan Kabal, Sheyi Ojo, David Hannah, and... Louis Page.

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 6

About what you'd expect from the teamsheets:

BBC team lineups: Team Lineups

Bath
15 Reid,
14 Pepper,
13 Bayliss,
12 Ewels,
11 Roux,
10 Stuart,
9 Dunn,
1 De Glanville,
2 Cokanasiga,
3 Ojomoh,
4 Redpath,
5 Arundell
6 Russell,
7 Spencer,
8 Obano

Munster
15 Coombes,
14 Hodnett,
13 Beirne,
12 Ahern,
11 Kleyn,
10 Ryan,
9 Barron,
1 Daly,
2 Kilgallen,
3 T Farrell,
4 Kelly,
5 Abrahams,
6 Hanrahan,
7 Casey,
8 Milne

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 6

FIFA prizes in full: Peace - Donald Trump Literature: Olivia Nuzzi Economics - Liz Truss Medicine - Bryan Johnson Chemistry - Juan Orlando Hernandez Physics -

Shane Glackin@eltorosolo· Dec 4