If you search your twitter username on google and click “news” you can see if any of your tweets were included in an article. - Patrick
When you write controversial articles about controversial topics, it’s probably a good idea to Google yourself every so often to judge the bounce. Even if I wasn’t published, I’d probably be Googling myself anyway.
So what have various internet people found compelling enough about my tweets or posts to reblog or including in their listicles?
That time I re-edited a Conservative Party poster boasting about their Brexit policy.
An absurdly amusing headline.
Further evidence of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s vendetta against me. Choose your enemies wisely, Nas. You know not the day nor the hour.
An ill-advised front-page article in the Irish Times post on the morning of the abortion referendum.
One of my long-ass articles translated into Spanish.
News to no one: the biggest cause of death in Russia is vodka.
Registering my surprise at the scale and venom of some anti-Muslim racism. Whatever you want to call that if you don’t like “racism”. Maybe fascism? Yeah, that’ll do.
A mason jar-themed joke for National Mason Jar Day (no, really).
An uber-post of trashed pro-life arguments which for some reason ended up on an LGBTQ+ page.
A tweet I posted about strolling in on an actual fascist rally in Munich.
It’s never the tweets you want people to notice, is it?
Googling “Barry Purcell” + news
That time a Quora post was completely misinterpreted for a piece on feminism in Elle Magazine.
That time one of my YouTubes was used in an article on Sesame Street in the New York Daily News.
A post I made about happiness was used in an article on happiness in Business Insider.
