I got sent this last night by @nochorus.bsky.social and it was the first thing I listened to this morning and I laughed and laughed, thanks Kaleb Horton, you madman, only you could have made this wonderful object.

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

I certainly do: Soundgarden’s Superunknown; I still have it and it still plays great

Somebody already beat me to "Faraday cage match"

During the Troubles in Ireland when families lost a loved one to violence, they'd normally use their moment with the media to plead for no retaliation.

I studied philosophy at university

Later this morning on RTE Radio One Brendan O'Connor and guests will be stumbling their way through this and I imagine it will be hilarious and horrifying in equal measure.

Newcastle! Leeds! Dublin! Cork! Belfast! Do yourself a favour and watch the transcendent spiritual extreme metal band Agriculture over the next week. They levelled Salford tonight. Never seen a BM band look happier to be on stage. Righteous sound!

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

The entire Thor’s Rubber Hammer catalog is $12. All proceeds go to the fabulous producer, musician and person Chris Schlarb, who’s had a lot setbacks. Albums by Talibam, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Chartreuse, Owl Xounds — a real snapshot of noise, free-jazz. thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com/music

Bertie ahern made half my friends leave Ireland forever. I will never forgive him or fianna fáil for how they tore the heart out of our future.

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This is a rough watch. God above. What is HAPPENING? Obviously the people here are pricks, but the far worse bastards are the people who have spent years encouraging and emboldening them. The press have a lot to answer for.

I know "one for sorrow, two for joy" but what does it mean when you see a mob of 18 of them together? Looks like they are forming a committee

I think philosophy might be the field with the silliest-sounding longstanding problems. "Are we all in a cave? Nobody knows. Might be brains in a vat. Or the devil could be tricking us. Very important"

I'm very sad to say that Jim Kimball is no longer with us. When the news first broke that Jim was struggling, the outpouring of love for him was immediate & over these last few days it's been so touching & incredible to see. Here's the very 1st DK3 promo photo, pulled from a small box near my desk.

Funny that, despite the ceaseless onslaught of "mental health awareness", the downside of a thing in your phone that talks like a person, supposedly knows everything and seamlessly reorganizes reality around the concept "the customer is always right" has come as a shock bsky.app/profile/wsj....

The headline is purely inaccurate and so so dangerous. Those without status don't and have never qualified for HAP. Being assessed as unable to meet habitual residency condition (seemingly the core issue here) is not the same as being undocumented, or as the Mirror calls it, "illegal"

Bullshit. There are loads of talented writers. But you have to be willing to pay them. Pay peanuts, get [LLM] monkeys. "It’s getting harder and harder to find journalists ... there’s fewer freelancers nowadays who can really do the good stuff" pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Fox ache lads, just ban airbnb and impose rent controls until homelessness reaches zero. www.rte.ie/news/2025/08...

Three apartments in Smithfield going for €1.2 million. No news in that these days, but in the ad they make a point of highlighting that the units are vacant and have been for three years, and as such no rent caps will apply.

Went to see the Melvins play last night (they were incredible, immense, heavy rock dynamics with all the excess and bullshit removed) and all of Lankum were there rocking out, which is in my opinion partly why they are Ireland's pre-eminent traditional folk group.

Why's that, Guardian?

if the people that make the city great can't afford to live there... the city is not great.

John Boyne, when women have opinions without first seeking his approval.

An actually real, genuine “the fish rots from the head” moment. Very little of this type of idiotic shit rises organically from the public, it has been imposed from above by politicians and media outlets, over decades.

Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.

This is a good article but the media needs to confront its own role in normalising the "acceptable" forms and faces of racism. I understand Paul can't exactly be writing articles directly slamming his colleagues and bosses, this isn't on him, but at some point there has to be a reckoning

Part of the problem is that a lot of Cork was built with "butter bricks": cheap, badly-fired bricks used as ballast in sailing ships that were coming to Cork to leave with vast amounts of butter. They piled up on the quays and property tycoons, as fucky then as they are now, saw a cheap solution.

I was 3/4 into @philipsherburne.bsky.social’s epic @pitchfork.com retrospective on ‘Pony Express Record’ and thought, “he hasn’t mentioned ‘X-French Tee-Shirt’ yet!” And then he devotes 5 paragraphs to it, and his words are as towering and triumphant as the song itself: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

#bandcampfriday stuff bsky.app/profile/dark...

This is the rough running order of today's 24-HOUR SUMMER MOVIE MIND MELTER happening at secretcinematheque.com. Hope to see you there!

What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

SMOKING HOT REMINDER: In seven days on June 28, 2025 I'll be hosting THE 24-HOUR SUMMER MOVIE MIND MELTER at twitch.tv/SecretCinema... starting at 11:00 AM (Eastern Standard Time). I will be showing stuff you can't see anywhere else.

What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]

Stepping away from the drones for a minute, here is something I've been working on for a good while. A song about Paul McCartney, but also about childhood dreams and middle-age (turned 44 very recently so pretty sure I can't escape that label anymore). youtu.be/PxrBmiWUEXc

Oh wrestling is fake? Then explain this

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It's my birthday . I'm 45. Here is a new painting - she steps into the light 60 x 90cm

So sad to read on @gangoffour.bsky.social’s Instagram that Dave Allen died yesterday. What a force on bass. youtu.be/I_QJwR6D9d4?...

Quick reminder that I’m not such a lurker on Mastodon but you can follow those posts right here: bsky.app/profile/MacD...

I understand the power of nostalgia, but in 2025 if you are still watching WWE "content" in any way that is traceable by the company (i.e. giving them viewer number or, worse, actual money) then you are, at best, a fascist collaborator.

I like garron noone. I do think he's a good egg and well meaning on the whole and I don't expect him to be up on everything but like, he's done and said things that are not on. Take it on the chin and do better. That's how you grow.

Heeey @jessecollings.bsky.social is doing his second annual AEW fan survey! Who doesn't love surveys? You like Family Feud! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

There was a project at the Dia in 1997 to poll 500 people to find out what they liked most and least in music. Then the artists Komar and Melamid, with friendly musical neuroscientist David Sulzer, made the most wanted song and the most unwanted song. Most: archive.org/details/koma... (1/2)

So I caved and made an account here. I’ll probably mostly lurk...