There are basically no positives to Netflix buying Warner Brothers/HBO, but it at least saves me from having to explain to family members why Succession isn't on Netflix and explaining how licensing laws work

As someone who was cycling home from the NUIG library when Storm Desmond hit, I can confirm that Teresa Mannion wasn't exaggerating. It really was that bad in Galway that night

Look, I grew up watching sci-fi dystopia movies and reading sci-fi dystopia books, but that doesn't mean I want to live in one. Are Cloudflare's servers built on hobnobs or what

Latest season of Brave New World wasn't great, Section 31 was terrible, they ended Lower Decks... so yeah, why not spin the wheel and do The OC in space, something is bound to work

Ireland will not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 after it was confirmed that Israel would be allowed to participate in the competition. Spain and the Netherlands have also confirmed that they have withdrawn from the contest. jrnl.ie/6893728

Going through the Dáil transcript on Labour's trans healthcare motion, and Labour TD Duncan Smith called Independent Ireland TD Richard O'Donoghue a "gobshite" after he went off on a weird Twitter brain-rotted rant about self-indification

A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.

It Was Just An Accident is as good as you've heard. In cinemas from this Friday, go see it by any means necessary, pull a sickie from work if you have to dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...

Labour and Greens worked with Fianna Fáil + Fine Gael to raise rents for social housing tenants on Dublin City Council, but voted against them on Fingal/Dún Laoghaire's councils. Examined whether the parties now have governance-focused factions and idealist factions dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Previewed the Dublin Central by-election: bollocked the tabloids for being stupid enough to give Gerry Hutch breathless coverage. Fine Gael versus a unified opposition is a way more interesting plot line, anyway dublinpeople.com/news/northsi...

Going through the Dáil transcript on Labour's trans healthcare motion, and Labour TD Duncan Smith called Independent Ireland TD Richard O'Donoghue a "gobshite" after he went off on a weird Twitter brain-rotted rant about self-indification

Tidal has finally dropped its version of Spotify Wrapped my most played songs list has tracks by Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, PJ Harvey, The Replacements, Bjork, Jeff Buckley and Cocteau Twins on there. The music industry fears me, I only listen to old stuff and barely listen to new stuff

Labour and Greens worked with Fianna Fáil + Fine Gael to raise rents for social housing tenants on Dublin City Council, but voted against them on Fingal/Dún Laoghaire's councils. Examined whether the parties now have governance-focused factions and idealist factions dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Previewed the Dublin Central by-election: bollocked the tabloids for being stupid enough to give Gerry Hutch breathless coverage. Fine Gael versus a unified opposition is a way more interesting plot line, anyway dublinpeople.com/news/northsi...

It Was Just An Accident is as good as you've heard. In cinemas from this Friday, go see it by any means necessary, pull a sickie from work if you have to dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

So, true story, when I saw Weapons at the press screening I was like "wow, this actor looks a lot like Ed Harris" then I saw Amy Madigan's name in the end credits, and realised Amy Madigan has literally been married to Ed Harris for over 40 years

"And a quick look at tomorrow's newspaper headlines.."

As people still need to hear this: the Danish social democrats are polling at below 20%. In this poll, the radical right in Denmark also nearly receives 20%. It remains striking how often Denmark is still referenced as a case were social democrats beat the radical right.

Writing my Jay Kelly review, and I literally have to consult my notes from the screening because that movie is truly in one ear, out the other. Lifeless slog. If Netflix are going to make that their Oscar play this year, they might as well cancel the campaign now and save some money.

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...

They said it couldn't be done

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Because perfection takes time, next question

This movie is a real favourite of mine, but it is hilarious that like 30 minutes of this 85 minute movie are clips from the previous movies, montages and a full James Brown musical number. It's so stupid it loops back around to genius

Got a press release in from an independent who says they are standing in the Dublin Central by-election. Among their "achievements" is their involvement in Repeal The 9th Amendment. Now, unless I missed something, I'm pretty sure non-Irish citizens still have the right to vote..

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester

Councillors from Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, People Before Profit and various independent councillors will vote down the Dublin City Council budget on Monday night, and have called on Labour and the Greens to pull the plug on the government parties dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

That's crazy, now let me look up what party has the power to rein in and regulate social media companies

Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*

Had a pet project in college where I tracked how 1980s culture reflected nuclear paranoia and this is really good. Saw a work print version and it's more of Nicolas Meyer's vision that ABC balked it. Definitely try seek it out, makes a good movie great (and of course, Meyer is a total pro)

Critics who used to think Paul Verhoeven's news satires were too on the nose owe him an apology

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

Get Tommy Lee Jones on the case

I'd be a great World Cup draw host. I wouldn't need a teleprompter, I'd just be freeballing stats about Slovakia from the top of my head

Get on with the draw, Moby, this isn't Stars In Their Eyes

Me having to rearrange my provisional year-end top 10 after seeing It Was Just An Accident

At a press screening for the Oscar-tipped It Was Just An Acdident, so of course the cinema's sound system is playing Faith Hill's song from Pearl Harbor as mood music. Talk about a clash of tones, American raw raw patriotism before a drama about the dysfunction of Iranian society

Reviewing It Was Just An Accident for the paper this week instead of Wicked because I'm such an advocate for world cinema

Oh

Building on this; At a local level, Dublin Central is a very strong area for Soc Dems (they nearly got 2 councillors elected at the 2024 locals, Gannon saw a vote bump in the general last year), Sherlock won the seat back for Labour last year and there's a decent Green vote locally too.

My first thought: Dublin Central is home to Mary Lou McDonald (SF), Gary Gannon (Soc Dem) and Marie Sherlock (Labour). A by-election here will be a huge test of this unified left project, now literally in McDonald's back yard

It has begun

Just 5 of Ireland's starting 11 this afternoon were alive when The Offspring hit number one in January 1999 with Pretty Fly (For A White Guy). Please write to your local TD demanding an end to this cruel practice

My living room sounded like a death metal vocalist being hit with a stun gun when this went in

Friends fear he is starting a Larry Sanders Show rewatch

You may not like it, but Albert Brooks in Defending Your Life is the ideal male form