My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

Hear the Israeli refusers - why they refused 👇

I can understand why a company that gets commission from selling airport taxis, airport parking, airport coach tickets and car rentals may not want to compete with a metro. But MetroLink is about much more than Ryanair's business strategy or even the airport itself.

He wrote a follow up letter to the Irish Times on Wednesday claiming again that there's been no cost benefit analysis done on the project. This is simply false and it undermined the public confidence in a vital transport project. He can't say he didn't know anymore.

I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday. O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.

Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

Updated Dublin events spreadsheet! Rare chances to see Spinal Tap and the Rocky Horror on the big screen. And Gibby Haynes playing the hits of the Butthole Surfers NEXT WEEK. It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done... docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is either profound or problematic and I cannot figure out which #northcircular

North Circular dir. Luke McManus on RTE 1 tonight 9.30 ..its really great

After an incredible cinema journey at home and abroad North Circular hits the small screen tonight. RTE ONE 9:35. Don't miss it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...

Me: 'Sorry I forgot your name! I have a terrible memory. It's basically a medical condition.' Also me: 'In 1987 Johnny Hates Jazz had a huge hit with Shattered Dreams, written by lead singer Clark Datchler.'

I liked the system we had on telly in the eighties where you simply watched anything that had Barbara Flynn in it, and that was all the algorithm you needed.

That They May Face The Rising Sun is on rte1 at 21.30. Lady Bird is on TG4 at the same time. Two very different but fantastic films.

“Now, I no longer dispute the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza” @dovwaxman.bsky.social medium.com/@dov.waxman/...

If Twitter had been around in the 1990s the Troubles would still be raging

Even linkedin gets it

They dumped slurry on the parade route? Please. Queer folk have been walking through their bullshit our whole lives. Clean your mess up we’ve got a parade to throw. 🌈🖕 @meapride.bsky.social is going to be fabulous today

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Live brass, rare grooves and delicious drinks in a #Stoneybatter park Get down to #ThorPlace this Sunday at 3pm

Self-Learning Netflix Algorithm Produces Jeffrey Dahmer Stand-Up Special theonion.com/self-le...

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Stoneybatter Festival has its final day today with the family fun day with Manor Street closed fo traffic from 12pm to 5pm. Straight after I’m putting on this film and Q&A event at @lighthousecinema.bsky.social - 530pm v limited tickets still available www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/one-nig...

if two of history’s all time whiniest babies can’t get along then what hope is there for the rest of us

I finally watched Conclave. I like that Ralph Fiennes has the same energy as Kermit the Frog trying to keep The Muppet Show from going off the rails.

AND they are bringing sieg heiling gobshites with them…FFS

“Yes I’ll finally get to see Metallica” then…tickets start at €121. There is no universe where Lars Ulrich gets that kind of money out of me. You can ask my Swiss roll tennis boy

This is my view on generative AI. It's perfectly possible to be entertained by typing things in and seeing what absurd things come out. But seeing the output of other people's prompts is nauseating.

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s new book makes the argument that society’s best and brightest should be focused on making the world a better place instead of making money. Read or listen to more on The Interview. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...

Don’t think I’m going to go to the US until they get their shit together - this is embarrassing

The death cult of extremist tin pot capitalism is upon us - the repeated failure of the mass media to hold these people to account is disastrous and as they destroy the world for the profit of the few they will cause pain and poverty for multitudes

The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

Busta Rhymes we once again should have heeded your wisdom

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

They’re arresting judges now

Reality is just absurd now. Tathony house, where the former tenants were fighting eviction (Jack Power & I wrote articles about it at the time) is now being set up as homeless accommodation under the new owners (great reporting from Dub Inquirer team) www.dublininquirer.com/time-and-aga...

I didn’t have hearing Werner Herzog citing Franco Baresi as his filmmaking inspiration on todays bingo card but life is full of glorious surprises

Don’t miss it UK #blueroad

Was just thinking today - Steve Jobs was a bollocks but there’s no way he would’ve lined up to kiss Trumps ass with the other tech creeps. More than anything Jobs despised anything tasteless and tacky. and nothing is more tasteless and tacky than Donald Trump.

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

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Meta really are the worst people in the world Imagine coming up with this bullshit

The “free speech absolutist” at work

Spending $25 million of my own money to accidentally make even more people hate me and vote against my dogshit ideas