When I was trying to be a Serious Actor(tm) and training at a conservatory years ago, we had an instructor who had us create, what was essentially a stage version of a music video. We'd been neck deep in a bunch of experimental and movement-based practices (Viewpoints, Suzuki, biomechanics)...

The Irish government spending years screaming "Putin's puppets!!!" at anyone who disagreed with their foreign policy rings a bit hollow in retrospect when they're telling the Ukrainians to fuck off and the rest of us that it's ok to sell raw materials to Russia, actually

@deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social Cracking post here, nearly an hour of 1994 May bank holiday event adverts taken off Kool FM sets, all cross referenced to the event flyers and lineups. urbanocturnal.org/pirate-tapes...

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Well indeed

Hutch Ado About Nothing? Monk Takes Vow Of Silence As Siege Of Ennis Reaches Boylan Point!

live look at sinn féin

Every three minutes on Bluesky today: oh that's a delightful name for a town! Dudly-on-Friendton. I see they have voted for the Murdering Orphans party.

Patrick O'Donovan (of all people) getting slowly railroaded into sounder and sounder positions the longer he spends in Culture is easily the funniest subplot of this particularly dreary Dáil. www.thejournal.ie/patrick-odon...

I miss what twitter was to me once. When I was doing canvassing work on Capel Street Bridge for #repealthe8th I put up a post about how hot it was and wondering if I'd get sunburnt and someone came to the bridge with factor 50 for me.

Had a friend who innocently volunteered for a Tidy Towns group in a middle-class area - said it was like the courts of the Renaissance Popes

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Working on this grand hypothesis about modern Irish politics whereby whenever Sinn Féin's poll numbers get too good they are filled with this irresistible urge to do something fucking stupid to tank them

As for the 'farmers feed us' BS - if we were to rely on what is produced in Ireland we'd be lucky not to get rickets, never mind scurvy.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I’ve heard of social tenants not getting access to on site gym facilities etc and that’s bad enough but this is genuinely stunning. Imagine how much of a thundering cunt you’d have to be to do this to a disabled child

Exactly one year ago today:

I mean, it’s Roscommon, you’d have a cheek to ascribe some of these to the drugs

Imagine if you will a political action group so reactionary and sadistic that it was set up with the sole aim of forcing people to experience *Roscommon* without a protective cushion of mind altering drugs.

JD Vance is really not very good at this catholic stuff, surely he should be the one pulling out at the last minute? #spiergorm

I mean look, this looks bad to you and me, but it's the sort of thing that would have made FF pick him as a candidate; the story of why he *shouldn’t* be a candidate has yet to break and won't break until the funniest moment possible.

When Sinn Féin suggested something similar, to enquire why the national broadcaster's editorial line on Gaza is indistinguishable from the average Itamar Ben-Gvir tweet, it was darkly painted as Stalinist overreach and an assault on the freedom of the press.

I would love a grown-up debate on free speech in Ireland, like how civil servants are effectively barred from participating in public discourse so politicians and the press use them as a cheap punching bag with no meaningful right to respond or to otherwise defend themsleves, even from outright lies

Dear old friend has been forced into selling off his incredible record collection due to a sudden hardship, go have a look.

At a party in a disused prison in Bristol, the cells have been turned into wee chillest rooms, this is what abolition will look like one day

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue. When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

I personally oppose the use of state violence to break up protests, but of course exceptions must be made in cases where it would be funny

Funniest thing is that every single one of these protesters has spoken the words "you know what they should do? They should call the army in" at least once in their lives

Thing is, those tractors blocking O'Connell Street ARE a climate change protest, it just so happens the protesters don't believe in climate change and so they are protesting against their perception that too much is being done to mitigate against it (that "too much" being a modest carbon tax).

Take all the cars and trucks out of the city between the two canals permanently I say

I see the Irish Nazi’s are out supporting the fuel people as well. It’s almost as if it isn’t just about fuel …….

it's actually crazy that the chair of the Oireachtas committee on AI clearly thinks his job is to push as much AI adoption by the state as possible

Fun to see all the reactionary elements the government has spent years stoking in order to destroy any chance of a united opposition to the housing crisis turning on the government because of the fallout of a war the government refused to really condemn. Politics eh?

philosopher robert nozick made the same point much more verbosely

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

He should have known that people would instantly spot a change in the paper they knew so well. Everyone expects the Sindo to be entirely artifical; as soon as you try and make it intelligent too however they'll smell a rat in seconds.

this is where all navel gazing about falling birth rates leads and you're deluding yourself if you think it's not fundamentally misogynistic

Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in Ireland. I wore a beret to a funeral once and everyone said I was in the IRA. www.thejournal.ie/gerry-adams-...

I thought we'd never be able to top Miggledy, but by Jesus she's giving it a right go

Transphobia only caught on in the UK because the Brits love absolutely nothing more than they love Only Having One Joke (especially when it's a shit one).

Dublin version: "Previously part of the thriving alternative medicine sector, and operating as a highly active community hub, this characterful mid-terrace offers exciting redevelopment potential at just €1.2m"

You don’t have to preface your condemnation of the US-Israeli assault with ‘the regime is bad but’. The prohibition on use of force has nothing to do with the virtues of the state attacked. You don’t have to open with a wavering concession to the talking points of the aggressors.

A new film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit. “The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”

I mean look, evicting 36 families so landlords can raise the rent by 25% will benefit "the rental sector" in the very short term too, as long as you understand that by "rental sector" he exclusively means "landlords who just got a 24% payrise" rather than "families who just got evicted overnight"

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

This is literally the stupidest response to a world where arts and its critical thinking skills are one of the only sure-fire resistant thing to being commodified by AI replacement. What are they going to do, start knocking out junior coders who are already being supplanted?

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹 m.independent.ie/business/per...