[Chuck Schumer scavenging through the post-apocalyptic rubble for scraps of food] He's gone too far. Someone should do something about this

Almost all millennials and the oldest members of Gen Z can say that the US president has been a white guy born in the summer of 1946 for the majority of our life. Bill Clinton: August 19, 1946 George W. Bush: July 6, 1946 Donald Trump: June 4, 1946

Catch me @ilfdublin.bsky.social next month

I'm delighted we've got Harvey on our team 🇮🇪

The thing about AI is that I understand there are tasks you would like technology to do for you, makes all the sense in the world, but I have no idea why any of those tasks would be “write a book” or “perform a song” or “act in a movie” or a lot of the rest of this shit

got this in the mail today

Nominative determinism.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Civilisation has been in a moral and artistic nosedive ever since they made it possible to play as Bowser in Mariokart, and win races for evil

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

My book‘s been out six months. Published by @grantabooks.bsky.social 🎂

"According to my calculations, from 1989 to 2014, battle-related deaths from cross-border conflicts averaged fewer than 15,000 a year. Beginning in 2014, the average has risen to over 100,000 a year." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

humans of new york ass photo

I’m in the Irish Times today praising the Basic Income for Artists.

Single coolest rock ever found?

RIP Andrew Ranken The backbone of The Pogues’ sound. Versatile, propulsive & joyous drumming. He was one the many reasons I loved watching them live. youtu.be/ItFwHE2n8Vs?...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

New collage. Wolf Tickets. A4. Built around a Corbijn shot of Tom Waits. Scalpel and old magazines. Analogue, baby.

Two new books from @benpester.bsky.social (collection of stories & a novel). Couldn't be happier. The story collection, Sail Away Land, publishing in June. www.thebookseller.com/rights/grant...

And Uncut Gems got zero nominations. ZERO.

Tickets going weirdly fast for this. It's made for the cinema. Free but ticketed. ifi.ie/film/ifi-tra...

Saipan had nothing on this.

(handing you a packet of mustard that i had tucked behind my ear like a cigarette) you ever try body temperature mustard before?

uh huh.

Our @screenireland.bsky.social short Rockmount is showing in @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social tomorrow & Wednesday. A nice excuse to share the poster again, by Jon Averill.

In my day we used manufacture consent for illegal military action, but I suppose the president never was big on consent.

Abel Ferrara in Marty Supreme. 🫡 Magic still exists.

You can love The Cure and still acknowledge The Walk sounds like something out of a Sonic MegaDrive level.

In 1989, French newspaper Libération asked 700+ filmmakers from around to answer just one question: "Why do you film?", the answers they received varied from several pages long to just a few words, here's some of them.

Good to see @davetynan.bsky.social's We Used to Dance Here in @rickoshea.bsky.social's Best Books of 2025 list. 'Cracking, straight from the opening story...I rarely find a collection without a dud story somewhere - this is one of them.' www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

The Irish Independent & @rickoshea.bsky.social here, being right, says me. 📚 🎄

HEAT is a Christmas movie

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and a duck that does crimes

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Lots of signed copies round town…

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

there’s an old la-z-boy recliner on the sidewalk with a sign that says “FREE - FULL OF SPIDERS” - appears to be in good condition otherwise

Mad and different to see the other team looking sickened ☘️

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

The Colour Between is @rte.ie Monday night on Shortscreen.

Hate City, Love Doku

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

My pick for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social is Signs Preceding The End Of The World by @yuriherrera.bsky.social 🇲🇽 Full blog here dublinbookfestival.com/halloween-re...

A special contempt for lads who write extremely long emails into sports podcasts.

It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"

it’s like the words after the comma here have been deliberately chosen to make the reader feel insane

Wrote this back in 2012. Thanks to RTÉ Culture for putting it back up. RIP D. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...