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.

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...

Devoured this. Will read it again. Bravo @davetynan.bsky.social

rest in peace D'Angelo. god what a loss

Have you a big love for the short form? Join us at our Festival Club as we delve into three powerful debut short-story collections from Claire-Lise Kieffer, Shane Tivenan and Dave Tynan 🎟️ bit.ly/4o3thIr

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

San Francisco! Next Sunday! Reading & signing @litquake.org

Going to Cork Short Story Festival! @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Shane Tivenan & myself on stage. This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.

This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.

Asked to leave Yoga for saying "that's a stretch" six times

Nice review for We Used To Dance Here in the Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

Traitors makes me think we should have had Takeshi's Castle around 2008 ☘️

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

Robert Redford's supernatural charisma perfectly summed up in this anecdote from Sam Kashner's Vanity Fair story about Mike Nichols casting The Graduate. www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03...

I think about this all the time

We Used to Dance Here is only number one in Hodges Figgis! Signed copies there too.

Book of the week! www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

'A sharp eye for character & a nose for linguistic mischief mark @davetynan.bsky.social’s prose out from the pack…The real pleasures of this collection are the author’s attention to the tiny twists that send our lives spinning’ We Used to Dance Here www.the-tls.com/literature/f...