@bradwright.bsky.social Big fan of your Outer Limits episodes. Are there any plans to publish the scripts in the future? Would love to read Trial By Fire, A Quality Of Mercy and The Light Brigade, etc.

The larger context of the NoTW (and later NBC) reporting on beatings in Irish schools is that so many stories like this in Ireland had to break in international media first. The treatment of women in Magdalene Laundries was brought to public attention by BBC Scotland.

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A former user of a message board I frequent had a posting style almost identical to the guy embarrassing himself in flyingrodent’s replies here. Wonder if it’s the same person…

You're so close

My gran was everything to me. She raised me, guided me, and taught me to love books. She’s why I became a writer. I’m working on a novel inspired by her life. The first part will tell of her time as a teenage girl inside Ireland’s monstrous Magdalene Laundries www.heraldscotland.com/news/2536103...

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

We don't need a 'Democratic Stephen Miller.' We need Democrats who will unapologetically fight for our values. We don't need a 'Joe Rogan of the Left.' We need a progressive media ecosystem that will unapologetically fight for our values. We don't need their playbook. We need to believe in us.

western countries are talking about whether to recognize a palestinian state, while israel keeps slaughtering dozens of palestinians each and every day

A woman a few seats from us started hyperventilating during the ending of Paranormal Activity.

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

A pleasant byproduct of Dunt’s periodic brainwrong emissions is you find a lot of sound new people to follow in the replies.

"The left cannot succeed unless it gets real slutty with it." - Ian Dunt for some unkowable reason.

[email protected] on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza:

I mean, what are we supposed to do here? Are we to queue up to vote for people who hate us, keep telling us they think we are scum, operate decade-long media campaigns terrorising the public against us and has now set the police on us as *fucking terrorists* for opposing their horrific policies?

If someone claims to have been a former Labour voter and are going to vote Reform: legitimate concerns. Must be listened to. Labour must Get More Racist. If someone was actually in the party and was told to leave for having morals: Your concerns are pathetic. Vote for Labour while we insult you.

This framing is so interesting to me because Labour literally called me a "flea" that they were happy to "shake off" despite the fact that I was very involved in the party. But I am apparently still supposed to vote for them even after they told me not to do so. Is my vote important or not?

Yeah, we’re doing all our reading: Reading about children being starved to death. Maybe that little detail bypassed Tim.

Starmer was brought in to get rid of the left by any means necessary and if that means supporting the genocide of the people of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, then that is just too bad: the lads have their important jobs back, and that is the only thing that matters.

THIS. Every time I log into $service, I'm presented with the "opportunity!" to use their related LLM. I'm in the path for services at my company and there's a lot of LLMs being forced into our agreements and, later, increases in pricing due to the LLMs that we didn't ask for.

Not the first time this prick has went after delivery riders

Suddenly media outlets are noticing the catastrophe enveloping Gaza. We warned you what Israel would do from the start. There are no excuses. Don't let the complicit erase their guilt 👇 owenjones.news/p/we-warned-...

The Irish version is if you burn down buildings that you suspected a migrant might have been near, well, the cops sadly don't have the training to do anything about it. If you're a grandmother protesting a genocide though, then By God, expect the full force of An Garda Siochana on your head

Honored to see EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism featured in @foreignpolicy.com books of the summer 📚 🌞 Out in September, pre-order here wwnorton.com/books/978132...

A reminder that Bret Stephens, in addition to his deeply mendacious Zionism, is also a climate change denier and once published a column advocating race science in the NYT.

Rory Smith could be the first human being to die of smugness and John Brewin sounds like he's waiting for death (as a fan of the club in question, I sympathise) but this is still a good listen on just how fucked Manchester United are. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

climate change, cost of housing, healthcare… so much of politics is maintaining the status quo and hoping none of the big crashes happen on your watch, just riding out that time and taking the money and praying it’s the next guy’s fault.

this week's Heart Reacts (up shortly!) is one for the labor nerds: @vivaharehills.bsky.social goes in on so-called AI and the labor process and I dig into the problems of organizing home health care workers and Medicaid. www.patreon.com/c/HeartReacts

everything is horrifying, let us help: Heart Reacts is an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism. send us questions! www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts

A request for help: what are your favourite pieces of writing on art? It can be just a sentence, or paragraph, not necessarily an entire essay or book. I'm helping to gather some pieces to share with young people (14–19 yrs old), and have some things already, but am keen to hear what you think too.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

“If the current government falls then the genocide will end” is one of the most annoying smoothbrained takes you’ll find. The majority of Israel’s population supports what’s happening in Gaza. Whatever comes after the war criminal’s administration will just be… a different kind of war criminal.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

No one else’s life has been made easier due to LLMs/AI. It’s a technology that almost solely benefits the executive class. So, inevitably, one day we’ll all wake up and find ourselves in a world where we have no choice but to use it. Just like the smartphone.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

What’s the long narrative here, guys? Why did successive US governments keep voting the Israelis a squillion dollars in free weaponry, even as e.g. the West Bank filled up with hundreds of thousands of hardliners who believe the Palestinians who live there are subhumans. How was that meant to end?

“Won’t you fly high, meatbird, yeah!”

A God damn hero www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It was never "complicated"

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Being a redhead in this kind of weather is like being subjected to a hate crime.

Please don’t ignore this the next time you’re told “it’s either these guys or Reform” coz this is also what Reform would do and you should rail against it no matter what colour the tie is.

Since announcing the formation of a new left party just three days ago, over 72,000 people have signed up to get involved. Let’s make it 100,000: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t... 🔥 P.S. The ticker at the bottom of the page is broken — we’re fixing it!

Do you know of a space or venue in Dublin? 🌍 #PlanetaryHealth