One of my fav occasions of the Decade of Centenaries wasthe 2014 commemoration of the founding of Cumann na mBan at Glasnevin. President Michael D gave a wonderful speech paying tribute to the women & I was the respondent as Pres of the @whaireland.bsky.social #speirgorm president.ie/en/media-lib...

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The James Bond series is a very find example of what scientists call The Surf Dracula Problem.

My last word on the matter

Even Michael D’s tie matched! Ar fheabhas!

Purple Reign.

On this theme, sports photography from the 1970s and 80s had this gorgeous blue glow because the light from now-banned bulbs passing through clouds of cigarette smoke created a (lethal and ecologically catastrophic) kind of beautiful Instagram filter.

There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

This is my favorite post today about JCO. I'd completely forgotten "On Boxing," and how good it is. Might have to revisit it.

In the latest issue of my union's magazine, the answer to one of the crossword clues is @cmatbaby.bsky.social. That's how you know you've made it!

At least MM and LV have the bare minimum professionalism and manners to keep a poker face up. Harris looks like his uncle promised him a florin to go to the Araby Bazaar with, but staggered home far too late for him to be able to go down and buy anything to impress Mangan's sister.

Most Irish moment of the presidential inauguration: 'there's the president's husband, a woodwork teacher for many years, and of course her father was a carpenter's, and she has a brother who's very involved with Galway hookers'.

The people want modern Faulkner youtube.com/shorts/EeZjq...

I know a author who's work you'll like 🙂‍↕️

That’s such a sharp connection her critique of spectacle and ego in On Boxing feels even more relevant watching this play out in real time.

That's a genius scene because she's technically right, but her overreaction was unhinged, a peak at her real self. A paradox of most IP is that it's kept afloat by the army of casual fans, who don't care as much about continuity.

Ara sure, they can just reboot it and pretend it never happened. Hire Harris Dickenson or whoever as Bond as a young fella. That Chris Pine Star Trek doesnt mention how Captain Kirk no longer looks like William Shatner.

Do what Ian Fleming would do! Reveal that he has amnesia and forget that he was in disguise as a Japanese fisherman all this time.

Just thinking about Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider books where Alex somehow managed to do all that insane spy shit across like 10 books in the space of a single year because he remained 14 years old throughout.

Q looks at a medical chart and tells Bond that the absurd levels of alcohol and chlamydia in his system have actually killed the virus.

I'm with William on this. Not every entertainment series needs to have a "lore" like it's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Maybe we just like double entendres and state of the art stunt work?

Oh come on, we didn't see him die! He can just wash ashore, coughing and demanding a martini from the first girl he sees on the beach.

“Good thing Q injected me with that anti-bomb serum” This is not hard

Have I got a novel of that for you. (also a whole bunch of short stories)

Sparse Race

Bring back plush, indulgent prose!

Joyce Carol Oates does onboxing YouTubes

This thread 🧵

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Joyce Carol Oates please post about how Musk has never known the joy of tackling a Grizzly Bear Cub

I have the flu and it’s painful to laugh but this was worth it

Slán Miggldy! I’m going to miss our president Michael D, but looking forward to seeing what Catherine Connolly does in this role.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

The fact that Joyce Carol Oates clearly loves beating the shit out of Musk invites us, the readers, to revisit and reconsider our assessment of her famous work, "On Boxing".

Post a non religious photo you think of as holy.

And in this lesser known but great version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses www.imdb.com/title/tt0098...

Fairuza Balk should have been a bigger star. She'd have been amazing in the Jack Sparrow role in POTC or the Catherine Zeta Jones role in High Fidelity.

Post a non religious photo you think of as holy.

this, and the fact that airlines don't pay any tax on the fuel they use, are things more people should know

Me: The Two Johnnies are playing St Anne's Park next year. Wife: What do you mean? Are they playing chasing or something?

I took an electromagnetism course as part of college and the thing they don't tell you about magnets is the more you learn about them, the less sense they make.

If politicians are weighing in on magnets, the brilliant thing is that they are both entirely made of spin

joyce carol oates has the worst possible opinions ever and then, once in a while, she publicly wrecks an elon musk or a jk rowling.

"We had never read anything quite like it." Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. jrnl.ie/6870574

The paradox is neatly encapsulated by the thought experiment 'what if Ronnie Drew had ever covered I Touch Myself, by Divinyls'