Ace Frehley tunes and reminiscences incoming (I won't be offended, friends, if you mute me and "Ace" and "Frehley" and "rock" for the next few hours)! RIP #AceFrehley

RIP Ace Frehley My first love My 6-10 year old brain wanted to know him, to be him, to understand how he thought, or what he thought. Still, to this day, until waking to the news this morning, I believed I'd meet him one day. Listening to him play guitar altered my brain space ⚡🎸🔥🚀 -->

STOP IT, STOP IT!!!! The coffin can't take any more nails!!!

truly wild that in the year 2025 there are still academics so invested in legacy notions of prestige they choose to spend their precious life force gate-keeping rather than engage in the kinds of solidaristic work needed to save their profession, this has been a PSA and a subtweet

Aw, such a bummer

Happy Friday! (turn on the captions)

My mum used to call such priests Father Whatawaste.

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

Good news. I mostly know Krasznahorkai through his work with Béla Tarr, but Hungarian lit tends to be drastically overlooked, so it's nice to see it get this recognition.

Whole thread is worth a read!

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

The Hunger Games, but for billionaires.

Please repost far and wide Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine is calling for a workplace Stand Out for Gaza: 📅 Thursday 16th October 2025 🕐 during lunch (or other break) 📍 outside your workplace Wherever you work, any sector any job, talk to your colleagues about a Stand Out for Gaza.

Cool performance - this was the first CD I ever bought, and these guys can still tear it up!

I know not a lot of people are going to get this if they're not as Terminally Online as I am, but the fact that Jay Bluesky is now posting Accelerationist dogwhistles on main is the scariest thing to me and an omen of true misfortune for this site. This is the absolute worst thing to see.

I loved One Battle after Another even more than I thought I would. Anybody have a link to a "making of" for the car chase scenes? Those road shots?

I walked past Mary Robinson on campus last night and it was way more exciting than most celebrity sightings! Awesome.

Yup

Excited for a night of experimental fun with aemi in Dublin

Really good article, I was shocked when I read this show had been renewed.

For TS Eliot, on his b-day (from "Fragment of an Agon")

TV people! In the era of live TV dramas (Armchair, Kraft, etc.), how did they include large crowd shots outside? For example, the Piccadilly New Years eve scenes in 'The Criminals'?

I can't believe the Rapture's gonna happen before I get invited into the Criterion Closet.

Ran into Gabriel Byrne at luggage collection in Boston this summer. I had just shown my teen Miller's Crossing a couple weeks previously, so I said let's go say 'hi.' Byrne was super nice, he was just coming home from 35mm screening of the film in LA, chatted with us the whole time we waited.

Here's some dumb fun dude energy for your Sunday!

Sunday morning, Dublin

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

First look at Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 36 in November, when we celebrate Alice Fay, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jean Arthur, and Ginger Rogers. Tickets available in October.

I'm not sure Zuck actually knows what 'cognitive' means.

Sinn Féin has announced that it will support Independent candidate Catherine Connolly in the Presidential Election, ending months of speculation over its position

Damn this Dutch comedy show’s response to the Kimmel suspension ain’t no joke lol

If you can, please sign and share this petition from a collective of artists asking IMMA to “align its funding and partnerships with the values it promotes”, including environmental and BDS ethics. Their board meets later today.

Getting off academia . edu is definitely a good idea. Thread includes tips for taking your work down, too.

Some joy for these times in this here thread

RIP Robert Redford All things must pass, but boy did I love watching that beautiful man onscreen. I can watch the Dahlberg scene on repeat. Willis’s shot is amazing, but the way Redford works the space, a diminishing space, and slowly ratchets his attention and intensity is just magnificent.

Does she ever miss?

In other news ... Happy 50th to this magnificent beast! YMMV, but I reckon this album's as important to Gen-X rockers as the Beatles on Sullivan was to the previous era. Just push play! #KISS #KissAlive

Dreadful news - if you have work on Vimeo, make sure you have copies saved elsewhere; or even consider taking it down before the enshitification begins.

Aw, just heard about the recent passing of Rick Davies. My Supertramp phase was brief, but burned bright, and while Hodgson wrote the biggest hits, I was more drawn by Davies's gruffness and cynical wit. I guess 81 is a good run for a rock star ... still, RIP!

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

A great piece from TCD colleagues advocating resistance to AI. The beauty of learning comes in the process of thinking, the unexpected connections, time spent reading closely; all things that GenAI prevents.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Watched the first ep of Alien Earth - it was intriguing enough to give it a go, but anything that finds a way to work in ‘The Mob Rules’ has gotta some love - song totally rips!

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?

Great video by @feetonthesoil Instagram www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

If you're curious about yesterday's Mamdani, NYC scavenger hunt, this kid's 40 min video is a great recap!

My email to #Ireland's Taoiseach & copied to the Tánaiste & Minister of Finance. If anyone wants to use any of it in their own letters, feel free to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Full text also in alt) #Spéirgorm #spéirghorm #Palestine