an adaptation by no means has to stay faithful to plot or structure, but it needs to have *some* kind of conversation with the source material otherwise it’s just a marketing tool. WH is the latter

Be careful when engaging with any “What’s the craziest immigration law violation you’ve ever committed?” quote-bait

Ian Paisley Jr inviting Erika Kirk to Northern Ireland and wanting to set up a branch of Turning Point there should be a bigger story given the DUP's murky funding of advertising etc back in the Brexit referendum.

Wait, it’s pronounced Emerald feh-NELL? Not FEN-ell??

So what happens if we refuse to play Israel? Are we excluded from the next Euros?

Fuck every single bit of this bigoted, regressive shit.

I don't like supermarket fear so I get all my fear at the local fearmongers.

What movie moment made you exclaim… “THIS IS CINEMA”.

Enjoying the way Small Prophets isn’t a comedy or framed, but a drama with 2-3 really good jokes per episode.

Rodney Dangerfield in 2026: I'll tell ya, my wife, she's into those smutty Romantasy books. People ask me if we ever recreate them in the bedroom. I say, 'Yeah, the first half of every enemies-to-lovers story.'

Qobuz now works with Siri. Great news for me and maybe six other people.

This comma causes me almost physical pain. @politico.eu @politico.com

So the rest of us who use drones in Cork City for recreation, search and rescue, geographical surveys etc have to step aside while the skies above the city are handed over to a private enterprise. #cork www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

Sinead Sheppard, who was one of the winners on the only Irish season of Popstars.

Sage advice from Viz

RIP James Van Der Beek. Not sure if it’s inappropriate to post the Dawson crying gif one last time.

a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming

I was thinking about replaying Mass Effect and I’ve now seen two references to it in the wild. The Fates have spoken.

Since the dawn of time, mankind has dreamed of building a big catapult to fling rocks at the moon.

Speaking as someone from a Northern industrial town, this just means it'll get burnt down in a mysterious fire next month and mysteriously replaced with luxury flats

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Here's a good bit from a Disney film from back when Disney made good films to brighten your timeline.

No idea, but there's a story about George Hamilton meeting some Irish fans at Italia '90. He got it into his head that one fan was Italian and he asked him want part of Italy he was from. Fan said, "George, I'm from Rialto" George replied, "Ahhh, Rialto! Que bella!"

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

All of my suggestions involve lots of snow: Fargo, The Thing, and A Simple Plan

Please… my heights. They’re very wuthering.

They still can cook on X The Everything App

Happy to see a philosophy graduate scamming a big tech company though. Get that money.

A SNUB ABOVE THE REST F YOUR CONSIDERATION NO OTHER CHOICE

I know Haworth’s gentrified a lot recently, but: not like that.

Correct term is “People with Frenchness”

New Yorker also has a story about restoring The Magnificent Ambersons with AI. Consent machine go brrrr.

Maybe the single best scene in Seinfeld?

Just watched the Festivus episode of Seinfeld, which was of course based on the actual experiences of writer Dan O'Bannon. This part of his interview on the featurette is as funny as anything in the episode, I think.

I've recently been watching some of the early Best Picture winners that I hadn't seen before. You know what I'd really recommend? Not doing this. Many of these films are unspeakably bad. I'm never going to complain about Green Book again.

There is a hot new songwriter named Sienna Sprio rising up the charts, proving that even now, people are willing to listen to a girl who sits down at her piano, plays her simple love songs unaccompanied, and bellows every note like an enraged rabid elephant. Never let her do the national anthem

Rewatched Memento the other day and realised that the 90s were a golden age for movie characters that didn't exist/weren't really in the movie. Sammy Jankis. Keyser Soze. Rolo Tomassi.

the elder millenial poster's retirement home has achieved its final form

He is 100% the right president to encapsulate 250 years of the US. Our history sucks ass.

Cummings gift is how he blends obvious truisms with his personal opinions. The result is something that sounds insightful if you don't think about it too much.

My child once asked me, completely out of the blue, “Why do all of your ex-girlfriends hate you?”

Whenever I hear a cute story behind the origin of a word or phrase, it turns out to be nonsense about 95% of the time. Yesterday I heard someone claim “blowjob” is derived from the term “below job”, eg a job “below” the waist. No it isn’t. That didn’t happen.

Age verification? I still think of The Simpsons as those weird animated inserts on The Tracy Ullman Show.

Several reviews of “Wuthering Heights” have said Martin Clunes is really good in it. Which means… There’s a very, very slim chance of Martin Clunes winning an Oscar.

They've gone Epstinct.

OMG I LOVE SEEING MY HORSE RUN IN COMMUNION WITH EVERYONE ELSE'S HORSES, this is a collective healing act

Getting really hard to not become a conspiracy theorist