Still have some days off work so, things permitting, I might go on a photo walk somewhere tomorrow. Won't have the energy to cycle, so straddling bus/ DART routes as a path! Weather permitting also....

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

Prime Video may be the worst streaming service going, if only for how many titles are incorrectly labelled. Put on Lair of the White Worm and the film that actually plays is 'The Limey'.

Rewatching the best show that Amazon ever produced - largely on account of Rosa Salazar's wonderful performance. Undone.

[Me, performing my first exorcism] "I compel you, in the name of the father! the son! and the holy... [turns page of bible but 2 pages get stuck together and I have to try pinch them apart one-handed until they eventually separate]... spirit!"

Spooky Season Hot Take: Ghost hunting shows > monster hunting shows >>>> UFO hunting shows

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

When people say "my kid said the funniest thing..." you have to do the (sometimes unsolvable) calculation of 'is this person's child 7 years old or are they in their 20s?'.

'Hereditary' (2018) but Toni Collette's character is making a Bobby Fingers style Youtube video of her diorama construction throughout it.

Keeping an arbitrary ranked list of every horror film I watch this October. (Also keeping tracked of where each's initial rank was and how many films it was against at the time.) boxd.it/Pgghu

One thing everyone on this site can agree on is that instead of listening to the new Taylor Swift album people should listen to real music like Steely Dan

In memoriam...

Incidentally, earlier this year Microsoft announced it was investing $80 billion in AI. EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS. They gobbled up half the games industry in a disastrous acquisition spree that never should've been allowed to happen, then saw something shinier and immediately fumbled the gaming bag.

People who use AI to tells their children bedtime stories / have casual chats about Thomas the Tank Engine etc: What exactly do they get out of being alive?

People who use AI to write their children a bedtime story / reply to your partner's texts / summarise books etc: What exactly do they get out of being alive?

I wrote an article about selling out, which used to be something to be ashamed of! NGL, I'm delighted they used a Jimmy Carr pic.

This is an utterly appalling statement for a government representative in a democratic republic to make. It’s the sort of stuff you’d expect from a dictatorship. “Regrettable” - I can’t think of a more apt word than “evil” to describe that statement.

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"? Just say 'for the next 3 days', man.

Ahh they finally released the public consultation. 44% of respondents were general public/ not artists. 97% in favour of making it permanent. On average, respondents thought it should last 12 years. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

"This film isn't great, watch [film that was made 10 years later] instead." Yeah, man, crazy how time works that another filmmaker had 10 years to fine tune another idea. Wild that the first director didn't think "what if someone makes a different film in a decade?" and shut down production.

A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.

Rest in peace to Jane Goodall, whose tireless advocacy for primates has brought us closer than ever to the Planet of the Apes becoming a terrifying reality

Remember that fake Halloween parade in Dublin last year? Looks like a fake Lantern Festival is this year's thing, and it's charging a fee! No word yet on whether OPW are even aware of this. Website riddled with placeholder text and fake information.

'One Battle After Another' is fantastic! The quickest 2 hours and 40 minutes I've experienced in the cinema. I laughed, I cried, I made immediate plans to see it again.

I never intend to have a dignified little cry in the cinema and yet...

3 years ago I animated myself turning into a zombie, and I changed my Twitter profile photo every few days so I fully turned by October 31st

For the last month I have done the daily challenge on sudoku.com every day and my soul is no richer for it.

I am a fair man but everyone who managed to get a 'Pud' hat at the @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social merch stall (leaving them sold out before I arrived) is now an enemy for life. I will he wearing my cowdoy t-shirt, filled with the memories of a hilarious night of perfectly honed comedy chaos though.

Can't wait for EA to get picked apart for scrap while the most obsessive and confident consumers come up with reasons why this or that game or studio or person definitely deserved it for wokeness

Nature is healing

Just saw that Ben Stiller launched a soda and we need to get back to a stage when celebrities were embarrassed to back sodas (but still did so in countries they were sure their native audiences would never catch a glimpse of.)

I don't use this word often or lightly but I am so very "stoked" to be heading to Aunty Donna tonight! Been a fan for ages and live comedy is the best comedy!

- Aunty Donna tonight - One Battle After Another (70mm) tomorrow - A photo of this oil lamp that looks like the bunny?/duck? optical illusion now:

Thinking about how awful the cast's voices will sound over a good set of cinema speakers.

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

It doesn't matter if you're into food and restaurants, this is a must-read on the importance of fact-checking and subject-matter experts (and a mini exposé on how a particular food enterprise in Dublin is capitalising on its absence in Irish media). www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...

companies programmed us to refer to art, music, video, and writing as "content" to make it seem like it comes from the website and not from a person who had to think of it and make it

As #TraitorsIRL finishes, FAT BEAR WEEK begins! 🐻

This! Pulling their punches here and kinda taking the wind out of the sails. All tension was removed when they knew how many traitors remained and the people banished still revealed their roles. A good series but stumbled at the end. #TraitorsIRL

Me, at mentions of The Rapture

We can talk about The Rapture on October 14th (the anniversary of the Sudden Departure).

It's not the Rapture I just logged out for 2 weeks. Sorry to alarm everyone. I'm ok.

I don’t think people appreciate the whiplash I suffer from in regards to TRON: ARES. “New TRON!” - “Fuck yeah, I love TRON!” “Starring Jared Leto” - “Fuck no! I hate him!” “NIN soundtrack!” - “Fuck yeah! Love Raznor!” “Mr Beast is in it too” - “Dear God fuck no”

i took mac to get ice cream yesterday please look at him waiting for his pup cup i love him so much

hello my baby hello my honey