Conducting a public service this evening by seeing my favourite band live with my best friend (the service is being provided to myself and it’s in public)

ALBUMS OF 2026 THREAD Always try to listen to 40-50 new albums a year, gonna be trickier this year cause none of my big favourites have releases scheduled. Managed 45 last year, lots of good ones, not many years I’d find five different 5 star albums

Look, marriage is a compromise. If your hot wife invites some friends over and makes some delicious toilet ice cream floats with jelly worms (and presumably some fecal particles), you man the fuck up and take a video where she monologues her process

“Look at these fucking dumbasses” is great stuff but they’re really need an Irish person in there to yell stuff “first time getting the manual shift, is it?” and “ye clearly know nothing about ICE, ya Bambi-legged bastards”

Spike Lee telling Ryan Coogler that the Sinners music montage scene made him as happy as “being at the Garden and we’re kicking the Celtics’ ass” which is huge from him cause the only things he likes more than that are hats and yelling at Michael Jordan

“Don’t think I’ve forgotten your past betrayals, lad”

REELING IN THE YEARS 2026 “A busy year in the world of law began in January as governments worldwide signed off on extradition of foreign heads of state, murdering someone for driving a car and mass production of child sexual abuse material all within the first nine days of the year.”

In a similar vein

Forgot that this was January. Imagine taking a fuckin tumble like that, an absolute day-ruiner on its own, then you see you’ve made the news, and the fuckin Christmas presents aren’t even under the tree to comfort you? Can’t ease your pain with mulled wine? Tragic tbh www.rte.ie/archives/201...

“And you thought inviting a plumber over when I’m owed a walk was a good idea, did ya?”

*Rebel HQ* LUKE: Are we all set to blow up the Death Star? MON MOTHMA: No, at the end of the day, it’s the Imperial Officers using this machine… LUKE: Are you suggesting the planet-destroying machine is okay on principle? MM: Technology is advancing far faster than the law can respond. LUKE …..

Your honour, my client has simply gotten so good at stabbing people that murder laws do not apply.

It’s one thing to be a sneering neoliberal shill, but a craven gobshite doffing the cap to the rich man and his CSAM digital dystopia is a new low.

My mother every time she reads an article of mine about a bunch of films she’s never seen:

Sometimes your mind just wanders to the death of Mussolini

"And I took that personally" For ##SaipanWeek, @keelanhothothot.bsky.social takes a look at other films about sporting rivalries and scandals: filmindublin.ie/2026/01/07/a...

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

Welcome to Food with FiD, a totally original, never-been-done-before video series where we recreate meals that you've seen in movies...from Ireland. We're starting with the Cheese Sandwiches as seen in Saipan, part of #SaipanWeek: filmindublin.ie/2026/01/06/f...

“Gabriel Conroy IS a blockhead, but he did make a nice speech.” Nollaig na mBan Shona xx

This one is purely for the refrain: “Bébé signed for United in 2012 for £7m and only played 7 times. He has more Premier League medals than Steven Gerrard.” Also his name is the way Catherine O’Hara says baby in Schitts Creek

I don’t care if we arrived at Tesco at the same time if you cut in front of me at THREE SEPARATE SHELVES on a Monday evening at 5pm I am legally allowed to put bullets in my retrofitted scan as you shop gun and hunt you through the aisles for sport

"Slick and smart, Saipan effectively communicates its tragicomedy to non-sporting cinephiles, and should reignite the old debate for football fans too." It's Saipan Week on Film In Dublin, starting with our review - what did you think of the Keane/McCarthy film? filmindublin.ie/2025/12/26/s...

Anticipating some Venezuela talk in class tomorrow but not to worry, not like the architect has already appeared on international TV to explicitly say “yes this is part of our plan to steal oil and annex sovereign states and nobody can stop us and you might be next”. Should be easy to reassure them

I never finalise my end of year list until I’ve seen the 27th of December Irish releases cause they’re always holdover bangers. Good job too cause they both made my top 16 boxd.it/C8Seq

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

French teenagers burning the Yankee flag in Place de la République

People can gripe or proclaim loudly how little they know about it but this is now the only 3+ film series in which every instalment has grossed over a billion dollars in its initial theatrical run

I wasn’t expecting the harbinger of doom to be fading in and out of consciousness as he unveiled his evil plan

Yep, keep going with this joke, it’s about to be funny any minute

Since we’re doing the other thing: favourite albums of the 2020s! 2020 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2021 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 2022 Beyoncé - Renaissance 2023 Lankum - False Lankum 2024 Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 2025 Geese - Getting Killed

2020 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2021 Licorice Pizza 2022 Nope 2023 Oppenheimer 2024 Challengers 2025 One Battle After Another

Trump besting his previous record of irrevocably ruining a calendar year on January 6th by three whole days

Constant roulette of waking up to find what country Trump has extrajudicially invaded that night until one morning we discover he’s bombed the Spire and made McGregor our Supreme Leader

ME: got a fantastic idea for a movie about a priest who loves capitalism EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron

Now that some negative reviews are starting to pop up for SAIPAN, I feel it’s worth people taking into account who made it and for whom. This isn’t an indie company making “Saipan our way”, this is a Screen Ireland/N.I. Screen co-production marketing an Irish film for a worldwide audience.

Sometimes you hear someone on a podcast and think “huh, this person seems perfectly pleasant and normal” and then they just randomly start talking about how they love the U.S. military and the sound of fighter jets in the air and…..

New idiotic form of intrusive thought: *Our wedding photographer did not include us in his “thank you to my 2025 couples” Instagram post, therefore he hates us and disavows our marriage*

They’re calling it “Second Christmas”

Home. Wrote a poem about it.

No “bad time” to leave Twitter. If you leave right now, that’s okay. I left in August ‘24 cause my timeline flooded with the racist pogroms in Britain and transphobic abuse of Imane Khelif. It was giving me serious anxiety to have that condensed hatred in my phone at all times. It’s no loss

If I’m getting sworn in as mayor of Letterkenny, I have to get sworn in at our legendary Celtic Tiger emblem which fields the worst traffic in the country: Polestar Roundabout. And of course, on a copy of the two Donegal bibles.

Well this has certainly been an enlightening experience for me, a person who thought that the rest of the world had joined me in giving up on Stranger Things after Season 3, Millie Bobby Brown’s stalled film career and Finn Wolfhard’s decision to reboot The Strokes where he is all of them combined

Clocked in at 50 reads in 2025, mostly audiobooks. I commit most of my time to movies but audiobooks have helped me get back into reading after it really slowed down in 2023 and 2024. My ten faves:

*guy who isn’t aware of any major worldwide socio-political issues but is really sick of bad grammar* “How about 2026 is the year we stop using apostrophes when pluralising nouns amirite??!!!”

Clock struck midnight on the moment in The Apartment where Dreyfus yells “Why can’t you just be a mensch!” at Baxter, and honestly I’m carrying that energy forward into ‘26

Doing a marathon of three NYE movies this evening: Phantom Thread, When Harry Met Sally and The Apartment. I find it heartwarming that they’re all about off-putting weirdos finding love, more of that in 2026 and less of absolutely everything else!

An influx of porn bots arriving to this site on New Year’s Eve is a…poor omen

Doing a marathon of three NYE movies this evening: Phantom Thread, When Harry Met Sally and The Apartment. I find it heartwarming that they’re all about off-putting weirdos finding love, more of that in 2026 and less of absolutely everything else!

If you watched THE HOLIDAY (2006) this Christmas season and said to yourself “I love the parts where Jack Black scats movie scores for an absurdly long time. Also I wish this movie had more snakes and a weird relationship to its own place in the film landscape” then boy, do I have a movie for you!

Well, when I was a young boy youtu.be/RRKJiM9Njr8?...