"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning." They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

Israel is spitting at the world's face, shouting it loud that it will, illegally, attack the Global Sumud Flotilla. If Starmer, Macron, Carney and Albanese really wanted to end the genocide, they would send a naval vessel to protect the flotilla. lapresse.us/world/2025/0...

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Tremendous piece by Chris Person on the pointless mutilation of film history by morons, overeager tech-heads (a subspecies of moron), and directors who've gotten lost in the sauce of unbridled capitalism. aftermath.site/true-lies-4k...

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today” #TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces: ‘They put on music and colourful lights and started dancing over us ... They had their feet on our backs’

The Handala, which is attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, is illegally boarded and effectively pirated by the occupying Israeli army that is enforcing a famine. It’s 2025 and this is routine now.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

"I don't know to say back to them because we are witnessing in real time—live streamed—their annihilation and extermination of an entire peoples, an entire community. So I don't know what more to say to them. I don't know what more to say here." #GazaGenocide #FuckIsrael

Another total gem from this year’s #BlueMountainFilmFestival: Four Mothers. An amazing ensemble brings a tale full of heart that manages to avoid tropes and schmaltz. Read my review at @thatshelf.com thatshelf.com/four-mothers...

BFI's Region B Blu-ray of FOUR MOTHERS reviewed on our site: www.dvdcompare.net/review.php?r...

Four Mothers is a lovely heartwarming watch - just dropped on BFI Player player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...

NEW—A US contractor with inside look at the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” Some contractors never deployed before—or are ex-cops. None are confirmed as trained for the guns they were given. They saw the IDF targeting Palestinians. “This idea that the Israeli military isn't involved is bullshit.”

70 residential buildings bombed by Israel in #Gaza in the last 48 hours. If this is what "civilization" looks like, count me out. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

Anybody near Wicklow please keep an eye out for this little dote. She's been missing a good while now and we're all losing our minds over her

Great column from Mark O’Connell on Louis Theroux’s the Settlers www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Watched #FourMothers yesterday and it was fantastic! Heartfelt and funny as hell. Like a big hug! it's a real feel-good movie. Go see it!

Just saw Four Mothers. Very funny & warm hearted movie. If you've ever been a caregiver for an elderly family member this is our movie

An Easter Monday trip to QFT to watch the wonderful Four Mothers. A plot which could very easily descend into silliness, but instead developed into a heartwarming, uplifting comedy propelled along by some excellent performances. Can definitely recommend. #FilmSky

Finally saw Four Mothers today - lovely funny moving film. A+ for the assistive tech!

I have to say, “Four Mothers” was a great movie. Outstanding performances from James McArdle and Fionnula Flanagan. So funny at times and heartbreaking at the same time. Made me (selfishly) wish I still had my mother to look after.

The 51st Seattle International Film Festival will screen 245 films, including two secret films. The Festival will open with Darren Thornton’s Irish intergenerational comedy Four Mothers, starring James McArdle and Fionnula Flanagan; and Closing Night will […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Enjoyed the Irish comedy-drama Four Mothers sooooo much. Properly funny, utterly charming, and a hugely relatable, empathic portrayal of caring for an elderly family member. Don't think it's got a super-wide cinema release (props to my local for showing it!) so if you see it playing near you, go!

Going from seeing “Four Mothers” earlier in the week (a fantastic, lovely, hilarious film which I can’t recommend enough) to “The Amateur” this evening (possibly the most boring film ever made) is quite the 180. The magic of the cinema!

Seeing Four Mothers #Film today at #BFI renewed my faith in independent cinema. What a delightful neurotically-charged comedy-drama🥹😝 Family, ageing, care working, sexuality, religion, loneliness, love & life purpose are explored with grit, heart, sarcasm & a barrage of laughs 😂 9/10 #FilmSky #LGBT

I spoke with filmmaker Darren Thornton and actor Rory O'Neill about the universal experiences that inspired the new Irish comedy drama, Four Mothers. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Four Mothers was a very funny, heartfelt and quite moving film. Thought the general conceit might be a bit much, but it opened out into a much wider human drama, mainly because of the excellent performances. See it at the QFT this week. queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/Fou...

Watched Four Mothers last night, and this review really captures it... highly recommend this fantastic Irish film. #FourMothers #IrishFilm @screenireland.bsky.social www.hotpress.com/film-tv/film...

Loved #FourMothers at the Barbican. A lovely, Irish comedy that up until a few hours ago, I’d never even heard of.

#FourMothers @ Arc cinema #Drogheda

Went to see Four Mothers yesterday. Funny, charming and sincere; a beautiful film which really resonated for me. Would recommend it to everyone!

Four Mothers - a charming, occasionally moving and frequently funny Irish film about indecisiveness, anxiety, and caring for a relative while trying but failing to live your own life. Best supporting actor nod for the tablet😂. #movies #filmsky www.imdb.com/title/tt1939...

I’ve just seen #FourMothers at BFI Southbank and I’d highly recommend! Genuinely laugh out loud moments in a carefully crafted tale of a single gay writer and carer Edward deals with the ramifications of selfish friends abandoning their mothers in his care to go to Maspalomas pride. Fabulous! 🇮🇪👵🏻🏳️‍🌈

Loved loved loved this. Both hilarious and moving. Catch it if you can. #FourMothers

Four Mothers: comic spark shines through the farce in this pertly scripted crowd-pleaser www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Film recommendation: Four Mothers. I went at wife's request w no idea what it was about beyond "a new Irish film". Turned out to be an unlikely, poignant and very funny story. Met friends who were late so we missed only some of the previews for American films whose endless violence and bombast […]

Variety loves Four Mothers so you should probably go see it across Ireland and the UK from Friday