Forced displacement is a war crime but I suppose we just add it to the pile at this stage

I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

In a queue of maybe thirty cars at the bring centre with a boot full of rancid 75 year old carpet that's been sitting in the rain for a month, on the hottest Sunday of the year with only a memory of coffee and 2% battery

It's going to get sick of me real fast

i was gonna write out a professionally worded warning about this as a security engineer but you know what if you think this is a good idea god bless

The Republic of Ireland are scheduled to play Israel in a Nation's Cup match on the 27th of September. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Me, an atheist, sitting in a church with my cash-rich 12 year old, so he can go to a decent school.

Forgot to say I was reviewing the week's new cinema on Arena eith @rickoshea.bsky.social and Arlene Hunt this evening, so do listen on playback!

Undeterred by the failure of my Wicklow local newspaper, The Gorey Details, I'm moving to Devon to set up a CB radio hiking company, Walkie Torquay.

The annual Cannes standing ovation stopwatch: a challenge. Stand in your kitchen and clap for 12 minutes. There is no film on this good Earth worth that.

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When I was 10 years old I liked Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd because they were on TV and nothing else was. Whatever it is, and however old it is, put it in front of the kids and see.

West Ham have been absolutely robbed there.

There's a movie out today called SILENT FRIEND that's 2.5 hours long and is primarily about Tony Leung befriending a tree. It's extraordinary. www.vulture.com/article/in-m...

Sad to hear that Tony Stella has died, one of the greatest film illustrators to ever do it.

Peace and bluebells

Don't You Mind - Son House Bam Bam - Toots & The Maytals Great Gettin' Up Morning - De Paur Infantry Chorus Multiply - Jamie Lidell One Monkey - Joe Tex Roadrunner - Modern Lovers Blood & Fire - Niney The Observer Blues Run The Game - Jackson C Frank 4 - Aphex Twin Ring The Alarm - Tenor Saw

I recently learned that in Norway, when someone asks "how's it going", the standard answer is "up and not crying" and we should adopt this asap

Ignoring, of course, that most of us go to the pictures to get away from ourselves and our lives

My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever

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The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Damned unlucky for Trump that whenever his approval rating plummets, or his war takes an unfortunate turn, or his party about to be crushed in an election, or people start asking about Epstein, or questions arise as to his physical and mental competencies, some lone wolf takes a shot at him/near him

Having already witnessed the two territorial magpies on my road murder a thrush during the week, I went out and shooed them off when I heard them chattering after a blackbird; in case you saw someone chasing about shouting about Attenborough's non-intervention protocols.

Yes, the new design looks like when they folded Paris in Inception but the aesthetic of the old Stephen's Green shopping centre isn't worth all the shouting.

Heard Colm Ryder representing Dublin Cycling Campaign on the radio this morning but this is nominative determinism at its very best.

PROF. FARNSWORTH, INTO A PHONE To shreds you say. And his wife? ... To shreds you say.

Diplomacy this chaotic can only be the result of someone making unimaginable money from that chaos.

It says a lot about actual intelligence that people still refer to predictive, plagiaristic, pattern-matching Large Language Models as Artifical Intelligence. LLMs are not and can never be intelligent in the way they are sold, as the tech that will save us.

Stop calling LLM's "AI", and put your £500m into actual intelligence.

I'll be taking a look at the week's new cinema releases just after 7 on RTE Radio 1's Arena in the company of @rickoshea.bsky.social and Arlene Hunt, including Lee Cronin's The Mummy and Christian Petzold's latest, Miroirs No 3. Do tune in!

Is that you or me, Bluesky?

There will come a day when I stop reading Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels but it is not this day

Very sad to hear of the passing of my constant teenage friend, Aiden Kenny, who some of you knew here as @aidenkenny.bsky.social; gateway to REM, Alan Moore, William Gibson, Frank Miller, Douglas Coupland, Nicholson Baker, 2000AD, all the cool shit. Gone far too soon. Thinking of his lovely family.

I've never had any confidence in any government

Discharge the cannons. We have an Irish title at Cannes. Alexander Murphy's TIN CASTLE lands in Critics' Week. www.semainedelacritique.com/en/edition/2...

If you'll kindly return to your seats, we'll be landing at Dulles International Airport in twenty minutes.

THE DALAI LAMA'S CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING PROJECTIONS ARE A JOKE!

I'll be talking a look at the week's films and television on the Brendan O'Connor Show on RTE Radio 1 in the next hour. Do tune in!

Someone give The Rainy Day Fund the lend of an umbrella

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

Arthur Matthews' Well-Remembered Days. A hoot.

My first week as Viktor Orban's Director of Elections went pretty well I thought

Yōichi Sai's 1995 cop thriller Marks. I say cop thriller but don't actually know how to classify it except to say once you see it, you'll never forget it. See also: the same director's Blood & Bones, starring Takeshi Kitano.

The protestors are demanding Snickers goes back to Marathon

Nurse! He's out of bed again! Nurse!

Not sure how the price of diesel can be reduced through racism

I am at the Zoo. All the animals are asleep. I'm an animal. I should be asleep.

To bed with a book. Hope there's a world to wake up to.