Enjoy the (Two Minutes) Silence

New York, London, Paris, Munich, everyone talk about, poppy music. Off key #Respectival entertainment 👌

Wearing a scarf.

Me and my buddies loved the new Predator.

For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.

can you repeat that your honour someone behind me was beatboxing

He pretty much did this lol

"Like a tomato-based ketchup."

I absolutely love this book. Intense, timely, intelligent, romantic. Like a Raymond Chandler yarn for the #metoo era.

This show sounds amazing! I, for one, will be watching this espionage comedy/thriller with Coens-esque jokes and jargony monologues about piping.

I'm embarrassed on a number of levels; for Musk, as usual, and for all of mankind, for giving this bozo unlimited wealth and power.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

Lookit, Ireland is far from perfect, but I just popped into a pharmacy and got a free covid vaccine without an appointment.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is one of my favourite films, but I can't picture Reynolds as either Thunderbolt or Lightfoot. (Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges played the original roles.) I'd cast Dwayne Johnson and Tim Chalamet, since you're asking.

My soon-to-be brother-in-law is English (scandal) and when he told my mother that his grandfather had been shot by the IRA, my mum said "I'm sorry that happened. But he shouldn't have been in my country" lmao

I defy anyone to claim they haven’t considered this at some point.

Saving this screenshot for whenever anyone shows up in the comments with facts and figures

People warning about this kinda thing weren't just ignored, they were ridiculed. By the same people who talk about it now with their big serious heads on. Anyway, none of this will stop the likes of Simon Harris getting all racist to distract from how disliked he is.

Must've been waiting literally years to make this joke, keeping that announcment picture in his phone all this time. Fair play.

2 disappointments, 2 bangers

Immense meme / reply applications here.

Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?

Critics are really having a whine anemone about this film.

(Springsteen voice) "Rich man wanna be king/ Poor man wanna be rich/ You dropped us in the meat grinder/ Dylan you son of a bitch"

This is a good, clear headed article. Attacking trans people isn't just immoral, it also loses elections.

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Yeah, I'm sure he'll get right on that

90% of the anti-Mamdani remarks today think this is a documentary:

lol

“Would this have been a story had they used the new iPhone?” Meta asked us. "Unlike the iPhone and other smartphones, one of the most widely adopted electronics in human history, only a tiny portion of the population has any idea what the fuck these glasses are," @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social writes.

YES

The new Predator film is getting better reviews than the new Daniel Day Lewis film.

Stay in school, kids!

Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory

I had a day off, so I watched the film Uprising on Netflix. And friends, to say that this was time well spend is a gross understatement. This film is absolute fire, and is also appropriate viewing in a week that a socialist just got elected mayor of New York. letterboxd.com/thejoegriffi...

Yes… Ha Ha Ha… YES.

The annual poppies/paddies discourse is underway over the water.

I used to love John Cleese. There was a time when he wouldn't put a foot wrong.

I've waited my whole life to hear a New York mayor say things like this

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Every now and then I get a spam email with an American rightwing theme ("Patriot, President Trump needs your help!" etc). And I think it's kinda poignant, how people are being rinsed by actual public representatives, which shows that they're vulnerable to being rinsed by pretend ones.

I like a lot of the left/anti-Zionism podcasters in the U.S. but the one thing y'all don't do enough is invite Palestinians on your show & let them talk. Another thing Irish folks do without having to pressure them into it. Go listen to @tonygroves.bsky.social's podcast and check out his guest list

Today is my birthday. 48. Is that old? Well, it's the oldest I've ever been. Have I learnt anything worth sharing in that time? Let's see.

A eulogy for Dick Cheney, who, unlike his victims, will at least be dead when they stuff him into a coffin: open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

if you’re a famous person and are normal, your Instagram stories should not look like this

I often look up parents' guides for films, and you would be surprised how many parents object to the presence of naked statues in films. If a film has an art gallery scene, somewhere online there's a parental warning about it.

This is good. "People vote for parties that speak to their hopes, not their fears."