protip: before you boot a pro-Palestinian act off your tour, you should probably make sure that your OWN BACKING BAND aren't founding members of an organization called "Irish Artists for Palestine"
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
“Sorry, Liz. I thought she was that lady who keeps losing the songwriting Oscars.”
The genocide did not end. It has merely entered its slow motion death phase. And this has helped Israel stay largely under the radar in much of the Western media.
*sigh* An "AI" does not "escape containment", as breathless news articles claim. It is *told to do something by its programmers*, then it *goes and does what it's been told*, then the corporation it belongs to releases a statement to drive fear-based engagement and media laps up the lie.
1 Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2. A five minute walk from Dáil Éireann.
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 4w agothe largest donor to republicans created a child pornography generator and he is most likely responsible for more child pornography and non-consensual sexual imagery being publicly distributed than any one person in the history of the planet
A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act.
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.
Before today, the thought of Micheal Healy Rae popping a cap in someone's ass conjured a very different image #spéirgorm
Cian Ginty@cianginty.bsky.social · last mo.Besides a 3-carriage capacity shot gun, what's the legitimate need for Michael Healy-Rae or anybody to own a semi-automatic (even rimfire) firearm? In @irishtimes.com today, @conorgallagher.bsky.social says MHR has an MP5-styled gun, "capable of only firing in semi-automatic mode," "chambered...
Still my favourite opening paragraph of any interview (by Vincent Browne).
It has been utterly nauseating watching Hansard get a quasi State Funeral and a mountain of gushing eulogies from people who knew. I'm glad Niall and others have told the truth about him.
Nialler9 | Niall Byrne@nialler9.com · last mo.What wasn't said about Glen Hansard nialler9music.substack.com/p/the-news-a...
Reacher is after getting very cheeky. Don't get me wrong, the beatings are still top tier Art. But they're already going to hospital, Reacher. Manners cost nothing.
File under 'I know there's some really dodgy shit going to come out and I'm getting slightly ahead of it, without committing myself to anything' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Colin Sheridan: Death makes liars of us all — canonising Glen Hansard denies his humanity
Celebrity deaths expose our tendency to romanticise public figures while overlooking the complexity and contradictions that made them human
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How women in the Irish music/comedy/arts/entertainment industry in general don't go completely insane is beyond me. Same issues over and over and over. How many have been subtly, quietly pushed out or felt they had no choice but to abandon careers. How much talent have we silently lost.
This is a brutally honest blog about grooming and abuse in the Irish music scene. Content warning
Dean Van Nguyen@deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe great Jess Kav on the soul-searching (or lack thereof) in the Irish music scene over the last week or so
I am aware there are journos looking to talk to those who were teens targeted by GH but honestly the vitriolic abuse seen online from mostly men, would certainly put me off speaking up, and I am fairly thick skinned. Seems we have learned little from how Annie Murphy was treated. #spéirgorm
Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
This is really depressing. Neko Case doesn't name names, and nor does she need to, but I believe her. If anything, she tends to be honest to a fault--this post illustrates exactly what I mean--and abso-fucking-lutely does not hold back (except for said dude's name). [ht: @rahnealexander.com]
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim
'A company town in all but the brass band'. Superb and depressing.
Karl McDonald@karlusss.bsky.social · 2mo agoHate to admit this person from Non-Dublin has some points here. Nowhere is the Dead Dublin Theory better illustrated than the proliferation of new pubs done up to look like old pubs imo. Toxic to native fauna but serving the customer base it seeks. www.westernpeople.ie/opinion/dubl...
Fuck it. I am sick to the back teeth of people today saying they never heard Glen Hansard was a groomer so therefore those of us who did hear it shouldn't talk about it. He groomed teenage girls. He was well known for it in certain circles. He would give out burner phones for them to text him from.
Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.
Isn't it weird how alleging dodgy behaviour when someone is alive is met with threats of defamation lawyers and doing it when they're dead is undignified and unfair. It's almost as if, stay with me on this, people just don't want to know.