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Made of words and movies

@hfnuala.bsky.social

Irishwoman (she/her) washed up in Edinburgh. Responsible for 1 kid (the other is now an adult!) and an ever growing tbr. Books, cooking, sometimes knitting & crochet. I may be a flaneuse or I might just be idle. People talk to me.

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Made of words and movies@hfnuala.bsky.social · last wk.

Royal Most boxes are beautiful and fascinating and are evidence of a design philosophy that thought really deeply about building to last. Finding an Edward 8th post box is legitimately cool. I am anti royalist but I would not like post boxes to have cyphers from President Cameron or whoever.

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.

Statement from Féile an Phobail Statement from Féile an Phobail Féile an Phobail are delighted with today’s outcome at the High Court. Today’s outcome is a vindication of Féile’s position in standing up for those who are marginalised. Féile’s decision to withdraw this event from our programme stands. The agenda of many of those who involved themselves in this issue was clear for all to see. Many of the very same people line up every year to attack Féile at every turn, to attempt to damage Féile, and to attack the West Belfast community. They will never succeed. Féile an Phobail will continue to provide a voice for the marginalised, and we are looking forward to welcoming the world to West Belfast to join with us to celebrate Ireland’s biggest community festival. Féile Abú!
Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents Preface List of Maps PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA Introduction PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle Glossary Bibliography Index
Jackson O'Brien@sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

AC Fick 📚@acfick72.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished VILLETTE ▫️Joe Queenan 2012

Jemma "Pre-order a Folio of Murderers" Topaz@jemma.bsky.social · 3w ago

Okay, something slightly new. I wrote a story in anger. It's heavy and it made me cry. It is about UK trans stuff. There isn't much plot; it's mostly conversation. There's a lot of talk of suicide. If this doesn't sound like much of an advert, it isn't. write.as/inclusions/a...

A Huge Problem for a Sane World

\[A Short Story…\] Emma worried the whole ride down that she would get in trouble. She had never really skipped school; I mean, sometime...

write.as

Made of words and movies@hfnuala.bsky.social · 3w ago

There is no story. Shame. (I then watched two documentaries about it. People's reluctance to admit the problem was with the underdeveloped script is fascinating.) (Also, the harvard prologue and boat epilogue added nothing not already covered by the photo.) #filmsky

Made of words and movies@hfnuala.bsky.social · 3w ago

I watched the director's cut of Heaven's Gate last night. I am now watching the Soderburgh butcher's cut. Suspect this is sunk cost fallacy but I want to believe that someone can wrestle a story out of the beautiful shots. #filmsky

Made of words and movies@hfnuala.bsky.social · last mo.

This was me when out for lunch with my SO the other day. He tried very hard to be patient.

The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · last mo.

William Peter Blatty: OMG guys!!! the society of st. pius X has schismed from the mother church!!!! Blatty: this could be the biggest interdoctrinal ecumenitestimal since the integral convergence of the helgrimite blasphemy at the diet of dendronal in 1536!!!!!! Poe: King: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker: