Saw this book in Connolly Books a couple weeks ago, on the very same day I learned that he’s Olivia Wilde’s uncle (and Claud her grandfather).
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We're just going to talk about Irish now, like a couple of cool guys
Only tooze could read Matt Damon playing Jason Bourne as the reason why he should play odysseus
I saw a video of this lady on the verge of tears saying Israel comes to her in her dreams
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18h agoThis is a fucking rout for AIPAC and the Israel lobby. It’s a significant defeat for the Democratic Party’s centrist wing.
Wrote a bit on Seamus Deane's history of Irish literature open.substack.com/pub/aonchial...
Seamus Deane's short history of Irish literature
When I say that Seamus Deane and his contemporaries — Nell McCafferty, Seamus Heaney, Bernadette Devlin, Eamon McCann, Martin McGuinness — were the nation’s conscience I’m not making either a ethno-na...
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One of the greatest novels of all time don't be reminding us of 3 v v v mid ones in recommending it
Wilson likes Project Fail Mary so unfortunately her good points about the Nolyssey have been eroded.
Coming across this quote in 2019 has basically shaped ever since how I feel about AI, advertising, social media, and so on:
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
Out of all the looks late middle-aged Irish men in the entertainment industry go in for Soulful Scruff is not my favourite
it's also making me feel crazy that the republican response to iran (maybe? possibly?) doing stuff to water supplies is "who cares, it's probably the states' own fault". shouldn't you guys love this
I thought I might live to see the US wage hybrid warfare on another western country but I didn't think it would be a capitalist one, and not by such visibly grotesque means. All bets aren't off yet, but it's a matter of time
when I used go for drinks with friends who were attractive there was a 50% chance coming back from the jacks someone thinking they were alone would be there trying it on and then you had to talk to them instead
A trick of this treacherous world puts the rich above reproach. If you're poor you have no sense And justice goes undone. [...] The great world is agreed, having seen my goods grow scarce, though I utter the True and the Just it is nothing but idiot noise.
unthinkable amounts of money at stake when these companies talk about what their products can supposedly do. As with Hormuz / Polymarket corruption news outlets happy enough to play along print whatever
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d agoBREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.
unthinkable amounts of money at stake when these companies talk about what their products can supposedly do. As with Hormuz / Polymarket corruption news outlets happy enough to play along print whatever
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d agoBREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.
Man, it is night and day buying dvds / blurays off french internet versus anglophone. I got all loznitsas films, couple of Taiwanese boxsets, Costas gavras that I don't think were ever in print in English. If you've got mediocre french, it is pure grand
Work call this evening. Man: I’m down the country Me: Oh, enjoy! Man: I’m at a funeral. Me [smalltalk gauge on Empty]: Fair play!
because I feel a bit dishonest making fun of your man: I prefer Christopher Nolan's films to a lot of vulgar auteurs you're supposed to like. I could say there's great unintentional comedy that arises from the how seriously it takes itself, given the writing is poor, the politics rudimentary,
if we’re honest emily wilson’s odyssey criticism has a few issues - goes way too hard on a film she thinks is a 3/5 fun blockbuster, makes some odd points & lacks visual consideration for such a predominantly visual director, this is part of what makes it such a great discourse hand grenade though
SquintingManInCagoule.avi YrBoyfriend The Dark Knight 2008 ☆☆☆☆½ Rewatched 22 Jul 2026 Watched this every week when I was 16 and was scared it wouldn't hold up, but still absolutely slaps! Heath's performance, possibly the GOAT. Nolan the best to ever do it? He's on my Rushmore for sure 1 like
Has far-right rag the Irish times found a family from the parish in an evacuation centre? to give the continental forest fires a human touch, render it more intelligible to us
Recently drawn gag (that has been rotting around my head years)
Underlined phrase translates to 'yesterdays pig' which has v quickly become totemic
mid-age relative making reactionary jokes at events is a meme but in addition to it being 'rational' to receive / deploy the petty power capitalist (and necessarily patriarchal-racist) societies selectively but broadly distribute there's something libidinal in performing conformity & obedience
Funny but also fairly sad how jealously defensive these guys are over their dwindling domains