I look at one stupid HOUSE OF DRAGONS clip on YouTube and now my algorithm is full of “Fans react to Ser Bludgeon Ducksword’s [SPOILER] in the epic finale!” or “Why Lady Melindos’ decision spells DOOM for House Cuttlefucker,” etc etc.
Jamie Hannigan
@jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social
Writer, doodler, screenwriter (THE DAMNED, PILGRIMAGE, THE WOMAN IN THE WALL), regretter etc. Irish living in Madrid.
I look at one stupid HOUSE OF DRAGONS clip on YouTube and now my algorithm is full of “Fans react to Ser Bludgeon Ducksword’s [SPOILER] in the epic finale!” or “Why Lady Melindos’ decision spells DOOM for House Cuttlefucker,” etc etc.
I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️
Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · last wk.Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
The best way to honor John Crowley, take a couple minutes and read aloud the last paragraph of Little, Big.
CURTAINS FOR FIFA? CONCACAF AND UEFA CAUGHT FLIPPING AN ISS PRO
Cethan Leahy@cethanleahy.com · 2w agoFIFA is in trouble, as CONCACAF and UEFA propose switching to rival governing body ISS Pro.
“Yeah, you KEEP walking, you canine-looking muthafucka.”
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last wk.Monday morning watch
“Yeah, you KEEP walking, you canine-looking muthafucka.”
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last wk.Monday morning watch
Féile met with the NI Women's Rights Network. Guess how it went? Withdrawal stands.
CURTAINS FOR FIFA? CONCACAF AND UEFA CAUGHT FLIPPING AN ISS PRO
Cethan Leahy@cethanleahy.com · 2w agoFIFA is in trouble, as CONCACAF and UEFA propose switching to rival governing body ISS Pro.
Speaking as someone with dangerously low levels of resilience, patience AND/OR determination, my secret superpower is a mortgage and precious little in the way of transferable skills.
Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2w agoUnsolicited writing advice, no. 763: Having a tough time? Good. Got a rejection? Good. Got a bad review? Good. Had to abandon a project because it wasn't working? Good. These things all teach you resilience, patience and determination; the things you need most as a writer.
I think I *might* have missed that in the blu-ray extras.
Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21@darkeden21.bsky.social · 2w agojust in case you wondered how graham is doing lol
Culture Wars have destroyed Conservatives everywhere. They used to be able to adopt reasonable, evidence-based positions on some issues. Now if something is associated with the Left they’ll slice off their entire face rather than go near it.
Kinda feel like this should be a bigger story. www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador
New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.
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Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
Perhaps, but the Trojan Horse was a war crime (perfidy, faking a surrender to attack an enemy) and for most of my life it was presented not as that but as something delightfully clever.
Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.
“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
It’s Werner Herzog and you can feel the palpable distaste as - once more - he has to describe me eating ANOTHER HobNob biscuit.
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 3w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
It’s Werner Herzog and you can feel the palpable distaste as - once more - he has to describe me eating ANOTHER HobNob biscuit.
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 3w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
Watch this gorgeous short trailer for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, and you'll be ravenous for the rest. One reviewer captured it: "With its endlessly alluring imagery, this [film] is an invitation to fall in love." vimeo.com/1211649058/7...
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest Trailer_ProRes
When a Dublin sculptor trades city life for 73 acres of ecologically ravaged land on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, he discovers that the most radical act of conservation is simply learning to do noth...
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finished a rough draft, bang on 100 pages. might have another cup of tea before retreating into a miasma of doubt and self-loathing.
Every newspaper story about Ka$h Patel is accompanied by a photo that looks like it was taken the moment Ka$h Patel heard the headline.
Roger Sollenberger@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 3w agoThe FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...