I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoabsolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
Sometimes I think about how Hollywood won’t give Guillermo Del Toro the money to make his At the Mountains of Madness movie
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last mo.Ryan Gosling is developing a live-action ‘FLINTSTONES’ movie focused on Bamm-Bamm Rubble. (Source: Deadline)
RoboCop is coming back online with a new TV series at Prime Video. Dan Stevens will play RoboCop. James Wan produces. A tech conglomerate convinces the city to place a powerful robot on its police force – a robot implanted with the consciousness of a fallen officer.
slammed the brakes so hard I flew through the windshield
After a month of very little rain the Ballynastockan Brook is still flowing into Poulaphouca helping to supply Dublin City with water. Take care of our uplands and they will take care of us.
John Carpenter has released a statement on the passing of Sam Neill: "The world has lost a remarkable actor, father, farmer, and friend. Thank you, Sam, for your extraordinary work, kindness, and the memories."
every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.
Just a reminder that this darling thing is still available from @swanriverpress.bsky.social ! Reviewer John Kenny said “One of the strongest single author collections of uncanny and supernatural tales I’ve read in a long time.” Link to buy to follow.
US ignoring evidence Russia is helping Iran because it trusts Putin, says Zelenskyy
US ignoring evidence Russia is helping Iran because it trusts Putin, says Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s president tells podcast he has tried to draw White House’s attention to collaboration between Moscow and Tehran over strikes on US bases * How the Ukraine and Iran wars are starting to overlap The US has ignored compelling evidence that Russia has been helping Iran to target US bases in the Middle East because it “trusts” Vladimir Putin, according to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Speaking in an interview with Alastair Campbell on The Rest is Politics podcast, Zelenskyy said he had tried to draw the White House’s attention to the close collaboration between Moscow and Tehran. Continue reading...
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Artemis II crew might be the only people left by Wednesday.
“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV
Think about this: A retired game show host may end the world as we know it. Only a master satirist could write this scenario, but Mark Twain is dead.
I hate Liveline. Sure, over the years it's highlighted some things that needed to be highlighted, but everything taken together it's a blight and RTE should kill it
Finnish President Alexander Stubb says Brexit was a “colossal mistake” “It’s like amputating your leg without medical reason for doing it”
You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.
One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
John Sweeney: Blaming Met Éireann for floods is a distraction. Who rezoned the floodplains?
John Sweeney: Blaming Met Éireann for floods is a distraction. Who rezoned the floodplains?
It is now over 20 years since I led the project to give the first scenario-based projections of Ireland’s future climate. We warned Ireland’s winters would become significantly wetter
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The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.” It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory. Continue reading...
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