Mik Duffy.
@mikduffy.bsky.social
Irish person. Filmmaker. Film Educator. Will explain the art and praxis of cinema for food. He/Him Sé/é
I'm sorry. If chimpanzees wipe their asses with leaves in the jungle when they poop too, wiping my ass is good enough for me as homo sapiens. I'm not gonna let the chimps beat us out in the primate wars on this one.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
That harm to women and girls in general is not taken seriously, combined with multiple high-profile men continuing to get passes based on power, talent, or activism with other causes, creates a very worrying landscape for women. Tolerance is still way too high. It needs to start actually mattering.
Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.
I rewatched Mallrats last night, and while it still has its charms, it occurred to me that we’ve been suffering the glut of male-centric pop culture fixations in our media for a long, long time. Imagine slacker comedies by women that talked incessantly about Barbies becoming enduring hits.
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
As many have noted, today is the day Ray Bradbury's classic short story There Will Come Soft Rains is set. Here is a wonderful reading of it with music by the great Mollylele.
Molly "Mollylele" Lewis@mollylewis.wtf · yesterdayToday is August 4th, 2026. mollylele.rocks/track/there-... (read by @unarmedoracle.bsky.social, music'd by me)
Looksmaxxers: I need to hammer my jaw until it’s shaped like finely-sculpted clay and have a hairline straighter than the borders of Utah. It’s the only way to attract a woman Women: I would destroy ten galaxies for a night with James Gandolfini
Imagining a guy disapproved of pervert glasses, not for moral reasons, but because of the lost craft and artistry of hiding in a bush with a telephoto lens
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:
The Ancients Make Their Presence Known in @imagecomics.com's MONSTRESS #63 by Marjorie Liu, @sanatakeda.bsky.social & Jackie Marzan #NCBD #Monstress #ImageComics comicsbodega.com/preview-mons...
The Ancients Make Their Presence Known in MONSTRESS #63
Maika is still searching for a way to reconnect with Zinn—and Tuya has a surprise up her sleeve.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
Yes it's evil, yes it's bad, yes it's incompetent, yes it's based on lies but you know what people never talk about? That it's boring. It's vanilla squared. Being a nazi in New Zealand is the most bland attempt at having a personality we have available. You have to have absolutely nothing else.
The Press@thepress.co.nz · 3d agoA senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
Into the meat grinder to help keep the release of the Epstein Files from embarrassing a rapist
Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 3d agoAmerican Christianity in one social media post.
Side note: the revelation that the PSNI have been spying on BBC journos is a side-effect of the PSNI arresting two filmmakers (including Kneecap movie producer Trevor Birney) for making a documentary about how NI police colluded with the UVF killers at Loughinisland.
Cian Ó Concubhair@cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 3d ago"Journalists warn against PSNI chief's offers amid spying allegations" www.thedetail.tv/articles/jou...
They're showing it at the Showcase in Lowell if you want this exact experience at no extra charge.
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d agoI was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/
If you want to know what young Irish women think of recent events in Irish music go check out CMATs tribute. I'll wait...
Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth
All error messages should be copyable. I'm so bored of having to transcribe some arcane error code just because some gobshite developer couldn't be arsed to find the setting to make their error messages appear as copyable text.
just watched this four times in a row and laughed a little harder each time
fraser ramon@fraserramon.bsky.social · 4d agoYou know nothing about cheesecake
