As a Brit can I apologise for what has become of the BBC
Georg Michael
@muinteoir.bsky.social
Books, livres, libri, bøker, bækur, leabhair, książki, Bücher… „Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.“ (Arno Schmidt) 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Only in Dublin ❤️❤️❤️ RTÉ News: Watch: Buskers play Falling Slowly in memory of Hansard www.rte.ie/news/ireland... RIP Glen, you‘ll be greatly missed
Watch: Buskers play Falling Slowly in memory of Hansard
A memorial busk has taken place in Dublin city centre to pay tribute to Glen Hansard.
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www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales
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Black Bag by Luke Kennard (@lukekennard.bsky.social) is a firework of a novel: an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story that is blazingly funny and profoundly humane. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Unglaublich, wie sich Juli Zeh, die sich abschickt, Bundespräsidentin zu werden, als Transmissionsriemen für ostidentitäres Gejammer auf Desinformationsniveau geriert. Nicht auszudenken, wie lächerlich wir dastünden, würde sie das höchste Amt im Staat bekleiden. 🙈
Tom Uhlig@stopmakingsense.bsky.social · 6d agoZum Glück hat der umsichtige Journalist sogleich recherchiert!
It’s easy to rewrite history when you destroy all the original records.
If Russian hackers want to seed anger and hate on Bluesky they should simply post about giving up on Middlemarch.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d agoWell, this explains a lot of your behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
Frontman of chart-topping band the Frames had huge success as the star of 2007 romantic drama Once Glen Hansard, the Irish folk-rock musician and actor who fronted the band the Frames and had Oscar-winning success with the 2007 film Once, has died aged 56. He died in a motorcycle crash in Lucan on the outskirts of Dublin, early on Wednesday morning. Without naming him, Irish police said he was treated at the scene for his injuries but died a short time later. Continue reading...
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Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning songwriter and lead singer with Dublin band The Frames has died aged 56. jrnl.ie/7116253
The sort of news that stops you in your tracks. RIP Glen.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.Former president Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard following his death in Dublin.
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
The judges called it “a mouthy, ballsy and bracingly unsentimental portrait of west Dublin gangland, set well off the beaten track of the city’s usual literary landmarks”. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Booker Prize 2026: Irish debutant features on longlist alongside Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and more
Djamel White’s gangland novel All Them Dogs is up against former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart as well as Elizabeth Strout and nine others
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[Brian Glover knocking a Kes out of the kid's hand] 'We're not into that round here son, it's call centres!' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market
theguardian.com
Finally, that damn football is over. Fiddling while Rome burns.
Imagine being such a preening self-obssesed narcissistic cunt that you make Infantino look graceful.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump on stage with the World Cup Winners
Morgen Kinder wird’s was geben, morgen kommt für neue Folge von „Pädagogikhoch2 - den pädagogischen Gartengespräch“ zu hören bei Spotify in YouTube (da exklusiv bei dem „Verlag Handwerk und Technik“ Viel Spaß beim hören 😊🎧
Pädagogikhoch2 - „das pädagogische Gartengespräch“ widmet sich entweder einem Arbeitsfeld oder Thema der Sozialpädagogik. Zu hören gibt es diesen Podcast auf Spotify oder bei YouTube. open.spotify.com/show/033COYM... www.youtube.com/@paedagogikhoch2 Viel Spaß beim hören 🤗
Zelenskyy will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders of this century, while Trump will be remembered for being the most corrupt president the U.S. has ever known.
Die bislang frei zugänglichen Texte im Netz sind für das Training moderner Sprachmodelle weitgehend ausgeschöpft. KI-Unternehmen suchen deshalb gezielt nach alten Fachbüchern aus Regionalgeschichte, Sprach-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften – ... www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...
Jagd auf alte Bücher - KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher
Palettenweise wandern alte Bücher aus Europa in die USA. Dahinter stecken mutmasslich KI-Unternehmen – mit System.
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The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
For the benefit of the US: the man in the middle just won an election against an alien called @countbinface.bsky.social, a fox, 2 fascists (not pictured) & some normal politicians in suits. He is now odds on to topple a sitting prime minister & lead the country. You could learn a lot from this.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2mo agoGod I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.
Interesting that, to some of their own hype merchants, both Trump and Putin are beginning to smell a bit past their date stamp
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago🇺🇸 This is wild. Laura Loomer – a major #MAGA blogger who once praised Putin as a “defender of traditional values,” wrote for RT, and called Russia freer than the US – sent reporter Andrew Moore to Ukraine. Now, Loomer admits: “We fell for Russian propaganda. I fell for it.” 1/3
Need a Bloomsday liveblog for those of us who aren't at the match.
"Sky News has verified the identities of everyone from the school who was killed. 120 students, 73 boys & 47 girls, aged from 6 to 13, & 26 teachers, who were killed in the strike". Tom Cheshire reports on the primary school bombed by the US. 120 children & 26 teachers, all murdered.
