Paul Duane 🥔
@paulduane.bsky.social
A very Irish filmmaker. All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree. “A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast) He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson. https://linktr.ee/paulduane
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Movie pitch: for one night only every year, single people are allowed to have sex, but it has to be with a billionaire. WDYD?
Playboy@playboy.com · 22h agoAs they amass more money and power, the public views billionaires as sweaty psychos Scrooge McDucking their way into evil amounts of cash. The collective ick emerging raises a question that wealthy men might prioritize over ethical perceptions: Have billionaires become categorically unfuckable?
You really have to take a moment and think about how insane this is. That’s a quarter of the entire output of the country’s public infrastructure going to support about one hundred sites.
StephDickenson.bsky.social@stephdickenson.bsky.social · 4w ago“Data centres accounted for almost one quarter of the electricity consumed in Ireland last year, up from 5% in 2015, the CSO said today. A total of 7,663 gigawatt-hours of electricity was used by data centres in 2025, up 10% from 6,973GWh in 2024.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
there's gotta be a mashup between the "only allowed to have sex once per year" movie and the "like Groundhog Day but with a twist" movie. A meet cute that goes wrong when they have to repeat the first night sex EVERY NIGHT FOREVER.
Baby Boy Monaghan@babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 52m agoSolving the “only allowed to have sex once per year” movie plot by taking my partner to the beach where you age one year every half hour
Okay! I do not do this often, but I am in sudden possession of a small amount of spending money, and I am looking to invest in some physical media. PLEASE RECOMMEND TO ME: movies, books, music, or television programs from the last 10 years *only* that you think I might enjoy.
Hello. All I would like for my birthday today is this boosted everywhere and any help anyone can manage. Rent and bills forever. License renewal today costs $41 And i have to make moxie an appointment that will be at least $300. Second half of rent due in a week and a half. Anythinf helps!
"Birthday Girl" Ella Tailor@garaktailor.com · 2d agoNext set of goals are Second Half of August Rent by the 16th General Bills and existing in society. Moxie Yearly Check up for Prescription Food. Currently really just need like $5 to get out of the red. V:@/JKNotSoBad C:$:/JKNotsobad PP:@/comfortingmoo Everything helps. and gets a moxie picture.
🚨💔 Ahmed is fighting for his life. Today, he was moved back to the ICU and relies on machines to breathe. The virus is spreading through his tiny body, painful spots cover him, and his condition worsens every hour. Please don’t let my boy be lost. Help save Ahmed. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1905...
Guys, you ever defend your mate against charges of being an abusive nonce by generating an AI image of him in heaven surrounded by fawning, buxom young women?
Don’t leave them alone in Gaza. Hammam is a volunteer nurse caring for the wounded daily. his family is homeless, hungry & has lost everything.His brother is ill with epilepsy & needs urgent treatment Any donation can help get food & medical care. Don’t ignore them. 🙏❤️ chuffed.org/project/1844...
I went to see Dennis Hopper speak at the IFI in Dublin when he was here making Space Truckers, maybe 1995? Someone asked him about his photography, he replied 'The only photo on the wall of my house is one of me in bed with John Huston & John Ford.' Then he went on to explain how it happened.
Skot Armstrong@skot.bsky.social · 4h ago“I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.” -John Huston #BOTD
This is an astounding loss for the US if it comes to fruition. One of the biggest strategic losses the US has ever endured—perhaps biggest?—and all from a war the US chose to start for no reason, illegally.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h agoIran and Oman have reportedly agreed that all ships transiting Hormuz have to go through an Iran-controlled corridor, and are finalizing tolls of 3, 5, or 7%. This would close off the path outside Iranian waters the US encouraged ships to use during the MOU, then started bombing again to keep open.
Bara'a has lost two daughters already and needs your help to protect her remaining son, donate if you can: chuffed.org/project/1914...
I Lost My Daughters to War and Hunger. Please Help Me Save Ibrahim, My Last Living Child"
My name is Bara'a, and I am writing to you from the depths of an unimaginable nightmare. I am a mother whose heart has been shattered into pieces, and today, I am reaching out to the world in a desper...
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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · yesterdayIgnorance and silence cost my baby girls their lives. How many times must this heartbreaking loss repeat before my eyes? 💔 Now Ibrahim suffers severe dehydration & acute pneumonia, needing €200 for treatment. Indifference destroys lives. Please help before it's too late!😭😭 chuffed.org/project/191450
I am asking you not as a fundraiser, but as a terrified mother who cannot lose another piece of her soul😭,sila is suffering every single minute. Is saving my child impossible? Please,prove to me that humanity still exists.Donate now to save my daughter 🙏💔😔plz help🥺🙏 chuffed.org/project/1730...
One of the things about discourse around The Odyssey is that only a couple of movies a year manage to get into 'the discourse' now, so everyone has to have an opinion on them In the old days there would be a Peter Greenaway film out by now to distract everyone & give them something new to talk about
🚨 My child is in urgent danger—please don’t ignore this. My daughter is in severe pain with serious heart and breathing problems. She urgently needs €200 for treatment which I cannot afford. 😭🙏 Any help or share could save her life. Please help us now. 🥺🕊️ Molly Shah ✅ chuffed.org/project/1908...
Dubliners: be aware that these restaurants are forcing their staff to live in appalling conditions. www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
Inspectors find 34 beds crammed into south Dublin bungalow rented for staff of Chinese restaurants
Company claimed the most the house accommodated is 26, but space available for 34
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kelly@earley.bsky.social · 3h agofor those who are also looking, what i've found so far is: - biang biang (mary st little) - bullet (mary st little) - little dumpling (mary st little) - hakkahan (stoneybatter) - china hunan (ranelagh) - chongqing hotpot (ranelagh) - china song (monkstown) - little canton (stephen street)
NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...
From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog
This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.
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I wrote about my years filming with ex-wino turned chessmaster John Healy, exploring his bitter exile from the British literary world despite writing a runaway bestseller: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
In the arena - John Healy's long road back from literary oblivion
Ahead of a special IFI screening of his acclaimed documentary Barbaric Genius, filmmaker Paul Duane reflects on the life and literary legacy of the film's subject, Grass Arena author John Healy.
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Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 2w agoBack in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...
If you have anything left to give, this family needs help: chuffed.org/project/1839...
Help us Survive the War(om jameel)
northern Gaza, in the yellow zone under occupation.
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Memento Mori Povich 🇵🇸❤️🔥@paradis3gained.bsky.social · 21h agoOm jameel:My heart, which suffers from a heart valve prolapse, is almost stopping from beating because of the severe pain in my shoulder, which is affected by a tear&joint inflammation.I cannot buy the injections that cost 200$ I left my 5 kids hungry Don't let us die🙏😭🥹 chuffed.org/project/1839...
💔 We are starving in North Gaza. I can't provide food for my children, and my little daughter is sick and urgently needs treatment. We have no money for medicine or food. Any donation, no matter how small, can help save her. Please donate or share. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1908...
STOP. 🙏🏻 Please You are my hope 💔 My mother is struggling with severe eye problems and losing her sight My phone the only way I share her story and ask for help is now broken I’m trying to keep my family going Even $10 can help save a family’s life chuffed.org/project/help... Can you donate? ❓
Baraa's lost 2 baby daughters to Israel's genocidal siege. You can help save her surviving son Ibrahim's life by sharing & donating. He's hospitalised & sick from starvation, dehydration, & infections from the desolate conditions in Gaza, & Baraa urgently needs €200 for his treatment:
I Lost My Daughters to War and Hunger. Please Help Me Save Ibrahim, My Last Living Child"
My name is Bara'a, and I am writing to you from the depths of an unimaginable nightmare. I am a mother whose heart has been shattered into pieces, and today, I am reaching out to the world in a desper...
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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · yesterdayIgnorance and silence cost my baby girls their lives. How many times must this heartbreaking loss repeat before my eyes? 💔 Now Ibrahim suffers severe dehydration & acute pneumonia, needing €200 for treatment. Indifference destroys lives. Please help before it's too late!😭😭 chuffed.org/project/191450
A reminder that Rafael Behr was so scared of mild social democracy in the UK that it gave him a heart attack which he claimed it was caused by Corbyn's antisemitism. Antisemitism which he is so relaxed about he's now endorsing someone who was jailed for it.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h agoMe: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.
this is a stunning thing to say
Elias is in Gaza and losing his sight, if you can help, please do: chuffed.org/project/1624...
Help Mohammed and his famile.
Father's call from under the rubble: Save Elias's life
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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · yesterdayMy sweet boy Elias in Gaza is going blind! Amidst this utter hell,Iam begging on my knees—please,merciful souls, save his eyes before darkness steals him forever!We are desperate,time is running out! Don't let my child lose his sight! Save Elias😔 Verified by:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1624...
Tell us again about that market in waste collection? Anyone see this at the weekend? A Dublin City Council environment official faced councillors this last week. He noted that: “The public have a huge part to play, and we really need to get that higher on people’s agenda”. Which raised this…
Tell us again about that market in waste collection?
Anyone see this at the weekend? A Dublin City Council environment official faced councillors this last week. He noted that: “The public have a huge part to play, and we really need to get that higher on people’s agenda”. Which raised this question: Green Party Cllr Claire Byrne asked why communal bins in use in the city centre could not be deployed in the inner suburbs where a ban on the use of bin bags is imminent.
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When John made his first public appearance in decades, at the Cúirt literary festival in Galway, the Observer ran this short piece, with no byline, warning people away from attending his book reading. I asked Observer lit ed Robert McCrum if he knew who authored this piece, he said he had no idea.
