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The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · yesterday

I just think it's kind of tiresome how, in a country with incredibly weak unions and industrial relations legislation, the government are trying to act wounded and outraged that unions are doing literally the only thing they can do to exercise leverage

bleary@bleary.off-the-records.com · 2w ago

Thinking about the movie RRR and I feel we need an Irish version. Completely over the top, ahistorical story of Irish independence. James Connolly battering Lloyd George with nunchucks. Michael Collins taking out 200 black & tans barehanded. Dev defeating Monty in a dance-off. Let’s do this.

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 2w ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · last mo.

would you like to start a conversation with the customer service chatbot. would you like to use the doctor’s self-service phone system. do you reject the warm touch of a lover. do you long for the cold embrace of steel. will you replace your soul with hydraulic fluid

Dr Gearóidín McEvoy@garodean.bsky.social · last mo.

I literally wrote a book about how people got ARRESTED for trying to speak Irish to police in Ireland, don’t given me this feigned respect and reverence for Irish.

Dr Gearóidín McEvoy@garodean.bsky.social · last mo.

Did you know that we deny Deaf people in Ireland the opportunity to learn Irish in school? Because it’s deemed that they wouldn’t be able. Without any assessment. Without any comprehension that many Deaf people are learning ISL and English at the same time? And are therefore bilingual?

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · last mo.

for relatively weak short term gains they weren't even slightly good at cynically capitalising on! Local Link should have made huge inroads for the Greens in rural Ireland, but they didn't aggressively frame it as their policy. now they're out, rollout of Local Link has slowed to a crawl

The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · last mo.

The public transport fare hike thing makes me so mad that both times the Green Party has been in a position to build long term success it has decided to blow itself up for relatively weak short term gains

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.

Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era)@danirat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

Natalie Weiner@natalieweiner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...

On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era

Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

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CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

Moderna and Merck said a late-stage trial of a personalized cancer treatment based on the mRNA technology behind Covid-19 vaccines met its goals in treating melanoma, potentially marking a major advancement in cancer care. CNN’s Meg Tirrell reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/3UoqFeI

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?

parkchanwoohoo Follow Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue werewolf-beans Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

You Call Yourself a Film Critic@filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I will always-and I truly mean always-share this story the Rubberbandits shared about a competition held in Cork to see a classic movie screened by him (which sounds like they're offering water boarding as a prize) and this was the recounting

Facebook message from an unknown male: "George Hook, on Newstalk, used to do a monthly competition to "Win tickets to see a Classic Film with George Hook'. Which to my friend, Patrick, was the worst prize he'd ever heard of. So, naturally he entered the competition and ended up winning 3 tickets to the Gate to see Taxi Driver on, like, a Wednesday at 7. Dreadful. We went along and found a handful of people in the first few rows. But no George. 5-10 minutes go by. We hear, 'Are you all ready for a Classic film?'. George Hook was hiding up in the back. In the dark. No reason for it. He comes down and proceeds to make a speech about Taxi Driver for 20 minutes. Most of which was inaccurate. He had this whole segment he repeated ad infinitum about it being 'Scorsese's first picture' which it wasn't, and 'De Niro helping him kick his heroin habit to get it made' (cocaine, and he was thinking of Raging Bull). All inaccurate, rambling nonsense. He talked all the way through the film, laughing at scenes that weren't remotely funny or even meant to be funny, irritated everyone with his bizarre guttural noises and may have even fallen asleep. Film ends. Lights go up. Everyone leaves. Not a word said. He just disappears into the night. --- And you boys think you know Performance Art?"
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Once I was at a Christmas party where George Hook was the compère. He began by saying "before I begin, an important news announcement - a truck of viagra has been stolen. The gardaí are on the lookout for a gang of... hardened criminals". A woman sat next to me said "is this some sort of joke?"