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Lost Hearts for Abney Day 2026 another ghastly anniversary rolls by...

24.3.26
It's coming around again...
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This itself should be grounds for impeachment, of Noem at least.

Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social:

How Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize Committee could have prevented this, but pushed Trump to embrace war instead.

I am not the first person to say this.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes. They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Classic stuff

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Operation Epstein Fury

The Crackdown

An update to my idiosyncratic Dublin listings spreadsheet. Lots and lots of new things, especially but not solely films. Check out the individual tabs for details.

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#DublinListings #Speirgorm

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

It mayn't be his most well-known or beloved story, but "A Neighbour's Landmark" contains one of the *very best* bits in all of M R James's work.
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PAN'S PEOPLE, Top of the Pops' 'something for the dads' dancing troupe, were infamous for their literal interpretations of pop hits. Their routine for Spirit in the Sky, however, is something else entirely...

To Sir W. Batten’s to speak upon some business, where I found Sir J. Minnes pretty well fuddled I thought.

apropos mention of Buster Keaton films, there's another one on this sunday in a film festival programme of silent shorts.

www.diff.ie/programme/si...

I don't know what your problem is Mr New Scottman, but it's blocking time.

I saw a guy who looked the spit of Morgan McSweeney heading up Grafton Street this morning.

saw Return to Oz for the first time a couple of years ago and it's great. I do wonder if the whole thing about it traumatising kids is a bit overstated - there are lots of scary bits in the original too.

A cartoon of a rather menacing Dublin seagull. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There seems to be some sort of psychological warfare going on between Dubs and their seagull neighbours. Was waiting for a Luas over the weekend where a huge gull was pacing up and down the tracks and a woman beside me hissed at her young daughter "Whatever you do, do NOT make eye contact with him."

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.

Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.

www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

Likewise... and it was one of the few fruits I actually liked. Although I only really liked the grapefruit from the country I was boycotting for political reasons.

Statement by UK trade unions in solidarity with Ukraine, on the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion Statement issued by UK trade unions, in association with USC, on 23 February 2026, for the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. All the signatories ar…

On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion, the Trades Union Congress and nine unions representing a majority of organised workers in the UK have issued a statement in solidarity with Ukraine and its workers. Please read + share! ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2026/02/23/u...

If you’re in Ireland or Northern Ireland and there’s no indie comic shop nearby, please consider Little Deer! Free postage for orders over €100 and my next post office run is Wednesday! You could have fresh comics for the weekend!

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew WASHINGTON—Exhausted from repeated efforts to explain the most basic aspect of political power, an aide to President Trump nevertheless began wearily explaining for the fifth time Friday why he couldn...

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

People not getting what they want is what gen-AI is all about, hence the Altman pic.

In fairness I get the impression a lot more people have seen the Wuthering Heights film than the Melania one, but it has attracted an awful lot of commentary.

YouTube video by momasu Momus: Mannequin

"You belong in a museum or in a human zoo, man." youtu.be/eW4Z9mStwBc

Am I right in thinking that everyone who has seen Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights has written at least one article about it?

Zia Yusuf is Reform's "shadow" Go Home secretary

One thing that's funny about Hawkwind is that they are or were a great live band, but I've never heard a good live version of that song. It's like it all came together in the studio for it in a way that was impossible to reproduce.