Mark Ryall

“For every €1 of public money invested in the [Basic Income for the Arts] pilot, society received €1.39 in return”

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#SpeirGorm #UBI

The Boy Kavalier from Alien: Earth

Alien: Earth went full Weekend at Bernie's this week. The only reason I'm still watching this rubbish is to see this no-shoes dickhead getting eaten by something gruesome.

Foster and Allen dressed as leprechauns on Top of the Pops

That House of Guinness thing is woeful. Industrial levels of Paddywhackery. There's a leprechaun in the first 5 mins and I think he's a main character. Paul Knight writes like a 14 year old boy.

More like "ARSEHOLE FOR SALE". Dickhead.

The Wooly Willy magnet/iron filings toy, where you use a magnet wand to drag the iron filings over a bald face to add hair/beard/eyebrows, etc. The hairless face in the centre is now (supposed to be) David Bowie, and the examples of what can be done, which are shown around the border, are all different Bowie eras/personas. The toy is now called Wiggy Ziggy. The blurb at the bottom reads "Turn those ashes to 'taches with the magic wand" and "Instructions on back for absolute beginners".

"Let the children use it."
From this day in 2019.

This presidential election is really bringing all the crazies out. #Spiergorm

It's just... It's the voice.

Nice.

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Conor McGregor loses civil rape case appeal Nikita Hand says she has been ‘retraumatised’ by the appeal case but she can ‘finally move on and try to heal’

Good enough for him. Prick.
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Black and white photograph of Massive Attack.

#MassiveAttack, #BrianEno, #Kneecap and Fontaines DC have formed an alliance of musicians speaking out about Israel’s ongoing military assault on #Gaza

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‘Somebody has to speak for the Irish people’: Michael Flatley ‘seriously’ considering presidential bid Businessman has assembled team of advisers and has had contact with ‘some very weighted individuals’

Sorry... what?
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Was Alan Shatter always such an almighty lying ballbag?

Latest column in the Sunday Times was about the dire representation of women (or indeed anyone who isn't a man) on most Irish music festival bills - more here and in my Insta stories www.instagram.com/p/DLxHjVnte2...

Norman Tebbit, former Tory cabinet minister, dies at 94 Tebbit, MP for constituencies of Epping and Chingford, was one of Margaret Thatcher’s most loyal supporters

Oh no. Anyway... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm so edgy, I don't care about Oasis.

The first two paragraphs: "Today, a hot day when 22 Palestinians (including journalists) sat in a seafront café were murdered by one Israeli bomb, various national media outlets have contacted us (again) to ask our view of something a musician said. For 636 days now, unprecedented & insufferable horror has been recorded by the brutalised communities of Gaza and shown to us on our phone and television screens. It will not stop. No one, it seems, will stop it."

The last two paragraphs (in part): "As we all watch on aghast, every single day, shouting or typing into an echo chamber of complicity... Given the total ban by Israel on international journalists reporting from Gaza, and the simultaneous murder of hundreds of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces, Massive Attack would urge the BBC and other media outlets to redirect their considerable news resource to reporting the truth of what is happening, daily, to the people of Gaza, and critically, to explaining the corresponding inaction of western governments (such as the UK) to their viewers.”

Massive Attack via Instagram.

A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.

More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking at the camera ALT: a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking at the camera

Watched the first two episodes of The Bear S4. So far, it's a vast improvement on S3.

I see the hairy bloke porn is back, Ted.

Petition to include services in the Occupied Territories Bill What is the occupied territories bill? The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 (commonly known as the Occupied Territories Bill) is a proposed Irish law that would ban and cr...

Action Alert for Palestine: I've signed a petition to demand Services are included in the Occupied Territories Bill. Please sign it too, we have to take real action.

#StandWithPalestine

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YouTube video by Saville Productions Werner Herzog on Chickens

It's almost the weekend. Let's all enjoy a bit of Werner Herzog dissing chickens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMo...

We've plastered London with a few messages ahead of this witch-hunt.

British courts have long charged people from the North of Ireland with "terrorism" for crimes never committed.

We will fight them.

We will win.

GRMA to our pals at The Tenth Man for sorting.

I hate to say it, but I'm not feeling the new Pulp album.

Irish MEP used AI to write open letter about Gaza which quoted Swedish House Mafia Ciaran Mullooly – a former journalist – also included an emotional story from a “fictional” girl in Gaza.

A consummate bullshit artist.
His election policies included:
A) Common sense (as opposed to what exactly?)
B) Cutting through red tape (how exactly?)
C) Getting "things" done (a truly inspired concept).
All with a dollop of racist dogwhistling on top.
www.thejournal.ie/ciaran-mullo...

The Young Offenders to return for fifth season The BBC - in association with RTÉ - has recommissioned hit comedy The Young Offenders for a fifth season from Irish TV and film production company Vico Films, with producers announcing an open casting...

Christ. As if things aren't bad enough already.

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Jaysus. CMAT on Jools Holland. The band look like they're about to escape from the nazis across the Alps. #Later

YouTube video by Blood Moon Orchestra Blood Moon Orchestra - In the Earth (Single Version)

I wrote a thing. My friend Mark sang on it. There's a collection of more of these things on the way. You can listen to this thing on your favourite evil streaming platform now. youtu.be/Hx6Up5JaVqc

John Lydon hits out at Kneecap: "They need a bloody good kneecapping!” John Lydon has hit out at Kneecap following controversy, and said that he thinks the members “need a bloody good kneecapping”.

John Lydon devoloved into something quite disappointing, didn't he? What an embarrassment. www.nme.com/news/music/j...