Dean Buckley

Hannah Einbinder as Ava Daniels in Hacks, lying in bed, wearing a dark t-shirt. Screenshot captioned "She was just being nice."

Jane Adams as Ava's mother in Hacks, standing up wearing a black zip-up hoodie. Screenshot captioned "She said it was interesting."

Same shot of Adams, caption reads "Aren't you always telling me"

Same shot of Adams, caption reads "to believe women?"

a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him ALT: a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him

five small English children to a crew of hardened pirates:

current discourse positions the latter as if it's the occupied territories bill but excluding services, but it is also excluding all other illegally occupied territories on earth, while simultaneously you've got trade missions to western sahara, making this a very not hypothetical difference

at a certain point we need to actively, constantly distinguish between the otb and the Israeli Settlements (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025

jim o'callaghan resign bitch, not even for this, for the last thing, and also this

Show me a single Irish politician reacting with even a millionth of the empathy of the woman from Drogheda interviewed on RTÉ News - who was weeping in horror thinking of the people inside the hotel and how terrorised they must have been. Or the man saying the same right after.

And don't get me started on Jim O'Callaghan. A Minister for Justice spreading misinformation in the aftermath of an arson attack on women and children. Shouldn't have to resign. Should be fired. Gross incompetence, at best. Spare me the lot of them.

Simon Harris is a coward and a bully who would rather scapegoat innocent communities of vulnerable people rather than face up to the failures of either his government or himself as a leader, a Cabinet minister and a human being. Couldn't think less of him and have no problem saying it.

Anthony Quinn as the pirate Chavez in A High Wind in Jamaica, speaking to two children "You're making fun of religion."

Anthony Quinn as the pirate Chavez in A High Wind in Jamaica, speaking to two children, a third standing behind "I don't like it. It's-- It's not nice."

Anthony Quinn as the pirate Chavez in A High Wind in Jamaica, speaking to the third child "What are you, a heathen?"

Anthony Quinn as the pirate Chavez in A High Wind in Jamaica, speaking to the third child The child responds: "Church of England" and her sisters giggle off-screen

A High Wind in Jamaica (1965, dir. Alexander Mackendrick)

In a statement, Minister of State Noel Grealish said he was "delighted to represent the Irish Government at the official opening of the Grand Architectural Museum." "I am particularly proud that this spectacular museum was designed by an Irish architectural firm, Heneghan Peng Architects - a renowned architectural practice based in Dublin. It has been under construction for 20 years and is located less than one kilometre from the pyramids."

oh they're opening a massive new cultural and historical museum in Cairo? and it's designed by a Dublin-based architectural firm? co-founded by a woman from Cork?

ah sure we'll send the racist junior agriculture minister from Galway (???)

Adam McKay looks at a graph of the AI "economy", sighs and starts filling a bath for Margot Robbie

you know, Martin and Harris couldn't have known that their tacking right on immigration would be immediately followed by an attempt to burn asylum seekers alive in their homes, but they surely knew this was the week the trial of Josip Strok's murderers was coming to an end

a film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

there are six Independent Ireland councillors in Galway, at least three of whom I understand to have been interested in running in the by-election, but even though we don't have a date yet, Collins has already picked Noel Thomas to run again despite a very recent controversy

say what you will about Micheál Martin's iron rule over Fianna Fáil, two FF candidates ended up on the ballot in Tipp North last year because of ruptures in the party at constituency level. if there was a similar dispute in II, Collins would have just told one of them to fuck off

one of the ironies of Independent Ireland's "party of independents" schtick is that its leadership actually has more centralised control over who gets to run for them than most parties because they don't have constituency branches to play a role in candidate selection

Honestly an incredible bit from Ivan Yates. Took down two presidential campaigns AND himself

YouTube video by Tia Cain Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder opening

"don't expect any changes, my friend / that was then / and this is too" – kind of funny, but also weirdly perfect, that the most succinct expression of Futurama's comic sensibility is sung by Seth McFarlane

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Hannah Einbinder as Ava Daniels in Hacks, wearing a dark t-shirt. Two screenshots, captioned "I would just watch on my laptop" "but I'm trying to cut down on my screen time."

Joe Mande as Ray, a hotel clerk, in Hacks, wearing a suit and name badge. Caption reads, "TV is a screen."

Einbinder as Ava again. Caption reads "Yeah, but it's a second-tier screen."

Einbinder as Ava again. Caption reads "It's basically like reading a book at this point."

I would hope the revelation of Ivan Yates' two-timing as an adviser to the Gavin campaign and a commentator on the election is enough to finally end his media career, simply because ever booking him in your show again would betray an incredible lack of self-respect

Just don’t think you can disconnect the government taking an increasingly hostile rhetorical line to migrants this week with that horrific attack on the IPAS centre in Drogheda. If you tell these people they have a point, they will escalate their violence.

I wrote this two and a half months ago. in the meantime, Jim O'Callaghan has bothered to start pretending he's appalled about racist violence in between bragging about deportations, while Simon Harris has borrowed his trick of pretending we have a really high asylum refusal rate

Wave of Racist Attacks on Indians in Ireland Exposes Far Right’s Growing Shadow Recent attacks on Indians highlight rising racist violence in Ireland and the complicity of politics and media in fueling hostility toward immigrants.

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example."

When young men learn it is okay to brutalise immigrants, then blame immigrants for their brutalisation, they’re learning from the best.

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"I can't tell you what sights they showed me," Trump said after meeting with The Cenobites. "But I think a lot of people are gonna be very happy with what they showed me."

"The President can spend his time how he wants," Schumer cautioned. "But he should consider the kind of message he's sending"

Simon Harris defends comments that migration numbers in Ireland are too high Politicians of the centre cannot ‘put fingers in ears’ on migration, says Tanaiste

Tánaiste saying that 80% of asylum seekers are refused - just not true. When you take the independent appeals into account, about 50% of people are granted status in Ireland. He wants a "conversation" about migration, but he's starting it off with an outright lie.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

James Marsden as himself in the TV show Jury Duty, speaking to someone on his right Dialogue caption reads Try and think about, like, the big-time director

James Marsden as himself in the TV show Jury Duty, speaking to someone on his right Dialogue caption reads that maybe has been somewhat problematic

James Marsden as himself in the TV show Jury Duty, speaking to someone on his right Dialogue caption reads and hasn't been Me-Tooed yet.

Ronald Gladden, the star of the TV show Jury Duty, responding to James Marsden, immediately Dialogue caption reads Is his first name Quentin?

watching the Da Vinci episode of Futurama. Hermes says "sweet dodo of Lesotho". that's not how you pronounce Lesotho. Lesotho rhymes with "tutu". you jabronies can both postulate and prove a mathematical theorem during a single episode but you can't check how words sound?

Ania, Phil and Reece dress like they solve quirky mysteries together in rural England

I recently started Opus by Gareth Gore