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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · Aug 30

When Godzilla fights Mechagodzilla, it’s the same as Dakota Johnson talking to Pedro Pascal in Materialists.

Read to find out why!

Film In Dublin @filmindublin.bsky.social · Aug 30

In @keelanhothothot.bsky.social's latest look at the films of 1975 and 2025, we dig into feelings of paranoia, distrust and insecurity that pop up everywhere from Covid-hit small-town America to Godzilla-hit Tokyo.

Part Three: Identity Crises & Hare-brained Schemes: filmindublin.ie/2025/08/30/7...

Text on banner reads film in dublin presents '75/'25, words by Keelan Gallagher on the first and fourth parts of a four rectangle grid. The other rectangles are images from the 2025 film Weapons and the 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 17m

I’m at a hotel bar and it’s just me and an older American couple drinking wine, and he just randomly started talking about the movie Alien (1978) and listing the cast and recounting plot points to his wife and did you ever get such a visceral vision of your future

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 24m

Connemara, I’m so sorry I was not familiar with your game

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 5h

“Don’t put in the newspaper that I or my friend, the history professor, was mad”

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 7h

I know this is social media - where pulling opinions out of the deepest, darkest recesses of your arse is often rewarded - but inheriting a shit opinion from someone else and then bullishly presenting it as historical fact is just silliness

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 17h

There was only one Blade Runner film and I wasn’t in that!

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 18h

This is a good bit, he should start being like “eh I’m pretty sure I’d remember if I was the ‘Clown Prince of Crime’ cmon man”

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 19h

R.I.P. to one of the greats

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to produce a hit single from an album whose entire cultural reputation is “how the fuck do I get this off my phone”

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 1d

Yer da’s favourite feminist is Joe Brolly

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 1d

You learn so much about each other when you’re married. For example, I’ve learned by wife is NOT a fan of me suggesting that when the revolution comes, Richard Gilmore will be among the first against the wall

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 1d

There’s not much you can say in Donald Trump’s defence on any topic but he has DEFINITELY responsible for fewer war crimes in the Middle East than Tony Blair

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

BREAKING: Hamas official thanks Donald Trump for peace deal but warns Tony Blair not welcome
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Hamas official thanks Donald Trump for peace deal but warns Tony Blair not welcome

Dr Basem Naim also said Hamas would step aside to allow a Palestinian body to govern a post-war Gaza.

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 2d

I have called every radio station in this godforsaken country to play my favourite Spooky Season song and they refuse. Put @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social on the airwaves you cowards

youtu.be/HR74FsiTvbM?...

The Monster Mash but it's an Irish Ballad

YouTube video by Michael Fry (BigDirtyFry)

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah like I think its beyond disgraceful to take an “it’s hopeless” attitude

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 2d

I have said it before but Micheál Martin’s open contempt for being asked to do the bare minimum as Taoiseach to rectify this country’s major problems shows that for all FFFG maintain veneers of “respectability”, they’ve taken lessons from Trump et al that “you don’t have to respect your citizens”

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 2d

Anything is better than bombing and forcibly starving Palestinians but it feels disturbingly notable that this completely removes access to the Rafah Crossing, meaning Gaza is surrounded by the IDF on all sides

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 2d

Friel-wheelers

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

The claim is that a resumption of the war following the prisoner exchange is not permitted by the framework and that the US issued guarantees to Qatar and Egypt on this point, but famously both Biden and Trump admins have in reality given Israel significant latitude to violate ceasefires (Lebanon).

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 3d

Blur’s The Great Escape and Jason Isbell’s Southeastern are both good examples here

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d

It's a given in the music industry that "I've fallen in love!" albums are usually regrettable, and "I've gotten a divorce!" ones often have some of the artist's best work. So question for the group, what are the best "I've fallen in love!" albums?

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 4d

The next person who I see saying it’s “sectarian” to say the Orange Order (an organisation that is explicitly sectarian and promotes sectarianism) is bad is getting added to a list called “I Want to Debate About Gavin Newsom”

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 6d

If only we had some recent experiences of Gerrymandering on this island. Too bad history only happened in America

Post by Ritchie Crave saying
A fun thing you can do right now is to reach out to an American friend and tell them that an Irish Presidential Candidate, from the political party currently in power, had to pull out of the race because he withheld €3,300 from a former tennant 16 years ago and watch their faces twitch in envy.

Response by Desamii @desamii.bsky.social
Saying:
It's shabby to make fun of suffering
Americans. Spend the time figuring out what you, as a voting citizen, are doing against gerrymandering. You know, America likes to export its "culture" to other countries effectively. So you will need it in future election.

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 4d

The mother sent me a FB reel (likely thing for her to be doing) of some wanker from Navan in a tractor mouthing off about the Irish flotilla participants “not caring about the homeless” and truly the greatest scourge of this country is the “farmer who fancies himself a podcaster”

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 4d

There was technical graphics teacher in our school who it was rumoured had been on a game show and that he had lost out by answering “Dennis Thatcher” to some question. This led to people yelling “BEEEEPPPP Dennis Thatcher” at him and it made him so mad he used to smash T-squares over his desk

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 4d

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 4d

Find myself in the unusual situation of eating my dinner in Eddie Rockets and I feel like the young fella from Waterford who does the takeaway reviews and responds to everything “Jaysus that’s fair nice now”

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 5d

I fail to see how any of the posters aren’t meeting this definition exactly.

The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 5d

Futurama “days since last” meme. It reads “Days since an American attached their centrist virtue-signalling to an unrelated post then had a hissy fit about it”.