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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 5h

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 6h

“No need for salt or rinse-aid!” Except you still need to to use salt and rinse-aid, but now you’ve paid more for dishwasher tablets.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 7h

I got to see it in a packed cinema a couple of years ago, which somehow added another layer of warmth to it. Also fun to hear the murmuring of an Irish audience half understanding Scots Gaelic.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly, I think the Syria trip would be disqualifying on its own. But her habit of issuing a throat-clearing condemnation of Russia merely as a preamble to the customary incantation of Russia’s grievances with NATO and the West generally is intolerable.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 11h

I had the odd experience yesterday of breakfast with colleagues where I’m reasonably sure I was the most left-wing person at the table, and it seemed I was the only one not considering voting for Catherine Connolly. Unscientific, but it suggests she’s likely to win.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

I feel as if I was misled about what kind of film The Worst Person in the World is. My heart…

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

I’m hesitant to adopt the mantle of defender of a show I haven’t seen, and which could well be a failure on all levels, so perhaps we’ll leave it there.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

I think one might legitimately question whether a satire of “wokeness” is really what’s urgently needed in 2025, but a question as stupefyingly crass as “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?”, and the mostly quite silly debate that ensued, are definitely fair game for skewering.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

The land acknowledgment made me chuckle: “We are currently residing and performing upon the sacred ancestral grounds of the …,” he says, rifling through his pockets for a cheat sheet that never materializes, “Okay, well, whoever they are, they were here first, and we are here now, and shame on us.”

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

I rolled my eyes at first, but I have to admit this sounds quite a bit sharper than one might suppose. www.theatermania.com/news/review-...

Review: In Slam Frank, Anne Frank Gets the Hamilton Treatment - TheaterMania.com

Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky’s musical satire opens off-Broadway.

www.theatermania.com

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

In an early episode of Succession, there’s a scene where Connor’s at a window in the penthouse, glaring at the street below and he sneers, “Look at them down there: the elites”. I remember thinking it was too on the nose, but on reflection…

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. I thought this might be the year I finally give a roll-neck jumper a try. Alas…

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t even remember what the wretched thing was called, but Alanis Morissette’s follow-up to Jagged Little Pill was pretty irredeemable.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 2d

Even the expenses thing is daft. That was not the problem with the Syria trip!

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 2d

This item on Claire Byrne on “diss tracks” seems to have been lifted lock, stock and barrel from Chris Molanphy’s Hit Parade podcast.

Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 2d

And I guarantee that a good portion of these people will be the ones bitching and moaning about the traffic when the schools come back from holidays.

Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 2d

All I ever think about this argument is that people who want kids to go to school in the dark must really hate kids.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2d

Daylight saving times should be abolished. We are no longer living in the 19th century, we can do without. It'll be great for mental health, and people hating early darkness during the evening. BST timezone should be permanent

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 3d

Is that “a thing” round here? I thought that particular section of Irish Twitter had mostly decamped to Mastodon.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 5d

For some reason that great Rubberbandits line, “I’m heating streaky bacon in a trouser press” just popped into my head.

Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 5d

I wouldn’t be able to sleep with that on my mind for any length of time.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 5d

“But he was in financial difficulties at the time.” It’s theft! Jesus, everyone was in financial difficulty back then.

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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 5d

Oh lordy. No, these are not "heat pumps". They are *water* pumps installed in conventional fossil-fuel heating systems. 🤦‍♂️

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 5d

'Urgent' recall as 114,000 homeowners warned of heat pump electrocution risk

The recall is one of the largest product safety alerts ever issued by the CCPC, and one of the most serious

dlvr.it

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 5d

I remember being distinctly unimpressed with the Vizcayan habit of walking in and leaving the door open behind you as if you were in Murcia in July rather than Bilbao in February.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 5d

Even post-COVID? Good Lord. My grandparents’ generation, many of whom lost siblings to TB, understood the importance of ventilation.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 6d

Do we absolutely have to have a President? Could the Council of State not fulfill the same functions? Because this is all getting a bit embarrassing.

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