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Trish Byrne @trishyb.bsky.social · 6h

One of my very favourite films.

Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 14h

The Big Snit is also on YouTube in higher quality.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S5...

The Big Snit

YouTube video by NFB

www.youtube.com

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 12h

Why do all the social media algorithms advertise Dublin to me?

Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 12h

Meet ya at the chess table in Griffith Park to discuss.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 12h

I read it but I don't recall as much of the satirical element that is in abundance in WTWB.

Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 12h

Time moves on. I've thought about that a lot too. The wireless was all but ubiquitous in Ireland and Britain by 1960, TV by mid 1980s. I think in that particular film they're meant to be slightly out of the loop, a little bit behind at every juncture.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 14h

The Big Snit is also on YouTube in higher quality.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S5...

The Big Snit

YouTube video by NFB

www.youtube.com

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 14h

A low quality capture of WTWB is on Youtube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjJ...

When The Wind Blows (1986)

YouTube video by Apocatastasis Institute

www.youtube.com

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 14h

Watched When The Wind Blows (1986) for the first time in many years the other night and man it is still so emotionally powerful. It's interesting what it has in common with the short Canadian animation, The Big Snit (1985), the latter being more off the wall.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

I can't make it alas.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

I reckon sometime around the mid-1990s. When we first moved to Swords there were two or three (maybe more) indies. Xtra opened and then Chartbusters. They're all gone now of course.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Siobhán.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkably influential. It's inspired other art.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

Shhhh, we don't talk about that.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

I'm almost certain it was called something more Italian sounding for a while in the intervening years.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

A branch of the Irish School Of Motoring was on Dorset St so basically the same old drag.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

I always remember passing this place. My friend from Virginia (US) cackled when she saw the name.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

Drumcondra, 1994

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely fucked, man, what the hell

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 1d

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 2d

My old landlord once told me that things were so tight she might have to sell her forest.

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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 2d

The consumer watchdog has issued an urgent recall for a circulation pump used in over 100,000 heating systems in Ireland, citing a major electrocution risk. Our reporter Hannah Murphy has the latest from the CCPC.

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