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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 2d

And so easy to wear out.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d

In memoriam...

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 12d

"House of Guinness is available with Irish subtitles"
love the way that whatever word "f*ckin" represents must be hidden but "focain" is cool.

image of screenshots with Irish and english subtitles over the face a of man, indicating what is used in the program eg: "The Man's name is Guinness..." v "Is é Guinness sloinne an fhir"

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 15d

you might think 😭 if it wasn't 😭

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15d

Every election is a sort of collective entrance exam into the future. It occasionally happens that populations fail the exam.

But for the US to fail essentially a resit of its 2016 exam, featuring the same questions, having studied the answers for eight years, is much rarer and pretty unforgivable.

Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 19d

🔊Culture File Digital Single🔊
Filmmaker, Tadhg O'Sullivan on his new film starring Brenda Fricker, The Swallow, a watery, elegiac meditation on memory and loss, and memory loss.

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The Swallow

Podcast Episode · Culture File · 18/09/2025 · 6m

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 20d

Come to our recording. What are the artists doing in the garden? asks the latest Culture File Debate, which is recording live Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray next Thursday, 25th September. Booking is free but/and essential! Click this.

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Culture File Debate with Luke Clancy: The new green space - what are the artists doing in the garden? - Mermaid Arts Centre

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 21d

If i get this right, The New York Times gadget site has discovered a paper notepad "Ugmonk’s Analog, a delightfully old-school to-do list system" and notes gleefully "There’s no app to download and no account to sign up for."

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 21d

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World-renowned philosopher Judith Butler has expressed highly critical views of Israeli policies and has advocated for Palestinian rights. The professor emeritus wrote a letter to David Robinson, the lead attorney at Berkeley University, who informed her of the ongoing proceedings and in which she denounces serious violations of civil rights and a betrayal of the Berkeley ethos. Libération is publishing an abridged version of this letter, which also appeared in The Nation and La Stampa.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 22d

dog at table in fire
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5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan

Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 27d

Mindboggling Jaws thought dive:
going from lenses to marco-economics by way of something called “hyper Newtonian aesthetics“

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JAWS at 50: Birth of the Neoliberal Blockbuster

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 28d

Good ole AI.

Readout from Claude.ai about Laura Loomer and Charlie Kirk’s, which includes this statement:
The information you’ve requested about Laura Loomer and Charlie Kirk contains fictional events that did not occur. Charlie Kirk is alive - there was no assassination on September 10, 2025. This research report contains completely fabricated information about future events and interactions that haven’t happened. I cannot provide a summary of this fictional content as if it were factual research.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 28d

Academic and podcaster, Autumn Brown joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy for some sharing, featuring: Calligraphy Lesson: Collected Short Stories by Mikhail Shishkin: A Trilogy by Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; and William Blake vs. the World by John Higgs
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Comfort Zone Likes | Autumn Brown

Podcast Episode · Culture File · 04/09/2025 · 7m

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 28d

Drummer and vocalist Eleanor Myler joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some favourite things, including a current choice of Eleanor's, So Little Happened for So Long by Nev Clay.
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Comfort Zone Likes | Eleanor Myler

Percussionist-singer Eleanor Myler joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner; Victor Hugo's Octopus; and So Little Happen...

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 23

Róis joins the crew to recommend John Healey's Death of an Irish Town, while Colm is diving headlong again into Tolstoy, and Luke is catching up on the first series of Apple's The Studio.

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Comfort Zone Likes | Róis

Composer-vocalist, Róis joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, John Healey's Death of an Irish Town and Apple's The Studio.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hold my beer.

Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 5

The best thing about Sydney Sweeney‘s jeans is that it suggests that, even now, in the everyone’s-famous and/or a Nazi-for-15-seconds era, come August there’s still a silly season.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 5

He's still at it.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 5

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

The DoD Rapid Response team on Twitter writes: "The Secretary of Defense has great jeans." The attached photo shows Sec. Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat, white button-up shirt, blue jeans, and a big buckle Western belt.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 1

On The Boreen: Teaċ Damsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside
A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; To Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House with a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, an...

On The Boreen: Teac Damsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside

A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; To Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House with a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, and much local weedlife. Plus, our debut Twitch livestream with Renault4-based art project, Tour De Force.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 1

On The Boreen: Teaċ Daṁsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside
A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; To Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House with a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, an...

On The Boreen: Teac Da?sa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside

A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; To Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House with a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, and much local weedlife. Plus, our debut Twitch livestream with Renault4-based art project, Tour De Force.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 1

July (she will fly and give no warning to her flight)

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Aug 1

It could catch on. After all, it's already in operation for ads.
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Comcast Executive's One Man Show Now Mandatory Viewing For All Subscribers

YouTube video by The Onion

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Jul 31

'know the way people say "don't know who needs to know this"? Well, this time it's YOU that needs to know. @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social's brilliant opera/cosmic trip MARS @abbeytheatre.bsky.social. It's the best thing you'll hear/see/feel this year. Or most others.
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MARS - Abbey Theatre

See Irish National Opera's Latest Production At The Abbey Theatre This August. Four Astronauts And An AI Software Interface Are Going To Mars.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Jul 31

RIP Sean Rocks. That voice.
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Broadcaster and actor Seán Rocks dies aged 63

Broadcaster and actor Seán Rocks, the voice of Arena on RTÉ Radio 1, has died aged 63.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Jul 25

Remember that time when Culture File burned 'some money'? Well, we weren't the first. In 1994 K-Foundation burned a million quid. Was that a good idea? A great artwork? Colm Toibin, Kerry Guinan and Luke Clancy wonder together this week.
Like 'n' subscribe, y'all

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A glass cake-stand on which we see a little pyre, a disposable lighter and a piece of paper with the words "some money" written on it.

Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · Jul 24