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So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...
Me, My Film, and My Massive Brain Tumor
David Freyne directed and co-wrote a film about death. Then, he learned he had a brain tumor the size of an apple.
time.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...
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Staring into the abyss, France calls for the recognition of Palestine and Britain says it’s really really bad to spray-paint planes.
July 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Staring into the abyss, France calls for the recognition of Palestine and Britain says it’s really really bad to spray-paint planes.
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Amidst all the awful news this week, you may have missed that the party of workers, has become the party of the Broligarchs
UK govt pushed back against an amendment that would protect the copyrights of musicians and creatives against AI sloplords www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK govt pushed back against an amendment that would protect the copyrights of musicians and creatives against AI sloplords www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes
Leading artists said the bill needed to be changed to protect them from having their work copied by AI.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Amidst all the awful news this week, you may have missed that the party of workers, has become the party of the Broligarchs
UK govt pushed back against an amendment that would protect the copyrights of musicians and creatives against AI sloplords www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK govt pushed back against an amendment that would protect the copyrights of musicians and creatives against AI sloplords www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My sister @urchinette.bsky.social's new book which has BANDS and DUBLIN and LOVE in it is out TODAY!
www.kennys.ie/shop/our-son...
www.kennys.ie/shop/our-son...
Our Song
Paperback. ***THIS IS A PRE-ORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN JUNE 2025*** A heart-warming second chance romance perfect for Emily Henry fans
www.kennys.ie
June 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My sister @urchinette.bsky.social's new book which has BANDS and DUBLIN and LOVE in it is out TODAY!
www.kennys.ie/shop/our-son...
www.kennys.ie/shop/our-son...
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If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…
June 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…
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If you can’t make your multibillion dollar product without stealing artists’ work perhaps you should compensate those artists you freak
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you can’t make your multibillion dollar product without stealing artists’ work perhaps you should compensate those artists you freak
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Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.
May 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.
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I think a lot of people are self-conscious about their ability to express themselves and when a machine is fluently, confidently full of shit they feel like they can't compete with that.
In a number of chats on AI I've been shown proof of concept docs folk are proud of & it's always overly complicated, tedious, insight free bullshit. I'm pretty convinced now that AI's main job is convincing people they're stupid so we drown in tedious digital paperwork. That's the AI apocalypse
May 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I think a lot of people are self-conscious about their ability to express themselves and when a machine is fluently, confidently full of shit they feel like they can't compete with that.
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If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
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Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.
May 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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if trump tariffs foreign film production then canada will not hesitate to impose a steep export tax on ryans both reynolds and gosling
May 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
if trump tariffs foreign film production then canada will not hesitate to impose a steep export tax on ryans both reynolds and gosling
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I always tell this to my research assistants: if you use AI to summarize and write for you, you don't need to be my assistant. You don't need to do research at all.
Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?
Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?
May 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I always tell this to my research assistants: if you use AI to summarize and write for you, you don't need to be my assistant. You don't need to do research at all.
Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?
Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?
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Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
Local Elections: 'Keir Starmer's Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage'
Labour's embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher
bylinetimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
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📣 KNEECAP STATEMENT:
April 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
📣 KNEECAP STATEMENT:
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This is a really useful template if you don't know what to say to your MP other than "fuck this is bad and I'm scared" (I said that too).
The new EHRC interim guidelines are legally wrong, bigoted and a huge overreach.
Write to your MP (again?!). Expose all this for what it is.
We have updated our thoughts on what you might say to MPs in your email.
KEEP WRITING! KEEP SHARING!
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
Write to your MP (again?!). Expose all this for what it is.
We have updated our thoughts on what you might say to MPs in your email.
KEEP WRITING! KEEP SHARING!
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
URGENT ACTION: (REVISED 23/4/25) Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the UK government's rush to introduce a blanket ban on trans women from women's spaces.
THIS IS A CHANGING SITUATION WITH GOVERNMENT POLITICIANS CURRENTLY LINING UP TO INFLICT FURTHER CRUELTY ON TRANS WOMEN IN POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS OR STATEMENTS TO THE MEDIA. PLEASE KEEP UP TO DATE WITH T...
www.translegalproject.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is a really useful template if you don't know what to say to your MP other than "fuck this is bad and I'm scared" (I said that too).
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Counterpoint: Ted Sarandos hasn’t a leg to stand on when he commissioned a $320 million film with no return to make its money back. Barbie, Oppenheimer, Wicked and now Sinners have proved that the cinema audience is there. Audiences want quality, not something that will be forgotten about in a week.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos recently claimed that the streamer is “saving Hollywood,” and believes theatergoing is "an outmoded idea for most people."
Netflix Is 'Saving Hollywood,' CEO Considers Going to the Theater 'An Outmoded Idea for Most People'
bit.ly
April 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Counterpoint: Ted Sarandos hasn’t a leg to stand on when he commissioned a $320 million film with no return to make its money back. Barbie, Oppenheimer, Wicked and now Sinners have proved that the cinema audience is there. Audiences want quality, not something that will be forgotten about in a week.
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Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.
Why Shopping Local This Indie Bookstore Day Is More Important Than Ever
Several independent book store owners are encouraging people to go out to their local independent bookstores to buy some novels to help celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and keep independent busines...
people.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.
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"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
April 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
Can’t get over some of the scenes in this film. Brilliant!!!
‘SINNERS’ overperformed official estimates and actually opened to $48M domestically.
Biggest opening for an original film this decade.
Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
Biggest opening for an original film this decade.
Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
April 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Can’t get over some of the scenes in this film. Brilliant!!!
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There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
‘My son was killed in front of my eyes. Three bullets in his chest’: Patrick Freyne in Chad’s desert camps
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Mad...
www.irishtimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
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In the shadow of the recent court decision, hopefully it comes out in my writing but: trans rights are human rights and 'biological sex' is a complex non-binary phenomenon.
April 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In the shadow of the recent court decision, hopefully it comes out in my writing but: trans rights are human rights and 'biological sex' is a complex non-binary phenomenon.