Reposted by DaraThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else. 181735622
Reposted by DaraThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026We should all welcome the renewed attention being paid to the UK's student loan crisis. But we must remember it's a scandal the Tories created, and which they deserve no praise for cynically, and incoherently, adopting as their cause. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...newstatesman.comTory grandstanding about student loans isn't helping anyoneEveryone remembers the Conservative Party created this system 117937
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Little Simz really should have been in the Best Original Song race with 'Don't Leave Too Soon', an absolute banger from the vastly underrated Steve 100
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Michael B Jordan the second ever actor to be oscar-nominated for a vampiric role, after Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire. Why do I know these things? 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Ever see a trailer and go ‘that casting director’s seen all the same tv shows as me’? 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Industry — a show with no subtext for an industry, and a world, with no subtext 100
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 07/11/2025This has been happening on RTÉ for like five years. Constant calls to 'have the debate'. What's the debate, guys? Want to expand a little? 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Considering Connolly looks like she’s about to win Saturday, Fine Gael and Humphries desperate attacks on her will just damage the office they’re seeking to hold. The presidency is symbolic — besmirching the leading candidate just hurts everyone. 130
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I’m like five films behind on my letterboxd, what will my two friends who care do?!? 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 22/07/2025The meaning of life could just be two glasses of wine and tapas with an old friend, maybe, I’m not God but this Montepulciano might be 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Went to London last weekend — the amount of people on laptops using AI services completely caught me off guard. I keep forgetting that people think this stuff is OK. 020
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Why is Kaitlyn Dever a co-star on the new Last of Us instead of main cast, as she plays like, the third lead of this season? Another baffling structural change. 000
Reposted by DaraHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025“are you early career” no but i’m early career coded 4815
Reposted by DaraAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/04/2025calling trump “orange”? kinda cringe but whatever calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious 89101402053
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Geordie Greep’s new album sounds like if the Engineer from Miss Saigon got a sequel where he succeeds 110
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A reminder: Smartphones are poisons for young girls' minds too, not just boys. It's just in boys we see their most publically deleterious outputs. In complaete fairness, they're poison for all our minds. 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Adored all the 70’s crash zooms and strange camera choices in the Severance finale. Perfect mix of TV pilled plot and filmmaking pretension. Loved the Coen Bros pull in the lift. Top stuff. 000
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Crazy how much hotter Daredevil is than basically every other onscreen superhero of the last twenty years. I think it's the guilt. 010
Dara @daramcwade.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Civilisation 7 staring at me like the Green Goblin mask begging me to destroy my life for one perfect hit 140
