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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 15/10/2026

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I saw Hala Hanina speak at the March on Saturday and she described what zionism looks like and has been from the beginning for the people of Palestine and it just seems insane to contradict her

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The founding fathers of the United States were refugees and conceived of Manifest Destiny as the answer to their plight and we have no problem naming that. and can’t you understand the frustration of a people having to tone police and censor their own language just to be heard?

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Could you not argue that all racism is motivated by fear? like the orange men on Garvarghy Road? They fear what a united Ireland would look like for them, and They’ve experienced grief and loss. There’s no perfect victims and no perfect perpetrators but we should call things what they are.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That's probably just my bias showing, tbh. But I also didn't like Sky's coverage which painted the players as hopeless hostages of the situation instead of a) a direct result of the cheating, and b) informed adults who knew the club were under investigation when they signed.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As an Arsenal fan I obviously have a bias, but to see the game hinge on those two soft yellows whilst the punishment for years of systematic cheating remains outstanding just made the whole thing feel like a joke, only compounded by City's roster of mercenaries cakewalking the last 25 minutes.

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guehi got away with a deliberate handball and Dias wrestled someone to the ground. Nothing doing.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can't help but feel that to shrink from the zionism motion out of political expediency would be throwing the Palestinian people under the bus yet again. They cannot just continue to be political collateral.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In fairness, Mancini copped to it 😅 he just didn't see anything wrong it

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every generation asking themselves “why aren’t we happy like when I was 5?!”

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We just had a record in the UK break the record for weeks at no 1 (19!!!) And me nor anyone I knew had heard it. It was jarring but streams do not = cultural footprint and the modern charts have yet to appropriately account for streams.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty poor form from Jeremy there

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Only SOME concerns are legitimate concerns, people. Certainly not THIS lady's.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I haven't posted about this in a while, but I made 2 free creative writing courses: the Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp & the 100 Day Writing Challenge. Each session, you listen to a short podcast & do a 10 minute exercise. The timer is included in the episode. www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwr...

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However this games ends we can be happy that for the first time since Trossard was sent off against City an opposition player was finally booked for kicking the ball away.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also, no reason why attack can't be our best form of defense. Pin back Rogers with those overlapping runs.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot

Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows anything about it said would happen, happened. Oh gosh. Maybe another moral panic will do it? Or maybe we should give "pretending to care but not actually asking the tech companies who are responsible to do anything" another go?

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Villa were in back to basics mode after a chastening defeat, they were always gonna make it tough for us. But that we found our way, and as you mentioned in IR, Mosquera demonstrating a bravery and creativity shows how we do just give teams too much to think about.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

But the biggest movies of the year, Project Hail Mary and Odyssey obviously had a real tactility to them that Marvel and such lost a few years ago. There was also regrettably a COVID issue with films like Spiderman No Way Home which I suppose couldn't be helped.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's straight to streaming with big stars can have TV movie budgets and aesthetics. Filmed in Airbnbs with no set design, clothes are brand new and colour grade is cartoonish. But I find the vocab is confused, "CGI" used as catch all for a lack of veracity or verisimilitude.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Jonathan Wilson called Chelsea

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Betrayed by the betrayal factory! How could this happen

Post on the Suno subreddit that reads:

Unbelievable.

Suno had a clear off-ramp...just pay GEMA a fair licensing fee like Spotify or Apple do, take the L, & move on.

Instead, they chose the "nuke our own user base" strategy.

They're literally punishing paying customers for their own legal screw-up. The watermark isn't protecting artists,it's protecting Suno's ass while making sure you can't do anything useful with your own creations.

Total betrayal of trust.

Canceling my subscriptions and they can stick their watermark where the sun don't shine.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If he was some tech entrepeneur who had "hustled" early doors and inflated their CV they'd be praising the ingenuity.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It means Pep Guardiola left Man City at the end of last season

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Can only hope that some of these people discover the power of lobbying and put it to better use

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

He's smiling going off into the sunset with the love off his life.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I do think the film is ethically confused. Odyseus literally rides off into the sunset, so even if he's technically exiled, he is filmically redeemed.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Use the swords! Use the spears! Use the arrows!

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think a lot of Wilson's review amounts to what I call the "Bombadil critique" which is objecting to a filmmaker making inevitable choices in an adaptation. Agree with basically half of Wilson's review, but so much of it is "where's Tom Bombadil?"

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Some great points and it's encouraged a lot of good debate, but yeah, a lot of amounts to what I call the "Bombadil critique"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When I discuss huge systemic issues, people say "but what I can I do?" When I mention something meaningful you can do immediately, people say (as the replies here show) "but what's the point, in the face of the huge systemic issues?" There are, it seems, plenty of people who want to be helpless.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Enlighting read! full of legit crits of the film, only time I feel Wilson veers into illegit crits is when she says "the film is never boring, thanks to the source material", think Nolan deserves at least some credit for that when the source material is famously boring for the lay person

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My big Nolan problem is he can't help but say the thing that is more powerful left unsaid, i.e. the "maybe we did" line in Oppenheimer, he's so close to being classy and then he ends up clunky

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The most homaged of them all

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And surely Johnny Depp is older now than Scrooge is at the time of A Christmas Carol, lol

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Good. Riddance.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Government is slow and bureaucratic, free enterprise is slick and efficient 🙃

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Pat Mc @padraigafc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very early days of my first DnD campaign and struggling to find what I want my character to be like, especially without having a sense of what the overall story is/will be, I find it hard to contextualise my character. Perhaps I'm coming at this from the wrong angle?

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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