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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 21h

That was a good afternoon of picketing. Pleasantly surprised to see how much support and goodwill there was out there.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 21h

It’s just so ugly looking too. Inexplicably so.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s not just that it’s bad, it’s so insufferably pleased with itself.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"We can't just throw public money at nurses and teachers willy nilly," The Minister for Public Expenditure has said in a statement. "They're not data centres, race tracks, angry people with tractors, Mark Zuckerberg, the NFL..."

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I enjoyed this. What struck me, watching it recently, about the show’s supposedly “troubling” treatment of race (and please forgive me, American friends) is that it understands that America’s problem isn’t just racism but its deep neurosis about its own racism.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It really worries me that all the other candidates are appalling ghouls of one stripe or another, but they’re all polling ahead of him. Early days, but still…

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I sure hope he knows what he’s doing.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I really need to be more careful about using the words “Let me know if you have any questions”. I’m finally learning that the caveat, “once you’ve read the spec”, would be useful.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We managed to agree that it would be better to save the new jersey for training tomorrow.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nothing quite dilates your sense of time as much as the realisation that Eva Marie Saint was two years older than Marilyn Monroe.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seven years ago today, I became a dad. I don’t think anything has ever made me as happy as getting to know my daughter. I hoped she would be as kind and funny as she is. It was always likely that she would love reading. But I would never have guessed that she would be utterly football mad. Life!

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was raised in a “butter on one slice” family, but then one day, when I was eighteen, the chef in the pub I was working in noticed me making a sandwich. “Patrick, this is not a student flat, we’re not going to run out of butter. Both slices, for God’s sake.” Thus I saw the light.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The compositional chops of Edgar Varèse, the instrumental ability of Johnny “Guitar” Watson and, alas, the outlook and sensibility of the most annoying fifteen-year-old boy you’ve ever met.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As someone who will probably "benefit" from this in the next few weeks, this is a bad idea. I'm not being "helped to buy". Taxes I've already paid, and that could've gone to funding basic services, will instead be funneled to the wealthy developer of an overvalued property.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just in case this history is useful in light of the current discourse podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/z...

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Zionism Part 1

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 10 July 2023 · 54min

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In times gone by, I wouldn’t have hesitated to give my personal mobile number to a conference organiser or similar who asked for it (“just in case we need to contact you”). I’m finally getting good at maintaining boundaries in my advancing years.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember reading the words “protecting the world from the full horrors of unvarnished Archer prose”, and I wish I could remember where.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We watched 28 Years Later last night and The Bone Temple tonight. I won’t make a case for them being great films, but there’s something exciting about seeing moviemaking with real vision and moral conviction.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“It’s the new Heaven’s Gate!” is certainly a bold approach.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

By all accounts, Larry Kert was wonderful in the original Broadway production (and he certainly sounds great on the cast recording), but I seem to remember Sondheim saying it’s a pretty thankless role.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think because, while there are occasions for considered critical commentary, it’s sometimes fun to hear smart people just lay into something with abandon.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mind you, I’ve never seen a good Tony on stage or screen.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love that performance. There’s this charge of excitement between him and David Alvarez’s Bernardo that’s equal parts hostility and attraction.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The hard drive is in good shape, but the RAM is a bit erratic!

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I maintain that the key to the brilliance of Barry Lyndon isn’t the ingenious cinematography or the exquisitely selected music, but Hordern’s droll narration.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I miss the Culture Gabfest every week, but possibly never as much as now.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The brother is fluent in Dutch but can’t make much sense of Danish at all.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to this new remix of Rubber Soul, and we’re properly into diminishing returns territory now, aren’t we?

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Recent conversation with @emmylounib.bsky.social about modern dating. Me: I don’t think I would do well on the apps. I’m too reserved. Her: Mm hmmm. Me: And too sensitive. Her: Yeah. pause Her: And you’re a bit of a cunt. Ah, marriage.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was disgusted with the FF/FG line at the last election of “We wanted to give you treats, but the Greens said you had to eat your vegetables”, but I was even more disgusted that voters were stupid enough to fall for it.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I’m not going to tell anyone what to do.” Less than a minute passes. “You’d have to be a bit of a prick to pass a picket if you’re going to benefit from a pay deal.”

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Michael Powell was born on this day in 1905. He started his career in Nice working with director Rex Ingram in a range of capacities. For THE MAGICIAN (1926), based on Somerset Maugham’s novel, he worked as Ingram’s assistant - and as an uncredited actor (here with Gladys Hamer).

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is quite funny that what was seen at the time as a late career high point turns out to have been a mid career high point.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those series had great production values, and they were very resourceful. All the same, they couldn’t stretch to the kind of location shooting we’ve seen with The Night Manager.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would. I was disappointed that Alfredson, Oldman et al didn’t tackle it, as I thought that was the best chance. But the BBC seem to be willing to spend real money on Le Carré now.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I very much hope they get around to adapting The Honourable Schoolboy.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still think about the performer and journalist who insisted to me on Twitter that we use PR for presidential elections in Ireland. It’s still unclear to me how one might win a proportion of the presidency.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sure he’ll be very good, but that does look a bit “George Smiley by Tom Ford”.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the great things about being an Irish member of Unite is watching our union leadership constantly picking the most idiotic fights with the Labour Party in Britain.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now: Brief Encounter A Matter of Life and Death The Third Man The Innocents Withnail and I #Filmsky

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is this absurd MUGA Orange posturing in Drumcree in some sense a backlash against the feelgood inclusivity of the Fleadh?

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Can you get Angel Delight anymore?” “I doubt it. I’m pretty sure it was just whipped asbestos and E numbers.”

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Dad, I want to make one of my Sylvanians look tough.” “That seems a bit unlikely, love.” I stand corrected.

A tough looking Sylvanian at the wheel of a monster truck.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, sure, Marr has never been able to recreate that uncanny early brilliance, but who the hell else has?! (I’ve often wondered what might been if Talking Heads had recruited him as a full member, as he apparently wanted, but they were already dealing with fractures of their own by then.)

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely. I also think Morrissey’s golden period lasted longer than Will Davies allows. Vauxhall and I from 1994 was an essential album. The decline after that was bewilderingly swift.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cheers, E. I had a read of that yesterday, and it’s very thoughtful. The whole question of the cultural shadow cast by violence against children is one that I hadn’t particularly considered before.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listening to some of the people who spoke at that festival of cranks and miscreants in Moate last night, I feel that “carbon tax” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in terms of everything that has gone wrong in their lives.

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