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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I wrote about Nightmare Alley and its author William Lindsay Gresham, Communist, Buddhist, Spanish Civil War veteran, alcoholic, Catholic, Scientologist and finally victim of his own decision to die. The book is extraordinary, forget the recent movie. www.patreon.com/weirdandconf...

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NIghtmare Alley - William Lindsay Gresham | Weird & Confusing

Sometimes you read a book that contains a writer's entire life and worldview packed in with a density and dexterity that is simultaneously t

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 12h

The Office of Public Works (OPW) has been renting residential properties to its staff and retired workers for only a fraction of their market value, an audit by Revenue has found. jrnl.ie/7179368

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OPW renting properties to staff and retired workers for a fraction of their market value

The audit of how the OPW manages its 92 residential properties produced a long list of damning conclusions.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Went to see two 20 year old art students commence an installation where they live eat & sleep in GalleryX, Dublin for a week while continuously drawing self-portraits. Looking forward to returning in a week to see the results.

A young man sits in front of a mirror on a gallery wall and draws his self portrait, several others are on the wall already, a bottle of water by his feet

Another young man sits in front of a mirror on a gallery wall and draws his self portrait, several others are on the wall already, a bottle of water by his feet

A double bed made up on the gallery floor with a bag sitting on it and bits of foodstuffs and drinking vessels nearby

Entrance hall to the gallery, walls postered with dozens of self-portraits

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Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Om jameel:her health is deteriorating.Despite suffering from a heart valve condition,she has suffered uterine& tore wall hemorrhaging&urgently gather $300 surgery to stop the bleeding Her situation is dangerous Stop her tears kids by donating &returns to her kids embrace😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...

Om Jameel lies sick under a blanket, fed by another.

five Palestinian children lie on dirty mattresses outside

A Palestinian man and woman, Mohammed and Om Jameel, sit with their five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spent the week re-reading Blood Meridian & found this lengthy essay on its gnostic themes very interesting. Judge Holden as an archon, an agent of evil whose task is to destroy even the innermost, hidden thought of goodness? I buy that. peter-mclachlin.livejournal.com/115239.html

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To the British government, to the press, to all the major parties, these corpses represent victory.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Based on watching only two of his films, I can say Jared Masters is the closest thing we have to an Andy Milligan or a Doris Wishman. Astonishing, inexplicable camp camcorder melodramas filled with elderly glamazons channelling their inner Mae West. Free on Plex, too. watch.plex.tv/en-GB/person...

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Jared Masters

Watch more of your favorite Jared Masters movies and TV shows on Plex.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is wild how, in the North of Ireland, it is the costumed bigots with tribal drums & emblems, led by convicted paedophiles, who are on the side of the law, while bereaved mothers are the illegal gathering. Oh I forgot, that's just the new normal now.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t think people hear the voices of the mothers, who earlier walked to the police line with their signs screaming “why? Why? Why would you do this? What if this had to be your nephew? Why?” The pain in their voice is unbearable. Unbearable.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wouldn’t be surprised if the Executive collapsed in the coming days. And then there’s this sentence by Colin that seeps under your skin as much as the relentless rain today: the well is now so poisoned.

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PEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I watched this a few nights back and been thinking about ideas in this that I really loved. Like an underground network collecting and swapping rare variations/unheard of old folk songs. Also the idea that oral traditions can contain magic and can hold evil curses. Take a look or not, its up to you

A poster for the Film All you Need is Death (2024)

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

honestly a bit weird how little the Irish claim Angela Lansbury, a self-identifying Irish-British woman whose mam was from Belfast and who maintained a residence here for over fifty years

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remember the 80s in Ireland when ordinary people put their jobs on the line because they refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa, got bollocked for it by the Indo & the Irish Press at the time but now regarded as heroes, seems it's footballers who have to do the dirty work this time.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dolly Parton's final recording being released on a U2 album is like 2026, not content with kicking the living shit out of us and breaking both our legs, was on its merry way before turning around and - oh yeah - stomping our teeth out with its hob-nailed boot.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was hole everywhere. It could not be avoided nor contained. Media outlets dared not mention Bluesky for fear of sending readers to hole. We’re not even talking humorous Accidental Goatse, which there was also plenty of.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Micheál Martin applauded at the UN, condemning what’s happening in Gaza/West Bank “Nobody will be able to say that we did not know. Let it not be said that we did not act.’ Meanwhile his Gov has refused visas to fully funded students from Gaza. Talking out of both sides of his mouth

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This terrific piece about Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' masterwork Time (The Revelator) by @eruditorumpress.com is well worth your attention: www.patreon.com/elizabethsan...

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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So pleased to see Mike Harrison on the shortlist. Long, long overdue recognition for a writer who is, quite simply, one of the very best this country has produced.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh, this is a useful set of statistics. You can use it to assess just what sort of numbers of JOBS the Government means when it says we need the data centres in Ireland for the JOBS. You’d create more employment running a small chain of centras.

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Om Amir has a serious retinal disease She needs surgery outside Gaza but the crossing is closed We urgently need £160 for her treatment this week 8 people × £20 or 16 × £10 can get us there 😔 👉🏻 chuffed.org/project/help... 👈🏻 Please if you can help dont let her suffer without the treatment she needs 🙏🏻

Ameer's mother sleeping in a hospital bed with a patch on her right eye and an IV drip hanging above her head and connected to her right hand

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John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever someone smart says, ‘I asked ChatGPT and it said xyz,’ I’m reminded of Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #quitgpt #TheAICon @baldurbjarnason.com

The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.

By using validation statements, such as sentences that use the Forer effect, the chatbot and the psychic both give the impression of being able to make extremely specific answers, but those answers are in fact statistically generic.

The psychic uses these statements to give the impression of being able to read minds and hear the secrets of the dead.

The chatbot gives the impression of an intelligence that is specifically engaging with you and your work, but that impression is nothing more than a statistical trick.

This idea was first planted in my head when I was going over some of the statements people have been making about the reasoning of these ‘AI’.

I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm, but no, ‘AI’ has both taken a different crowd and the believers in the ‘AI’ bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At EU level, the Irish Government proposing any tech policy immediately renders that policy suspect, if not automatically unacceptable. We are seen as nought a paid for and every time our Govt does something in this area it reaffirms that perception.

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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is also what fucks me off about people saying 'it's pointless, it won't do anything' about boycotts. they need to build and part of that is being in a tiny, seemingly ineffectual minority

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OK, how brave are we thinking because

Socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn in a tuxedo and fur coat steps out of a race car

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The enormous affinity I feel towards the Scots writer Alasdair Gray only grew stronger when I learned he not only said “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" but also "Man is the pie that bakes & eats himself".

“Who did the council fight?"
"It split in two and fought itself."
"That's suicide!"
"No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation."
"I refuse to believe men kill each other just to make their enemies rich."
"How can men recognize their real enemies when their family, schools and work teach them to struggle with each other and to believe law and decency come from the teachers?"

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

he would be amazed I'm still alive tbh

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Imagine holding your own child as his last drop of sight fades forever. Gaza’s cruel reality stole Elias’s first eye, and now his final spark of light is dying.We are helpless,penniless, and broken.On my knees,I beg you:please save my little boy. Verified by: molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

Elias sitting on a rug, wearing glasses and a patch on his left eye, crying.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was a pogrom attack. The South East Antrim UDA, a proscribed terror group were linked to it - yet this man is prosecuted for burglary and damage? This is why pogroms keep happening - because the state downplays loyalist terror.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday I paraphrased this excellent post on how Ireland's artists & musicians are taking the financial & reputational risk to support Gaza that Ireland's government refuses to take - here's the original.

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Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For the evening crowd.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What were once indulgences are now necessities

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Since it's Raoul Coutard's birthday, here's a clip from Rocky Road To Dublin, Peter Lennon's 1968 documentary. Coutard had just shot Weekend for Godard & was about to shoot something for Truffaut, took time out to make this no-budget film about how fucked Ireland was then. youtu.be/75t38K_tQ6w?...

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The Rocky Road To Dublin (1968)

YouTube video by EamhainMhacha

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If I ever had a minute of facetime with Trump, I would like to tell him that he will be remembered in fifty years mostly as a scary story to tell kids - "Be good or Trump will get you." And I believe that is what will happen.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026

"an ankle monitor for your mind" needs to immediately break containment and enter the vernacular

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 16/09/2026

“United Airlines is set to resume the shipment of military hardware to Israel aboard passenger flights, according to shipping data reviewed by The Intercept.” theintercept.com/2026/09/09/u...

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United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights

Unfriendly skies: On United, checked bags might ride next to tank parts bound for Israel. Direct flights to Israel are set to resume tonight.

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