Paul Duane 🥔
banner
paulduane.bsky.social
Paul Duane 🥔
@paulduane.bsky.social
A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist and mystic. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Pinned
PSA: if you repost people in Gaza asking for funds to survive, please quote them and put the link to their fundraiser in your quote, because mostly their accounts get deleted daily by Bluesky, for some inconcievably cruel reason, but if you quote-post at least their funding link will still exist.
Dear The Irish Times, you are spoiling us with this front page covered in images of Eddie Hobbs and Ryan Tubridy, surely there's an upper limit to the delight we can be filled with on a rainy Saturday in January?
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
For years there was a belief in the media - apparently shared by the man himself - that Ryan Tubridy held a special place in the nation's affections. But I'm not sure people even notice he's gone
There is a lot of Ryan Tubridy redemption in the papers today
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Anyway, Irish people used do be obsessed with the Kennedys, and I think Tubridy might be unintentionally responsible for healing us of that.
January 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
if you assume that you're ideologically pure and all reasonable humans must agree with you then you will end up assuming that those who disagree must be something other than human
January 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Reminder that RTE paid Tubridy and co huge salaries based on the claim they would simply walk out into higher paid jobs in the UK.
There is a lot of Ryan Tubridy redemption in the papers today
January 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes.

Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social
Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Elon Musk just been labelled a 'creepy little slimeball' in the Dáil by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Oh, good. I was planning on canceling anyway and this is just the push I needed.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
If you have a moment please make a submission before 5.30pm today 👇
January 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Isn't this the same Palantir that the UK have just signed a massive defence deal with? The one run by famous British fascist Oswald Mosley's grandson?
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Banning X would not 'betray free speech', just as breaking up or closing down corporate giants that seriously violate competition or criminal law would not 'betray commerce' (for anyone reading an Irish Times opinion piece today who might be unsure)
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
The reports coming out of Minnesota of the brutality of ICE terror are harrowing. What's clear to me, however, is that the people are rising up to resist this violence head on. Resistance is everywhere. We may be on our own, but we are not alone.

"Every time a whistle blows, they don’t win."
Blessed are the whistle blowers
Resistance to the ongoing brutality is everywhere. One need only step outside to find it.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Please help Nasma if you can, she's raising three young children alone:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-nasma...
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
This is why our friends need our help.
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
The 100 children who have been killed in Gaza by Israel since the beginning of the 'ceasefire' do not include those who have died from winter conditions without access to resources needed to survive.

news.un.org/en/story/202...
Gaza: A ceasefire that still kills children is not enough, says UNICEF
Airstrikes, drone attacks and hypothermia continue in Gaza despite the ceasefire, with more than 100 youngsters killed since early October, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
news.un.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Hard to imagine anywhere else where the occupying power kills a child a day during peace time.
UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.'

“These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
"The idea for this cover was an ode to the post workers, couriers and delivery drivers who just (literally) carried the Christmas season on their backs," writes @selkies.bsky.social, about the image she made for the cover of our most recent print edition. www.dublininquirer.com/cover-image-...
January 14, 2026 at 10:48 AM
An unforeseen aspect of the current crisis is, as the rich buy up gold & platinum to hedge against currency collapse, the rising cost of platinum is making prosthetic VFX more expensive (it's a necessary component in the process) while the rising cost of RAM makes digital FX more costly too.
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Please help Mohammed and his family if you can, conditions in Gaza are desperate right now:

chuffed.org/project/1574...
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
Howling at this excerpt from Mikey out of off of Boyzone's wiki page
January 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM
The most basic plank of every Irish government since I was born has been "If we're nice to the Yanks they'll be nice to us".
What are the chances of the current Government abandoning this policy? I would say slim to none, and none is about to leave on the next stagecoach.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Reposted by Paul Duane 🥔
I never thought I would ask strangers for help.
But war leaves no pride untouched.

My family and I are from Gaza. We lost everything after gencide.
If you can donate or share, you are helping real people stay alive.

Solidarity is life. Thank you. 🤍
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 AM