Afterglow
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Film watcher, book reader, etc, etc
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I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea: From Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
In-person scriptwriting course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Turn an idea for a film into a detailed outline or script. Starts Tues 11 March 2025.
irishwriterscentre.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
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I want this moment for us
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I want this moment for us
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My favourite bit of the Lee "Scratch" Perry bio I used as my principal source for this Patreon bonus is just how cordially Perry and Chris Blackwell disagree about "Judgement In A Babylon", which has lyrics like "Chris Blackwell is a vampire" and "He give Bob Marley cancer".
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My favourite bit of the Lee "Scratch" Perry bio I used as my principal source for this Patreon bonus is just how cordially Perry and Chris Blackwell disagree about "Judgement In A Babylon", which has lyrics like "Chris Blackwell is a vampire" and "He give Bob Marley cancer".
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Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
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This is a screenshot from The Guardian. This is real.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is a screenshot from The Guardian. This is real.
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this is pretty good but it still does not touch upon my crackpot theory about MALLRATS, which is that it's structured like a shakespeare comedy www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
this is pretty good but it still does not touch upon my crackpot theory about MALLRATS, which is that it's structured like a shakespeare comedy www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
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Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
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It doesn’t stick it to The Man.
The Man does this too.
The Man is now likely to be a middle aged tech-zillionaire who grew up on filesharing culture, doesn’t understand creative work, and thinks that a digital pirate utopia is possible as long as nobody gets paid except him.
The Man does this too.
The Man is now likely to be a middle aged tech-zillionaire who grew up on filesharing culture, doesn’t understand creative work, and thinks that a digital pirate utopia is possible as long as nobody gets paid except him.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It doesn’t stick it to The Man.
The Man does this too.
The Man is now likely to be a middle aged tech-zillionaire who grew up on filesharing culture, doesn’t understand creative work, and thinks that a digital pirate utopia is possible as long as nobody gets paid except him.
The Man does this too.
The Man is now likely to be a middle aged tech-zillionaire who grew up on filesharing culture, doesn’t understand creative work, and thinks that a digital pirate utopia is possible as long as nobody gets paid except him.
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Pirate culture is great as long as the parasite doesn’t kill the host. Free-culture has gone way past that point now.
You can always get free food from your parents’ fridge, provided your folks are still earning a living to put all that food there. They can’t quit and just eat that free food too.
You can always get free food from your parents’ fridge, provided your folks are still earning a living to put all that food there. They can’t quit and just eat that free food too.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Pirate culture is great as long as the parasite doesn’t kill the host. Free-culture has gone way past that point now.
You can always get free food from your parents’ fridge, provided your folks are still earning a living to put all that food there. They can’t quit and just eat that free food too.
You can always get free food from your parents’ fridge, provided your folks are still earning a living to put all that food there. They can’t quit and just eat that free food too.
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In the UK you can do whatever the fuck you want to a child and claim their trans and face 0 jail time
Absolutely normal fucking country
Absolutely normal fucking country
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In the UK you can do whatever the fuck you want to a child and claim their trans and face 0 jail time
Absolutely normal fucking country
Absolutely normal fucking country
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
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Some years ago I was sitting on a bus when I suddenly realised that everything in the universe had once been in one place. Like, really realised it. There's a proton on the other side of Laniakea that used to be in exactly the same place as every atom in my body. Comforting.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Some years ago I was sitting on a bus when I suddenly realised that everything in the universe had once been in one place. Like, really realised it. There's a proton on the other side of Laniakea that used to be in exactly the same place as every atom in my body. Comforting.
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Robbie Gibb says he finds the idea there's been a coup at the BBC is "offensive". I doubt he finds it nearly as offensive as I find his efforts to interfere with editorial independence or hiring decisions, but sure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Robbie Gibb says he finds the idea there's been a coup at the BBC is "offensive". I doubt he finds it nearly as offensive as I find his efforts to interfere with editorial independence or hiring decisions, but sure.
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just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
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😔 I loved the songs and the film. Thank you, Jimmy.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
😔 I loved the songs and the film. Thank you, Jimmy.
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Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.
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I discovered this little masterpiece of Irish folk horror last night on youtube:
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
Three Irish Boys witness Virgin Mary Apparition, Taghmon, Co. Wexford, Ireland 1971
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I discovered this little masterpiece of Irish folk horror last night on youtube:
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
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I want AI to do the laundry and my admin while I write and illustrate books.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I want AI to do the laundry and my admin while I write and illustrate books.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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You don't hate the media enough.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You don't hate the media enough.
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I have hundreds of hours of un-transcribed conversations with my elderly neighbor who worked with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and the Smurfs.
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
An Interview with Peggy Webber - Part Four
My 97-year-old next door neighbor.
kliph.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I have hundreds of hours of un-transcribed conversations with my elderly neighbor who worked with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and the Smurfs.
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
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Alex Cox, adapting Gogol as a Spaghetti Western, with himself playing the guy buying the souls? Sure, why not! Bring it on!
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Alex Cox, adapting Gogol as a Spaghetti Western, with himself playing the guy buying the souls? Sure, why not! Bring it on!