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Paul Duane

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Irish filmmaker.
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“An Irish folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
“… a pitch-perfect cosmic folk horror slow burn.” (DreadCentral)
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein's avatar Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.bsky.social
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The difference between Lovecraft and Rowling has less to do with their relative success during life, than how they chose to address their prejudices in public.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Lots of tattooed goth-adjacent young women headed to Vicar Street this evening, i assumed it was to see some cutting-edge darkwave kpop but when i googled it, there’s a tiktok star on tonight, and my ignorance of the popular culture has been shown to be total.

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In his case, it’s because he is more scared of frightening the metaphorical horses than he is committed to progress, I suppose.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Sobering to think that one of the obstacles to a Harris presidency is the very real chance she would be assassinated.

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To add to this. Hiberno-English is one of the few versions that has the habitual "be" - to differentiate between transient and permanent states. The only other one, afaik, is AAVE. The thought is that Irish immigrants taught this to Black Americans as they interacted very often with each other.

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Costa Koutsoutis's avatar Costa Koutsoutis @costakout.bsky.social
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I see everyone liking and sharing this, and I think it’s important to recognize Miyazaki is a grouch because he’s a rabid anti-nationalist and pacifist with socialist leanings who absolutely-hated Shinzo Abe, hated Japan’s denial of its past, he hates Trump, Boris Johnson, and Hilary Clinton.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Back off to the US to raise a few more quid with him & Gemma I suppose

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Would be more fun if he wasn't there at all, but I expect he will keep his seat, for a bit, then fuck off to California to work in finance

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Holding out for a Streeting loss and a Corbyn win to make the night a bit more fun

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Writing Michael McDowell's next column for him, is it

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Oh cool, I have it on the Mexico Macabro box set

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, the party that will replace them is predominantly Islamophobic, institutionally transphobic, and wedded to neo-liberal austerity economics, so any happiness will be fleeting.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Did you see Geldof's "Vote LD except in this one specific constituency where my Tory mate is standing"? what a prick

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Vast swathes of Britain don't grasp anything more complicated than a Gregg's sausage roll

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Liberals don't really care about such things as hypocrisy

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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TBH I would genuinely like Sir Keir to try to re-enter the EU just so we could tell him to fuck away off and take a good run and jump at himself

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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They're not really the activist type, they will just crowdfund Led By Donkeys to do a billboard about it

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Thinking now of all the FBPE types who abominated the previous Labour leader because he wanted to abide by the Brexit vote but offered a softer Brexit, with single market/customs union privileges. Wondering how they're doing.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Sounds a little bit like Chill Out by The KLF

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V, the Dyke Creature's avatar V, the Dyke Creature @creature.gay
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very based messaging has been spotted on the way home from work

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James Barr's avatar James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social
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This provides an interesting insight

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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I quite like that when you block someone they completely disappear, but there's times when you want to peek behind the block like you could on twitter, and you just can't. Still better than twitter though.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Usually good to screenshot then block, then post the screenshot for others to find & block

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I have a suspicion that if Dr Juggs blocked that person, then her repost shows up as "blocked" for us all. Still not quite clear on how blocks work on here tbh

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Dublin, the most heavily populated part of Ireland, is filled with empty and derelict housing, because the laws meant to tax property owners for dereliction are not enforced. But yeah, "Ireland is full" supposedly.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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I seem to have them already blocked...

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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he might have to move somewhere cheaper soon...

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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oh lord, yeah it is really worrying, the govt has created a housing crisis, the migrant crisis is a separate issue, but the fash are skilled at conflating the two... meanwhile the papers are full of stories of rapes and assaults carried out by white Irish men, but they get very little traction.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Good stuff. The film was also a very obvious influence on Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker, even down to casting an eerily similar-looking male lead.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Well hopefully you won't be exposed to any of it, I'm just finding it incredibly depressing to see it start to show its ugly face after a few decades of being unacceptable.

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This is the same John Waters who successfully sued RTE when Rory O'Neill aka Panti described him as 'homophobic' several years back. The Streisand Effect around that case made Panti an international media figure. Waters has said if he lost the Holland case he would be "ruined". Let's hope.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Some good news for a change as nutcase anti-abortion activist & former Irish Times journalist John Waters (no not that one) loses a High Court defamation case and has to pay €35K damages against the writer he defamed, Kitty Holland of the very same Irish Times.

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Ned Raggett's avatar Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social
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Folks, I'm not going to lie -- I am utterly gleeful over the fact that not only do I have a short piece in the newest issue of #TheWire, which focuses on the soundworlds of #DavidLynch in many areas, but that I am surely the first person to seriously discuss the work of Toto there as a result.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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It would be great if Ireland had some non-white news media figures who could convey how quickly we are sliding down the slope to openly expressed racism

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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for these people the mere presence of any nonwhite person, and especially any black person, in a desired and prestigious position is on its face evidence of anti-white discrimination and unfair preferences.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Start small, nibble a corner of the Book of Kells

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This seems to have been the end game of the free speech warriors. It seems to be working.

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And once it’s deemed okay to say things we previously deemed unsayable, because we used to, for a while, make racist speech a signifier of someone who is beyond the pale, and don’t any more… then it snowballs.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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When you’re in your late 50s and you’re saying this shit, I think it might be too late

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