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hughmacabre.bsky.social
Fulltime academic (TU Dublin, media/technology stuff). Sometime musician (M Stevens & The Ghasts, learning jazz, gimme indie rock). Oddtime artist (weird and not-so-weird photography).
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Hero. “In a ruling in February, the consumer court proved highly sympathetic to Abhishek MR’s case and ordered for the cinema to grant him 50,000 INR (£450) for wasting his time and 5,000 INR (£45) for mental agony, as well as cover his legal expenses”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The KLF only burned £1M

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Found somewhere to process film in Cartagena #35mm #filmphotography #leica

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Genuine question for @irishtimes.com. Are there any other proposals for ethnic cleansing, contemporary or historical, that you would see fit to describe as "audacious" or "breathtaking"? www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

@andreacleary.bsky.social just found these in my camera phone photos. Dunno why they are there but thought you might be interested.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future. www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

submitted 32 days ago • 93 comments

Just back from The Brutalist. I was well set up to like this because I liked Corbet’s previous ones, because of the ecstatic reviews, because there’s a Scott Walker connection, because it’s about (among many things) the European modernist avant-grade but … that aside … this is one astounding film.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I submit for your consideration the notion that this is the most unfairly neglected, forgotten and underrated Irish band of them all.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

I’m drunk after a great party with lots of my best friends and listening to Silver Jews … best band.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I love owning records I bought 40 years ago that still sound great.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I mean it's not even that clear that Hitler was doing Nazi salutes. Maybe he was just trying to swat things. I've been to Germany in summertime and there can be a lot of wasps.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"Usher reports that the idea of the spring-powered crossbow can be traced back to ancient Greece and that Philo suggested the use of bronze springs for powering them as far back as the second century B.C. (Usher 1988)". Proud that Dublin's favourite son is getting a deserved shout-out in my thesis.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Just back from A Complete Unknown which is an enjoyable, but nonetheless pretty pedestrian, version of Dylan’s story. It’s no I’m Not There. Music sounds great though.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment