John

Struggling dad, inadequate husband, poor woodworker, excellent drinker

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says “innocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony.

Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Desi Lydic Foxsplains Anthony Fauci’s explosive diary

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Josh Hawley says innocent people don’t plead the Fifth — so why did Trump do it 440 times?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

[Bruce springsteen @Brucesprin73653]

Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard. We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones.
Bruce

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Glen Hansard was so much more than just the guy from ‘Once.’ He was a rock star, synthesizer and serenader, a busker and bard, a jazzman and a mystic, a hushed folk whisperer and showbiz soul belter.

Read our tribute to the late Irish singer-songwriter: https://t.co/cSJSDSySZk

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Glen Hansard was a brilliant artist. And a kind man. Sending love to his family.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” has died at 56 in a motorcycle crash. https://t.co/lw14AOaWWR

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Niall Tierney @nialltierney25]

Give Respect Get Respect in the Gaa

Graham O'Sullivan is a classy footballer but he did not treat his opponents with respect today and ultimately it backfired

Not shaking the hand of Mayo captain Jack Coyne was dissapointing

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Tobi @tobiloba4life]

Part 34.

[Softboy @softboywin]

Whomever decided to make the Microsoft Teams status indicator change from green to yellow after two minutes of inactivity. I hope you shit pineapples for the rest of your life.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Here's to 30 more years of Zen 🙏 #TDS30

[Mitch Landrieu @MitchLandrieu]

If you want to win America, you have to understand the South — what makes it powerful, complicated, and just so special.

That's why @jmpalmieri, @errinhaines, and I are hitting the road for Long Play, a new series on the people, power, and politics reshaping the region.

Subscribe to @LongPlaySeries on YouTube and come along for the ride: https://t.co/5FKIIDLNL8

[John @johnnyemm1]

@cnnbrk What about Saudi Arabia being involved in 9/11? Wow - really no morals.

[John @johnnyemm1]

@BBCWorld Weren’t Saudi Arabia involved in your 9/11? Smart move America.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

In 2007, Lionel Messi held a baby for a charity photo shoot. That baby was Spanish soccer star Lamine Yamal!

19 years later, Lamine Yamal and Spain defeat Lionel Messi and Argentina to win the World Cup!

[Fletch @ConorFletcher5]

Well said Pete. Shite seeing pundits beat round the bush. Say it as it is.

[BiffBifford™ 🇺🇸 @TBifford]

🎬The classic short film One-Minute Time Machine (2013) remains the most brilliant, dark comedic take on time travel ever made. 😂🍿🍿🍿

In just five minutes, this short completely dismantles the standard sci-fi romance trope with a genuinely horrifying existential twist. What starts as a guy using a pocket-sized time machine to fix a bad conversation with a girl repeatedly takes a pitch-black turn when she reveals her doctorate in quantum mechanics. The realization that the machine doesn't actually rewind time—but instead kills the user and creates a clone in a parallel universe—is a masterclass in dark sci-fi writing. It’s tight, perfectly paced, and manages to deliver a better sci-fi concept in five minutes than most $100M Hollywood blockbusters achieve in two hours.

❓If you had a machine like this, knowing the catch, would you ever push the button? Drop your answer below. 👇

#ShortFilm #SciFi #TimeTravel #DarkComedy #IndieFilm #Screenwriting #FilmCommunity #SciFiHorror #OneMinuteTimeMachine