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ciara moloney
@ciaramoloney.bsky.social
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film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis.

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don't know if this includes desktop or just the phone app, also have no recollection of visiting the Wikipedia page for eddie hobbs or why. I did read the whole of the page for castrato though
#wikipedia year in review Articles i read the most: 1. Main page, 2. Michael Cimino, 3. Ben affleck Minutes read: 4280 Favourite day to read: Saturday Articles read: 2239 Categories that interest me: 1. American male film actors 2. 20th century American male actors 3. 21st century American male actors Year In Review 2025. Articles you spent the most time with in 2025. Caste system in India Castrato Cliff richard Eddie hobbs Edmund burke Elaine may
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
"Well, I mean, that's your hang up, man, not mine."

Mike Nesmith's screen test is a smidge more chaotic
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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"In boots I'm five three."

Davey Jones screen test, as featured at the end of s01e10, Here Come The Monkees
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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you are like tiny baby, watch this
Screenshot from Ciara's Spotify Wrapped saying she spent 2743 minutes listening to Fountains of Wayne and so is in the top 0.001% of listeners
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
lot of competition but i think my favourite thing in the monkees pad is the "love of money is the root of all evil" embroidery. the sign saying "in case of fire, run" is up there though
Mike Nesmith facing the inside of the front door to the monkees' pad, wearing jeans and an orange shirt (and a wool hat, naturally). To his left is a coat rack, a yellow triangular sign saying Bus Stop, and the corner of a chest of drawers. To his right is a chair with a red design and frills, a busted-looking fire extinguisher beside which is taped a handwritten sign saying "IN CASE OF FIRE RUN" with run underlined. There's also a scoreboard partially visible. Davy Jones standing in the middle of the main room of the monkees' pad, wearing dark trousers, a light button up shirt and a loose dark tie. Behind him is a poster for Fine Feathers above a table with a typewriter, the French doors to the pad's sundeck, and the bandstand (partially visible). In front of him, partially visible, is the top of a red velvet chair. Left to right, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, and Peter Tork near the middle of the main room in the monkees' pad. Mike is beside the fridge, on top of which is a poster of various flags standing upright in a basket(?). He's wearing jeans, a jumper, and a wool hat. Micky is sitting on the metal spiral staircase, wearing a short sleeve shirt and greyish greenish trousers, reading a folded up newspaper. Pete is sitting on a wooden chair, besides a stuffed chimp in a wooden chair, wearing a t-shirt with vertical stripes of various colours. Behind Pete is the kitchen, under a brick awning(?), featuring an orange sign labelled "household job openings" and a hot plate. And it's not on-screen but off to the side behind Mickey is a sign saying "No smoking or street clothes beyond this point" In the foreground, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork all have their hands stuck in a slab of concrete, while Nick Trump (Andre Phillippe) stands over them with a mallet in hand. Behind them: "Mr. Schneider," a large ventriloquist dummy in a grey suit; a red phone sits in front of it; above on the wall is a framed embroidery reading "monkey is the root of all evil" surrounded by flowers, and above that, a poster, only the bottom is visible. At the dummy's evil to the right, a green lamp. To the right of that, a poster for the Humphrey Bogart movie Knock on Any Door, a separate photo of Bogart, and a poster for Grim. To the right, a stained glass window. To the right, an eye chart, and the typewriter and Fine Feathers poster again. Also you can't see it but there's a stuffed giraffe there behind somebody
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
wow you're telling me i can use AI to do things in a spreadsheet that are basic functions of a spreadsheet
When you use the Gemini in Sheets side panel and ask it to make changes using one of the features below, Gemini automatically puts those changes into your spreadsheet. These changes are attributed to you in your version history: Add conditional formatting Add a dropdown Convert a cell to a dropdown Create a filter Sort data Add a pivot table Add a checkbox Find and replace Delete a dimension Fill a range Insert a dimension Clear filters Format cells as a table Set a number format Freeze a dimension
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
genuinely upset this isn't real
Paul W. Downs as Jimmy in Hacks, wearing a mustard collared shirt thing? Caption reads "If that doesn't work, think of a take for Greta Gerwig's Catcher in the Rye. She's taking meetings." Hannah Einbinder as Ava in Hacks, wearing a dark cardigan over a grey t-shirt. Caption reads "I thought Holden Caulfield being a girl was the take." Paul W. Downs as Jimmy, same shot as previous. Caption reads "No, the gender flip is the twist. But what's the take?"
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Hannah Einbinder as Ava Daniels in Hacks, lying in bed, wearing a dark t-shirt. Screenshot captioned "She was just being nice." Jane Adams as Ava's mother in Hacks, standing up wearing a black zip-up hoodie. Screenshot captioned "She said it was interesting." Same shot of Adams, caption reads "Aren't you always telling me" Same shot of Adams, caption reads "to believe women?"
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Hannah Einbinder as Ava Daniels in Hacks, wearing a dark t-shirt. Two screenshots, captioned "I would just watch on my laptop" "but I'm trying to cut down on my screen time." Joe Mande as Ray, a hotel clerk, in Hacks, wearing a suit and name badge. Caption reads, "TV is a screen." Einbinder as Ava again. Caption reads "Yeah, but it's a second-tier screen." Einbinder as Ava again. Caption reads "It's basically like reading a book at this point."
November 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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contextual lore
often, the band get swallowed up by synths. I heard ‘Shine A Light’ – featuring Taio Cruz! – probably three hundred times in 2010 and was shocked to discover a decade later that it was a McFly song. Even when they were doing Beach Boys cosplay on Room on the 3rd Floor, they sounded like themselves. “[W]e’d achieved so much with Radio:ACTIVE. Songs like ‘One For The Radio’ had made it on to Kerrang! Radio and XFM. Guys, realizing that we were a proper guitar band, had started getting into us,” Dougie says in Unsaid Things, “But with ‘Party Girl’ we’d released something bland, a record that any other boy band could have produced… we’d done all this work on the new record and had ended up sounding like everybody else.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
taking my own advice for once
Selfie of me, Ciara Moloney, with the bottom have of my face obscured by a scarf with McFly written on it in yellow against a black background
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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that's dr moloney to you
A photo of me, Ciara Moloney, wearing red graduation robes and the PhD hat over a grey checked suit, behind big white letters spelling out MIC, leaning my elbows on the top of the i, hand under my chin/on my cheek
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
extremely funny that 12 years ago he thanked everyone for waiting three years
Screenshot from Ryan Ross's Wikipedia page. Heading: solo project (2013-present). Body: in 2013, Ross released a two-track untitled demo EP as well as a couple of other songs through his official Soundcloud page. The description of the page says: "Thanks for waiting. I'm back now."
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
brushing up on my busted knowledge ahead of busted vs mcfly and all i think is this
Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ciaramoloney.bsky.social
can't overstate how important diane keaton was to me, gender wise. also, a genius
Diane Keaton in a tie and waistcoat as Annie Hall
October 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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in case you're wondering how things are going
Screencap of a spotify playlist titled "project re-engage emo phase" with a runtime of 94 hours and 27 minutes
September 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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no offence to mr marx but "willing to sell himself to the highest bidder" seems like an extremely weak and manifestly inaccurate slam against the eminently slammable but firm in his idiosyncratic convictions edmund burke
Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Edmund Burke, featuring a quote from Das Kapital which reads: "The sycophant—who in the pay of the English oligarchy played the romantic laudator temporis acti against the French Revolution just as, in the pay of the North American colonies at the beginning of the American troubles, he had played the liberal against the English oligarchy—was an out-and-out vulgar bourgeois. 'The laws of commerce are the laws of Nature, and therefore the laws of God.' (E. Burke, l.c., pp. 31, 32) No wonder that, true to the laws of God and Nature, he always sold himself in the best market.
August 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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great work from @deanbuckley.bsky.social as usual. astonished a sitting FF senator would say this in public
Leyton previously arranged another working visit to the dail by azbaijani MPs in September 2023 - just as the mass displacement of ethnic Armenians was beginning. He defended Azerbaijan's actions during the visit, saying "they reclaimed their rightful territory, which is their right. If east donegal was occupied by the British or the coloniser, what would we do?"
July 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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hey i understand most websites don't give dr as an option but why the fuck does DHL not have ms
Title field on a form with a dropdown menu. Options are Mr, Mrs, and Miss
July 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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welp
Photo of a page in John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. Cropped section: "In interviews given after Lennon's death, McCartney repeatedly returned to the idea that his friend wore a 'suit of armour' – that he hid his real self behind the bravado and the scathing wit. 'The thing about John,' Paul told the journalist Ray Coleman in 1994, 'is that he was all upfront. Most people stayed up late and got drunk with him and thought they were seeing John. You never saw John! Only through a few chinks in the armour did I ever see him.' He said there were 'moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armour... which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armour. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.' But McCartney rarely acknowledged his own suit of armour. This is someone of whom a close collaborator, Denny Laine of Wings, said, 'He is the best person I've met in all my life at hiding his feelings.' McCartney has often Photo of next page in John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. Cropped section: "complained that Lennon rarely complimented him on a song, but he doesn't mention any examples of him complimenting his partner, and there are no credible third-party accounts of him doing so. McCartney sought the approval of his older, brilliant friend, without imagining that his friend might desire the same from him. Musically, In My Life is a descendent of If I Fell, and is as wrapped up in Lennon-McCartney relationship as that song is. Many of Lennon's songs from this period – Day Tripper, Girl, Norwegian Wood... – are about someone glamorous and emotionally distant, tantalisingly out of reach. These songs are not 'about' Paul directly, but they do have a flavour of his golden progress through London society as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward suburbanite. Paul needed John to trust in him – he wanted to get through to John, to convince him that he was committed to their partnership, and worthy of his trust. What he didn't quite see is that John wanted an acknowledgement of love, since love and trust were for him almost synonymous. Of course, neither of them could say so. In In My Life, John told Paul just how much their shared history, and shared present, meant to him. The visor was down, and I doubt Paul even noticed.
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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obvious that i would love John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs since it might as well have been written purely for my enjoyment but this quote from paul in particular is sending me
Photo of book page, cropped to a section that reads: As he put it later, "I'm sure Brian was in love with John. We were all in love with John, but Brian was gay, so that added an edge." The quotation is underlined in pencil.
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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had to to on facebook to find an ancient tweet mash up of me and @deanbuckley.bsky.social to respond to this adequately
The sundae presents: do you ever think about the exact opposite of the critical consensus.
June 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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started reading Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century and immediately had a thought
Extract from the book that reads: Yet Dorothy Day was never a typical bohemian. Her closest friends, including lapsed Catholic and spiritually tormented [Eugene] O'Neill, knew of her clandestine visits to Catholic churches in the area. A night of carousing at the Hell Hole on Sixth Avenue, a dive of the shadiest kind, might be followed by a visit the next morning to St Joseph's Church a block north—not to repent any misdeed but to see if she could fathom what it was the silent worshippers in the pews were feeling, what it meant to pray and seek a communion with a higher power. It was a call, inexplicable at the time even to Day herself, that she felt in adolescence and, when she was in her late twenties, finally led to her decision to be baptised as a Roman Catholic. A screencap from the movie Lady Bird. Middle shot of Saoirse Ronan, cheeks stained with eye make up, a church window behind her
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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the breakfast club (1985)
a notebook covered in the word "help" and doodles a 1980s computer classroom with a "hackers will be expelled" sign above the blackboard a locker room with dirty socks and discarded sports clothes strewn about a yellow sign saying "vote for your prom queen" that has been graffitied with silver spray paint
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film?

little angel make me happy from Turkmenistan, about the children left behind when ethnic Germans in the ussr were interned during WWII, is beautiful and harrowing
Title card for Little Angel Make Me Happy, written in Cyrillic lettering in yellow, over a field of flowers with three male figures in the middle distance
May 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM