Category Archives: Misc

Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China

This morning.

Via NDTV:

China banned reality talent programmes Thursday and ordered broadcasters to promote more masculine representations of men, in a wide-ranging crackdown on “immoral” pop culture Beijing believes is leading young people astray.

“Broadcast and TV institutions must not screen idol development programmes or variety shows and reality shows,” China’s broadcast regulator, the National Radio and Television Administration said, in a raft of new regulations.

The regulator ordered broadcasters to resist “abnormal aesthetics” such as “sissy” men, “vulgar influencers“, stars’ inflated pay and performers with “lapsed morals“

China Bans Reality Talent Shows In Major Showbiz Crackdown (NDTV)

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Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Fianna Fáil TD for Offaly and Foreign Affairs committee member Barry Cowen has said the Taoiseach needs to address the issue regarding the “content” of the texts shared yesterday by Leo Varadkar over a UN role for former minister Katherine Zappone.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said that while he accepts Micheál Martin has said that no texts should be deleted if it contains Government business, he believes he needs to “acknowledge” the content of those texts.

He said he did not allude to the “startling information” within the texts, “the amount of knowledge that was known by the parties involved” and that a contract and agreement had been reached with Ms Zappone while no one else was aware of it.

Taoiseach should ‘acknowledge’ content of Varadkar texts (RTÉ)

Yesterday: From The Piglet

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Four In The Morning – Keep It Together

In the wee small hours…

Led by Kevin Dolan, this new four-piece have created a brooding and intense ballad for the sleep-deprived as the lead single from their new EP Stress Dreams.

Kevin writes:

“I didn’t really notice until the record was finished how many references to sleep and dreams there were across it. The songs are obsessed with family, longing, stress, depression, love, and how we make sense of all of it. They’re fragments, feelings, and a means of coping.”

Kevin is joined by fellow musicians Kiran Srinivasan, Dan Walwyn and Alex Lees and they honed their songwriting craft over the first lockdown.

Nick says: Insomniacs on the loose.

Four In The Morning

Vaccine critic Joe Rogan says he tested positive for COVID-19

An overpaid podcaster, Joe
Who believes that he is in the know
Badmouthed the vaccine
Then said that he’d been
Infected, which just goes to show

John Moynes

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From top Piglet wine bar, Dublin and from left, Simon Coveney, Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone

Gulp.

This afternoon.

More as we get it.

Oink

Earlier: Anchor Aweigh


They want you, they want you* as a new recruit.

This afternoon.

A gathering of sailors and possibly our entire navy fleet moored in Dublin for the Naval Service’s 75th Anniversary.

In pic 1, the L.É. Samuel Beckett arrives (left) with from left: L.É. George Bernard Shaw (P64), L.É. WB Yeats (P63) and L.É. James Joyce (P62) docked at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.

Is our western coast now vulnerable to invasion?

Only time will tell.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

* Probably not, but here’s the website in anyhow.

Save Poolbeg

‘sup?

This morning.

Ruined by X Factor.

Rescued by Dexter.

Praise, hallelujah.