a medieval illustration of the virgin mary punching a horned, claw-footed, bestial devil

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

It comes across clearly how very much I enjoyed this long and expansive chat with @martindoyle.bsky.social

"No matter how you feel about ketamine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

getting them twice a day, sigh

Looking forward to this tonight, all welcome

Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.

A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch here.

Labour is bringing back inequality in more and more inventive ways.

(Also, "fewer")

the invaluable @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social explains the nuts and bolts of writing that many of us who've been working with those nuts and bolts all our lives have never understood (or maybe it's jut me)

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications!

🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups
💶 €2,000–€5,000 available
⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025

Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis.

Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual Search (all the way at the bottom)

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Nor me, Becky!

Back in Dublin to celebrate the launch of The Correction of Taste, and learning yet another lesson from my beloved dad: death is no reason to stop publishing.

I so enjoyed this erudite and immersive response to #TheParisExpress.

photos of Emma Donoghue and Natalie Davey and Rebecca Davey of Ceres Productions

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

I couldn't be happier to be heading to Dublin to see his last book launched. Like Henry James in this beautiful cover design, my father continues to cast a long shadow.

Oh hey, NYT, is it men they want barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen? So hard to determine.....

Flawless script, #TheBalladofWallisIsland made me laugh and cry simultaneously for an hour and a half

The worst poem ever

Okay, here is why I HATE AI. I'm trying to research poems about going into space, or famous quotes about escaping gravity. As the FIRST RESULT, Google gives me this SHITTY poem IT'S WRITTEN ITSELF, like it's fucking Adrian Mole and I'm John Tydeman at the BBC. HATE HATE HATE.

poster 'I'll be asking Meta to #DoTheWriteThing'

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

I need to read the one with the human-sized moth!

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past Historical novel based on one day in 1895 features anarchists, artists and aristocrats

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

screenshot of search for 'Emma Donoghue' in LibGen

91 results. That's every book I've published since 1993, in multiple languages, scraped without permission to train AI. They're robbing us in hopes of replacing us.

best habit I formed in Covid!

Remember that a character saying something is not exactly the author saying it.

It’s always bothered me when a character quote is posted like an interview quote. Uh, that was Satan, not Milton.

TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇

Thanks for suggestions, it could indeed be Manitoba as the subject enlisted there although born in the US...

image of a word on a 1915 form

hey can anyone tell me what this place name (probably in Virginia or Pennsylvania) on a 1915 military attestation might be? click for full view