Pinch me, that’s my name on the front cover of Hotpress. 16 year old me would be overcome. Thank you so much to Riccardo Dwyer for a fabulous chat about #FewAndFarBetween and this great two page article.
Super proud of myself for giving some French tourists directions for how to get to Howth from Connolly Station in French. Those three years of Duolingo weren’t entirely wasted.
On a train to Galway in the dubious company of what feels like the cast of a Kevin Barry short story.
proud to be in the ai-hater list
Are Fred’s Yurts bookings for the whole weekend as such?
Morning Campers! You have until 11PM Wednesday 22nd April to book your camping accommodation with Fred's Yurts - They've got you covered with a range of tents from basic bell tents to luxury heated yurts.
👉 https://linktr.ee/machcomedyfest
Spermaceti, the original gender fluid…
It’s brilliant. I loved it
Incredible line-up! And what a way to find out that Danielle McLaughlin has a new novel out.
Heads up. If you’re one of the many many people I’ve tried to convince to come to Belfast for the book festival, now’s the time to make that dream come true. The programme is live and it is cracking belfastbookfestival.com/festival-pro...
Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
My story:
The President of the United States is mentally ill and needs to be removed from office.
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Dappled sunshine in Epping Forest.
Went for a walk in Epping Forest today. Would buy again.
Can we stop pretending that this is not an insane man now?
Trying to encourage more schools to teach comedies - communal, interested in gender and sexuality, full of models of resilience or evitability, in Snyder’s lovely word. Do come and see if it might work with your students!
A green background with a collage featuring 20 Irish books, voted by audiences as the best Irish books of the last 20 years. Titles include Room, Fia and the Last Snow Deer, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Bee Sting, The Spinning Heart, Unravelling Oliver, Poor, The Importance of Being Aisling, Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun), Normal People, Small Things Like These and more.
The people have spoken! 🎉📚
To mark 20 years of @irishbookawards.bsky.social, readers have chosen the 20 best Irish books of the last 20 years.
From unforgettable novels to landmark works of non-fiction, this list brings together the books that have defined Irish reading 👏
Headline on BBC News website: "Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'."
What could possibly go wrong?
Sad to hear about Andy Kershaw. He was just enthusiasm in human form. Went to one of his impromptu kitchen concerts in Crouch End once. Can’t have been easy being his downstairs neighbour, but God it was fun.
You put your tanker in, your tanker out
In, out, in, out, you shake it all about
You do the Straits of Hormuz and you turn around
That’s what it’s all about!
When they write the history of this administration’s lurch into war they really should call it The Worst and The Thickest.
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As the shaky ceasefire with Iran enters its second week, the U.S. blockade, now under way, changes the dynamics in the Persian Gulf. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
"If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f**k alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt Cobain The Advocate, 1995
Mood, every single day.
Radu Jude’s native city, Bucharest, drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I learn the word "aposematic", an adjective denoting warning colouration in animals (from Gr apo, away, and sema, sign). And think at once of the alarming orange hue of the Lesser American President.
A woman in a black sweater holding a book
External shot of a blue bookstore
A paperback copy of José Saramago’s novel Blindness
No. 4 in my tour of indie bookstores is the beautiful Books Upstairs, Dublin where bookseller, Louisa has chosen José Saramago’s Blindness as a favourite recommendation #indiebooksellers #SaintsAndWarriors