I also found an ancient chocolate peanut at the bottom of my bag ✨️✨️

I'm on a train so best I can do for you is half a tuna sandwich and a stale packet of salt and vinegar crisps...

oh

oh god

another terrible reason to have eyes/existence

Coddle: a terrible reason to have eyes and/or tastebuds

Amaze amaze amaze ✨️ 🙌

Happy Birthday with image of THE LOST with black and gold balloons.

Happy Book Birthday to Meeee 😁

You can pick up your copy of THE LOST today out on Amazon, via Kindle, or at whimsillusion.com/bookshelf/th...

#Scriptsky #Booksky #WritingCommunity

But we persist because what else can we do? 💚

screenwriting is a precarious, frustrating, incredible, amazing, terrifying, unstable, fulfilling, hair-tearing, heartbreaking job and i'm so lucky to be able to do it every day but especially today which was one of the good days, which are far and few between

The 912th and 913th citizens to get landlines in Smalltown, Oklahoma in the 1920s: hey

Photo of a tray on a table bearing a stainless steel teapot, a white cup and saucer half filled with tea and a rectangular plate bearing a coffee slice, which is a flaky pastry cream cake with coffee icing on top. And yes, there are teeth marks in it already from where I've taken a big chomp out of the top half.

not usually one for nostalgia, but i'm in Ann's Bakery on Jervis Street, eating a coffee slice and drinking tea, and the smell of coffee and baked goods just WALLOPED me with memories of shopping in Dublin city centre with my mam 🥹

At least you're down money every month for the privilege ✨

Ireland is a blank canvas for the international right wing and there is real risk that the ‘quiet middle’ and the left will be outshouted by a loud and aggressive RW minority, and not just in online spaces. it feels like we're in a moment where an assertive left voice is needed in the public sphere

Bid to take down fake videos and images of garda response to fuel protests False viral information, much of it being generated abroad, is on a scale ‘never seen before’ in Ireland

Meanwhile, Aidan O’Brien, an analyst at the European Digital Media Observatory Ireland at Dublin City University (DCU), has been monitoring how the far-right in Ireland and abroad reacted to the fuel blockades. He said a “disinformation economy” went into full swing during last week’s protests. He uncovered conspiracy theories about the energy crisis and talk of “the great shutdown”, which were already in heavy circulation on Irish social media by the middle of March. “When the protests erupted, Irish right-wing social media influencers went into overdrive posting video content. Many of these influencers benefit from features introduced on the platforms, like algorithm promotion, and have monetised their accounts,” he explained. “There is now a disinformation economy. Influencers know the most dramatic footage, alongside the most sensational framing, will go viral, generating income. They aren’t just promoting this footage and their narratives because it suits their agenda, they’re making money doing so.” After that international far-right influencers pounced on the content, he said. “Nearly immediately, and often within minutes of the initial videos being posted, it was downloaded and repackaged by influencers outside Ireland. “It happened so quickly that you might assume these people are heavily immersed in the situation, but they’re chasing the content, and the story, often repackaging footage with false claims that the protest was about migration. “This happens because over the last five years our disinformation ecology has become exponentially complex and is fully integrated with the international far-right disinformation ecosystem.” Ireland has now become a “major focus of attention” for the international hard-right, he said. Canadian far-right influencer Ezra Levant travelled to Ireland last week as did Kevin Posobiec, whose brother Jack is an American far-right political activist and social media personality. Both filmed content while here. The fact both men…

The fact both men were willing to “jump on a plane” said a lot, added Mr O’Brien. “The foreign attention and amplification of these protests are concerning…Our Government needs to start demanding real accountability and action from these [social media] companies… “If the Minister [for Communications Patrick O’Donovan] is concerned about ‘lopsided coverage’ of the protests, he shouldn’t be worried about the radio but look at social media.” On Friday, Minister O’Donovan admitted he made a “hames” of his call for a “review” into broadcast media coverage of fuel protests. He said, “in hindsight”, he should not have suggested that the media regulator — Coimisiún na Meán — should “review” both local and national broadcast coverage of the fuel protests.

I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech.
archive.ph/AOVHC

I fell asleeeeeep! 😭🙈 (Honeycomb flavour)

I fell asleep about ten minutes later 🙃🙈😀

A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear sprinkled throughout.

Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: https://news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL

Landscape format in loosely painted acrylics on mat board. Against a blue sky background, mostly visible at the top, is a mess of pinks of various hues from almost white to maroon which are generally in balls of blooms - largest in centre which is closest to viewer, and smaller at the top, including some little more than dots, being newer blooms or further away ones. There are less frequent dots of yellow found on leaves and also dark green hints of branch shapes - more obvious at the top against the sky - and very dark blue and red, almost black, shadows in places to emphasize the ball shape of the bloom clumps. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam Daly

Have a #painting. "Cherry Blossom" was one of many paintings done during one of my 24-hour video-streamed painting things, though it was the only one I held on for a while to work on some more, because I enjoy the peak pink that happens every year in front of our house. #art #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

That's gorgeous!!

as if i wasn't sweaty enough as a Woman of a Certain Temperature

vinyl chairs were a mistake

6'3" (in my head)
5'4.5" (in reality)

I knowwww 😭

I'm not even a whiskey person but Harrison Ford told me to drink it so...

A very nice 14 year Glenmorangie single malt

eris no

drunk ama

'Where I End' by Sophie White. Just stunning, bleak, haunting, brilliant

wait

and if yours contains a wilted cauliflower leaf then that's god giving you a little kiss