Tim Groenland

This particular combination of crowd-sourced/authenticated content and AI slop-editing is going to be a powerful model in journalism

Excellent. I hope it works out - am keen to read the piece!

Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989, edited by Stephanie Anderson

"I edited it . . . 'Curator' is a pukey word suggesting someone in an expensive suit with a chunky amber necklace."
One of many fine quotes from Alice Notley, in Stephanie Anderson's collection of interviews WOMEN IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Lol 🥲

A selfie of a greying middle-aged man, his tired appearance offset by an extremely fetching (and authentic) long sleeve white t-shirt bearing the Music for the Jilted Generation-era Prodigy logo

Submitting my age verification here

Depends on how specific the UK focus is I suppose, but the Dublin Review of Books is hospitable to a range of things like this

A barnstorming essay - was rereading this yesterday with a view to teaching next semester

Very sad to see this. He was so good at what he did; such a loss to the arts scene. RIP

After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change, edited by Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan

Contents page

Contents page 2

Images of the covers of Banshee (journal of Irishwomen United, 1976-77)

I'm enjoying After the Train, from @ucdpress.bsky.social, which includes several pieces on Irish feminist publishing history in its accounts of Irishwomen United's history

The frequency with which I log on these days and quickly find myself nodding and muttering "Children of Men" = a bad sign

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface!

Please share with anyone who might be interested

Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source

Inclusive Publishing and the Quest for Reading Equity Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Inclusive Publishing and the Quest for Reading Equity

"Inclusive Publishing and the Quest for Reading Equity" out now and free to download for the next 2 weeks - www.cambridge.org/core/element... #InclusivePublishing #Accessibility

El Akkad, ONE DAY

The gears will grind to a halt one day, and the silence that waits then, for those who commended this killing and for those who said nothing, will be of a far more burrowing kind. It will take the form of grandchildren who, when the subject comes up, will pretend not to know how their grandparents behaved, will awkwardly try to talk about anything else. It will take the form of previous statements quietly deleted, previous opinions abandoned and replaced with shiny new ones about how, yes, it was such a terrible thing that happened. And finally, it will take the form of a quiet unheard reckoning in the winter of life between the one who said nothing, did nothing, and their own soul. And there will be no words exchanged then, only a knowing.

"Kilometres away from the bombardment and starvation are supermarkets, shopping centres and people with access to unlimited food. At the viewing point in Sderot there is a vending machine dispensing water and fizzy drinks"

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war.

"Zainab was one of 85 children to die of malnutrition-related causes in Gaza in the past three weeks"
www.thejournal.ie/child-starve...

Friends in Gaza tell me it is routine now that they will go perhaps five days without eating anything. Ask yourself how much longer this can go on.

Maybe the limitless demands of resource-hungry multinationals are hampering our ability to ensure continued electricity supply for residents of this place? Worth considering both sides, here

"Amazon’s move highlights how serious limitations on the power network are hampering industry" is one way to frame this, albeit probably the most ideologically blinkered way

Breakdown of source languages in dataset: English 35.5%, French 33.9%, Irish 9.7%, Dutch 5.6%, German 4%, Swedish 4%, Chinese 1.6%, various 1.6%

Dog Man as Gaeilge, by Dav Pilkey, trans. Máirín Ní Mhárta (Futa Fata, 2023); Glórtha an Tráthnóna, Natalia Ginzburg trans. Máire Nic Mhaoláin (Cló Iar-Chonnact, 2024)

Whales and Whales/Baleas e Baleas by Luisa Castro, translated by Keith Payne (Skein Press, 2024)

The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (Bullaun Press, 2025)

I've been at #IASIL2025 this week, brilliantly hosted in University of Galway.
Me and my student Michaela Králová presented a data project in progress, surveying the range of books in translation published by Irish publishers in recent years

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

There will come a day when everyone will have always been against this.

"I have a question for you. What would salt taste like after it had been in the mouth of a crocodile?"

(from today's episode of Kids Say the Darndest Things)

Huge congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on her appointment as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction! In May 2024, the IUR published a special issue dedicated to Ní Dhuibhne’s contributions to Irish literature and culture.

I didn't know what I was doing - I think I ended up with pearl. If I decide to repeat the experience I'll give jelly a chance

I've learned a lot about my bubble preferences today, at least

A sweet refreshing drink for two sips - then you're submerged in a toddler's birthday party. Even my 7 year old was mildly disgusted

Just tried bubble tea for the first time. What in tarnation

Image of Iga Świątek celebrating her comprehensive Wimbledon victory, headline says "Nokaut w Finale 6:0, 6:0"

NOKAUT: pleasing phonetic transcription in the Polish newspapers