Aisling Walsh

I can't say we're much better in Ireland, if you watched the Irish news you'd swear the US, UK and sometimes EU were the only other countries in the world... we are a tiny island tho, to be fair, not a superpower

I've even felt this from listening to podcasts even when made by very informed and highly educated journalists

2026 has really kicked my ass so far, my only wish for what's left of this year and the next is to be blissfully bored...

Life lesson for 2026: no good deed goes unpunished 😔

Ok fair enough, but there is an autistic author on the other side of it...

Little Island & new publisher Bad Book Press join forces - Books Ireland Little Island Books join forces with exciting new Irish picture-book publisher Bad Book Press.

I’m excited to share that @clivemcf.bsky.social and I have officially launched a children’s book publishing house in Belfast called Bad Book Press and we have teamed up with the wonderful folk @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

Read more:

booksirelandmagazine.com/little-islan...?

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And yes, you could read a headline like that and be immediately triggered (as I was) but writers rarely have a say on the final headline on their work. I've pitched (at least what I think) are great headlines only to cringe at the published headline, to the point of not wanting to share the article!

This is a lesson, for myself as well, in not leaping to conclusions from a headline... the article is behind a paywall but the author is openly autistic & the subheading reads: "I've become an expert."

Yes, it's clickbait, but screenshotting the headline feels like ragebait & purposely misleading

BAFTA Fallout I want to start this post with a significant caveat – attempting to talk about complex, emotive and highly charged issues within the constraints of the frenzied news cycle is difficult and unpredictab...

Read my post on the fall out of last nights BAFTA's here. This is an opportunity to increase understanding of oppositional tics and acknowledge the complex realities and impacts of the condition: www.touretteshero.com/safe/2026/02...

Genuine question: is it normal in the US to pay $5000, $6000 or more for a writing retreat led by a famous writer? Like, how can ordinary people, never mind writers scraping by, afford/justify spending two month's salary to spend five days with a writer?

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Meaning I miss out on the Toni Collette, Alan Cumming and Polly Walker combo

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The 1996 adaptation of Emma is basically unwatchable thanks to:

But do yearly reading goals actually help us read better, or do they risk hollowing out the very activity they claim to protect? As reading is increasingly tracked and performed online there is a growing sense that a solitary pleasure is being reshaped by the logic of metrics and visibility. In a culture that counts steps, optimises sleep and gamifies meditation, the pressure to quantify reading may say less about books than about a wider urge to turn even our leisure into something measurable and, ultimately, competitive.

The world we have made for ourselves

Packing my bags for finland right now 😅

Such a nice feeling to come out of your own workshop with a new short story idea... 🤓

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. The virus has struck her whole family and now little Ali is in hospital 💔 Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts!

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

Porn performer Siri Dahl’s personal information, including her full legal name and birthday, was publicly exposed earlier this month by Grok. Dahl told 404 Media she wanted to reclaim the situation, and her name, and asked that it be published in this piece.
www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

Screenshot of sponsored add from the guardian with a caption "I was fed up with discussing the weather, so I started to ask unexpected questions. The conversations that resulted were revelatory" followed by a photo of a white woman with medium length brown hair in a grey blazer and white "stone roses" t-shirt, followed by the article headline "A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month and the world came alive."

Autistic people everywhere 👀

Judging by the numbers of people from the US who've joined our West of Ireland community group in the last year, the queer exodus is real ya'll...

Imagine being such a garbage person that your ex-wife and daughters are on Irish media basically saying that you deserve to be in ICE Detention?

(Obvs ICE shouldn't exist, needs to be abolished etc. etc.)

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

I'm at the 'writing "Monday" in the Monday section of my weekly diary' level of burn out 🫠

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I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. The virus has struck her whole family and now little Ali is in hospital 💔 Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

Hillary Clinton saying she met Ghislaine Maxwell only once or twice means I guess:

1) she’s lying
2) she invited someone she barely knew to her daughter’s wedding in an aisle seat out of the kindness of her heart
3) seats at Chelsea’s wedding were purchasable

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. The virus has struck her whole family and now little Ali is in hospital 💔 Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

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Could really do with a support group for adult children of the 90s "Art" set (particularly those of the West Cork/West Kerry vintage)

Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?

"Dehumanization has always been a project of fascism, of empire, of colonialism, of capitalism, of white supremacy. It is, with deplorable irony, very human."

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Live footage of me trying to write a new ghost story that's also kind of Sex and the City fan fiction and wondering if it's ever going to come together or will it just keep spiralling out of control?