Jess Hayden

Me, increasingly wild-eyed, to my students:

As communities around the country recover from Storm Chandra, I joined @unitetheunion.bsky.social for the launch of their proposals on new laws to protect workers, during extreme weather. With climate change, these events are becoming more frequent and the law has to evolve to keep workers safe

MY PETS (Palindrome)

Dog.
A sad dog
or fat cat.
Nine dragons
(no garden intact).
A frog,
odd as a god.

Website: and your postcode?

Me: my address is—

Website: no no I’m keen to guess! Postcode?

Me: *enters postcode*

Website: is it no. 132?

Me: no

Website: is it no. 134?

Me: it’s 1—

Website: SHUT UP is it no. 136?

Government to offer free training to all adults to help them learn to enjoy the smooth smooth taste of Benson and Hedges

Illustration with two hybrid black rabbit human creatures, in black dresses, with arms in the air dancing together

'Dancing through it all' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt

I'm completely out of my depth. I'm one of 3 people responsible for investment fund of £2bn. I got here by blagging, incompetence of my superiors, and good timing. I rely on advisors and repeating keywords I've heard from others. I need an exit strategy before I get found out

Board of Peace - Season 1

Photo featuring the a view to the front of a very tall buildings with a large scale mural of a pink blossom on a stem against a yellow background, the building towers above a street with motorcyclists

Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale murals of wild flowers connecting to environmental concerns #WomensArt

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Trump paramilitary ICE forces are going house to house in Minneapolis terrorizing families, pointing guns at children and mothers, illegally rounding up people in their homes despite their legal status or any prior criminal activity.

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

I like this poem of the beauty of everyday things by the late Freda Downie from her 1995 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Collected Poems.

[Scene is a SCIENCE RESEARCH FACILITY where two white coated scientists are standing at a desk of instruments and controls in front of a one way mirroe, looking at a mocked-up drinks party scene in the next room. In that room is a man named Dan and a woman, holding glasses of wine and apparently having a conversation. Dan, however, has a hi tech helmet strapped to his head, with wires extruding from it and leading to the instruments next door. Dan when we see him close up has a slightly dull expression and is droning on, while the lady listens, smiling politely]. [Scientists looking through the glass] SCIENTIST 1: And is this one of your patients? SCIENTIST 2: Yes SCIENTIST 1: This is Dan. Dan was born completely incapable of asking people about themselves at parties. DAN [close up, droning on while the woman listens]: ...So yeah 1 like implement creative solutions... and I work with clients to design a... and I'm writing a novel about like this guy... SCIENTIST 1 [Looking at a screen showing Dan's brain with a hole in the middle]: As you can see, despite talking about himself for the past two hours, the part of the brain which gives a toss about other people's lives shows no activity at all. SCIENTIST 1 [bending over a microphone on the desk and pressing the intercom button]: Dan... Ask the lady... what her job is. [Dan pauses.] [Dan continues to pause] DAN: What's your job. LADY [smiling humbly]: Oh, I'm a murderer? Well, contract killer, you know, haha... [Show dan, silent] [Show lady, smiling, waiting for a response] [Show dan, still silent] [Show Dan, slowly opening his mouth to speak DAN: And- [But Dan falls silent again] [Show Lady looking slightly desperate now, silently willing him to continue] [Still nothing from Dan. But then...] DAN: ...And yeah part of my job is I coordinate media content to across platforms to create - SCIENTIST 1: Fascinating SCIENTIST 2: Isn't it [Ends]

I have met so many Dans, and female Dans, and they always blow my mind

The body and blood of Christ?!?

TIME GOES INTO REVERSE FOR HUMPTY DUMPTY

The King’s horses,
The King’s men
Rushing backwards
From the scene
As piles of shards
And smithereens
Resolved themselves
Into an egg
On a wall
Pre-fall

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Well done Pidge for highlighting this

Does anyone use #Dublin's new supervised injection facility? Yes, and here's what we know so far.

Painting created with dots showing sixteen squares encasing different symbolic motifs and significant symbols in various colours

Indigenous Australian artist Loongkoonan, who started painting at 95, and first exhibited her work at age 105 #womensart

Collage with embroidery in an embroidery hoop featuring a cartoon like cat with arched back under which a person reading a book lies on their front wearing a witch's hat

'The witch's hideout' embroidery and textile collage by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici #WomensArt

"America is an oil company with an army."

—George Carlin

Opinion | The US cannot be pulled into an endless war in Venezuela. Democrats must end their Epstein inquiry NOW.

Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.

On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
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King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Artwork featuring a sprig of mistletoe, with green rounded leaves and white berries, against a black background

Mary Delany (1700-1788), English artist used decoupage to make botanical 'Paper Mosaiks'.
Mistletoe, in certain folklore signifies fertility and has since been associated with #Christmas kisses #WomensArt 🎄

Print featuring a house with warm light coming from the windows on a snowy hillside at night under a starry sky

'Silent Night' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Expected scrapping of planned EU ban on combustion-engine cars 'disappointing', says O'Gorman Roderic O’Gorman said that as the number of Irish consumers choosing to purchase EVs rises, it’s a ‘disappointing decision’ by the EU.

Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman has said the expectation that the EU will scrap a planned 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars is 'disappointing' and will be bad for both consumers and EU industry jrnl.ie/6905210

My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods