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I'm delighted to see more and more voters in the UK wake up to the fact that the Green Party is a well-organised, big thinking, progressive party - a real party!!! - that represents their interests. Go on Hannah Spencer!

This week you can get 25% off your preorder of my forthcoming novel from Waterstones. 25% off! With code FEB26 www.waterstones.com/book/frida-s...

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

The Internet, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth.

exactly. this is not difficult.

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"if you feed this stag we will kill him"

I also think Fáilte Ireland should be involved, there's a clear responsibility there. God I'm so annoyed and worried about this. I need to get a life. But leave the deer alone, please!!!

It definitely seems that some visitors to Dublin believe that feeding the deer in Phoenix Park is allowed and perhaps even encouraged - it is absolutely not! The OPW's inertia on this issue is damaging our city's wildlife and soon there'll be no turning the clock back.

I (former comms strategy person) would not use vague idiomatic language for any sign that is communicating something so important - the confusion is not worth whatever cutesy benefit you think you're getting. And the deer are suffering! Their antlers are getting smaller through eating chocolate!

currently the signs use confusing idiomatic language along the lines of 'the buck stops here - don't feed the deer' which is vague and unclear even to English speakers

Phoenix Park deers’ behaviour ‘altered by people feeding them chocolate and crisps’ Stags fed low-quality food have smaller antlers, impacting their mating success, according to UCD study

I've unfortunately become obsessed with this and can't stop worrying about it. Two things are urgently needed 1) signs in many languages telling you not to feed the deer 2) on-the-spot €100 fines for anyone who does www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

A Truth Social post Donald J. Trump * @realDonaldTrump Phillip "BROKEN" Glass, one of the all-time Boring Composers in the History of Music, has decided to grandstand by "pulling" the world premiere of his latest SNOOZEFEST from the "TRUMP"-Kennedy Center. Fine by me! 11:11 AM . 1/27/26

Everyone’s a critic

I had this idea years ago but still back it. 'Community bonds', saving scheme, you buy £100, govt invests £100 in the high street, you get £110 back in five years' time.

They're calling it "expansive" which I think means "quite long for a debut novel" Interrupting whatever regular programming looks like to tell you how to pre-order Frida Slattery As Herself.

Pre-order my forthcoming novel! All the links to do so are gathered here anakinsella.substack.com/p/theyre-cal...

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

The Common Travel Area means I should be able to use BBC Sounds in Ireland

Trance-ient Peace 4th January 2026 Playing Trance, House, Ambient. back home from the party thinking

gorgeous gorgeous wintry trance mix www.nts.live/shows/peace-...

Have only played Firewatch of those but I thought Oxenfree was similar vibes

I love the Traitors. I love it so much. I really do. But on the UK show, every season, they get rid of anyone older, anyone smarter, anyone who seems posh (?), in that order. It's very predictable!!!!

I am obsessed with this nonsense plotline <3 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

Irish fiction debuts to look forward this year from Neil Tully, Ana Kinsella to Colin Morgan ‘I’m happy to say that rights have been optioned for TV’: A rich crop of fiction is set to emerge this year

beep beep www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

From the viral trainers to the book everyone will be reading – 37 things that will be huge this year This is your ultimate hype list for 2026.

And finally Frida Slattery As Herself is somehow on this list, which also says reading it 'really did take me back to the way I felt when reading Normal People', so there you go www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/2026...

11 books by women for your book club era in 2026 Sizzling debuts, a modern retelling of Little Women, and a very good year to be Maggie O’Farrell.

My novel is ALSO on this list, which calls it 'very sexy', which is good news for everyone www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/best...

The 40 most exciting books to look forward to in 2026 From big-name authors Colson Whitehead, George Saunders and Maggie O'Farrell to debuts and non-fiction, these are the titles you'll want to add to your reading pile this year.

My novel Frida Slattery As Herself is also on this list www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Bog Trouble | Caitlín Doherty In Ireland, a preference for a traditional fuel source is overridden by a Green Party more concerned with household emissions than poverty.

How long does it take for a fuel source to regenerate to be considered renewable? Caitlín Doherty writes on the problem with peat.

This feels like a misrepresentation of how much it costs to learn Irish. Online classes from the Conradh are €150. Gaeltacht tuition is about €250 a week. Learning is massively subsidised already, and she needs the qualifications in Irish to teach, so of course that part is going to cost money.

50 people to watch in 2026: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and more The artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up in the new year

I'm on this list www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

one month ago 🥶

Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin oppose Bill to ban fox hunting Réada Cronin says she will continue trying to persuade Sinn Féin ardfheis to ban ‘abhorrent, cruel, barbaric’ activity

Another election cycle of me asking every single canvasser why they're not opposed to fox hunting then www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...