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had such a lovely time reading at @dinglelit.bsky.social last weekend as part of the shirt story showcase ✨❤️

'The Next World' by Laura-Blaise McDowell It is winter and Ava is sitting at the bottom of her family’s swimming pool, surrounded by leaves. In front of her is the body of a red squirrel and at the other end of the pool is a snake, shifting l...

looking forward to heading down to @dinglelit.bsky.social tomorrow morning. catch me and the other short story folk at 4.30. you can read my winning story here 🐍🌊 dinglelit.ie/shortstory/t...

First the orcas, now the foxes. The animals are rising.

If you’re looking to help a family who hasn’t raised much Reham has raised under $500 and hasn’t had a donation in almost a month ❤️

oh no Maggie, I'm so, so sorry ♥️ she will be so missed x

The Times headline: Transgender teenager’s German chess triumph prompts call for ban

IT’S FUCKING CHESS

What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.

Really happy to have won this years English language short story competition at @dinglelit.bsky.social 💚 thank you to John Patrick McHugh and all at Dingle Lit ✨

#NewMusic: SAOL – Fool’s Gold. A powerful argument against falling for liars that want us to hate, not think. Read more on the @analoguetrash.com #musicblog 🖤

www.analoguetrash.com/blog/saol-fo...

Fool's Gold SAOL · Fool's Gold · Song · 2025

SAOL - 'Fool's Gold'

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

These ladies do amazing work that is sadly in more demand than ever

If you can, please throw a few Euros their way.

Fool's Gold SAOL · Fool's Gold · Song · 2025

new music Friday from an amazing new Irish act, SAOL 🪄 open.spotify.com/track/1uY4cV...

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them

A year to the day that @robin.berjon.com and my viral article was published by @latams.bsky.social at @noemamag.com I got news that

My book proposal "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in"

may just have found its dream US publisher! More news soon...

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

If you were wondering whether outright authoritarianism and repression in the US could create a perceived permission structure for similar behaviour elsewhere, the lads have come right out and said it here.

amazing! 🤯💥

Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

Appalling and absolutely unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.

But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

Immigration is good! It's a good thing. Immigration is not at the root of any of our problems. I'm not prepared to cede that ground, to be honest.

The first print issue of fallow magazine, based in Ireland and out soon, includes: Helen Charman, Oisín Fagan, Wayne Koestenbaum, Patrick Nathan, Ellen Dillon, Eva Griffin, Chris Beausang, and Greg Gerke, & interviews with Gabriel Josipovici and Pascale Sardin. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01

Mí na Gaeilge: Irish and AI? Let’s think this through… Do we really need an Irish-language ChatGPT?

☘️🤖 new substack 🤖☘️

i'm exploring whether we're doing more harm than good by introducing irish-language AI by taking a few points into consideration:

👉 is there even enough gaeilge on the internet to train AI?
👉 could AI bastardise what irish we *do* have on the internet?
👉 protect translators ‼️

Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

I love Karen!!!