Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction

17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 2 edition ("cróda", "ní fada", "damh")

Inconceivable!

Happy Halloween!! 🎃

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

“Are you wearing the-“ “The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”

Daylight savings needs to die

The PSA from our school on the presidential election was perfection #speirgorm #aras25

1. "Rural Pursuits" sounds like a Jilly Cooper novel. 2. People (even rural ones) were giving out about fox hunting over a hundred years ago. 3. Cruelty-based sports aren't that popular, and people who live outside cities are crying out for good amenities. 4. What the actual fuck.

Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq

👇Happening tomorrow!

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Manchán Magan devoted his life to enriching Irish culture. He was a man about whom you’d never hear a bad word said. Kind and generous and gentle. RIP

Táim croíbhriste 😭 RTE news : Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55 www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

Cost-benefit analysis of the #BUIA scheme. More concrete evidence this should be embraced and expanded. Please, government, be sound. Obey the Data. Support artists*. It, we, you – deserve it *And apprentices, essential workers and, well, everyone but we can start small www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

One of the more obvious signs of recent Cliff erosion - these fence posts were not dangling from the cliff less than two weeks ago. Just a reminder that the Cliffs are very much a "work in progress". County Clare, Ireland.

Nearly 1 week to go...for Off the Scéal: Multilingual Open Mic Night series! All welcome. Including (performances in English). #OpenMicNight #Multilingual

I'm recovering from a lil surgery, please send recs for pleasant nonsense to entertain me in my couch potato era

This competition closes soon! Take your shot! #KidlitUk

Words are magic

Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition

Five days left to add more data that the BIA is good, actually, and should stay and expand etc etc: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Read this thread 👇

Techno gremlins tried to thwart me: if you tried filling the form in and it wouldn't let you pick multiple answers it is now fixed and shall behave 🙈😅 Same link, better manners

I'm working on making a cosy home for all things KidLit from across the island of Ireland: think digital library meets Golden Pages with AO3 searchability. If that sounds cool ✨join my quest for world domination✨ (or just updates) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #IrishKidLit #UKKidLit #speirgorm

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Truly unsettling number of interactions with spiders this week

Always worry when people share photos of their kids publicly online on non-private platforms, due to both safety concerns and them being far, far too young to truly consent, but with AI and deepfakes now a reality... It's never worth the risk, or the lack of control they have over their own privacy.

While a lot of writers joke that the best thing about writing is having written, that's just because pain is painful and making things can be painful. But without the making, having made isn't a thing.

Book publishing does not need genAI. Its only purpose will be to devalue the work of the people in the industry, making it all the more difficult for them to make a living, and lower the quality of the books produced. If any publisher uses it, that is their aim, and they should be shamed for it.

€9k raised for Palestine in 14 days by the Irish Children's Literature community, organised by just two people. A pure meitheal 🇵🇸 #speirgorm #CampaignForTheArts #UBIA @news.rte.ie

A pure meitheal ❤️🇵🇸

Somebody feed this poor Muppet

AMAZING

If you're an artist based in Ireland, this survey relates directly to you. It'll take three or four minutes, if that (it's actually too short). Please check it out. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Series of 3D art installations by Polish artists Przemek Podolski and Marta Basandowskaby using hundreds of miles of coloured yarn, based on 3D computer models to create complex geometric designs representing outer space. #WomensArt

Re last quote - fyi not just authors, booksellers, anyone publishing related!

Open letter for authors, publishers and booksellers linked in this article 👍

Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).

I'll be talking rewilding with Cormac Hamil at Belfast's Féile an Phobail at 7.30 tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 6th). I've always found Belfast audiences especially engaged when it comes to rewilding, so I'm expecting this to be another lively, highly stimulating discussion! Join us if you can!!

What's better than getting cool signed books and author stuff? Getting cool signed books and author stuff while aiding Palestine 🇵🇸💃✨

Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social‬) Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025. You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine @sineadohart.bsky.social

From incarceration to gaslighting, the medical system has long dismissed women’s sleep struggles—especially during menopause—putting their health and lives at risk.

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month. -Credits: NASA

Very important world news:

Told you. People (eg Scottish Government) really DID NOT GET that the EHRC would use this Supreme Court ruling to make trans-inclusive services unlawful. “Why are trans people making such a fuss?” Because we saw this coming a mile off: it was the ENTIRE POINT of the For Women Scotland case 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️