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.

People convince themselves that animals can’t feel or think but desperately believe that a computer program that spews out summaries is something magical and intelligent

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

Chalk me up as another person who missed this piece when it came out in December. Stunning, luxurious writing on family, friends, and Seamus Heaney, by Caitlin Flanagan. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... H/T @deshocks.bsky.social

Or we could cut the cables ourselves and never hear about these people again.

Grand

2025 reading list let's gooo #Books📚 #Reading

Every thought, every interaction, every reflection on this journey I would chronicle on scrap paper, iPhone notes, emails to myself- and slowly, painstakingly, that has turned into a book, TO EXIST AS I AM. 3/5

This is praise indeed. I was looking forward to sharing Blue Road with @sineadgleeson.bsky.social She has written more here: momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-edna-ob... Our next Q&A event is in @lighthousecinema.bsky.social Tickets here: 💙 www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/blue-ro...

"Sir, a second pony has hit the club"

FF&FG Discuss how they’ll carve up power again while a homeless woman - Vanessa O’Callaghan, was attacked and killed on the streets of Cork on Sunday. Volunteers at the soup kitchen tried to save her, the government was nowhere to be seen at the cold face of homeless. Everyone deserves more

Tough year for art sales and I depend solely on it for a living, so if you like anything I do, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind when buying gifts for friends or family. If you hate what I do, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind when buying gifts for enemies or nemeses.

Stephen Donnelly showing up at Soc Dems headquarters pretending he never quit

Joy for Padraig Rice from the Soc Dems as he claims the final seat in Cork South Central #GE24

Baffling to me that anyone would try to push a "they're stealing the election" narrative here when we literally have people packed into counting centres watching other people count votes from like inches away. It's incredibly transparent. #ge24

🇮🇪 Best teller outfit ever. #irishelection #ge24

Happy #GE2024 Election Eve! Don't forget to leave some raw milk and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories for your local right-wing independents beside the fireplace, and room under your tree for your family members in Australia that Simon Harris has kidnapped

I, for one, am happy to be subsidising these data centres through sky-high residential electricity bills. Especially for all the wonderfully important AI garbage they produce.

Only 1 in 5 Welsh rainforests are in good condition and NONE are in very good condition, due to invasive species + overgrazing. Sound familiar? What is it with people, and treating these precious surviving ecosystem fragments as worthless expendables? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Look out for an announcement RE: HONEY & SPICE sequel from me today...

Almost 20(!) years later and this movie still SLAPS. Strongest urge to telephoné le police when Juno is alone with Jason Bateman's character at any point in the film. Seriously worried that I did not pick up on the vibes when I watched this as a child... Allison Janney & J.K. Simmons are perfect.🎬 📽

Guys, Ciara's newsletter is the only email newsletter to which I subscribe that I actually read. It's so good!

Not sure people realise how hard it's been recently for artists to survive, or how deeply appreciated every single order is. If you can't buy something, it makes a huge difference just to share our work. If you can't share our work, a little sacrifice to the Old Gods on our behalf means a lot, too 💜

📌 Lil' note: ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, gift cards and value bundles - each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper is made in Ireland, shipped in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage available, and comes with free mini-treats for every customer 🎁

A huge number of us are or will be carers at some point in our lives and the lack of either respect or support by so many politicians, including the leader of the country, for the enormous work done and the emotional and physical toll it takes is infuriating. Completely out of touch.

Tá sé fógartha go bhfuil an phictiúrlann aitheanta ar bhaile an Daingin, The Phoenix, ceannaithe ag an aisteoir Cillian Murphy agus a bhean, an t-ealaíontóir Yvonne McGuinness, agus go bhfuil sé i gceist é a athchóiriú agus a oscailt arís. tuairisc.ie/pictiurlann-...

Rewatching #Scandal right now, on season 2.. Mellie Grant is an icon 💁🏻‍♀️ Remind me why I'm supposed to root for any other character?

It's funny, the little differences between Hiberno-English and English. For example, in Ireland, to "get a land" means to be shocked, whereas in England it's a plan to colonise a country

Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.

‘More than half of all people in severe hardship in the UK (54%) live in a family that includes a disabled person’. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.

And BTW, I am one of the lucky ones who owns my apartment, but I believe that housing is the single most important issue, not only in and of itself, but because it is at the root of many other issues, e.g. far right fear mongering over immigration

Israel trying to ‘feminist wash’ its muderous campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon! Not a ‘historic’ first any right thinking feminist, historian or person would claim.

Christ.

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

Socdems mandating consultation with DPOs. Should already be happening as a matter of course. Astounding that (a) it isn't and (b) that some counties don't even have one #GE24

I can’t eat very much at the moment due to hyperemisis but I am obsessively thinking about food. The Off Menu podcast is helping. What’s the best thing you’ve ever eaten?

Just because things are bad Does not mean we should let them get worse Just because things may get worse Does not mean we can not make things better But things will only get better If we don't resign ourselves to worse And fight for another tomorrow

Pre ordered @cathyreay.bsky.social new children's book "How to Be Disabled & Proud" (or at least kinda sorta OK with it) You can too at the link below amzn.eu/d/0tGpPc5 #BookSky💙📚 #Disability #KidsBooks

Copying my gal @gracespencegreen.bsky.social with a self introduction (we need to make bluespace happen guys). Missing: extremely cool picture of me in my wheelchair.. I'm 29, disabled & working as an engineer. Love reading, writing, tv & film. I am (let's face facts) chronically online.

Nisreen's last fundraising account was hacked and the money stolen. 😔 We're starting from zero this time with me in charge of the account. Please donate if you can and share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisre...

Get on this excellent kids book by @cathyreay.bsky.social The kind of disabled representation we need for kids! Cathy is a true gem and a real talent. #BookSky💙📚

Really excited to announce my first book, How to be disabled and proud (or at least kinda sorta okay with it) published by Puffin and available for preorder now! www.penguin.co.uk/books/459258...

A week for a snooze in front of a warm range. 🥶 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

End of year thread to chronical my reading towards the end of 2024. Just finished: Bleak House on Audible. I love these full cast Sam Mendes adaptations- my favourite is still David Copperfield ft Ncuti Gawta though! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BookSky 💙📚

Hi everyone! I thought I should introduce myself on here, I’m Grace, a junior doctor working in London 🧵

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I guess when he says “Make America Healthy Again” he means eradicate all disabled and chronically ill people. Eugenics 2025.