Really delighted to see @claudiadalby.bsky.social in Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025/Speculative Fiction, for a short story she wrote on my course @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. It was a brilliant story in the first flourish onto the page, and evidently got to publication with minor redrafting. Fab!

Treat to randomly spot Rhasidat Adeleke winning silver in China on the gym television

Talking to an AI customer service bot inspires a really unique frustration. It's like being locked in the bathroom and the only people outside the door are a two year old and a goldfish in a bowl

There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

"Back to my own life! Back to my own life!" this is my post-hour-long-social-media-stalk-of-people-I-hardly-know chant

the more I write my book the more I realise that I am writing a book

I just saw a White Lotus finale spoiler but I'm pretending to not understand its full meaning. Pretending to have poor reading comprehension

thanks google AI overview

The greatest book….how indebted I am to The Years

my body told me not to have seconds yet now I feel so much better after ignoring it and having seconds. stop lying to me!!

It's estimated that $150 billion would eradicate world hunger by 2030

Great prize here for writers who are also carers. Please share :)

you're allowed to watch the kendrick lamar halftime show on repeat twelve times in a row . yes you actually actually are

there has been an alarm going off all morning :)

Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes. There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU. Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Been thinking about this line all weekend Edna O’Brien, The Love Object

Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...

It took getting to season five of Mad Men for me to finally almost maybe nearly want an office job again

"Then, aged thirty, I took an evening course at the Irish Writers Centre, where I was encouraged to take my writing seriously for the first time." Thanks Roisín O'Donnell! Great to learn our courses helped you on your writing journey. Read about Roisín's debut #Nesting 🔽 image.ie/living/page-...

Still incredibly cool to me that this was made!

Oscar 4 Timmy

just left several WhatsApp groups I have never contributed to

Why are all online thesauruses kind of crap

Early sunset in Howth! 🌅

love’s austere and lonely offices Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’

An utterly heartbreaking article: ‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Despite attempts to address it, such as increasing the gender quota to 40%, Dáil Éireann has the worst gender diversity in western Europe. Out of 174 seats in last month's general election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

Congratulations to Tommy Meskill on being elected by me as having the best tailoring on RTE so far today……

Look Meath West I just want to talk

Two wedding rings in ballot boxes already?! Genuinely how does that happen

Who’s behind a website and social media accounts ratcheting up support for anti-immigration candidates standing in Ireland? Read more here: dublininquirer.com/2024/11/27/w...

It’s mad having to rebuild a timeline! I haven’t had to do this for maybe 15 years…?

I guess social media is a choice after all