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

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

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

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

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.

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

one month ago 🥶

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

James Schuyler, from “Things to Do”

That’s the thing about life. Sometimes you’re a young Nigella Lawson playing croquet; other times, you just end up inexplicably carrying a sedan chair.

Unironically a good line bsky.app/profile/nikk...

Beckett, Balle, time loops, stories, snogging, etc open.substack.com/pub/anakinse...

one thing they don't tell you about publishing a novel is people will constantly ask you what you've been reading lately. And every time your mind will be utterly blank, as if you have never read a book in your life

You won't believe it but I have a short story about this granta.com/the-bog-bodi...

I have a newsletter and I wrote this week about some paintings I saw in NYC anakinsella.substack.com/p/in-manhatt...

many of us agree that watching phone videos at full volume in public is antisocial behavior, but to me that doesn’t go far enough. watching phone videos every single time you have a few minutes to kill is antisocial in its own right even if the volume is always courteously muted

Diane Keaton’s ability to show you a character’s vulnerability was as striking as her gift for showing you what can lie beneath such sensitivity, including neediness at its rawest and most acutely exposed, our chief film critic Manohla Dargis writes.

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

"It’s all interesting. It’s never dull, ever, life.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

The reveal I want to see is that Jim Gavin's tenant was CMAT.

Big box of books!

Me before holiday: I’ll prob think about my writing project loads while I’m away, it’s at the forefront of my mind Me on holiday: donuts come in many varieties. For instance, iced, glazed, or powdered

There is a way to lose and it’s to be very bad at it, same as any puzzle. Context: I know this because I am playing against the clock and yes I am going to beat the clock eventually

I can claim it actually

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Silksong is way too hard for me sadly! I hope all the losers who enjoy this sort of thing have a great time with it

meta ai trying to figure it out

I have this

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Grim. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

a proposal: to ease increasing financial burdens created in part by AI eroding the creative job market, and, as part compensation for the use of artists' work by AI companies, the UK should follow ireland's lead and exempt the income of artists, writers, composers, etc from tax up to £50k annually

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I have been stung by one of these, it was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced and yes I am available for media appearances

I finished reading A Goat's Song, a novel I've been reading since early May. Stunned by it. There are beautiful, romantic scenes that will stay with me for a long time, ones I wish I'd written myself. Also scenes of utter darkness, grim and horrible drink, and I wish I'd written them too

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

can an aversion to writing (fiction) in the first person be overcome or am I wasting my time

my current fave trance-adjacent show www.nts.live/shows/elusin

Terrific piece about how the team that made Disco Elyisum fell apart. They never should have set up in that Doomed Commercial Area, I guess:

surely this story is more about 'more than half of physio-treatable back pain is treated with simple pilates-style exercises' rather than 'AI has helped where humans have failed'

Go away… writing it down on paper only to lose track of it entirely for the rest of time is actually part of my process

Why is the reward for going to the dentist having to go to the dentist some more

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

Got my last Irish class of the year this week! I've been going since January and iontas na niontas, my Irish (dormant since leaving school) has completely revived and I'd say I'm well beyond my leaving cert level now

It’s crazy how good this book is. I know it sounds OTT but it’s the arrival of a writer for all-time I think

OK so for one thing videos and podcasts aren’t “conversation”. Get off your phone