If you're working in a bookshop and selling book 1+n and Joe Hill and Stephen King to a person who is describing the reader she's buying for as a fantasy reader. You need another job. My mum is not being served well by the bookshop she's buying from. There were so many possibilities.

For anyone who's ever dealt with chronic pain, @wiswell.bsky.social 's wryly funny and compassionate short story "For Lack of a Bed" will really resonate: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-7...

Via @tg4.bsky.social over on the other place. Not even close to the most wonderful time of the year for many. Most of us know that feeling, and some of us still feel it. #JoinIn #NollaigShona #speirgorm

RFK Jr. should have paid more attention to the comics in 1968.

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

And its a seasonal reminder to be EXTRA NICE to retail staff because quite a lot of people are dickheads, especially at this time of year, and patience and chat and a smile go a long way to banishing said dickheads.

Reposting for the morning #speirghorm crowd. Ernie has been spotted near to his home but he’s scared and hiding.

I think instead of age verification we need an internet drivers licence.

🧶 #knit #knitsky

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Sub skeet. I almost responded to an ignoramus but then decided that blocking would be better for my mental health.

Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse LeClair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. I remember. We must always remember.

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Galway shawls were a type of heavy-weight shawl once worn by Irish women. Firmly believe we lost our way as a nation when we stopped wearing items that doubled as cosy blankets and would like to propose a return to the wearable bed. Galway shawl (and lyric) prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

New! free! essay by Donna Glee Williams, asking pointed questions about Joseph Campbell's conception of the Hero's Journey... Read it now! Tell your friends! www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey

A gift for you: If you're a parent who is regretting letting the Elf on a Shelf into your home, here is a duty reassignment order you can show to your kids that the Elf was needed elsewhere. Printable png 8X10 300dpi so it can fit well on an A4 for non North American printers.

All I can think of with losers like this is he wants to make porn of women he sees in public. The Dutch are looking to copyright everyone’s bodies, voices, and faces, which could stop invasive personal tech. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/07/dutc...

Sinuses are a terrible design, right up there with an obligate carnivore that insists on licking its own fur and yakking it up.

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

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All right, crafty folks. I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable". 🧶 This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.

Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...

Just a reminder, since a lot of our self worth can be tied up in the things that we make --

My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "irish" (12×) 2. "books" (10×) 3. "libraries" (8×) 4. "week" (7×) 5. "least" (7×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

But what is never a part of the conversation around the #LateLateToyShow Appeal is how the process strongly contributes at a societal level to people who need services too frequently having to rely on charity, not rights, to get their needs met. This is fundamentally wrong.

Well that nurse who warned me off, mostly for false neg/pos for future scans after my lymphoma, was right.

This is true Ireland and the UK too. If you’re an author in either of those two countries, you should sign up. Here’s the Irish site: plr.ie #SpeirGorm

I love this idea. My dad died when I was three and I had to figure out simple things like how to tie a tie and even shave on my own. Please retweet this because I know there are a lot of kids out there who could use some help with day to day life.

This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

YOU FUCKING WHAT

Community cat people: Straw is for strays. Cloth materials can get wet and freeze. Please repost

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/en... @uplift.ie

Higher taxes to build schools, roads, feed kids and the elderly, and have universal Healthcare would be something I'd gladly do in general, but also, it'd be a lot easier to swallow if we stopped capitalist shitheads from charging you prices so they reap 6000% profit.

I feel that if someone calls you Piggy you should be allowed to yell "HAAIII-YA!" and karate chop them.

Gluten free life in one sentence. Trust nothing. Read everything. Accept chaos. #GlutenFree

Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

I would not be reputed rash, but I sorely doubt Irish football fans are currently behaving with calm equanimity. I also doubt Parrot will ever pay for a drink, or sleep alone again there, unless, one hastens to add, he wishes to. Hat trick, including winner with NO time left. Quel wild finish.

What most Irish people visualise when they see the warning on the left

Wow! What a nation 💚👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #Áras25

This is a delightful read about a really fun, not uniquely British phenomenon but definitely not a worldwide one, on Hollow Ways, which I personally consider to be deeply sacred spaces

#booksky #Quote

This is the Way. 😄

The "blue plaque" is too polite. By presiding over the dismantling of USAID, Musk has caused the deaths of an estimated 600,000 people worldwide from hunger and preventable diseases. Mostly children. As Bill Gates said: the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children.