Every single woman in Ireland forming a psychic gestalt to try and communicate "Don't trust men" through time and space to Kelley. #TraitorsIRL

Good girl, Kellie. Team the ladies! #traitorsire

Okay. Traitors Ireland finale. Best series for sure. A genuine geg

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Today’s stress. No Alchemised. No signed Osman’s (lots of preorders.) Credits not through. Orders not delivered. Blood pressure not being checked

This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.

You know I was kind of going the Rapture might have saved us from the Speech

Power station down the road has bomb squad in. My house is about a min away as the dust cloud travels

Here's more from inside @manchanmagan.bsky.social 's Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun). It really is a gorgeous book, illustrated by Megan Luddy. Be sure to make someone's #Christmas & put this in their stocking (a big stocking; 19.8 x 22 cm book)! 256 pages - chunky! Perfect gift! 🎁📚🌦️

Vote with your dollars.

everything changed, everything destroyed, everything gone

Things that always work all of the time, with studies to prove it, boosting the economy and productivity, and increasing quality of life and public health, and that will never, ever be implemented within my lifetime: 1. UBI 2. 4-day working week

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

10 years ago, Turkey had the same problem with Russian jets violating its airspace. It shot down a Russian Su-24. Hasn’t had that problem since.

Water, water, everywhere And nothing else to talk about... Though "Gleidearnach" a "downpour of rain that seems combative or war-like" seems like a genuinely useful word. search.app/MKqws

She's now available in PAPERBACK in the USA! You can order through the link! 🛒🛍️📗 #medievalsky #hagiography #saints

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Bruh

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

I wish these Republicans that are sending thoughts and prayers to Charlie Kirk and lamenting his shooting, had anything to say about the Minnesota legislators who were gunned down in their own homes. Trump didn't even bother going to their funeral or call the governor to send his condolences.

Just woken from the bookseller nightmare where @stephenking.bsky.social had dropped in and we could not find the books anywhere. Incredibly lovely about it, he was - have now woken and come to the conclusion that some bastard had stolen the lot.

👏👏Prince Andrew Epstein projected onto #Windsor Castle walls ./2

On a wee deal for a few days - just 99p. This quiet little story deals with where the climate crisis might take our communities, the power of loyalty and finds that our beating heart isn’t always in those most powerful #ireland #booksky

In the 1930s Mosley and his rank and file BUF were careful not to outwardly portray themselves as racists. They weren't antisemitic... far from it... they were just concerned about "bad principles" and "international bankers" and the influx of foreigners Everyone knew what they meant.

Book your tickets before prices go up on 1st October! britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...

Truth

This made me cackle. Very funny. But seriously...

Timely words for me today

@joeabercrombie.com - any chance of a follow so I can send a convention related query?

The US was a university superpower. The destruction of third level independence, freedom of thought & of expression, is chilling. Destroying the intellectual base of a society is an authoritarian move. Solidarity to US academics. This is not normal.

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Trump requests prayers for Charlie Kirk. No such request yet for the Colorado high schoolers in critical condition.

My book launch schedule!! I’d love to see some of you there 🔥🔥🔥

Trump Claims He Can’t Be Expected To Remember Every Birthday Card He Sends To Child Molesters https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-cant-be-expected-to-remember-every-birthday-card-he-sends-to-child-molesters/

Trump gets booed at the US Open today.

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

Oh goodness. An early review of A SWORD OF GOLD AND RUIN that's just amazing. Wonderful! Thank you so much @nickborrelli.bsky.social Thank you!

5 books here. No copyright filed. U.K. base. Would have been an awesome payday but no beer . Story of my life lol

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

The world is on the brink of war. The climate crisis accelerates. The global economic system teeters. But “small boats”, eh? Britain’s political discourse is so parochial.

So the UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner had to resign because of a tax error but this is ok? Help me understand.

So a group of Northern Irish [British] Loyalist Paramilitaries & a bunch of Irish, supposedly nationalists [yes, that makes no sense], & are now buddies & the Southern tulips are copying the Loyalists NI pogrom plan to get rid of ‘foreigners’. It’s complicated, but it’s also simple. It’s hate.

A Q&A with me as Jessica Thorne on The Nerd Daily today thenerddaily.com/jessica-thor...

Julia Kelly: ‘My mum died swimming in the Galápagos at 71... it was a strangely beautiful end for her’. The author on her new memoir, Still; why she always expects a crisis; and her admiration for David Attenborough www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...