I will be attending Enniskillen Comic Fest on Sat 6th-Sun 7th June 2026, to promote Thunderbirds- Hidden Dangers: Burnout, the brand new 4 part comic series coming soon from @gerryanderson.bsky.social It’s sure to be F.A.B! Hope to see you there! #NIMakers, #IrishComicArt #thunderbirds

Had a tremendous time this weekend at #NornCon in sunny (not a joke) Belfast. Great Con. Packed to the gills with stuff to do and famous people to annoy. 10/10 would go again. Many thanks to @jozebwrites.bsky.social who sold all the books in the universe and was one of the organizers.

Coward and draft dodger pretends he’s on the frontline.

Kicking off tomorrow evening with our *free* literature night. #Belfast, we are in you!

Celebrating the life of David Attenborough whilst simultaneously ignoring the message about climate collapse that the great man has been screaming at us for decades, sums up how deeply superficial we have become.

Hey, do you guys remember a prominent minimizer saying "Actually, tuberculosis (TB) incidence may represent the best bellwether for Covid induced post-infection immune damage"? I do. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Not going to lie, I’m excited for this!

Banning private jet flights during a jet fuel shortage feels fair enough to me.

Community Fund applications are open! If you would like to attend Octocon but need support with accommodation and/or travel costs, please complete our funding application. A number of free memberships are also available for Cork locals. octocon.com/octocon-comm...

Nominated for the ESFS Hall of Fame: Best author: former Octocon GOH Ruth Frances Long @rflong.bsky.social Best publisher: @theobrienpress.bsky.social Best promoter: regular Octocon guest Jo Zebedee @jozebwrites.bsky.social Nominated for the Chrysalis award: Kevin Moran (4/4)

Our final guests are also committee members based in Belfast! Horror writer Trevor Kennedy also edits Phantasmagoria Magazine.  Writer and editor Siobhán F. Murphy’s novel Hedge Witch was published in 2025 and Mage Call is out in May. Jo Zebedee loves blending themes of identity into dark tales.

Looking forward to Norncon next week! I even have something new and never before seen to read at Write Night (or whatever we're calling it)

Government by lying. There are no longer any anchors.

W00P! If you're in or around Belfast next weekend, do call in!

Check out the programme for next week's Norncon in Belfast - lots of great panels, talks, workshops and readings with some truly excellent panellists.

I am VERY excited to be at @norncon.bsky.social and ehem… how do I put this… Chaos comes to Belfast early!

Next weekend! Programme live :) @thecallya.bsky.social @rflong.bsky.social @jfennellauthor.bsky.social @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social

Brand-new Irish Science-Fiction journal Sci-Fi Ireland will launch their inaugural issue at @norncon.bsky.social in Belfast on Saturday 9th May! Featuring past International Debut Novel Competition winner RB Kelly 🌟 More info: norncon.org

Who is ready for our programme reveal?! Stay tuned this evening 🙂

Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

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Hey @bookshop.org why can't I buy your DRM free ebooks in Ireland?

Oh marvellous....

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

Hmmm. Epstein top of BBC news, you say….? Let’s threaten to take the Falklands. That should nuke it

Let's go! We can do this!

Imagine using a sheep to symbolise a national park. If every bit of land is farmed, even places whose main purpose is to act as a refuge for the wild, where exactly is nature supposed to go?

Badges! Have you grabbed a membership yet? @norncon.org

Donald Trump appears to have missed—or is delaying—his 2026 physical, with no schedule or results released. At the same time, his behavior is raising concerns—even among some right-wing outlets. The silence is deafening.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry on Colbert: “Netanyahu presented the Iran War case to us too. The response was no. The prediction was regime change, that people would rise up. None of that happened. “Obama said no. Bush said no. Biden said no. We were lied to about what that war was about.”

“We have totally obliterated the uranium. But we are launching this illegal war because Iran is days away from launching a nuclear strike on the West with bombs made from that uranium.”

I suspect Starmer is toast

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

No. 2 on my tour of indie bookstores in the award-winning Secret Bookshelf in Carrickfergus where bookseller Jo picked Peadar O’Guilin’s The Call as a book she loves to recommend to customers #indiebooksellers #SaintsAndWarriors

Wes streeting admits what he is doing is "humilating and cruel". But only for trans men (that look and sound man enough). Perfectly happy to inflict cruelty and humiliation on trans women. Source. LBC

Trump did this.

Can we not just focus on the climate crisis.

The Iran War: huge payday for oil companies.

Too early for Halloween? lol

Trump does every imaginable horrible thing, over and over again. Evangelist Christians: Silence. Trump posts an AI slop image portraying himself as Jesus. Evangelist Christians: SPAWN OF THE DEVIL, BETRAYER OF THE FAITH. YOU GO TOO FAR! GET THEE TO HELL!

"By his shit art and tasteless ballrooms shall ye know the Beast" -- The Book of Revelation

Go on Rory …. Ach shite. #BeingNornIrish

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Person putting up fuel protest pic in local group has profile pic with thumbs up if you still love Tommy Robinson. Far be it from me to call it, but there appears a right wing lean into this.

Just a reminder that the DOJ is currently violating the law by withholding large portions of the Epstein Files

New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

We live in a remote island near Antarctica and even we are concerned that the blustery orange idiot is going to get us killed.