There was very little end product to all of this, truth be told. Plenty of big talk, not much in the way of real tangible pranking

Yeaaaah, let me know when one of the "AI" companies is owned by a glorious workers' collective

Consoling my Italian friends

7-year-old is absolutely buzzing for April Fool's Day. Has something big planned for the evening. Is busy scheming with his school buddies in a hastily-founded "Prank Club". More as I get it

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Leaving the pub last night I encountered this fella standing patiently, as if waiting for a feckless owner

There was fun to be had within these limitations. Me and my friends would arrange to meet, e.g., "at the Stephen's Green Centre next to the old man," and you'd have to find the oldest dude around and stand discreetly nearby until your buddy showed up

Commiserations to all the other nations who failed to qualify for the world cup

The multi-factor authentication protocols will continue until morale improves

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Nathan O'Donnell ( @pva-books.bsky.social) on the limitations on cultural infrastructure in Dublin artreview.com/after-the-co...

The Dublin Rape Crisis centre has raised concerns about the weaponisation of sexual violence against migrants, and says it has no evidence that immigration is a central driver harming survivors It comes after two TDs supported campaign linking migration to rape www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

long shot: is anyone out there aware of writing on West African manuscript culture that is *not* in European languages? Or know any scholars working in this area who might be willing to help? #bookhistory

Excited to announce my new Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, Luxury Prisons for the Rich America

luxury prisons for the rich America

Wishing you all a very fine day

The Finale of our “Close Reading For The 21st Century” trilogy is out in the world. I promise it will make you laugh, make you cry, make you wish you were dead, & make you rage against the dying of the light. Okay?

Issue 3 of Fallow, the journal I co-edit with my partner, is available to order now 🌹poems from @cmakris.bsky.social, Mira Mattar, Charlotte Buckley, as well as newly translated Katerina Gogou. Essays & fiction by Philippa Snow, Kevin Breathnach, Adrian Duncan, Alice Blackhurst &more fallowmedia.com

They're letting me chair a panel at the Franco-Irish Literary Festival for some reason. Come along on Friday night if you're interested in publishing and translation! www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com/2026/event04...

Are they still making porn films based hilariously on that year's big Hollywood hits? "Saving Ryan's Privates" and the like? Or is that an artefact of a bygone industry

"We’re not all retreating entirely from the online world, but we’re craving to socialise our art in the real world.” Somehow missed this big piece on zines last week, featuring @ritahynes.bsky.social and others www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Do you have experience in governance, financial management, and operations? We would like to hear from you! We are looking for an experienced and highly organised individual to join our team as General Manager. More info: stingingfly.org/news/general...

New from @skeinpress.bsky.social

The solitary entry in an exhibition comment book

🚨Just 5 MORE DAYS to submit proposals for these guaranteed sessions @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Los Angeles! (1) TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES (2) LITERARY STUDIES BEYOND THE ACADEMY Please get in touch with any questions + thanks for sharing!

If you only read one bleak account of shit platforms this year, make it this one

BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another day of intensive researchmaxxing, mogging my academic competitors in pursuit of the elusive rank of ScholarChad (permanent contract)

Good lord #speirghorm

Remarkable graph here of James Patterson's productivity over time

A few books collected in North America

You'll also receive a copy of 'Inventory', in which the editor reflects on two decades of small press publishing

This law to increase rents has had the completely foreseen side effect of also increasing evictions (so the landlords can put up rents). www.thejournal.ie/your-stories...

This novel asks: what if, in 1930s Argentina, there was a weird sloth that facilitated telepathy? thereby unloosing a manic grotesque fever dream of colonisation and power and state surveillance? It's good stuff. Translated by @terribleman.com

I'm excited to be in Montréal for the first time, taking part in this ACLA panel on 'Literary Translation and its Institutions'! I'll be speaking about translation and contemporary Irish publishing www.acla.org/conference/s...

The long 2010s are finally over

PLASTIC by @matthew-rice.bsky.social is a beautiful book-length night-shift work about work, life, poetry, machines, humans

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

Listening to a lot of Doom this week, reminded of one of the last truly great tweets I read

A house on our road recently sold for 70k more than what we paid in 2021. Judging from the photos, it's obviously in worse condition than ours was

RIP. I loved IN THE DUTCH MOUNTAINS - never figured out whether this great quotation from Diderot is real or invented

IJAS Online (the journal of the Irish Association for American Studies) is seeking a new Reviews Editor. More details below. Applications due by March 13 - please write to us if you have any questions! ijas.iaas.ie/reviews-edit...

The fact that I can't order this book to Ireland is a bit too on the nose, in terms of what small publishers are up against

A really interesting article on Wikipedia and fiction by Kiron Ward in @c21literature.bsky.social, published by @openlibhums.org. Complements nicely the article on Wikipedia and the Novel by Ryan Ruby in the current issue of New Left Review. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

"In a sense, the true subject of mass entertainment products is now the creation of mass entertainment products and the drama of their possible fates in the marketplace"

New C21Literature @c21literature.bsky.social special issue: “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

Barber told me I look like Daniel Day Lewis (debatable - but cool), informed me that DDL has three Oscars. When I said the phrase "Phantom Thread" he stared at me blankly

Great idea that could easily be adapted depending on the subdiscipline and theoretical focus. The Angel of History arrives and pulls you forward off the podium; a heterotopia appears, enclosing you in a parallel space so the next speaker can get on with it;