In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls

How are Belgium back in this. Completely unserious team

So unusual to see a ref simply refuse to award Harry Kane a cheap penalty. I didn't know they were allowed to do that

Lol. Lmao

The RTE player is crashing under the weight of a nation's collective yearning

In our meetings in response to the cuts at Exeter

CFP: NeMLA (Newport, March 2027) roundtable on small presses to further the conversations of our coedited collection on @tramppress.bsky.social (spring 2027 with @syracuseup.bsky.social cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

Join us for the online launch of Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue on 22 July! Guest editors Marta Fernández Campa & @mariakaladeen.bsky.social will lead a wide-ranging event with various issue contributors and, together, they'll draw out key themes from the issue. buff.ly/4kd56T4

Browse the re:verb collection at our festival bookshop, Cailleach Books - and support the work of this experimental mobile bookshop as an evolving space & practice, and the poets associated with the 2026 edition of re:verb, by purchasing a book or two: www.cailleachbooks.ie/collections/...

I have measured my life in Dutch penalty shootout misses

As called on TV Trece in Paraguay:

Paraguayan keeper may be called O. Gill, but he's certainly not a little person

Really think they should have brought a midfield with them

J'apprends le décès d'Anthony Glinoer, beaucoup trop jeune. Non seulement le chercheur était brillant, mais tellement accueillant, stimulant et sympathique, pour le peu que je l'ai connu. Je n'imagine pas la perte pour sa famille, celle pour la recherche sur l'édition est immense. Quelques ouvrages

Reminder that John Maxwell and I are seeking submissions for JEP special issue "Accessibility in Digital Publishing". We want scholarly, technical, and industry reports for this issue. "Publishing" broadly defined = books, zines, games, websites, and more. DM/email questions. Abstracts due Oct 1.

It's so hot I just purchased a can of chilled kombucha for the first time in my life. Grasping for anything that might provide answers to this situation

Some really apocalyptic footage from that earthquake in Venezuela, terrifying stuff

Still a potential reprieve here for Scotland

Helpless, once again, to resist the enchanting siren call of an 11pm midweek kickoff

I step away from the computer for 3.5 minutes, insisting upon my hydration break. The crowd boos vociferously but I remain impassive, using these moments to strategise for the task ahead

“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

Hydration break

"A brilliant diagnostic of the hypocrisies, ambivalences, and evasions of literary culture." -- Christopher Kempf Coming this fall: CROWD CONTROL, by Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young. tinyurl.com/36pd5bxh @columbiaup.bsky.social

Took a detour to pay my respects to Cape Verde cul-de-sac while going through Crumlin today. Hope they're keeping the faith over there

I pledge to reopen the straits of Hormuz just as soon as Fifa abolishes the hydration break

Apparently the older kids in my son's school staged a one-hour performance of Shrek yesterday for everyone's enjoyment

A+ book cover, no notes

The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope.

Happy pitch & putt day

"their time on the course is the subject of popular lore and adaptations"

Are you interested in reading and readers? Join us July 7-9 for the SHARPIES, our inaugural global book history festival! Registration is free for SHARP members. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC... And if you aren't a SHARP member, joining is easy! sharpweb.org/membership/

Took a moment this afternoon to appreciate our brave Irish heroes and their enormous republican hands

Watching teams stop for an official water break 20 minutes into a slow and cautious game in an air conditioned stadium is an insult to life itself

Brazil have taken the bold step of turning up at the world cup without a midfield. Unorthodox

But they won't be looking at the detail of the report! Nor will they read the nuance and the debunking of detail! Just by existing, unread, the report does its job. It will strengthen the views and hands of those who want to regulate and interfere, and simply bounce off those who don't.

First the Americans send Vance to insult us, then they put Switzerland v Qatar in the prime Saturday night Euro TV slot. US hegemony must be smashed

CFP: 1k to 4k submissions, due by July 1, on What Kind of Poetry World Should We Have? annuletpoeticsjournal.com/CFP-What-Kin...

Who are the literary agents of irish authors, and what do they do? I had a go at answering these questions and more in this (open access) essay - with help from some (anonymous) agents, authors and publishers who were good enough to lend me their time www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Sorry but the world cup is too central to my personality to just ignore. And this must be the least autocratic host nation in at least a decade

We are now accepting applications for vendors for the 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair (Nov. 27/28 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2): forms.gle/Vhgo12K3wvYD...

Join our friendly band of historians! Job 👇 #skystorians

If you’re in Belfast please stay safe. Word is there’s going to be riots in Dublin tonight too. Stay inside.

ahem call for 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair vendors is open! closes July 10: