Arts & Disability Ireland shared our new folk musical TimeWeavers! Basically a show for kids like us—the neurodiverse LGBTQ+ ones with disabilities who have trouble sitting still... adiarts.ie/event/timewe... @smockalley.bsky.social @sceneandheard.bsky.social @creativeeuireland.bsky.social

Massive respect to all these women for speaking out - repeatedly, over years and years - and to the BBC for shaming the police into doing something. Yet still, this man has not been jailed. Abuse is rife in the music industry and society as a whole. We all need to work together to stop it.

Pontypool (2008) is an absolutely stunning re-wiring of the zombie plague trope: the horror of linguistic infection. Should be on any language-as-virus reading list alongside Burroughs and Delaney. See also: Hot Skull (2022) @raynewman.bsky.social have you seen it?

Exactly this👇👇👇 To manage *not* to consider the oppressor's gaze is an incredible act of bravery; an achievement in truth-speaking. You speak in the knowledge that the oppressor will actively misinterpret you. Aware that anything you say will be used against you and your community, you speak anyway.

Can't wait for this.

TimeWeavers, our guided tour to the Mists of Time, begins at 2pm on the 28th of Feb at @smockalley.bsky.social However, the voyage is not without risk! Please listen closely to this safety briefing. Tickets: tinyurl.com/time-weavers @sceneandheard.bsky.social @creativeeuireland.bsky.social

Thanks for the 🌀 John! If anyone fancies singing along to this incredibly dark Borders ballad, we made this video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PM...

Coincidentally, Palantir's UK head is the grandson of Oswald Moseley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. But that's probably totally fine, nothing to worry about! Why wouldn't the government give them all the NHS data and the biggest ever Ministry of Defence contract?

Music is for everyone! It's part of our primal nature. With our new folk music theatre show TimeWeavers, we invite people of all ages and abilities to share in the joy of music-making. (It may seem an odd focus in the climate crisis, but we believe creative wellbeing is essential to our survival.)

The posters have arrived and they're going up around Dublin tomorrow. We can't wait for TimeWeavers to be part of @sceneandheard.bsky.social at @smockalley.bsky.social at the end of the month! Tickets: tinyurl.com/time-weavers

Art made by weirdos for weirdos. Or W4W if you will.

Well obviously.

It's #BlackHistoryMonth in the US, an opportunity to remind ourselves that the British Empire was fuelled with African blood. We like to claim to have been at the forefront of progress with the abolition of slavery; the reality is that Britain was responsible for most of it — some after abolition.

"The perfect slide to illustrate what we mean by the #PostIronyCondition doesn't exi..."

Hooklanders — Very Good Folks All

'Blobby, Bowery and the Lurgy: Urban Folk Horror and Queerness in Early 90s British Television'

Me, in cafe: "Do you have any vegetarian options?" Person at till: "We have chicken." Me: "Thanks but I will leave it. I find the leaves on chicken a little too bitter."

Announcing the debut of TimeWeavers for the 10th @sceneandheard.bsky.social festival of new work at Dublin's legendary @smockalley.bsky.social, 2pm Feb 28th. Huge thanks to @creativeeuireland.bsky.social + @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social for supporting this inclusive, family-friendly show. ♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Announcing the debut of TimeWeavers for the 10th @sceneandheard.bsky.social festival of new work at Dublin's legendary @smockalley.bsky.social, 2pm Feb 28th. Huge thanks to @creativeeuireland.bsky.social + @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social for supporting this inclusive, family-friendly show. ♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Fascinating look behind the scenes at Tether, where the CEO's black-pilled fantasies of European collapse due to migration and censorship is guiding billions of dollars of investment. fortune.com/article/teth...

Fucking hell. (And while America descends into a badly written fascist apocalypse, let's also not forget #FreePalestine)

For desire, the shortest distance is never a straight line.

#Ireland – we need a whole lot more signatures to do our bit for Palestine in the EU courts. Sign and share please!

Today's #AccidentalBandName: The Chocolate Pilgrimage

"Oh, hi lads. Could you just drop me off in some soil? Anywhere really, yeah. Anywhere's good. Just in some soil? Oh, we're, er... We're having dinner first? What're we having lads? Lads?"

Well, five days to install and two hours to take down! Our Deepest Apologies finished yesterday and it's all packed up and back in our lounge. And we got a write up in the local paper! www.waterford-news.ie/news/health/...

In our experience, the colonial histories and dualist philosophies underlying racism (+ homophobia, sexism etc) were just never discussed. British 'education' was nationalist propaganda of colonial progress: recasting racism as an embarrassing, backward, lower class and ultimately foreign attitude.

They don't exist any more, so there's no danger of giving them money. But if you buy any of the remaining Unbound books by ex-Unbound authors, the authors get nothing. A company called OOINYA is selling them on Amazon, and should be avoided.

ARTE

In related news, 'gender ideology' is something feminists, queer theorists & LGBTQIA+ people have been studying for actual decades, before it was warped into a phrase the right use to hate on feminists, queer theorists & LGBTQIA+ people. Appropriating and weaponising our terminology is a strategy.

Last day of Our Deepest Apologies tomorrow at GOMA Waterford. A big big thank you to the hundreds of visitors we've had over the past two weeks and the hundreds more at our performance events. #VisualArt #Ireland

FOLKLORE AS FUTURISM 😘👌

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

"[O]n the first sight of the New moon, it was customary to greet it with three curtseys and with each curtsey one must spin around." Consider us converts to Old Shropshire Moon worship.

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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

While compelled to live at Netherne Hospital for thirty years, Gwyneth Rowlands created many hundreds of work on flints & other found objects retrieved from the surrounding fields. Believing she had no imagination or aptitude for art, she was initially reluctant to attend the art therapy studio

Tonight at 6pm: free experimental sound performance at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art #Waterford, with Myles O'Reilly and Weaver Aideen Macken. Gong, analogue synth, glitchy granules, harmonium drones... 🥁 visualartists.ie/events/event... #VisualArt #PerformanceArt #ExperimentalMusic #Ireland

Massive congrats to Lost Map for putting out this incredible instrumental record. Perfect funky vibes for doing stuff.

Part of our exhibition at GOMA is a new set of silk paintings by Clair, based on the #Lichen found on #StandingStones. Here's Megalithic Lichen B (90cm x 90cm) from the series.

A spin around Our Deepest Apologies, which opened at GOMA Waterford yesterday. Come along this Saturday 17th at 6pm for 'The Weaving of the Waves'—our experimental soundscape / weaving performance with Myles O'Reilly + Aideen Macken. @visualartistsirl.bsky.social @creativeeuireland.bsky.social

A spin around Our Deepest Apologies, which opened at GOMA Waterford yesterday. Come along this Saturday 17th at 6pm for 'The Weaving of the Waves'—our experimental soundscape / weaving performance with Myles O'Reilly + Aideen Macken. @visualartistsirl.bsky.social @creativeeuireland.bsky.social

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

One reason I have zero tolerance for transphobia, why I've come to find it completely disqualifying, is that it is in the nasty, tedious forefront of all right-wing rhetoric. Anyone who still thinks this prejudice is compatible with being on the left or being a liberal is not someone I have time for

Our show at GOMA Waterford opens tomorrow at 6pm. All welcome! Please do drop in and say hi. Finally completed the list of works tonight — the are one hundred and eleven!? Yikes.

It's wassailing season again, and we're here to help you get into the mood... lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/track/wassail

A week to go until Our Deepest Apologies — Lunatraktors' duo exhibition at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford 10–24.01.26. Performances: Saturday 10th, Opening Saturday 17th, with Myles O'Reilly & Aideen Macken @visualartistsirl.bsky.social @creativeeuireland.bsky.social @dnoting.bsky.social

Happy New Years Eve everyone. Very pleased indeed to be kicking off the January 2026 episode of Podwireless — Ian Anderson's podcast of the best and brightest in folk, roots and weirdness. www.podwirelesswords.com/2025/12/podw...

Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.