Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life." They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

I wanted to think practically about strategies for maintaining a creative life in difficult circumstances, building networks of mutual support, and re-evaluating what a written work can be. In-person only @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social 30 May, details here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/mast...

1/2 When @irishwriterscentre asked me to do a masterclass I realised I'm not at all sure about mastery. Instead I wanted to think about the roles of doubt, risk, opposition, destruction and refusal, which can also be kinds of confidence, enthusiasm, construction and curiosity.

She might already be aware of this but in 1706 John Locke published a book called A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books. I’ve been reading up on common place books after reading The English Patient & came across Locke’s book just yesterday… iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...

Friends, for a student: does anyone know where a student might find digitized commonplace books & scrapbooks? All collections/suggestions welcome—she just needs more examples for a project she’s working on

Absolutely magical. Handel's Messiah on Dublin's Fishamble Street this lunchtime, 284 years after it was first performed. Proinnsías Ó Duinn, 85 years young conducting, a living legend.

Irish Computer Engineer Sues Edgescan Over Israeli Vendor Security Concerns #SpéirGhorm - important whistleblower protection/cybersecurity story claimsboard.ie/engineer-sue...

Online Tour | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again 📅 Weds, 15 April at 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/online-tour-seamus-heaney-listen-now-again-34 Enjoy a fascinating journey exploring the highlights of Heaney's archive, from his rural origins through to his remarkable career as a poet.

Making Beds, Deborah DeWit, 2010. #Caturday

Happy #Caturday - and a year on the road with these goobers! They’re such good sports, unreasonably proud of them 🥹

Science points in one direction, lobbying in the other. Crucial but grim reporting by @zdboren.bsky.social. "Ministers are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns ..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Free alternative idea for those who don't have a book budget at the moment: I shall be doing my part by borrowing bell hooks' Communion from the library and posting a review on June 16.

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

“Everything happens so much,” - Horse EBooks (Stitched it for the time capsule in case the internet breaks)

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

UPDATED @npr.org: If the Postal Service doesn't change how it runs as a self-funded agency, Postmaster General David Steiner says it may be out of money as soon as October — or by February 2027 if it defaults on more obligations. Steiner says "everything" is under consideration, including layoffs

"Less than a year from now the Postal Service will be unable to deliver the mail if we maintain the status quo." - USPS Postmaster General

Happy to see a couple of folks checking out my Toolkit today! Would love if this translated into teach-ins and more advocacy for the USPS. I'll be updating the Workshop slides over the next few days, so be sure to pop back later in the week for a more current template to download.

The Postal Service’s financial struggles are not simply a result of declining mail volumes in the digital age. This article explains the myths behind the Postal Service's financial woes and the need for financial reform.

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements. n.pr/4bu15df

Last year I created a downloadable/customizable “USPS Teach-In Workshop & Toolkit” that folks can use *anytime* to organize an action-oriented event in their community. I’ll be updating slides in light of current events for anyone who wants to help fight for the post office 💌 usps-teach-in.carrd.co

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

Happy st Patrick's day fellow buffy fans

Let’s help this guy graduate

We need inspiring trade union/organizing stories now more than ever so I’ll go with Rosie Hackett, from Jacobs Biscuit strike to her role in the Rising. Would love a focus on the “unglamorous” backstage work of organizing that gets overshadowed by the standard hero narratives.

Jessie Buckley is now at a unique and fleeting moment in her career, like Neil Jordan was after Interview With The Vampire or Cillian Murphy was after Oppenheimer, to get a movie about a critical moment in Irish history made. What would/should/could she pick?

Stream National Theatre's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" for free until March 18. Sharon D. Clarke (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Doctor Who) is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) and Hugh Skinner (W1A; Mamma Mia! ). youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?... So entertaining. #theatre 🎭

the @parisreview.bsky.social just unlocked Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams: www.theparisreview.org/fiction/396/...

Some contemporary news coverage of the Choctaw Nation's Gift from 1847. The last piece mentions another donation from the slaves on a plantation somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line.

Another #Caturday in southern Italy where the stray cats will make you smile & break your heart in equal measure. They will also just unabashedly commandeer yer stuff.

Join us today! We'll line the Liffey with Palestinian flags and show how Ireland stands with Palestine. No shamrocks for genocide. #FreePalestine

Fantastic essay. I’ll never grow tired of reading what this film means & its significance beyond filmmaking. “Sinners deserves to win Best Picture and every one of the record 16 Oscars for which it has been nominated. But it cannot be judged only as a film. It is a blues poem. It is a freedom cry.”

When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin?

We are delighted to announce a landmark new (free!) festival taking place this April: Words, In other places, in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland and supported by the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social & Arts Council of NI. irishwriterscentre.ie/words-in-oth...

“The bookshops apparently had no idea that the intelligence service had collected data about them, and they cannot meaningfully respond to the allegations – because the content of these allegations remains unknown. All three bookshops are preparing to take legal action.”

In case ye missed it last week: I co-wrote a book on ADHD in Ireland! 'Have I Got Your Attention?: A Guide to Adult ADHD in Ireland' releases Thursday March 26 via @merrionpress.bsky.social, available in all bookshops. Thread follows... 🧵 #spéirghorm #ireland #adhd #actuallyadhd #neurodivergence

The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

Here is the first issue of The Book Supplement 💗📚

Out: the Wild Atlantic Way In: the Wilde romantic way

Happy #Caturday from the cats of Pompeii

Nooooo! What about Vera Mysteria & the Food Court 5000, her Lloyd Center indoor walking group for mall walkers and 1980s enthusiasts?

I have never been more starstruck than AWP Portland 2019, standing in the same line as Kaveh Akbar & Danez Smith. They were just getting their fucking lanyards or something, but it was very hot, very rock n roll, very poetic.

Today's episode is a classic from the archives, a 2019 conversation with Brandon Shimoda about The Grave on the Wall, and what it means to memorialize something that has never ended. milkweed.org/between-the-... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @brandonshimoda.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

After the Civil War, Carney became the first Black mail carrier in New Bedford, working for the postal service for 32 years. When he died in 1908, Massachusetts ordered all flags lowered to half-mast the first time the state had given such an honor to an African American.

Last day of #BlackHistoryMonth & my nerdlove of all all things post officey goes to William Harvey Carney. Born to enslaved parents on February 29, 1840 , he was the first African American to receive a Medal of Honor and was also the first known black mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Department.

Available from today! 💌

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

New literary podcast launching ✨ #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online