pls sign up for the virtual screening of 'The Alabama Solution! "All proceeds from this workshop will go toward Michael Kimble to support his commissary fund, legal expenses, and other needs." "Michael Kimble, a Black gay incarcerated freedom fighter, writer, www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelk...

Eight days into Italian lessons and loving it, have basic introductions down, where I’m from etc. Dublin is Dublino which makes double sense as Dubliners add an “o” onto the end of everything.

If you can, please donate and/or share. I’ve contributed to Ahmed’s fundraiser a few times over the past year and he’s previously been verified by Molly Shah (I double checked the link 🤗)

PDX friends, you’ll see a 5pm sunset by January 20th. Hang in there! 🌼

We’re getting 2-ish extra minutes of daylight every day starting this week 💛 By 29th of January the sun will set after 5pm in Ireland. Soon soon soon 🐝 #SpéirGhorm

I’m reading The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (On the Calculation of Volume fans might enjoy). My non-fiction this week is Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Paladin's Grace" by T Kingfisher What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Little boats in their jammies near dusk

If you think about the sea—like really sit and chew on it for a good few minutes—you go a bit mad, don’t ya?

Please join us for a workshop run by Priti Gulati Cox, "Resistance Embroidery" on Feb 15, Mar 15, and Apr 19th, online. This workshop benefits the Sameer Project. Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/res...

Read this if you're: New & finding your way Witnessing the unthinkable Losing & discouraged Hurting & want to find your people Wounded & want to quit Read this when things fall apart. #BookSky #RecommendedReading bookshop.org/p/books/read...

Women’s Aid CEO, Sarah Benson, was interviewed on RTE's Morning Ireland this morning about our decision to no longer maintain a presence on the platform X from today. Listen to the full interview: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... 2

now i can’t believe— that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”— 💔

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Love this! 💌📬

The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

On creativity, via Matt Dorfman.

Next up is The Wall (1968) by Marlen Haushofer, which is so far compelling & unsettling: a middle-aged woman wakes up to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. Very interesting to read having just finished On The Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle.

I’m an Irish poet type in employment of the night in Butte Montana, 1891. Assistant by day in the photographic studio of the lunatic Lonegan Crane, I write songs for the saloons and letters for the lonesome in want of a wife. Get paid in dope and drink. The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry.

This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

Can't get out to a quiet space? Don't have time to sit under the trees or on an empty beach for an hour or at night? We can bring quiet in special places to you. All you need is some headphones or Airpods and you can disappear to somewhere special. We have 280+ episodes to explore.

Happy Little Christmas! While Nollaig na mBan is a relatively new* thing, the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th, was known as Notlaic Becc ‘Little Christmas’ or Notlaic Stéille, ‘Christmas of the star’, in early Irish texts. It seems to have marked the end of the season, & 'back to work' time! 1/

Needed it yesterday & today

The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolívar, featuring an introduction by Hugo Chávez, is free to download. "Bolívar foresaw the threat of the US and described it with surprising clarity: 'the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.'"

Hey, if you're looking for a new hobby -- especially one that's analog -- my brilliant friend @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social is hosting a learn to embroider on Zoom this weekend www.eventbrite.com/e/1977418083...

(I'm certain others have said this better, but it's pretty fascist to demand perfection according to any definition; the beauty of transformative justice approaches is knowing humans fail & planning repair+good based on that. We can do the same in tiny scale w/what we make & how we learn 💜)

London writers please boost: our workshop is always open to new members and anyone who would like help getting their novel over the line please get in touch

palestinians protested for george floyd while being genocided. koreans protested for gaza under the threat of martial law. i promise you we can go harder.

We were dreaming on an occupied island at the farthest edge of a trembling nation when it went down. / We had been watching since the eve of the missionaries in their long and solemn clothes, to see what would happen. Joy Harjo www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49619/...

#TodaysPoem is scant solace, but I’ll take the crumbs

Halfway through and loooooving it. Kevin Barry is a fucking demented romantic. #BookSky #CurrentRead

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Quaint Caturday (or should I say Chaturday) in the medieval hilltop village of Biot, France. This little tabby was super lovey but got spooked by an old lady pushing her rolly shopping cart over the cobbles and made a quick getaway!

By the way, being an expert in international law doesn't = *believing* in international law. It just means knowing a lot about it and, unfortunately, its (non)application.

Some people may be considering writing a novel this year. Good idea! I thought I'd share some practicalities that have worked for me as a very busy person who also writes. This is me sharing what I have tested and used. This is not advice. Reread the previous two sentences.

Solidarity rally with the Venezuelan people, 3PM today on the Ha’penny Bridge #SpéirGhorm 🇮🇪

I lent someone a book 25 years ago and sometimes catch myself vaguely expecting to get it back one day

It’s been twenty-two years and I no longer live in the country where I lost it, but there’s an earring I still yearn to find, and I will take any hope I can get 👇🏻

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” - Howard Zinn

Today I can't walk or sit but it was great.

Happy 2026! To start the year, here's a tree ring chiton, a 5cm ocean mollusk that sticks to rocks. Instead of having obvious eyes on a head, it's got 100s of tiny eyes embedded in the hard plates on its back, each with a rock crystal to focus light. Its top is one big eye spying on the world above

Around 2017 I sank into a long depression and all but stopped reading for about three years. I’m still amazed and so relieved to be on the other side of that particular tunnel. Grateful for the artists, writers & visionaries who expand, enrich & shape my world. Thank you thank you. Míle buíochas ✨

Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise Daoibh! 🎉

I’ve mostly given up making New Year’s resolutions for myself, but damn it if my cat isn’t going to accomplish his goals in 2026!

There’s a metaphor in this box but you have to build it yourself ❄️

Another Heaney poem, “Midnight Anvil”, written to mark the year of the new millennium in rural Derry agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/linke...

This haiku by Seamus Heaney, written on his first new year without his father who died in 1986: I.I.87 Dangerous pavements. But I face the ice this year With my father’s stick.

Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye only the things I didn’t do crackle after the blazing dies