yes, of course yer a writer if you use AI, in the same way a cheese grater creates cheese.

Beautiful thread. RIP to the Master.

On John Blanche stuckness.ghost.io/john-blanche/

Paperback cover reveal! Out August 13th with @grantabooks.bsky.social

@ciaraioch.bsky.social Thanks for the... repost? RB? Anyway, thanks!

Paperback cover reveal! Out August 13th with @grantabooks.bsky.social

Legendary photographer John Claridge died on Sunday aged 82. Growing up in West Ham, he photographed the East End in the sixties and took more pictures there than anyone else in that era. spitalfieldslife.com/2026/05/26/s...

my grandma calls hairless cats “nude cats” and other cats “dressed cats”

I'm not of the belief the Travolta outfit was that crazy. Would I wear it myself? Look I'm not John Travolta and neither are you.

Tuam should be the focus of anyone worried about religious overreach into people’s lives, not ‘Sharia law’. What a ghoul

well i don't think that. put me in da newspaper

Tony once surprised me with a wonderful gift during a dark time: the artwork he designed for the SORCERER vinyl soundtrack, in poster form. Per Tony: “Only a few exist. I have one. Friedkin has one. And now you have one.”

www.rte.ie/culture/2026... Includes me! May 22nd. (That's not me that's Elif Shafak)

EXTREMELY NORMAL GUY COMING UP WITH THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW YOU COULD USE HIS NEW TECHNOLOGY: you could watch yourself fuck a dead woman

General 'Ralph Fiennes has been on some run' post

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

On a day I was talking to IT colleagues who all got laid off with me and can't even get an interview in this market, I'm simply thrilled that the Minister for Innovation is boosting AI and completely ignoring the growing unemployment issue.

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the past week, part four. At least 2,167 people have been killed in Lebanon since March 2 and 7,061 wounded. The dead include at least 172 children and 260 women. More here: www.instagram.com/p/DXKtLrhDqC...

Remember Harry Kane played for Spurs

I would like to upgrade my gravy boat to a gravy warship.

Incredible run from the boy Vance. Let him at everything.

Chinatown but it’s data centres stealing all the water

[Chuck Schumer scavenging through the post-apocalyptic rubble for scraps of food] He's gone too far. Someone should do something about this

Almost all millennials and the oldest members of Gen Z can say that the US president has been a white guy born in the summer of 1946 for the majority of our life. Bill Clinton: August 19, 1946 George W. Bush: July 6, 1946 Donald Trump: June 4, 1946

Catch me @ilfdublin.bsky.social next month

I'm delighted we've got Harvey on our team 🇮🇪

The thing about AI is that I understand there are tasks you would like technology to do for you, makes all the sense in the world, but I have no idea why any of those tasks would be “write a book” or “perform a song” or “act in a movie” or a lot of the rest of this shit

got this in the mail today

Nominative determinism.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Civilisation has been in a moral and artistic nosedive ever since they made it possible to play as Bowser in Mariokart, and win races for evil

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

My book‘s been out six months. Published by @grantabooks.bsky.social 🎂

"According to my calculations, from 1989 to 2014, battle-related deaths from cross-border conflicts averaged fewer than 15,000 a year. Beginning in 2014, the average has risen to over 100,000 a year." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

humans of new york ass photo

I’m in the Irish Times today praising the Basic Income for Artists.

Single coolest rock ever found?

RIP Andrew Ranken The backbone of The Pogues’ sound. Versatile, propulsive & joyous drumming. He was one the many reasons I loved watching them live. youtu.be/ItFwHE2n8Vs?...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

New collage. Wolf Tickets. A4. Built around a Corbijn shot of Tom Waits. Scalpel and old magazines. Analogue, baby.

Two new books from @benpester.bsky.social (collection of stories & a novel). Couldn't be happier. The story collection, Sail Away Land, publishing in June. www.thebookseller.com/rights/grant...

And Uncut Gems got zero nominations. ZERO.

Tickets going weirdly fast for this. It's made for the cinema. Free but ticketed. ifi.ie/film/ifi-tra...

Saipan had nothing on this.