It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Sharp breath of moonlight Starting here we launch again Into the same dark.

Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...

And then. Having fed well and a drop taken On a night of high air. Around the ring to the beach, Good walk says he. Turkey farts.

Couldn't be snugger. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Antidote to the madness.

The royal family could eradicate homelessness if it chose to but they prefer this performative bullshit. Shame on them. Wankers. bsky.app/profile/reut...

Fanny Pads.

We’re at a football match and the club bar has an info display thing on which I think they’ve forgotten to disable the touch screen. Two small boys have realised this and I’m delighted to say they have immediately used it to Google the word ‘poo’. Top work, lads.

One gift card to rule them all. And in the darkness bind them.

The Clash Michael Schenker Group Status Quo The House of Love Stone Roses

And copies available to buy here (delivery within Ireland included) at thebookshop.ie/lisa-coen-ed...

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Suicide.

The most factual fact there is.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

good morning

Motherfucking wind farms…

Teardrops, Womack & Womack. Awful mirthless clumping thing that lumbers around going absolutely nowhere. Shite 90s disco slop, horrible, really horrible. There.

You'll never walk alone.

No other investigative platform solely dedicated to football. Would be a shame to lose these guys. Roll up. josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...

Good luck Trent, always a Red. #YNWA.

Champions. #LFC

Memories.

You'll Never Walk Alone. God bless them all.

Europe could Crowdfund Ukraine. Starting with €10 each. Even if only 25% of the population donated that would immediately provide $1.8 billion. Make a start here : u24.gov.ua

Rest in peace Phil Hammond. #YNWA

Two poems, Absence by Derek Mahon and Swineherd by Eilean Ní Chuilleanain, both from the Lifelines 2 collection. #irishpoetry

Cartoon from 2004, done mostly to give the office thesaurus an airing. Hearing later that he'd had a rough time, I was slightly worried that accusing him of owning a cattery which was merely a hollow facade might have been a bit unkind, but it turned out that he liked it, so I sent him the artwork.