Old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end up being an April Fools hoax story www.thejournal.ie/woman-restri...

Beautiful things on our Ring doorbell.

There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Utah!! "The arena has a roughly 15,000-seat capacity, according to the university. An estimated 1,000 more packed the arena floor, and about 4,000 crowded outside the arena..." utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/13/b...

One for all the children’s book people. #SpeirGorm

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Video emerges of aid workers being fired on in Gaza - contradicting Israeli account of deadly attack

Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

Get Creative: On writing poetry - pinning the poem to the page www.rte.ie/culture/2025... @jesstraynor.bsky.social

They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds. Steff Reed singing to the #HandsOff crowd as people patiently waited in the rain before the joyous march down fifth avenue

WOW! Today was amazing. Proud to join over 100,000 people marching in New York City. Disabled folks want to protest too! I had my stool and took breaks, not easy. Let’s not forget the MILLIONS disabled by #LongCOVID and others, who are marching with us in spirit. #HandsOff #HandsOffMedicaid

#Spéirghorm #irishpol Strip search the fucking war planes NOT the mothers.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

@bansheepress.bsky.social 2025 titles announcement day! 🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to share Harbour Doubts, a new collection by @bebeashley.bsky.social & Filly, a novel in verse by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social with you all!

Your occasional gentle reminder that this place is not the other place. 💪🙂 Giving a post a Like on Bluesky won't boost its visibility (ie there's no Twitter-style algorithm here). If your intention is to draw wider attention to a post, you need to repost (and/or tag).

How is it right that big tech and bad actors simply steal work that writers have poured their (very living) hearts into? Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training - Sign the Petition! chng.it/npMY55XsYP via @UKChange

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Spring sprang Sunday, so Sid and I headed out for a balmy read of the last saucy @bansheepress.bsky.social edition. I'll be honest, Sid peed on the daffs. I read. #spring #bansheelit #irishwriting

Feeling Brigidy? You can buy ‘Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine’ in Ireland, UK, now USA, and 📦 worldwide. You’ll find links and more info on this anthology, to which @oonaghmontague.bsky.social and I contributed a collaborative poem called ‘Here’, here: shaunagilliganwriter.com/publications...

Oh dear. I can feel a pile of time wasting ahead. Quick. No one be interesting on here. #Irishwriters

Finally joined. I have no clue how to find all my writer friends. WHERE IS YOU PEOPLES?