Alarming isn't it. It isn't demand for timber causing Amazon deforestation though it's land grabs for cattle ranching due to demand for cheap meat. It's time we all realised that it comes at a huge environmental cost.

Can't help but wonder what kind of medical bills this poor fella Jack Hughes is going to face when he gets home 😬 Someone tell him to get those teeth sorted before he leaves Italy.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

I wish we could trial this here in Donegal. Last time there was a power cut the stars were amazing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Paraguay is leveraging its ~100% renewable electricity grid, powered by Itaipú and Yacyretá dams, to drive a green industrial transition, focusing on green hydrogen production, manufacturing, and sustainable agriculture. www.sfa-oxford.com/lithox/criti...

My Grandma used to walk down the shops twice a week (about 2 miles) and I don't think she ever rode a bike. She did no other exercise and hadn't run in about fifty years when she died at 89. I think she was onto something 🤔 share.google/uXdfUuS7xHld...

Was going to take my kids to the cinema to see Fire and Ash then clocked the run time. 197 minutes! For a kids' film? Yeah, no. Think I'll find something else to do instead.

Someone likened life to playing Space Invaders, getting increasingly harder and faster until you die

Until they address the glaringly obvious issues of poor/no kitchen/dining facilities and lack of time alloted to actually eat the meals provided then they're just organising deck chairs on the Titanic. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Think I must be getting old. Have seen both Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another and honestly, I don't get it. Best picture nominations? Really? They had nothing new or original to say. Just meh popcorn movies. As for the F1 nomination... wtf is that about?

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're warned the Russians could land here and attack critical infrastructure, but nobody gives a shit that climate change has already landed here and fucked up critical infrastructure.

@mariannedoherty.bsky.social I discovered this book via your wonderful #KidsBooksFriday tag. I was a little dubious at first when I discovered it was written in blank verse as I suspected it might be a worthy 'literary' choice rather than an enjoyable read for kids. Boy was I wrong!

When's the last time a children's book made you cry? For me it was last night, reading Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year to my two boys. #KidLit

Wow.

A missed opportunity here not to keep this in the HSE and use it as emergency accommodation for trainee nurses and doctors or for parents and relatives of patients in nearby hospitals. www.thejournal.ie/baggot-stree...

Bought two boxes of jammy joeys because they were well dated and would save me another trip to the shop for a few weeks. Yeah... a few weeks. No, you shut up.

My next book? 😆

Have wasted half my afternoon trying to generate a photo from my architect's house plans using ChatGPT. I want to switch up plaster/wood/stone finishes and I can honestly say there isn't a hope of this shite stealing anyone's job any time soon.

My spirit animal 🥰

The stock market is just upmarket mugging.

I've been doing some thinking about middle grade and chapter books and humour, and what TYPES of humour you see in them. This is wholly unscientific and I already disagree with myself on where I've put books but....in case it nudges owt loose in your brain, here! #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

If you haven't watched this already, you really should 🤯

@daraobriain.bsky.social 'I don't usually do this sort of thing but...' just want to let you know your gig in Derry last night was the best I've ever seen. You wrapped a lifetime up in 2 hours and made it feel like 20 minutes. I've never been so emotionally invested in a comedy gig. Well done 👏🏻

This book tackles difficult relationship issues - ones usually avoided in children's literature e.g. blended families, pregnancy loss, childhood illness/death. Particularly striking was the parental love theme and how one character's experience of abuse had left him feeling unworthy of love #KidLit

Feeling very chilled this morning after a trip to my favourite bar followed by Dara O'Briain's Re:Creation gig last night. I've always loved Dara's comedy but last night he really stepped it up a gear. This tour will surely secure his place amongst the greats.

There's a lot of people who have perfected the humble brag. I'm not one of them. My little fella got approached to act as stunt double on a film being shot locally. We spent the whole day today on an actual film set and it was fucking awesome! They even gave him his own little trailer ☺️

The amount of responses questioning why they needed to tell us the athlete was bi and I honestly can't tell if people are being serious or not because Bluesky 😭

Old, rich, men poison us with microplastics; hoarde wealth so we can't afford a home; insist we commute long distances to work long hours miles from our family's support; avoid paying tax towards affordable state childcare; then tell us off for not having enough babies share.google/8mCkb8VvOGqh...

I wonder how much of the growing problem of childhood obesity is as a result of sports becoming less visible. The olympics? Behind a paywall? Come on! I have fond memories of watching all those weird and wacky sports as a kid then heading outside to try and recreate them with my friends.

I have just lost all respect for Pierre Gassly. Florida? Really Pierre? #F1 share.google/EfBt49hyFP88...

Think I might need a sit down 😲 Just gave the eleven year old a huge bowl of vegetable fried rice - he ate every scrap and said it was gorgeous. 6 months ago it was 'absolutely disgusting.'

Oh this is just perfect.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spent all morning cleaning the house and have arrived at the 'gets better before it gets worse stage.' I have now made the fatal error of sitting down for a little break. Lads, I might just have to cut my losses and move out.

It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse. Pay farmers to rewild NOW.

They knew what they were doing 👏🏻

Last week, I stepped over this railing onto the beach below 😯 I am very short. #speirgorm #Atlantic #Beach

I have no words for this. Truly incomprehensible. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Looking for some advice lovely Bluesky people. Do you need special permission from an author/publisher to do a story walk for primary school children? It would be a limited run of a day or two in a public park? Appreciate any input or ideas. @mariannedoherty.bsky.social would you know? Thanks 🙏🏻

After watching Sentimental Value, this made me cackle youtu.be/qS5R4JImMZ0?...

Anyone else find it horribly creepy (borderline abusive?) that an 11 year old child is being asked to deliver such sexually explicit dialogue as Egg's character does in this week's episode of The Hedge Knight? How is this okay?

Ah I love the imagination required to cobble together a school packed lunch on the Tuesday morning after a bank holiday weekend. Walking around Supervalu, I'm reminded of a school trip to Bulgaria in the winter of 1991.

I'm supporting #ReadItForward2026! If you buy LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos during February, then @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! Buy here - why not hoover up a few more books too! uk.bookshop.org/lists/read-i...

Completely ignoring the advice of TLC, here's another waterfall I visited today. #speirgorm

A sketchy scramble over rocks as the sea threatened to eat us whole. Our risk rewarded with the sight of a secret waterfall. #speirgorm

They're at it again lads! #Speirgorm

Guys! Guys! Guys! Guys! Who wants to play chicken with the waves?? Argggggghhhhhhh!

It's horrible that refugee children in Inishowen are being denied school swimming lessons because they can't travel across the border to Derry with the rest of their class. Even worse when you consider the drowning tragedy of two refugee teens in Buncrana last year. share.google/nIEK3wWO56IS...

Spent the morning mountain biking through the forest around the edges of this wonderfully quiet lake . The air was deliciously crisp, the water almost viscous. It was bliss. #speirgorm