Entering the weekend like the plant-people did back in 1668: focused, a bit anxious, and however still moving. #skystorians

Lots of folks have pointed out all of the banana pants stuff about this tweet, but I guess my question would be, "and then what?" You can research & write your dissertation super fast, then what? What is the destination you're trying to get to? A job? Good luck with that. A book? Ok...? Then what?

IT’S THAT TIME* AGAIN *time to eat springtime edible flowers

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have. This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

It’s March 12 and I’ve already applied for 15 grants this year (and as of today, won two of them 🙌🏼🙌🏼)

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

A small win, but as ever, fuck AI Signed, an expert who’d rather be working in their area of expertise than adding extra admin and headaches because a tech bro feels entitled.

I just wrote a newsletter inviting people to join my new creative coaching program while also saying capitalism is bad. Running a business right now sure is weird (but also, that program is amazing and capitalism is not sustainable so, I’m not wrong)!

AI very much feels like the burning of the Library of Alexandria to me and this is the most overt example as to why.

So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.

“People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next.” 100% this (and excellent, scathing writing by @moryan.bsky.social, which IS exciting, unlike our new AI ‘innovations’)

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

*me, looking around sheepishly at current events* “Hey so I have a book coming out in May and it can teach you how to preserve food and feed your community. Maybe you’d like it?” bookshop.org/a/103396/978...

Imagine trying your damndest to find *more* absentee landlords given Ireland's history. #spéirgorm

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE I ate the one tiny Medlar off my Medlar tree and am pleased to report it tastes kind of like if caramel apple was a fruit.

Meyer lemon water kimchi: I can’t get Meyer lemons for love or money in Ireland, so I absolutely gorge on them every time I see them in the States. Water kimchi with the usual suspects (daikon, cabbage, carrot) plus green garlic, Meyer lemon zest, red chili flake, and dried crushed seaweed.

Working up my fall book tour stops in Ireland for Essential Food Preserving. I’m hoping for a couple at home in Cork but also elsewhere in the country. I’m reaching out to bookstores for talks but, anywhere else you’d like to see a food preserving talk or class?

Great news, just found another bookstore to add to my list of favorites!

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Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

Just going to repeat my oft-said refrain: Your hopelessness helps no one, and saying it’s all over/we’re all doomed/etc just relieves us, individually and collectively, of the control we do have over our selves + future.

Hey babe wake up, a new lofi study music channel just dropped

Currently having a Brain Episode ™ and reserve the right to delete this post!! But I find it very offensive when people on my feed are saying “how dare you not talk about this!!!” The people who need to hear it are not following me! The people who follow me need to hear this:

Book deal announcement! My next book, The Little Book of Lemons, comes out in 2027 from Storey! It’s full of history, recipes, folklore, home care, and a few lil’ lemon spells to bring the magic of lemons into your home. I can’t wait to share it with you!

I’m back in the US for 6 weeks and cannot overemphasize how many cold submarine sandwiches I’m going to eat. Hundreds. Thousands even. I shall lay my weary bones down upon a bed of stacked meat, bread, cheese, and crunchy shredded lettuce and at last be soothed.

Book deal announcement! My next book, The Little Book of Lemons, comes out in 2027 from Storey! It’s full of history, recipes, folklore, home care, and a few lil’ lemon spells to bring the magic of lemons into your home. I can’t wait to share it with you!

For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

Emailed a few agencies to add me to their freelance rosters. One said ‘no way’ because I’m upfront about refusing to use AI. TBH I dodged a bullet: So if you’re looking for writers who want to write your blog, your copy, or your ebooks/whitepapers without AI…let me know!

Just doodlin’ my little doodles

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

IT’S PEEPS DIORAMA TIME (My best Peeps diorama was my Samuel Pepys Peeps, which I now want to redo but with these pop tart Peeps)

could a dying empire do THIS

Keep forgetting there’s a World Cup literally like a mile from my house this year

Cork city friends with cats, I’m now a cat sitter on this website and you can hire me to watch your cats (and water your plants, feed your sourdough starter, etc). I’ll be back in mid-April to take care of your creatures! catinaflat.ie/pet-sitter/9...

Thank you @savorpod.bsky.social friends! Also happy to answer questions if folks, say, go to the food bank and end up with a ton of carrots or something else that you aren’t sure how best to use!

Librarian friends (and adjacent archives, museums, etc folk): I’m developing a Finding Your Food Story class that includes imagining decolonial classification systems for our own stories. I’m looking to add to my list of examples: what are your favorites?

Y’all I just love Cork so much

A friend and I were talking about Alysa Liu’s figure skating win and she said “the joy she she displayed honestly reminded me a lot of you when you’re doing your work” and whew, there’s no better compliment out there.

Hey friend, wake up, my new book comes out in two months and is so excited to meet you bookshop.org/a/103396/978...

Great news everyone: I had a dream that I was laying in a warm, comfy bed and when I woke up, I was in fact in a warm, comfy bed. 10/10, love this life, obviously also love my warm, comfy bed.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I mute/block/unfollow any account that uses AI text and graphics, no matter how much I like you as a person or agree with the sentiment of the post. I love y’all but come on, our water and land matter more than AI. Just use your brain to say the thing.

Hey a reminder that my 9 month creative expansion + strategy group opens next month. It also includes Reiki I training, if you want that. And I offer bartering as well as accept payments if you want to join. Get in touch with questions! rootsandbranches.squarespace.com/symbiosis

I don’t need your Valentine’s gifts, I can buy my own

New episode is out, and it's a corker! Listen to The Delicious Legacy, discussing fermented dairy with Dr Simi Rezai-Ghassemi in lieu of her new book "Fermented Dairy of Central Asia" coming out this Sunday 15th! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #podcast #food #dairy #fermentation #cheese

One of my great joys is buying used books and having convos with past and future fellow readers of that copy via marginalia (at least 3 people have read this one before me)

Oh idk, might fuck around and build a class where we create our own anti-colonial classification schemes for our personal archives Then weave that in with food writing and discovery through food research (I’m a food writer with a PhD in Library and Info Science so this is a real me thing to do)

lot of people clowning on this headline but this is a brave thing for a scholarly society to do and im gonna send it to scholarly societies im a member of to serve as an example of what we could be doing