It’s a collage type of day. 😉 16 little snippets of details taken from a variety of my embroideries. I hope it brightens your timeline… 🪡🌿🌺✨🌱🪻🪷 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife

I'm sure that Jimmy Wales has many bad opinions. But Wikipedians aren't a pro-Wales cult. He's not growing rich off clicks. Some very rich, very awful people are determined to discredit the last mega-website that isn't run for profit and being actively made worse in the pursuit of that objective.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

I am performing WE ARE AN ARCHIPELAGO this Saturday as part of Westival in Westport, accompanied by Patrick O'Laoghaire of I Have a Tribe! 7:30pm. Come see us! westival.ie/products/we-...

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

‘We offer our soldiers socialism to go abroad and defend capitalism, and I was too poor to say no.’ Great points, delivered in a blunt, articulate way.

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Can I ask my writer/poet/artist friends here to consider signing this statement in support of Sally Rooney and the right to peaceful protest in democratic society? chng.it/DP4sSJ9N4d #sallyrooney #palestineaction #peacefulprotest #democraticsociety

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

I wrote this in January, about the issues we face when responsibility for covering the irony-poisoned and extremely-online trolls of the far right, falls to journalists who can't rotate a PDF. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...

We need to treat social media as humanity's demented id - which is pretty much what it is - and stop feeling like everything on here is a thought out policy position that requires a response. Everyone on the internet is basically mad & drunk & has a real job/family somewhere they're neglecting.

Rookie numbers y’all.

‘Sharp, funny & vivid, these stories are brilliantly attuned to the messiness of life.’ @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ‘Gritty & soulful, spiky & incisive...A memorable debut collection.’ @colinbarrett.bsky.social @davetynan.bsky.social's We Used to Dance Here published today.

'You’re always trying to write what you don’t feel is out in the world already. Dave Tynan's We Used to Dance Here will be out in the world this Thursday!

Verification means we can establish what is true in ways we can trust, through journalism, science, courts, audits, transparency. Deliberation means we can reason together across differences, in parliaments, the press, social movements. Accountability means power can be held to account.

To expand on some of the points I make in this, we often talk about democracy as if it lives or dies on elections. But elections are just one part of the picture. At its core, a healthy democracy depends on three functions working together: Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability, aka VDA.

Amazing insight in this

Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

the turtle in particular keeps cracking me up he’s so ready for a scrap

I was Obama staff in 08 and I am begging you @barackobama.bsky.social please dispense with the causation and this what it is: open fascism. You should be losing your g-d mind, they should have to cut your mic….

Equivalent to the entire population of Ireland turned out to protest Trump and fascism this weekend

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Millions

some founding mothers would’ve planned for this level of buffoonery

the founding fathers failed to anticipate how stupid we’d get

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

MAGA calls most immigrants freeloaders and criminals, but when ICE wants to make quota they show up at workplaces around the country No judicial arrest warrant in sight because they're not after criminals 44 "administrative" arrests. 44+ lives upended www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Tonight on Arena I'll be talking to Sarah Moss about her new novel Ripeness, @erinfornoff.bsky.social and Colm Keegan about their spoken word roadshow Every Blooming Thing, and... 🧵

Looks like there were at least 34 transgender saints this whole time

If you're trying not to fall in love, it's already too late. Jessica Coles, in Slips Slips 📰 ❤️

Launched my book this weekend - you can get it below. An epic (true-ish) story told in poetry about a 99 year old man moving back to the island of his birth and the friendship that sustains him. . salmonpoetry.com/details.php?...

This stat is staggering... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Across the board, every institution has proven inadequate to the moment, because they're all too concerned with what acknowledging the truth might risk them. So we keep teetering ever more impossibly far over the abyss

The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion

5 mins before I had to run for a Dart & I got to congratulate @rurooie.bsky.social on her forthcoming #YA verse novel #shorelines w/ @littleislandbooks.bsky.social, give Marta @gutterbookshop.bsky.social a hug, & celebrate @erinfornoff.bsky.social 's new epic verse tale launching this evening! #busy

The logic is simple: if success is earned, then failure must mean you didn’t deserve it. So we blame ourselves. Or we blame others. But always through the lens of merit: who tried hard enough, and who didn’t.

Now add corrosive meritocracy. We grow up believing in meritocracy: work hard, make good choices, and you’ll succeed. But for many people, the promised rewards, security, recognition, belonging, never come.

We post, share, build audiences, perform identity. But platforms extract the value, through ads, data, and engagement. We’re visible, but precarious. Empowered, but only within boundaries we didn’t set. That’s digital feudalism.

Let’s start with digital feudalism. In medieval feudalism, peasants worked land they didn’t own, under rules they didn’t choose, for lords who profited from their labour. Today, we work for attention, on platforms we don’t own, governed by algorithms we don’t control.

Making lighthearted jokes about various historical popes and conclaves, mmm? A bunch of G. K. Chestertons, are we?

that’s not true about women. no, vaccines are proven. ai doesn’t work like that. that’s not what a tariff is

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Today’s @irishtimes.com article highlights how Ireland’s unpaid or low-paid family leave schemes, combined with the high cost of childcare, are financially inaccessible for many families, leading to low uptake, especially among fathers. www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...