the invaluable @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social explains the nuts and bolts of writing that many of us who've been working with those nuts and bolts all our lives have never understood (or maybe it's jut me)

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications! 🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups 💶 €2,000–€5,000 available ⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025 Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis. Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Back in Dublin to celebrate the launch of The Correction of Taste, and learning yet another lesson from my beloved dad: death is no reason to stop publishing.

I so enjoyed this erudite and immersive response to #TheParisExpress.

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

Oh hey, NYT, is it men they want barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen? So hard to determine.....

Flawless script, #TheBalladofWallisIsland made me laugh and cry simultaneously for an hour and a half

Okay, here is why I HATE AI. I'm trying to research poems about going into space, or famous quotes about escaping gravity. As the FIRST RESULT, Google gives me this SHITTY poem IT'S WRITTEN ITSELF, like it's fucking Adrian Mole and I'm John Tydeman at the BBC. HATE HATE HATE.

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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...

91 results. That's every book I've published since 1993, in multiple languages, scraped without permission to train AI. They're robbing us in hopes of replacing us.

Remember that a character saying something is not exactly the author saying it. It’s always bothered me when a character quote is posted like an interview quote. Uh, that was Satan, not Milton.

TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇

hey can anyone tell me what this place name (probably in Virginia or Pennsylvania) on a 1915 military attestation might be? click for full view

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

glorious!

It's Epiphany, which means it's time for Cuddling Kings in Medieval art

Residency for a writer at any stage of their career who is writing a new piece of work for theatre, with private studio, on-site accommodation, and a weekly stipend of £350. DunsPlayFest will stage a scratch reading or rehearsed reading as part of PlayFest 2025. Other awards also. Please share

I see Bookshop.org is offering free delivery from today to 2 Dec, if you're in a book ordering mood. #BookSky 📚

"What's it like?" "Watching incredible actors playing me and my friends and loved ones in an adaptation of my life?" "Yes" "Uh, beyond wild, tbh" web.archive.org/web/20241110...

and Victorian London postal delivery 12 times a day!

Currently my favourite Bluesky account - just about every post suggests a novel I'd eagerly read.

Yeah, as an emigrant I miss my Irish days of being able to vote according to my heart.

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A friendly reminder that we all thought the 2016 election would be a no-brainer. If you're registed, please, don't listen to the polls, don't assume - vote.

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

The new ad from the Harris/Walz campaign. Brilliant.

My son says he wants to be a writer. To prepare him, I’ve made him redo his homework 9 times, then told him ‘I’m sorry but I can’t work out how to market this’ and thrown it out the window.

Got undecided voter friends or family members with kids? Please send them this comic to show them what Project 2025 Republicans want to do to their children! stopproject2025comic.org/comic/childr...

Trains are always, in some sense, a class thing!

well, this poem just wrecked me in the absolute best way, so I'm sharing it with you do that it can wreck you too. ❤️‍🩹

Coming March 2025 from Emma Donoghue

I’m a nonpartisan election official in North Carolina. Take it from me: vote at early voting (One-Stop). They can fix ANYTHING. They can register you on the spot, even. Take your ID, go midweek to early voting, and you won’t have to stress. On Election Day, your and my options are limited. #voting

Goldman Sachs report on AI: not designed to solve the problems it purports to solve; only 1/4 of tasks it wants to automate will be profitable to automate; uses so much ⚡️ that existing & near-term grids can’t support it via @brianbergstrom.bsky.social www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence...

Methane is devastating our climate, but cutting it would be a huge (easy) win. So why are emissions still going up?! 📈 youtu.be/EzLnqj1Xt3U

Opinion | Big Bad Wolf: Houses made of straw, sticks structurally sound

Many congratulations to the British Library staff for the return of the online catalogue. Welcome back!

Thank you for linking to libro.fm, as it's 1. worker-owned, 2. 100% DRM-free, and 3. half of the profits go to your local independent book store, so I love libro.fm to death!

FYI, if you use Dropbox, they automatically opted us all in for “Third-Party AI” which is shady as hell. To fix, log into the desktop site, click on your account icon>settings>third party AI and turn it off.

just heard Barbara Kingsolver read one of my books in a single sitting and no Christmas present will be half as good as that www.elle.com/culture/book...

This really is the greatest correction of all time.

Any film shelved as a tax write-down should immediately and permenantly enter the public domain.

I wonder if we should stop the "we must all do our bit" messaging around emissions and instead constantly point out how much more the mega-rich emit compared to the rest of us