With 100+ comments, my essay on what a small group of us in a rural Irish location are doing to support each other as people ageing without children is getting a LOT of attention! jodyday.substack.com/p/whos-going...

What is your relationship to the concept of 'legacy' as someone without children? Mine is complex, and it's changed RADICALLY over time. Free to read: jodyday.substack.com/p/leaving-no...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... This podcast interview with me dropped today. I listened to it in the bath this morning- it's a goodie!

‘Eldering in a Time of Collapse’, Sat 29 March 2025, 8pm GMT (Free, live & recorded). Looking forward to this conversation very much this Saturday - thx for inviting me back @gatewaywomen.bsky.social More info and registration below: gateway-women.com/collapse/

"As our world's natural and social structures continue to unravel, steady hearts, minds and souls will be needed to hold us. This has always been one of the roles of Elders. But in a society that lionises youth and demonises aging, what does it mean...?" jodyday.substack.com/p/eldering-i...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry

Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942. Not wearing a suit. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing. Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

I COULD get in the top ten... if a few more people bought my lovely escapist book for 99p...That would be your good deed for the day, AND you'll get a really good read! 🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️ geni.us/B0DMP344XWau...

Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.

A considered piece by Yuthika Girme at Simon Frazer University, Canada.

For Valentine's Day, let's remember that LOVE is a liberatory energy. "Let’s liberate love, and each other, any and every way we can." Free to read at jodyday.substack.com/p/lets-flood...

So looking forward to my hard copy arriving in a few weeks. So much of this book has stayed with me, like a soft moss growing on my heart!

I'm away from Ireland right now, but would love to have heard the jaws dropping the floor for this segment!

This is good.

Have you had coaching at work around a 'CSI' - 'concealable stigmatised identity' such as sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion, etc? Interviewees needed for PhD research. Email Sophia [email protected]

What a lovely surprise to see my book popping up here! You have cheered me no end!

In honor of black inventors. #BlackHistoryMonth

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

Words To Live By Number 173

Thank you for sharing my work! X

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

Oh no, David Lynch. Hard to overstate the impact Twin Peaks had on me as a teen.

Changed my life. Probably led to me writing the weird shit I write today. Thank you, David Lynch. Enjoy messing up the afterlife.

Love this article from the BBC's @georginarannard.bsky.social So Women holding the power in Ancient Times was widespead! We knew the misogynists were gas lighting us.

Be the person your cat thinks you are.

15 brilliant short books to get you back in the habit of reading. From Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan to Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, a classic doesn’t have to be 500 pages long. Darragh Geraghty recommends some personal favourites www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ~ Cherokee,

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged. "Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?

I was happy to add my voice to this article, which is the latest in a series focused on being childless and childfree. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01... #childless #childfree

Would be nice to live through fewer of the main episodes of history for a while and more of the ad breaks

Instead of "I apologize for the delay," write "thank you for your patience." In lieu of "sorry for the oversight," write "if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha." Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁

They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty. They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment. That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT. 👁️❤️🐶🐕

January's Gateway Women newsletter just gone out. Been writing it for 14 years now! Sadly features an RIP for my darling Parsnip who left us yesterday. Lots more than that of interest to childless/free folks around the world. bit.ly/gw-jan25

😂 ‘Ireland Buried in Snow.’ - Garron Noone. #Sneachta #SpeirGorm youtube.com/shorts/GwssD...

"It’s not just my old age that is unimaginable, it’s the fact that everything I imagined was immutable, isn’t. Not just the cities, but the landscapes, the trees, the birds, the insects, the seas, the libraries, the poems, the certainties. And of course, the very me-ness of me too will pass."

Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year Just 7h30mins of daylight in Ireland. By Summer Solstice on 21 June it will be 17 hours

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

Starts in 1-hour! Free, live & recorded webinar: Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen on 'Solo Elderhood'. Whatever your partnership or reproductive identity you are very welcome! bit.ly/gwe-solo #AWOC #AgeingWithoutChildren

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Yay! This is the feminist menopause book we need! Go Stella! x

let’s go to wistman’s wood and put our hand softly at the center

#speirgorm appeal!