So Micheál Martin has time as Taoiseach to critique a drone incursion by Russia but has not critiqued a actual drone attack by Israel, on a ship with many Irish citizens and elected representatives, on a peaceful humanitarian mission? #Spéirgorm

There is no shame in reserving empathy for the downtrodden and withholding it from the wearer of the boot.

WE NEEDED ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

you see the wonderful thing about *my* petard is that it's used exclusively to hoist only *other people* allow me to demonstrate

the vague, made-up sounding job titles on #traitorsirl are so great. logistics therapist. vibe consultant. estate agent.

so obsessed with paudie, they can’t catch you out if you don’t know what the fuck is going on #traitorsIRL

‘Rather than defend and protect the norms of the genetic family against the predations of the market, we can and should advance a critique of private property radical enough to posit neonatal humans as people who are a collective responsibility’

And I’m thinking Moby Dick doesn’t bite so much as he swallows.

the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat

Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck; on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that very place, is the thickest part of him.

We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021. Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm RSVP: [email protected]

They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.

A steak, a steak, ere I sleep!

I promise not to do this tonight at O'Bhéal go béal 😉 www.obheal.ie/blog/

Can’t believe* I get to use this again *I can believe it

CAPTALISM - dashare.zone ADMIN

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

I am excited for the Traitors Ireland but still have some concerns. This country is too small. Like I'm worried I'll spend two weeks calling someone a conniving psychopath on here, only to learn that they're my cousin.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

Can't believe nobody mentioned @cmatbaby.bsky.social rendering Bertie unelectable with a single song www.thejournal.ie/bertie-ahern...

Timeline’s full of the worst men in the world using the legal systems of 2 countries to draw attention to their mantrums over the existence of trans people. May they die roaring. Solidarity with everyone in the trans community, always 🏳️‍⚧️

This whole story is so telling of the weaselly ways the Irish Government negotiates its complicity with the genocide in Gaza. They know there is popular appetite for action but they evade and obfuscate, terrified of the US reaction to unilateral moves on Israel. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

As for the great head itself, that was doing as well as could be expected.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee

Nice try, Hemingway, but "Sharon Keogan nominates Graham Linehan" does it in only five words

Nick 'Make Crime Illegal' Delehanty and Maria fucking Steen are also lining up to throw their pointy hats in the ring. Might need an induced coma until October 24th

This will be his 5th time running for office, 2nd run for President, and he knows less about the role's functions and limitations than a 14 year old sleeping through CSPE class. Fuck off Peter, you're not 'just saying what people are thinking' lots of us think you're a dogwhistling ignoramus.

nothing says party like 4 pounds of butter on the kitchen counter! just a couple tickets left, join us tomorrow to celebrate theater, art, and civic engagement and to support the museum after musk's theft of public funds www.hullhousemuseum.org/neighborhood...

PREORDER: The Indigo Hours by Maria Sledmere is an immersive, radiant text that moves between autofiction, essay, and poetic prose to document the textures of contemporary longing. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil

I think the British labour party is now probably to the right of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on most issues. Which is interesting/mad for an Irish person

Francis Bacon, by John Deakin for Vogue, 1952 via Tui Sankamol

once again leviathan returns to his native profundities, sliding along beneath the surface as before; but, alas! never more to rise

Delighted to be reading at Ó bhéal go béal in Cork next Monday. Poems from the new and newest books, featuring some Seán Ó'Ríordáin and some birds

So a tiny violin, mandolins and a German walking stick violin from c1820 all in Nice

As Naoise Dolan says: “Israel’s Western collaborators prioritise their own short-term comfort above others’ lives — some mindlessly, some gleefully, some through copious mental gymnastics. Regardless of the internal process, the outcome is identical: Palestinians continue to be bombed and starved.

“At the edge of the abyss he clings to pencils.” —Elias Canetti; tr. Joel Agee

Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen.

there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems / to the absurdity of not writing poems” - Wislawa Szymborska

It’s ‘Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck

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admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

saving this for sooner and later

Huge respect for Naoise and for @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and everyone on the Sumud Flotilla. Go seola sibh le cóir ghaoithe 🇵🇸

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

wondrous devices and dexterities