A couple of years ago, I bought a new version of my (ancient style but recently-ish purchased) watch because it was cheaper than getting a new battery fitted to the old watch. Today, that watch is more than 25 euro to buy to repeat. Wonder if I can get a battery.....

Did you know there is a Wikimedian in space? In 2019, Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch made the first-ever Wikipedia edit from space during her mission on the International Space Station. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

It's not an hypothetical "if" bsky.app/profile/thej...

The Muslim Sisters of Éire will not be able to provide their much appreciated soup run to folks in need due to the protest and the blocking of O’Connell Street. "This is especially difficult given that we have been running this service outside the GPO for 11 years."

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue. When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

There's only really one furriner responsible for the fuel prices and he is a funny colour but less brown and more.... orange

So i just saw an ad for dupe.com which said it would find me a cheaper 'dupe' version of what I was looking for. I put in a 135 euro side board, and it found me something similar for 4000 dollars. Um... i think I'll stick with my 135 euro find, thanks.

Watching THE PITT and I really like it, I do. But people seem to forget that when it comes to the workplace, they are utterly and completely replaceable. Even when you are an Albert Einstein or a Marie Curie, the work will go on, the people will go on. You need to look after yourself first.

Damn. It was a glorious morning and I was going to take the dog out later only the skies just opened

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

Not an author, but you should check out www.amazon.com/Bone-Blood-B...

In ZZ Top, the guy without a beard was called Mr Beard....

I actually can't believe we're on the way back. It seems so unreal. I mean yay but also o.O

This rebirth of the prologue discussion has gotten under my skin. Stay tuned for my full thoughts

Uk tv often had 2-3 episodes, granted of 1.5-2 hours, so probably equivalent to 4-6 hour long episodes. It's not how many episodes, it's what you do with them. But this also means good shows cancelled after a couple of seasons, and I hate that.

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility and this tiny cranky middle-aged feminist just wants to say she loves you and our cause is the same cause.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Status report, "Shilling For Heating Oil [REDUX]:" Have just changed local suppliers & am hoping to fill the tank w/enough to hold me till the fall (and geopolitics [ideally] be damned). Want to assist? Grab nine books about young #wizards, cheapish! (Not in the UK, sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET (1/2)

I'd care more if dairymilk still tasted like dairymilk. Unfortunately, it's horrible now.

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

I got an unexpected book deal thing and ROSES IN AMBER is currently FREE at Amazon! "There is a story of a beast, and a merchant’s daughter, and a curse that must be broken. This is not—quite—that story." www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZIH3Y...

I've been colouring a lot recently.

I got an unexpected book deal thing and ROSES IN AMBER is currently FREE at Amazon! "There is a story of a beast, and a merchant’s daughter, and a curse that must be broken. This is not—quite—that story." I think it's only free through tomorrow, so get it now! :) www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZIH3Y...

Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non binary people are real. And they need to hear you say it.

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

Join us this Thursday to find out more about Bone & Blood, as well as what else our Guest of Honour @cemurphy.bsky.social is up to!

Potterheads, I hope the nostalgia was worth crushing little girls' dreams you nostalgia fucking twats. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

“Falling on hard times” is not good enough of a reason to go join ICE. Go sell some fish plates ho.

Omg he's just gorgeous

My parents grew up in a country where TB was common. I didn't. People like Pearl Dunlevy, Dorothy Price, and Noel Browne are why.

I saw this and thought the cybermen had converted the tardis.....

Cackles.... so familiar....

Omg. This is horrific.

Once again, I'm crowdsourcing a list of Hugo eligible works by Irish / Irish resident creators www.facebook.com/carol.connol...

Today I am 60! Join me on my comics blog as I waffle on about some of my all-time favourite comics from the past six decades! michaelowencarroll.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/h... #RustyStaples #comics

Additional tickets have been released for Dr Deirdre Foley's talk on Wednesday 25th March from 6-7pm in the Wood Quay Venue, 'Women and Girls in Jacob's Biscuit Factory, c.1911-1977'. Reserve your spot at the link below!🔗 @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/women-and-...

Ramadan has officially ended. Eid Mubarak! Hoping that we take the lessons of Ramadan into the year and that we offer more compassion to each other and commit to lessening suffering how we can.

Start a newspaper/media empire, hire all the journalists who are into real journalism and ruthlessly create a free press worthy of my time.

I knew tiny bits of this but nothing like the whole. The entire thread is well worth it!

Can I remind folks that you get the gold IF and only IF you CATCH the leprechaun, can keep an eye on him til he gives you the gold AND you survive the encounter and the aftermath. (You may need to leave the country immediately, certainly get to holy ground and douse yourself in holy water)

You know, growing up with the phrase by Daniel O'Connell: "To be sure he was born in Ireland but to be born in a stable does not make a man a horse" meant I didn't realise how much he "should" have been identified as Irish but he so very much is not. Truthfully the Duke of Wellington was 'Irish'

"as an ally I think that we are missing out on so much opportunity if we ignore 50% of the population"... "as a father of daughters"... I get justifying why we need to include women in the world but women don't deserve opportunity because of a reason that needs justification. Women are people.

I think I might actually block this account from pique

I don't make the rules

8 so far when I last looked. Still a new release top book if not actually number 1 this morning, though it has flickered with that other book before.... Review if you bought it, buy it if you haven't yet... 😘

It ate my brain too which is slightly puzzling since I didn't write it, I didn't do the art etc. But I am delighted it's doing well and want everyone to read it.

It's in the top 10!!!

URSULA! URSULA LOOK I AM NEXT TO YOU IN FAIRY TALE BESTSELLERS!!!!! @tkingfisher.com! 😍😍😍😍 (let me tell you, friends and readers, it is PRETTY GREAT to see myself next to the preeminent fairy-tale-reteller of our era!)