I have had the great privilege of authoring this report on barriers for ISL interpreters and I’ll be presenting at its launch next week in Dublin. Attendance is free and the event has ISL and English interpretation You can register attendance at the link www.eventbrite.ie/e/report-lau...

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No!!! So much for hoping to meet him eventually....

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

oh hey i have a BOOK out today! #booksky #romancesky #paranormalromance #ProfessionalWhimsicalSkedaddling #IrishDance meets a DJ gorilla in a story you'll (wait for it) go ape for! O.O www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX2V218...

Hey look what i'm reading:

This particular text would have more chance of being effective on me if I had either an AIB or a Paddy Power account. But PSA for others out there, this one is 100% a scam.

Hey look, anti-hug clothes... @carolconnolly.bsky.social Pity about the price www.facebook.com/share/r/1A59...

HELP ME PLEASE There is a competition to win a Jim Fitzpatrick book (or runners up prints) and I don't know the answer to one of the questions and I don't have all the newsletters kept What is the name of artwork 28 in my book Celtia? #jimfitzpatrick #Celtia #irishart #celticart #irishmythology

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Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social I’ve been hanging on to this one for a while but I think tonight’s the night. It may not be true WeirdTok but it is genuinely joyous.

THIS BOOKSHOP IS OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND SELLS COCKTAILS. EVERYONE CONVERGE ON PALERMO NOW. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

Seriously, just because I didn't buy a ticket, I didn't win???

This is for sale on FB marketplace and for the life of me I can't figure out (for sure) what is going on here and why someone carved it:

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

So, I am 99% a writer....

this book is excellent! I'd take one except I already own it.

Totally unacceptable. People threatening politicians, their families and homes with violence and intimidation has been allowed to fester too long. This has to be taken seriously and stamped out before it gets even worse.

This is what happens when they don't see women as human beings.

My dog has effectively bullied me to bed.

Good news story. Totally sweet Involves dogs and penguins www.facebook.com/share/r/15ra...

This I might watch....

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

A Touch of Shadows is free for a limited time. Start Wren and Finn's adventure here. www.amazon.co.uk/Touch-Shadow... @secondskybooks.bsky.social #romantasy #booksky💙📚 #freebie #kindlefree

Do this. Add this everywhere they put up the flag.

I've been playing #ClashofClans and I just got booted from Irish group Clan #MamaBear for not attacking in a war I didn't sign up for and wasn't party to. I'd been a diligent clan member for about a year... no warnings, nothing. So #Lee, if you're out there? You're a dick. #Speirgorm

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Oh my god, this is so much.

Thing I don't get - crocs "put a blindfold on - when she's in the dark she won't stress"... HUH? Seriously? WHY NOT???

Right so, in this time of global uncertainty and considering the importance of the Irish President as a force for common sense, on talking with my advisor @natural20.bsky.social I have decided that the most sensible action I can take is to put my name forward and stand.

With the text so you can read the story. The video was the proof someone didn't just make it all up. Such a heartbreaking and heart warming story.

This is the most beautiful story.

Saw this online and the truth is this is why when people in historical dramas (and honestly even today) say it's not "natural" for a child to die before their parents I think how priviledged we are to imagine that.

I am grumpy. There are human interactions I don't know how to mimic and I therefore invariably handle it in a way people find puzzling and then I end up feeling bad about it and they are puzzled and maybe offended and there should be a guidebook of examples.

WOW- I wanted to book a flight on AerLingus. So I tried to log in. No joy. So I tried to reset my password. No joy. So I tried the link at the bottom for needing help with log in - the answer in the FAQ didn't apply. So I tried the "Contact us" after further attempts to find an answer 1/2 #AerLingus

I suggested to a friend that her son might not recognize this furniture. Then because of cultural differences I realised she herself might not. And indeed, she didn't. Do YOU know what it is?? What use do you think we could put it to, now that it's original purpose is defunct.

#Speirgorm, we need to email about this, because it's really genuinely appallingly stupid and bad and at the moment Ireland's in support of it. #Ireland #IrishBluesky

Technically you can put it on things you lose regularly too and not put anything other than "if you find me return to X or Call Y" type info on it..

An irish woman running this in Wexford. #Irish #SpeirGorm #medical #neurodivergence

I thought this was clever and possibly a useful thing to put on something you don't lose often - like I usually don't lose my keys so this will go on mine asap. But rather than an app on my phone people can get my next of kin data and meds from this if something happens to me... knowmetag.ie

Fans in the UK and Ireland, and especially NI - if you enjoyed the Belfast Eastercon this year or have wished that NI had an annual event like Octocon, come along to this meeting about setting up a regular con in Northern Ireland! facebook.com/events/s/a-b... 1/2

OK It's official. I will be at Cork international Hotel from Friday 17th to Monday 20th October 2025. #IrishDiscworldCon #IDWCON

Starship's Mage Book 1 is free until Friday! mybook.to/StarshipsMag... And if you like it, find out what Damien gets up to next in book 2, Hand of Mars, discounted to $0.99, also until Friday! mybook.to/StarshipsMag... (Only on the US and UK) If you make enough trouble, the Mage-King hires you...

Does anyone know about fog machines - I'd love to have eerie fog around the entrance at halloween but I don't want lights or anything and I don't want anything too complex.... And I have a dog so non toxic etc..... #FogMachine #Halloween

AIs make up the most outrageous stuff and give it to you as the answer to a search these days. #AI #Thor #Mjölnir #Irish #Etymology

"Before a photographer could snap pictures, he pulled a copy of 'Mein Kampf' from a bookshelf and turned it around to hide its spine."

If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose? Me: Bristol, NYC, Sydney, somewhere between The Hague and Paris....., somewhere else entirely.. Look, mostly I just want to visit friends and family. Those are located sufficiently near.

Folks, take approx 30 seconds to fill this in. The Irish Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a trailblazing initiative that might well die a death if we don't come out in support of it.

Davuluri should eshew obfuscation. "in the arc of time" "continue to span form factors" " experience diversity is the next space " This is a classic case of intellectual posturing by using inflated language. But is it his own abilities he is covering for, or the AI.....

Update: 16 of 24 authors and 2 judges have now withdrawn. First Book: Curtis Garner Jason Okundaye Sacha Coward Sanah Ahsan Amy Twigg Mae Diansangu Eleanor Medhurst Hanako Footman Ciara Maguire June Thomas Main: Olumide Popoola Robert Hamberger Dean Atta Andrew McMillan Rhian Elizabeth Jane Traies