Trains. Coffee. Books. Is there anything better?

This is misleading. There were two coins minted, and only one had Coolidge on it, as well as Washington, who was featured more prominently, so it was more a Then/Now sort of design, not vanity. Also, it was the half dollar (about $9 today), not a bill worth less than an average weekly shop.

Some tastes are forbidden #poetry #gay

In case anyone is going, I will be one of the pitchers at the @celticmediafest.bsky.social in Belfast on Wednesday. Don't be afraid of saying hi if you like the pitch or just want to connect. #pitch #tv

Are we ever enough? #poetry #poem #writing

#poetry about feeling love for more than one person

In light of today's Enoch news, I just wanted to inform you the Burke family have their own Wikipedia page going back TWO DECADES! THEY'VE BEEN ACT THIS FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS! They literally have nothing better to do! #news #enoch

How the car was invented #fiction #writing

Is it just me, or are AI CEOs beginning to get bitter? At least 3 news stories in a week of AI proponent calling people fearful and paranoid and essentially stupid for not using AI more.

This poem got rejected by HOWL, so now I can post it. Enjoy.

The fucking irony/nerve! #noai

In light of recent comments, I'll say it again; Trump is the most honest president in US history. He has never shied away from who and what he is.

#poetry about that voice you're trying to ignore

The violence of white supremacy is not only in what it does to people, but in what it does to truth. It silences the oppressed, rewrites the crime scene and calls it history.

It's a dumb meme, but the Blue/Red Button explains really well how easily selfishness can be handwaved.

AI CEOs: Why is everyone scared? AI Ad:

You are going to die. #poetry #poem

The news reminds me of a Bill Hicks joke: "John Kennedy, murdered. Gandhi, murdered. Martin Luther King, murdered. Jesus, murdered. Reagan, wounded."

Have you ever felt anxious? #poetry #poem #horror #noai

I'm not saying we need a new "New Atheism" ala the 2000s, but it's kind of weird we've normalised beliefs over facts. If you saw a guy in the street raving about demons, you'd say he's a junkie, but put him in government and you'd say he represented family values.

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me:

The basic jist; they want a hegemonic monoculture.

Serious question; when did everyone decide talking in the middle of a movie/play is actually cool in fact? Was there a vote I missed?

People willing calling people by their chosen names of Clavicular or Sneako but complain about trans people pronouns. Get fucked

I have no hard proof, but a rejection email I recieved was written entirely in AI.

#poetry #poem #amwriting

#essay #opinion

An MIT study found 83% of students who use AI to create essays can't remember their "own" writing. These departments aren't tasked with producing documents, they're tasked with cultivating expertise and competency within their remit. If they're using AI they're failing to do that #spéirgorm

America, Oh America, America; What a wasteland of what could have been! #poem #poetry #writing

We're at the end of an era of faux prosperity, where we normalised imperialism and deluded ourselves into believing we were not beneficiaries of it. Trump is the grossest manifestation of that evil to date, but it has always been wrong. It's time for Ireland to wake up and accept that reality.

What do you mean 1/15th is a serving? I ATE THE WHOLE FUCKING EGG IN ONE GO!

It reminds me so much of how Brexit went; declaring "they need us more than we need them", followed by confusion that the world just moved on. Between pulling out of NATO, USAID, peace deals, trade, and now basic diplomacy, the US have creates vacuums China, the EU, and Canada will happily fill.

life is too short. use your brain to make things. not genAI. be brainful instead of brainless.

"These disappointing 46 seconds were brought to you by the HSE."

Kurt Vonnegut understood his homeland (especially as a veteran)

FUCK! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW! SEX WITH A PERSON?

Ferran. ✊🇵🇸✊

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Personally I think MBJ got robbed at the Oscars; last I checked, he played two roles, ergo he's owed another Oscar.

I've been sick for the last three nights now. I've gone from convulsions, to sweats, to aches, to vomitting, to brain fog, but still no fever dreams. Anyway, I forgot Adam Scott and Andrew Scott are different people and now I'm wondering if they're cousins.

Equality sounds radical in a world addicted to hierarchy.

At first I thought "fuck this person", until I remembered both of my novellas are FP; Am I part of the problem? 😐

What am I supposed to do? Plate spin both of them in bed?

A story about being different #poetry #poem #indie

Despite the hot air from government about protecting children, they've voted down our Bill to turn off the toxic algorithms. These algorithms push toxic content promoting eating disorders, self harm, misogyny and hate. Big Tech profits should not come before children's health.

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Calling it; we will witness militarised AI used by the US against Iran, and it will be as inaccurate and as destructive as we all know it will be.

He never said that. But he also never didn't say that.

True story; even after months of proofreading, I STILL found typos during the audiobook recording session. The studio engineer started laughing when he heard: "With a chorus of gnarling creaks, crashing glass, a percussion of cracking brick, and the horrified screams of... OH FOR FUCK SAKE!"