How I imagine most other social media users. Bsky no exception.

Halfway to rent and our rent is due TOMORROW! Jittery time lapse representing the state of my mind. €1000 over two days is highly unlikely but very sale saves us from accumulating more debt!

Is he fuck.

Really sorry to hear this very sad news. Met him a couple of times "in the old days". Gentleman. Great musician.

Recording some poems for a thing and trying not to fall into the "poet voice" trap. The "Sunday Misc voice", my wife calls it.

I love how this fish is tortured by his own guilt but that doesn't stop him hacking a hole in the ice with his axe, baiting the line and fishing. It's all so horribly premeditated.

Really enjoying writing at the moment. I've been working on the same novel for years but something clicked recently and the whole world of it has come to life for me. I'm slow, it can take me months before I'm happy with a poem so I hope I can sustain this feeling of excitement for a while longer.

This and Harry Hill's podscarf are my go-to at the moment, usually while doing the dishes of an evening.

#speirgorm If you're a primary school teacher, or know one, I'm now listed on the BLAST register and available for workshops. More info here: www.colmgbrennan.com/schools

Fresh from this morning's hunt

Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. #speirgorm

This show gets under your skin in the best possible way. Only a few episodes in and LOVE it.

Can't wait til they discover the 5000 yr old servers in siberian permafrost. we've been here before...

It's my birthday today. I'm 41. Closer to 60 than 20 which feels significant for some reason.

Leaf by Seán Hewitt

Having a pint of punk ipa in weatherspoons and looking over my shoulder in case someone comes to take my bluesky credentials off me.

They say write what you know. Emily Bronte must have known some fucking lunatics.

Let's do this to the rich.

Instead of social media I'd like to go back to the days of social calls. Knock in, get fed and and watered, stumble home. I bet even then people rage baited themselves by visiting contrarians when in bad humour.

Finding inspiration in the aquarium yesterday. This little monster is a full grown poem.

This will be great if anyone is in Belfast on 5th March.

Disconnect the servers, lads.

I'm surprised by the amount of people that go to Boo over Tom, Gus or Otto.

The always surreal experience hearing my grandad on the radio. Having my cornflakes this mornin listening to Sunday Miscellany, had no idea he would be on. Dead 29 yrs this year. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I've put some recent work up on my website if anyone feels like dipping into a few poems on this fresh February morning. www.colmgbrennan.com/poetry

"You could call it fate—if it doesn’t smile on you, there’s nothing you can do. You can have the greatest talent and the greatest ideas, but if that door doesn’t open, you’re fresh out of luck. It takes so many ingredients and the door opening to finally make it." David Lynch

writing a poetry grant application

One of my favourite Arlo Guthrie songs. This and Last Train are sort of hypnotic. I had his best of on vinyl as a teenager and used to listen to it falling asleep. Any time I pick up a guitar, I automatically start playing this or Mama, You've Been on my Mind. youtu.be/GZKD8aQy71A?...

Entire following feed is Catherine O'Hara. We all loved her!

5 yr old going to sleep just asked me "How did people find words, like, how did words come alive?" ♥️

really like the sound of this. faery horror?

I've never understood how nobody has ever written a novel about this before, but there was a brief time when the *Irish republican movement* possessed the first fully functional submarine. Yes, you heard that right. A short thread . . . 1/ #SpeirGorm #JohnPhilipHolland #Submarine

Petition for a Jennifer Johnston statue: my.uplift.ie/petitions/cl... @uplift.ie

Thrilled with my contributer copy of this gorgeous Issue of SWERVE. Excited to have three poems in it. Art here by Anthony Buonomo (cover) and Jennifer Reynolds. www.swervemagazine.org

Mervyn Wall's Do's and Don'ts for Radio Writers. Radio Éireann Year Book. 1950

This really made me laugh. youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?...

Overheard a lad saying he'd given up the "fags and beer but was up all night shooting gear." Or so I thought. He then went on to describe his three little beuties which turned out to be two shotguns and a rifle. Up all night shooting dear. In Bray!?

Love when bus drivers wave at each other. It's like they never expected to see another one. And that it happens every few minutes is doubly endearing.

Silver Moon café in Dun Laoghaire. Must be closed 10 yrs now but they did an incredible ham, cheese, mustard and apple sambo on this crunchy, "rustic" type roll that'd cut the roof of your mouth to ribbons but every bloody bite was totally worth it.

This is a true story.

After 10 years on mac os I'm back to windows and already losing hair.

Wisdom from Lidl. Don't let the trolley push you around!

Hamnet was sold out in the bookshop earlier so I bought Hamlet instead. Much like Vanilla Sky, I've never seen or read Hamlet and don't know the plot twists so hush now.

This is really good. "and if they hurt you, write your curses onto them / till they shrivel like salted slugs."

I'm gonna start being an insufferable self-promoting knobhead for the foreseeable, would be ace if we could get #GetKeshed trending at some point before Feb.

The A and B are before my time, I think. I only learned about them recently.

You could buy a little card in the shop, walk outside and insert it into any of many public phones and, having memorised everyone's number, call your mate's home phone, on the off-chance they were close to it.

Anyone any recommendations for legit sellers of refurbished laptops? I've come across Total ReThink via DID. Are there others?

New Goodtime John album coming later in the year. Video for this track is lovely. youtu.be/xpnbPMBnCp4?...