Guys like this all wear cutaway collars

Given the stuff he gets away with, “a photo with a couple of teenagers” never seemed a plausible explanation for the extreme aversion to releasing the files

The only way to deal with this is to ban X in Ireland. There’s no amount of imploring that will persuade them to adjust the algorithm or moderate content.

Begging people to think through the implications of “Irishness is sth you can possess to a greater or lesser degree depending on your politics”

I got @alomshaha.bsky.social’s new book for the 7yo for his birthday. (Though of course, when he gets it he’ll be “the 8yo”. Time!)

Musk’s term “the woke mind virus” is an example of “every accusation is a confession”. He sees ideology as akin to a virus and he’s turned Twitter into a germ bomb, delivering viral load into people’s minds.

The richest man in history is a world-historical evil monster, it’s just too on the nose

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles

Daily Mail front page today is a picture of Mamdani…….’s wife Just her!

Conversation at the lights between three Irish people around uni student age. “Did you vote?” “Yeah.” “Who did you vote for?” “Who do you think?!!” [All laugh] “Did you vote?” “Nah, you?” “Nah.”

6 November and it’s 17 degrees Celsius in Dublin, Ireland

Jane Mitchell is one of the best novelists in Ireland and this book is unfortunately relevant right now

Men in their 20s in Louth – what are the odds this is dissident republican related? www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Have said this before, but once when I had surgery the ICU nurse had learned English as a second language & kept using "perv" to mean "look" eg "my colleagues and I will need a quick perv under those bandages" "let's have a perv how you're healing" etc

You may recall the news story about an Irish silversmith whose studio was broken into. Séamus Gill is one of the most respected craftspeople in Ireland and he’s trying to rebuild his business after the robbery by selling these silver pendants: www.seamusgill.com

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

This sort of thing is why arts organisations should be absolutely unapologetic about seeking and getting public funding. Massive companies demand state largesse all the time, and they don’t even acknowledge it.

“The urethral syringe contained mercury” And we think we have it bad

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

RTÉ's in-house TV documentary unit is to cease production next year as part of changes at the broadcaster. The broadcaster maintains this will not lessen its output and these staff will be re-assigned across RTÉ. www.thejournal.ie/rte-document...

Big dusty clouds thousands of miles across, being beautiful with nobody there to see. The dinner goes in the oven, and some way above it, or below (which obviously amounts to exactly the same thing in this context), unmeasurable beauty explodes, again and again and again

Oh christ, just had that awful realisation, you know the one. All that weird shit that's always happening in space is happening right now, isn't it.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

My 7yo is very pro-Guy Fawkes. Thinks parliament had it coming. Life with a Horrible Histories kid is like this

NEWS: Emma Dabiri joins as our new non-fiction editor. Emma Dabiri FRSL is an award-winning broadcaster & bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next and Disobedient Bodies. Emma will be reading for the current open submission round. stingingfly.org/news/announc...

This might sound simplistic but I think part of the issue here is that reading and writing are related to talking, and everyone talks. There’s a sense that anything language-based should be democratic and universal and when it starts to feel elitist it’s like a betrayal of that. Whereas right…

both of these notions are flat out wrong. if we actually taught humanities classes with the same rigor we do with STEM, a lot of people would actually fail. if you've ever had a kind of "literary version of insane ballet instructor" teacher, you understand this

Got to tell you a dirty little secret. I kinda love Sliwa too.

to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.

Publishing is a manufacturing industry that wants to be a service industry

European leaders will say both “I’ve never heard of Zoran Mamdani” and “RIP Charlie Kirk”

That’s it I’m moving to New York!

Let us together contemplate the stages of pundit grief 1. It's Inconcievable 2. It Can't Happen 3. It Won't Happen 4. It's Unlikely To Happen 5. It Must Not Happen 6. *%&&*Q$#!! 7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened

I suppose this probably isn’t the only book ever commissioned over pints late at night at the Irish Book Awards, but it is one of them. I’m proud to know and work with Leon, a driven and talented and thoroughly sound man who I reckon will probably end up in the Áras or something.

Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Did Cuomo perform a lot better than predicted or is that just my BlueSky echo chamber talking?

They’re manoeuvring to pretty drastically reduce Ukrainians’ entitlements aren’t they

Let's get everything mapped onto everything else ASAP

how is this real

It’s a good thing that the department is straightforwardly truthful with the public about the severity of our predicament instead of playing politics with these sorts of reports

It’s 2025 and I just blocked somebody with an Angela Merkel pfp

YouGov has Greens level-pegging with the Conservatives on 16% - and the Tories are, in effect, one percentage point away from *fifth place*.

The Sopranos casting director was Christopher Walken’s wife, and it was her first gig, and the first thing she did was hire a woman she only vaguely knew from iirc a cafe who she just had a hunch would be really good at it

Once again wishing I could vote in a US election while also not remotely wishing to live in the US

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.