It’s soup season! #art

JS Sargent was obsessed with depicting Virginie Gautreau ~ here’s his ‘Portrait of Madame X’, as exhibited in 1884, with (gasp!) a suggestively slipped shoulder strap. The hysterical outrage over this affront to decency led Sargent to add a more decorous strap (at R)

Not an expert in the field but I suspect teachers and schools already KNOW which students are struggling with reading. What they need are solutions. Such as funding for libraries with librarians.

I worked for the largest home builder during the height of Covid - what I saw radicalized me extremely rapidly

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Sometimes, built in furniture and fittings (like lights, etc) are themselves part of the listing! So be extra sure you like everything in this 1960’s GII before buying it. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Look what we have here then.

FEAR FILES: HIDE AND SEEK is OUT NOW! "A perfect shot of horror." Jennifer Killick "I ran out of fingernails to bite." Jonathan Stroud "Gripping. Atmospheric. Claustrophobic." Louie Stowell Find out more about the FEAR FILES here: linktr.ee/FearFiles

Mrs Walker verbally duals with her friend Mrs Taylor-Brown, then Bet reminds us all that the word "gay" has changed meaning over the years #coronationstreet1980

Really illuminating article. Well done Sam and Elly for putting this out there.

Share your favourite black & white film. #BriefEncounter

Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

To my knowledge, only one of the Booker shortlisted authors has also trained in mixed martial arts. So that's who I want to win.

A trip to #Dublin brings new treasures! W/ thanks to my beloved @gutterbookshop.bsky.social I finally have @damianbarr.bsky.social 's wonderful new novel #TheTwoRoberts + a proof of #PatrickGale 's forthcoming #LoveLane (out March '26). I'm a very happy Bob today! #LGBTQBooks #gaylovestories

Steen claims that being taught to read before she went to school (this is hardly rare!) is the reason she does home schooling. This is absolute horse puckey: she does so because she is a religious ultra-conservative.

It was brought to my attention that Oakley headquarters is fucking BONKERS. Let’s get right to the photos (Further context in the ALT)

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

Hooray! The next Punycorn finally arrived. My 10 yo and I both couldn’t wait to read it so we read it together last night. We loved it and the 10yo demands that the next one be published immediately! No pressure @andicomics.bsky.social. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidsFN📚💬

Thank you so much to the Booksellers Association for awarding me Author of the Year for a second time - love you all - what remains of my career is about to go through a drastic change, so this means a lot - here is my acceptance speech @lucia-oc.bsky.social @zenabarrie.bsky.social

Is the rapture happening before or after bake-off does anyone know

Just sneezed so loudly that the PC came out of sleep mode. I was in the kitchen & the PC is in the lounge... #BobsSneezes

Democracy, baby.

Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books or using an illustrator's work to promote a book, pls credit ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are you helping boost artist but it shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

My children's books of the year so far since you didn't ask are Boss of the Underword by Tor Freeman, Donut Squad by @neillcameron.bsky.social and Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson and @dansantat.bsky.social. The latter is a picture book so those recs cover 3-12 year olds, you're welcome.

Today’s a banner day for D7 Play Streets! From Third Space café in Smithfield in 2023 to a Play Street initiative for the entire city in 2025. In 2023, myself and my friend, Sean Shanagher, organised a public meeting to see if people were interested in doing "play streets” across Dublin 7...

So I'm a chronic text-based journalism poster who used to live their life on Twitter and had somehow got a large number of followers next to my name. Helpful for work, lots of stories, I could make news go viral. Anyway as I test I slightly re-engaged with various platforms this week. Vibes results:

A sunny Therapy Monday in Clontarf. Time for coffee, sunshine & quiet before my session. #Monday

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

When in #Dublin - popped into @childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIconf25 & @gutterbookshop.bsky.social let me sell a book! Great catch-up chats with lovely people incl. @louiestowell.bsky.social & @littleislandbooks.bsky.social & got a proof of @rurooie.bsky.social 's debut #YA novel #shorelines ! #BobWin

Dire Straits 'Brothers in Arms'.

Made me laugh.

Big announcement coming tomorrow regarding my presidential campaign. Stay tuned. #GameChanger

Having a coffee to start my day & the café is playing Bananarama's I Heard a Rumour & that's made my Sunday already... #80sPop

Thanks to @sheilammrg on Insta for these photos of last night's #CultureNight event at #TheNCF in #Ballina . Brilliant 10 minute readings by some wonderful writers & poets. I debuted my new #Mayo ghost story 'Figure' which went down surprisingly well... Thank you to everyone who came along!

I love these weird lil guys

Eating a cheesy crumpet in our house comes with an expectant audience... #DogLife #CrumpetEating

Good Morning, Saturday again already and so it's Mystery Jukebox time. Kitty made it to Scotland good time and we are set up and ready to go. REMINDER: THERE ARE RULES! (see link or ask me!) NO REPLIES HERE⛔ 1/2 michaelgallagherwrites.com/rules/

Shop tour time! Part 1 of some! Look at all these shelves full of lovely comics! Open in Stoneybatter until 4 today and online all the time! Bring friends! Bring strangers! Share far and wide! littledeercomics.ie New Release, Art Books, LGBTQ+

“The danger is that if you remove it, sex is siloed off as something separate and shameful, and porn steps into the breach. Sex then becomes a commodity with nothing to do with love, with personality, with human connection, with being a fully-realised person at all, in fact.” Exactly the problem!

Ooh, unexpectedly popping up to #Dublin today which means I can pop into help @gutterbookshop.bsky.social at the @childrensbooksireland.ie Conference #CBIConf25 on Sunday! So I check the line-up & see @louiestowell.bsky.social is there tomorrow with their new #Loki book! Hoping to say hello IRL!

People share way too much info anyway; I know it's really easy to do! But to do it about your kids is ill judged. Of course Meta and similar tech companies will exploit that data. They will send photos of your teen daughter to middle aged men to drive growth. They know what they're doing.

I was reminded by all the reporting on DAA's CEO, Kenny Jacobs, maybr losing hos job, of this story by @lokapila.bsky.social last year.

Ooh, it's been a while, but we've got a scammer trying to fiddle people's credit cards again. They keep trying to buy Mr Bump over and over again with made up names and addresses. Poor Mr Bump.

Great thread from Sue on how we learn ⬇️

Just had this bad boy delivered to the heritage railway centre as a donation. I’m a volunteer with the Eng & Ops team and probably the only one that knows how to operate these. It’s like Christmas day in Sept! Need to consult my apprentice training notes from 1979 to refresh my memory!😳

Incredible historic building on Dublin’s North King St for sale. Absolutely no problems with this property at all.

Tonight! Join us! Ah g'wan... @culturenightdub.bsky.social @mayoculture.bsky.social @mayocountycouncil.bsky.social #Ballina #CultureNight #10MinuteReadings