I’d had enough. I had to do something about it. The stickers must flow.

The 21st century will be won by the states that, in a developed world where skilled young people are increasingly in short supply, are able to overcome their own xenophobia to welcome the future

Cataracts on Benbulben, after a night of rain. #SpeirGorm

always excited to pull this one out!

A corollary to this: please don't volunteer your friends who are artists to give free consultations, either. It puts us in a really awkward position.

INFJs are only 2% of the population but make up 90% of those who will volunteer their Myers-Briggs personality type without being asked

I wuv da wain

My tabs situation is out of control

Hot tip for writers looking for residencies this summer: Don’t apply to one of the fancy ones and then wait months to hear what your future will be. Literally just….go on TrustedHousesitters. There are dozens of gems for the taking.

I found a cheap spice rack at a charity shop, and now I’ve covered it with a cloth and made it my ink bottle rack 🥰 Also because of the color contrast it looks like it’s levitating

Remember when Neil Gaiman tried to come back and the Internet’s collective reaction was one giant retching sound

I’ve been informed this is the plot of Dune

I don’t trust folks who put their whole weight behind what is and what isn’t legal instead of what is and what isn’t right

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

As a Cancer I’d Fuvk Scorpios Marry Capricorns Kill Sagittarii Thank you and good night

This is your reminder that Sam Altman SA’d his 3 year old sister when he was 12, and continued to do so until he was 21.

Oh no I ate a handful of expired sultanas

Tonight’s movie: Wake Up Dead Man (2025). Oh, this is so much fun so far. All the actors are delicious and enjoying themselves. (Though, the altar would have been completely stripped on Good Friday…)

What terrific news. Congratulations, Hungary.

I hate to inform people but Palestinians aren’t perfect victims and some of them may even be annoying and running scripts because they were software engineers before they lost everything in a genocide

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

Few books have influenced/inspired me as much as this one, but I haven’t actually done a full reread since I was 24. I haven’t had a proper day off in a month, so….it’s time. Back to Botswana we go. (Yes I’m using a Moroccan tea glass for my rakı, ssshhh.)

It’s my day off, so I’m staying in bed until noon

I don’t trust folks who put their whole weight behind what is and what isn’t legal instead of what is and what isn’t right

Really rich for a prominent white feminist to complain how tired she is of hearing about rape culture when I have screenshots of her shutting me down when I warned her about one of her colleagues. I don’t have it in me right now to out her but Christ, I am sick of hypocrites in the literary world.

IRELAND: A man climbed onto the wing of a U.S. military Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Shannon Airport and struck it with an axe, causing “extensive” damage before being arrested, authorities said.

100% concurr with KC. I'll add that not a single voter currently knows what Democrats will do should they win the House or Senate. Not one thing and we're halfway into April. Not a single thing outlined. Nothing for voters to rally FOR.

That time I took an absinthe shot to celebrate the paperback release of The Girl in the Road

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

Gift from the Atlantic: another hail squall 🧊

Just incredible. Welcome home, Artemis II.

Eric Swalwell is a rapist? Must be gearing up for a presidency run

Watching The Gilded Age I just keep thinking…this show’s production budget is larger than the GDP of some countries

OK question: What is the most laugh-out-loud, tears-streaming-down-your-face memoir/essay collection/narrative nonfiction book you’ve ever read? I’m building a lil list….

A new analysis estimates that the average American taxpayer shelled out over $4,000 to the federal government last year “for militarism and its support systems” such as the Pentagon, meaning 50 workdays’ of income taxes went to weapons and war. In contrast, only $2,492 went towards Medicaid.

What do I need to do to make Airdrop work. To what god do I need to sacrifice an entire white bull apparently.

I think, in lieu of a romantic relationship, I’ll just reread Mating by Norman Rush

For the love of God, Irish Rail, how hard is it to indicate which seats are facing forward/backward on a given leg

I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.

Absolutely. When we elected Biden, everyone went back to sleep.

Protest is a healthy part of civil society. (Provided it offers no violence to the vulnerable: protest has to be different from pogrom, fash boys!) Observing how different sections of society have their protests *differently suppressed*, though? Not so healthy, is it, really?

When I came to Ireland, one of the first things people told me was “what’s happening in the U.S. couldn’t possibly happen here,” and that made me sad. Because of course it can. I love it here, but yeah, the same forces are at work.

That the statement "rising costs are making it hard for my business to keep going," is seen as worthy of respect in a way that, "I can't afford a place to live," isn't tells you everything about the prevailing values of the Irish media. Some people matter, some people don't.

"It took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990." “..what I’m most sad about is that my pretty Lebanon, our beautiful Lebanon, soon it will all be brought down to the ground.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Looks like I need to do another repost of this oldie. TL;DR: if you approach an artist to “to just look at” something or “pick their brain” about something, you are asking for work. Do not ask them to work for free. Even (especially!) if you know them personally.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

This gif will enter into immortal Darmok-speech as "Robin, with the tin cup"

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

We can have a little schism, as a treat

I started writing in bed when I was sick and…have not stopped. It just feels too nice.