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♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

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Great idea politically for Starmer to try to charm the conservative UK press wasn't it?

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Calling all emerging writers across Ireland! We're delighted to announce the launch of Freedom to Write 2025, in partnership with the John Hewitt Society. Please share... johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-w...

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Man Wheel of Time has some of the most insane visuals on tv right now. Every episode might as well be The Red Wedding with the amount of crazy plot going down. A fearless adaptation of difficult material. Don’t sleep on this show. #renewWOT #wheeloftime

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Possibly stupid question - who decided to call it 'hallucinate' instead of 'lie'? Both are fundamentally human experiences but one is more palatable than the other. Is it that there is no deceitful intention by a computer system? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

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Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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I'm putting an early, amateur prediction out there that between Severace and The Studio, Apple are sweeping a lot of Emmys this year.

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Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

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Saou Ichikawa's Hunchback is a worthy addition to the Booker this year. Make it mandatory reading because a) it's extraordinary & b) it will take 3 hours tops. My only complaint is I wanted a full length novel and it's basically a short story but still, wow. And the translation is incredible!

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Reminds me of Reza Aslan's excellent 'Zealot' www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

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In anticipation of my bumper new guidebook to #Sicily that @lonelyplanetesp.bsky.social publishes next month – every last word lovingly researched on the ground by myself I should add – here are 9 things to plan a memorable Sicilian trip around. www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/top...

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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

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Here is the full text of an open letter signed by 50+ film journalists and counting to @variety.com following their publication of an article blaming Rachel Zegler's pro-Palestine political activism for the box office results of a Disney film.

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Bots accounting for 71% of web traffic in Ireland...let's try and remember that when you see any pile on from any side. [bleep boop bleep]

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And we’re off!

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Here's how to avoid cultural faux pas & seven years of bad sex in France, for Lonely Planet. www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/thi...

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Happy #ALCSDay to all who celebrate 🎉 A big thanks to @alcs.co.uk for all the hard work — and if you’re a writer or journalist who hasn’t yet joined, put that right today 💰 www.alcs.co.uk

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The indie booksellers sell books on better terms that ultimately support the wider industry. It's like selling a house for people to live in versus stripping it for parts, copper, etc, and leaving nothing habitable.

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This BEAST of a new edition came to my door yesterday. Lots of fantastic local writers on this with world class expertise. Perfect for anti-algorithm travel ❤️ The nails are just a flex but I accept compliments on them too.

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"you are moving too fast"

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Buckets of fun with this one - Henry VIII's 6 queens reimagined in a polygamous marriage that wields and strengthens a pagan god's magic. Naturally, Queen Boleyn stirs up some trouble #SixWildCrowns #NetGalley

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Just LOOK at the incredibly beautiful cover from the upcoming Portugal LP guide. Our cover designers have been killing it with the latest ones but this made me gasp when I saw it again, even though I already knew what it was! 😍 shop.lonelyplanet.com/products/por...

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Seriously. Horrified this morning that one of the forms of protest at a lying, warmongering speech was checks notes wearing PINK. They should all be embarrassed.

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Dublin early mornings. Not pictured: the pervasive bang of weed

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Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.

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"We’ve mistaken greater personal exposure and self-disclosure as confidence, risk, and spontaneity. They are not the same."

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Fitzwilliam Darcy: A vacuum, which he promptly and secretly exchanges for a library of signed first editions of every book you never told him you loved. Jonathan Harker: Several high-necked blouses and a very thick scarf. Orpheus: A blindfolded apology. https://buff.ly/3Q81E2a

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2 roles going in Lonely Planet: - Audience Development Editor - Content Operations Associate US only I'm afraid - NYC preferred but remote candidates are considered. Job descriptions, salary ranges etc: www.redventures.com/careers/posi... www.redventures.com/careers/posi... Please share!

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Robert Eggers has interestingly positioned himself in a way that he has pigeonholed himself into a hyper specific niche - period horror - but delivered a level of quality that he could absolutely step out of it any time he wants to & get the money to make something modern. And still excite everyone.

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Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

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The Nazis used to do stuff like this with German archaeology, myth and folklore, and that's why Germans don't talk about their myths anymore

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Oman snapshot 📸

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I watched it slowly knowing there wasn't a second season but Kaos is up there for one of the best shows of the last couple of years ⚡Still worth the watch even without the renewal

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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

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Smell of Monday off this Thursday

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Last book of 2024 was a rare 5 star from me - atmospheric, medieval (alternate) historical fiction that managed to be a page turner.

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Wolves are a keystone species, crucial to keeping an ecosystem working! Terrible and short sighted www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Continuing my #netgalley roll with T. J. Martinson's Her New Eyes. Delightfully original: an older woman wakes up after an eye transplant with the memories and mannerisms of Marilyn Monroe. Everyone is delighted - apart from her and her husband - as she gets gradually replaced #booksky

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Never, EVER accept the lie that this is somehow a 'forest', just because there are trees: it's not. A real forest is 1,000s of diverse species, all intricately connected. By contrast, what you're looking at here is one face of the death of nature, covering around 10% of Ireland.

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Finished Persepolis yesterday. A wonderful way to get across a weighty memoir.

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OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

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"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

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If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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