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@gregjenner.bsky.social Could I request some Irish history for You’re Dead to Me, please? Brian Boru Strongbow St Patrick The Famine The Easter Rising I really don’t mind what you do, but barring Grainne O’Malley, it feels…like a blank space currently.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Pollling in the Irish #GE24 is now open! Make sure to check your polling station, and bring some ID with you! There are a lot of dangerous candidates on the ballot, so after you #VoteLeftTransferLeft, consider continuing preferences to parties that are not actually fascist.

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

I’m sure your local Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or Green Party TD’s are lovely people. But lovely people don’t collude in a vote to bury the State’s responsibility for what happened in Mother and Baby Homes. Don’t forget that when you vote today.

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submitted 211 days ago • 8 comments

In the last week I have read ALL of SJM’s Throne of Glass Series (5008 pages), Martha Wells’ Wheel of the Infinite, Alix E Harrow’s Starling House and am 27% of the way through Sue Burke’s Usurpation. So…my insomnia is currently winning, but the books are great!

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖

submitted 210 days ago • 1272 comments

With not one but two magick-related books out at the moment, I spoke with Alan Moore about fiction, sorcery and why, in the end, all art is just pulling a rabbit out of a hat. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

submitted 210 days ago • 12 comments

We have SF authors inventing xenobiology, when earth biology is already legitimately mind-boggling.

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

This is a beautiful piece of writing.

submitted 210 days ago • 1 comment

If I built cars that randomly went on fire and ran people down, I too would be concerned about consumers having too many rights.

submitted 210 days ago • 2 comments

Following my post yesterday - there is no "middle ground" on abortion when the opposition wants no abortion, full stop. Also @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's substack abortion everyday is the best place in the universe for US abortion news.

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments

Psset if Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and big corporations paid their fair share we could support everyone in need AND have universal health care AND living wage for everyone AND care economy protections AND so much more

submitted 212 days ago • 10 comments

All I gotta say is that the people here insisting that reading must involve the eyes have clearly never read somebody for filth.

submitted 214 days ago • 24 comments

The Guardian 20/11/14 PA role safety review: “You do not fly a plane under safety review; you ground it. So we need to know what immediate safety measures NHS England will now put in place [and] how quickly they will pause their PA expansion plans.” Professor Phillip Banfield

submitted 217 days ago • 3 comments

Your Drs are being stolen from you. Across the NHS, a role taught 2 years of "PA studies” is substituting for Drs trained for 10 to 15 years. This is about cutting training and safety. It is not about care.

submitted 217 days ago • 33 comments

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

submitted 218 days ago • 579 comments