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This - 💯 this

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about Irishness, sort of www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

There’s a deadly measles outbreak raging in west Texas, and it’s being fueled, at least in part, by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be. ⤵️

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

For no reason in particular, did you know the shelf life on Plan B is 4 years? So, like, if someone wanted to I dunno stock up for reasons, those meds would be good for years.

submitted 87 days ago • 9 comments

I have just finished Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb and oh my word what a beautiful brilliant story. I read the first books when they came out (late 1990s?) but only getting around to the rest now. Very glad I rediscovered them

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Afternoon crew! My love song to Wyoming, Baba Yaga, and the perils of growing up (RATTLESNAKE WIND) is a Kindle Daily Deal today. US & CA, $1.99!

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

Tesla sales plummet across Europe

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

submitted 100 days ago • 7 comments

guys i was basically afk all of last week so i MISSED MY OWN BOOK RELEASE! The sixth Dublin Driver book, DEATH OF AN IRISH DRUID, is now available! books2read.com/irishdruid

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Lawn bowls is almost as soothing as curling

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

The number of publications unwilling to call this what it is is worrying... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 112 days ago • 4 comments

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation."

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 115 days ago • 57 comments

It’s a long time

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

It's #ge24 #seanad #seanad25 #seanad24 time (I don't know what we're using yet!) so it's time for the return of the spreadsheet that earned me a coveted special mocking section on Gript last time. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... I'll be gathering datapoints on key issues for each candidate.

submitted 155 days ago • 32 comments

Please note that it is each NUI voter’s *particular* duty to give out about Ronan Mullen, as we are the source of his legislative influence.

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

I'm doing this challenge called January where I try to get through every day in January

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

Ella Lily Hyland and Gabrielle Creevy are some real old-fashioned scene stealers in Black Doves.

submitted 145 days ago • 21 comments

Someone wrote the ‘wtf is going on with Sam Smiths pubs’ longread you didn’t know you needed.

submitted 145 days ago • 3 comments

Tyranny, beer and weirdness.

submitted 145 days ago • 6 comments

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

submitted 153 days ago • 101 comments

So not to change the subject, but my friend just texted me a link to the New York Times list of Best Romances of 2024 and… Um. What? And a…Terry Pratchett comparison? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

submitted 157 days ago • 73 comments

The Green Man's War now has over 100 ratings and reviews on Amazon - which nudges the algorithms to make books more visible. That's not nearly the only reason why authors are grateful to readers for boosting their signal. Knowing our stories are being enjoyed is the best possible encouragement 😁

submitted 159 days ago • 5 comments

I am still fishing around BlueSky for some of my Twitter mutuals who I have been unable to locate. If we were Twitter mutuals and I don't follow you here, give me a wave?

submitted 161 days ago • 21 comments

VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 161 days ago • 160 comments

The Invasion is going to be coming to the UK! www.thebookseller.com/rights/daphn...

submitted 162 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

broke: voting early woke: voting in mid-evening so you can ask your own polling clerks about turnout

submitted 165 days ago • 15 comments

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

submitted 165 days ago • 631 comments