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I've finally cracked how I want to use BlueSky to add value to my life in a post-X world. Welcome to the campaign page for Microwaves To Have Their Fucking Wattage Clearly Displayed On the Front of the Fucking Microwave movement.

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I saw 15 magpies in the park. I can't tell if I'm getting - five letters 💌 - three pieces of silver 🩶 - a kiss and gold 💋⚜️ - a secret and a wish 🤐🌠 - fourteen joys and a sorrow 🎭 - the devil and one piece of silver 😈🩶 What I know I am getting is a lot of workable romantasy novel titles.

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I've been hearing that newsletters are replacing social media as the go-to for content discovery (which makes sense as so many social media feeds are unusable now!). I'd love to hear thoughts about reading newsletters. I can't get into them, personally. Unless they're Anne Helen Petersen or

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I only realised this week that Sarah Kendzior and Sarah Kurchak are not the same person. I thought she had range. Anyway this is happy discovery because two interesting writers cns produce more books than one!

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Why not spread some joy? This is a pleasing meme..I will talk about nice things and I'd love to hear about yours. 1 like = 1 thing I love

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‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online

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Please send this information to any trans writer you know. We need their voices now more than ever.

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A date for your 2025 diaries! Join us online for our AGM on Wednesday 5th February at 7pm. Enjoy a talk by Nora Thornton and Joanne Carroll about the @nlireland.bsky.social collections, get updates on our #ASL2025 conference and learn more about what we do. Zoom registration details to follow.

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From breakingnews.ie - thinking of everyone without power and everyone who is working hard to restore it.

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Thanks to my water glass, in my living room in Dublin I can enjoy a rainbow over Leavenworth, WA, and remember road tripping there in 2023 with @paigeayres.bsky.social ❤️🌈

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Michael Longley visited my school when I was in Fifth Year. I still quote from things he said in his lecture. My friend and I were plucked from the crowd to be photographed with him (like Courteney Cox in the Dancing in the Dark video) and I have the photo and his autograph still. A lovely man.

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Michael Longley

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Someone on here said that we've just replaced the four humours with the names of neurotransmitters and that's so right it's not even funny.

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

Yoo-hoo!! Just poking our noses in to let you know that poetry subs are once again open (along with CNF and translation)!

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Am still sort of on holidays so have not been doing much with Orphic Press (will be posting a lot more about it in February) But here is our latest issue which came out just before Christmas ❤️⚡️✨ orphicpress.com

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Finally got some photos of a male Anna's where the gorget is lit up 🔥

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I am never over the absolute size of a moose. I'll just be living my life as normal and then I'll remember how big they are and I am suddenly absorbed by that again

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I miss having a dedicated digital camera that was good at taking photos and a dedicated MP3 player that was good at playing music, rather than having each of those devices as an app on my phone that does tasks l badly.l

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One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

submitted 43 days ago • 24 comments

I don’t know if anyone else comes close to hitting such a perfect harmony of pain & beauty, rage & compassion, criticality & soulful wisdom as does Sarah Kendzior. She’s a gift. Her writing is a treasure. open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

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Love this feature.

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I think I would read everything on this list!

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As usual, 70 percent of 2024's bestsellers were previously published/backlist. (And 20 percent of the top titles were written by four authors.) We culled the top 10 new books published last year: lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/01/the-...

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Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/

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In a world where there is Covid...one woman has some thoughts.

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Imagine a world where your wifi-enabled AI refrigerator bricks itself because you violated your terms of service by accidentally stocking it with an unapproved brand of milk. Or you had one too many door openings. Or if your kids' friends are considered "unknown users", requiring extra fees.

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This was all I could ever think about back when folks were showing off the “here’s what I look like cartoonified/as anime characters/30 yrs older” filters on apps & online tools. Now I just hope no one ever has the horror realization of seeing themselves advertising something they never agreed to.

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This was indeed one of those years where I achieved almost nothing but surviving it. It even had a last sting in the tail so I won't tempt fate by saying anything more. I am hoping, praying and dreaming that the next year is gentler. And that Lewis Hamilton wins the title with Ferrari.

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In which Ann Leckie sums up my dissertation in about seven skeets.

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I am hugely proud of my story in Wild Cards: House Rules, but I had no idea it was out yet. Seems it was released, at least in Ireland and UK on 5 December 😲

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