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This is one of my favourite poetry books, hands down. Yilin's commentary on the poets and her translation notes make it one of the best I've read in ages.

Do I know anyone in the York, England, area (admittedly large) who might help me get in touch with the descendant of a pioneering printing technologist? The person in question has a very thin online presence, but I believe would welcome the contact about his family.

That said, we don't feel in danger of deportation or anything else. Once that paperwork is in, we're protected and safe, so far as we've been told. We keep up with other registers just in case.

The stress of this has nearly shredded the last of my sanity at times. I still have sleepless nights. 4/4

Of those final two, the other one (not waiting for a link) had to supply additional information about school enrolment. Two of the previous ones had the same documents (all went to the same school), but this one required more for Unknowable Reasons. 3/

being processed. The other four were updated with no problem, at the same stage, but that one just... didn't? There was no number or email or anything to contact for that link, btw. We even went directly into Garda stations and INS to ask in person. Nobody knows who issued the link emails. 2/

Of the five of us, three are now citizens. All applied at the same time. The final two were "lost" in the system for over a year. One of them was waiting for DOJ to email a link for a second vetting. The first vetting was deemed incomplete after we filed an updated living address while it was 1/

A poem for International Women's Day.

From @katejbaer.bsky.social's book, What Kind of Woman Poem. Get it here: bit.ly/whatkindofwomanLB

#poem #booksky #writing

Friendly reminder that you don't always need to bring quiet people "out of themselves" or try to get them to "loosen up" at social gatherings, some of us are just naturally a bit more reserved and introverted and silently plotting the downfall of our enemies and that's okay 💖

A fun and informative 11-minute video.

How to wash your Marcy: www.facebook.com/reel/1641394...

The Marvel Multiverse campaign I've been running for daughter and two of her friends has now concluded, ending in a nailbiting scene where Elektra had to operate one of those grabby claw machines to retrieve the soul of her ex, Daredevil, which had been turned into a plushie...

So I'm going to sulk and glare and waste time playing Slay the Spire 2 and Crusader Kings, maybe finish this crochet blanket for my daughter while listening to a history podcast.

And hopefully someday soon the RNG will give me a prompt for my daily pages that launches me into another project.

I should probably stay away from real-world news. I think it's sapping me, draining my motivation. Who cares what stories can be written when everything's on fire?

Ironically, I do. I've been reading a lot. So obviously storytelling matters, even in times like this.

The last few times I got this way, I had breakthroughs after a couple weeks and wrote novels and short stories. Now the idea of that, even, is just bleh. None of my historical research is progressing, none of my unfinished work is calling to me, and new plots stay in the "someday" file.

Used a random number generator, used the number to look up a writing prompt, saw it was something boring and noped out. Closed my notebook and glared at a stuffed toy on my desk for far too many minutes. (It had no comment.)

I don't know what's wrong or how to fix it. So out of sorts lately.

Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.

Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.

(And would much appreciate a RT please)

Protestant gastric obsession system activated.

Irish teasing sequence initiating in 3... 2... 1...

You'll get your hot milky Lyons, and you'll like it.

Three logs

A man drawing on a log

The handle

Axe and log

Hello internet. I am making a bow this weekend. So far I have a log, and blisters.

1/some until I have a bow.

the US is healing

From ‘A Prospect of the City of Dublin, from the Magazine Hill’ (1753) James Mason, after Joseph Tudor. Yale Centre for British Art.

#IWD2026 A nice find among the records in the Public Record Office of Ireland (before the fire of 1922!) Katherine Bayly's 'domestic accounts books'. Her daily life with her daughters in 18th-century Dublin.
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On a typical day in Galway city, you step outside your front door, immediately dodge a unicyclist, greet your fire-eating neighbour, roller-skate to work in the giant papier-maché heads factory, narrowly avoid becoming part of a druidic dance troupe, then end up in a drum circle anyway

We just crossed over 200 reviews!

Thank you all so much <3 Never thought it possible :)

Delighted with the community that's forming & the support I've received.

Onward to v1.0! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

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INTRODUCING OUR FIRST CHARACTER: THE MORRIGAN
As always, everything is fully hand drawn & rendered - and NO AI!
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A Far-Flung Life When Sneaky Snook in his mail truck happened upon the wreckage near the boundary of Meredith Downs, sheep were scattered along the roadside and the fence, bleating, dazed. Anyone approaching the sc…

“When Sneaky Snook in his mail truck happened upon the wreckage near the boundary of Meredith Downs, sheep were scattered along the roadside and the fence, bleating, dazed.” Read from M.L. Stedman’s new novel, A Far-flung Life.

oh god, the way i just laughed

The very same! There's something about this arrangement and the performances that just undoes me.

A comic drawn digitally with two panels. First panel has one black cat on the left asking a white cat on the right "so what do you do for a living?" Second panel the white cat answered with a silly face "My best?"

don't we all

#art #cuteart #comic #cat

1766 religious census of Ireland is 260 years old today (5 March). Have a look at our brand new map of surviving details from 'Ireland's first census'. 😃

Victory! The Parker fountain pen I've been struggling with since November seems to finally have started working again. It's my only medium-nib one so I've been super-annoyed this whole time. My fingers are inky, but it's the stain of success.