If you don't want the city centre of Belfast to further resemble a half dead shopping mall comprised of soulless chains, you can spend a minute of your time filling this survey out in defence of Yallaa who have been doing an unreal job running their cafe in 2 Royal Avenue. We've enough Starbucks.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
This probably doesn't help:
US attacks Iran -> Iran blocks Oil passage -> other nations upset -> US allows them to buy from Russia -> Russia gets money -> provides Iran with assistance -> Iran keeps the Oil blockage -> more money for Russia -> more Russian assistance to Iran ->
Our QFT here, one of the best cinemas in the world!
I love this cinema - hidden behind the front door of a Victorian terrace...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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Have to say #Octocon people are wonderful.
Taking part is a great way to learn new skills, knock the dust of old ones, network and make new friends.
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
-Dwight Eisenhower 1953
Iran has tricked Israel with paintings. Anamorphic images of fighter jets and helicopters on the ground – that look real from the air – drew the missiles.
Cost of the paintings: $10 each
Cost of each missile: $5 million
Churning through America's stockpile of munitions: Priceless.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Great group
NEW: A majority of registered voters disapprove of how President Trump is handling the situation in Iran and believes the U.S. should not have taken military action against the country, according to a new NBC News poll.
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
Congrats to Wendy and Kit! @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @kitdewaal.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The simulation must be rolling great dice
Introducing our completely refreshed Cheaper Used section! Normally I’d say in-store exclusive but March rent is due next week so if anyone wants to buy A BUNCH of these (7 Sun City’s, 13 volumes of 100 Bullets, 14 of Powers, 10 of Y, 12 Dr. Stone, 23 Dorohedoro, etc) please get in touch!
Pearce Quigley and Lauren Patel in Small Prophets. Lauren is holding two large glass bottles. Pearce is looking disheveled. He has a large white beard. They are in a garden environment.
Who else is on the Small Prophets bandwagon?
If you aren’t yet, this is the gentle, kindly comedy that you need to watch.
We’re talking first season Ted Lasso kind of great.
Avoid knowing the plot going in.
(It is SFF, and I’d love to see it get a Hugo in 2027.)
Loving it! Last episode to watch tonight :)
Also have a new cosy shawl and am loving it. Mad bookstore owning lady (with optional cocker spaniel) - I’m truly entering my don’t give a shite years
Funky things in today - loving these. I have a fun job! Doing more selling than making words at the moment but did play with the start of a new thing this evening :)
Facing the start of WW3 putting out pretty spring displays in a little indie bookstore cos sanity does what sanity does
Yes new thing - customers are telling me it’s very good . Could really do with seeing them opening in the south to mitigate Amazon a little for the indies :)
Pssst link to bookshopdotorg for the indie retailers :)
@kaliereid.bsky.social is a fantasy and romance author currently living in Belfast. Her romantasy debut about an exiled saint and the iconographer sent to paint him, The Sacred Space Between, came out in 2025 with Harper Voyager.
We’re absolutely delighted that Kalie will be joining us as a guest
Just another massive impact of climate change that most of us can’t see.
Yep. This. Watching a new generation of hardliners being honed :(
This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.
But since she asked,
"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."
www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
