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Author Mary Costello: Gaza has disabled me. How could I go into a room and make up stories?
I totally empathise with Mary Costello’s distress here as she admits the horrors of Gaza have frozen her creative impulse. However I would say that my friend Wafaa Alothmani, writing as a displaced citizen in Gaza, has a gentle clarion call in her article “Why I Write”. (Link in reply)
The absolute cruelty of the US and Israel in this war is spirit-breaking. Heedless, wanton destruction and vindictiveness. All I can do is pray that their time will be over soon.
Nothing like some sunshine and spring flowers to lift the spirits on days when there's a lot of sad news in the world.
Not a particularly rare book, but this first edition of Gill's Irish Reciter from 1905 has a very handsome cover design. Tá téacsanna as Gaeileg ann chomh maith. thebookshop.ie/j-j-o-kelly-...
My new book Nature’s Acre — about wildlife gardening, community and biodiversity in Ireland — launches next week at Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre.
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I would go further. I would say that the praise of “spare prose” and “not a word wasted” has its roots in eating-disordered thinking which in Irish history particularly links back to post-famine generational trauma.
I discovered the Lee Road a few months ago and it’s a gorgeous ride
I went for a cycle along the lovely Lee this Saturday morning. I spotted four photographers along the way and this here snoozy seal. #cork
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
🚨 A historic double-header for the Irish grid today with two major records broken:
- this morning, battery discharge reached almost 500MW, or roughly 8% of electricity demand 🔋
- just after 12pm, solar output exceeded 1GW (roughly 20% of demand) for the very first time ☀️
Much more to come!
In Fingal, councillors are pondering expanding the Community Car scheme. Through it, volunteers give lifts – and company – to people who need to get to hospital appointments, mass, or wherever they're going.
An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around
Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school.
175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12.
The My Lai massacre for our generation.
The Hague - and Hell - awaits.
Rejection latest. Got turned down for the Writing Place, Writing Planet programme where authors collaborate with scientists on nature-related stuff. I get rejections all the time and don’t have pity parties, but I might have a small one for this one, as I am a bit gutted.
There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.
There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.
Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement.
I think this is Israel.
went to this community organizing thing a bit ago and ended up on a variety of signal chats and like. wow. how does one keep up with all this while being employed? i’m glad there are folks who can do all that, but man. i burn all my energy just getting through the day. there is nothing left.
Don't go searching for OP, leave them alone. I just think that what they uplift is important and explains why many people simply cannot engage in activism and organizing regularly. And the truth is that it's hard to figure out actual ways around this because organizing in fact a labor.
Child’s drawing of Keir Starmer. He looks like a square headed robot in a blue suit, with massive feet.
My son’s class were drawing Keir Starmer yesterday and the photos on Dojo are HILARIOUS. I kid you not - they ALL drew him with a square head. Wish I could share the others, but here’s my son’s depiction of our robot overlord.
The Planter’s Daughter is for sale in the following bookshops:
Carmel’s Cove (Cobh)
Midleton Books
Bantry Bookshop
Leaf and Bower (Ballincollig)
Carrigaline Books
Or available online in paperback and ebook at the link below.
I’ve been doing it for a while 🙂
Photo of ucd protest
Probably the largest protest I’ve seen in UCD - in solidarity with the UCD medical student who suffered horrific #GBV I’m proud to see so many of my students here.
Went to the strength and conditioning session at the gym tonight and it’s finished me off completely. I was by far the slowest and least fit person in the class but since my sole objective is continuing to kick cancer up the hole, I can live with that.
So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.
❤️Absolutely love this Q&A with Áine Toner, Features Editor at the Belfast Telegraph❤️
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guy sweating over which buttons to push meme. Choices are: Fight his illegal termination to death and so repulsed by him that I'm dying to leave his property
This end up being the experience with every landlord in this country😔
Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan
Marie Vibbert’s MULTITUDE explores the concept that we aren't the only intelligent life in the world, an idea which has long fascinated humanity. But if, in fact, aliens exist: what would they be like?
We would like you to write a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want! Write a fantasy, sci-fi, or horror microfiction piece up to 300 words.
Email the piece to darian@apexbookcompany.com. The top three will be voted on among Apex staff, and the winners will be published on the Apex blog, as well as sent an ARC of MULTITUDE and a keychain! Contest closes on March 9th.
We're hosting another microfiction contest to celebrate the upcoming release of @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod scifi MULTITUDE! ✍️🦑🪐 The theme is a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want!
Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital Transport Minister ‘not writing anything off’ in bid to ease problem in urban areas
Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.
I'll tell this clownbag for free - IT'S TOO MANY FUCKING CARS DARRAGH.
Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital | Irish Independent
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I think it is important, if one must use air travel, to preface it with “regrettably” or some such word. To acknowledge that it is not a good thing for the climate and to not normalise it.