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I would urge cawtion.
New Review - Happy publication day to the new edition of House of Shattered Wings by @aliettedebodard.com - an epic tale of fallen angels, intrigue and Paris begins and is highly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...
Three days now!
Super excited that Ian McDonald will be a guest!
Ian is a SFF writer living in Co Down. His debut, Desolation Road, was a Locus Award winner. He's written ever since, and has won the Hugo, Philip K Dick and Campbell Memorial awards.
He has three cats. Pray for him.
Reading and acting on this post could well save your life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.
Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
"A spindle-whorl for a spindle-whorl", as the Old Testament says (vaguely remembered).
Here's one from Orkney for Women's Day, in Sc. Gaelic & ogham script (Buckquoy, S-ORK-005). It probably reads BENDDACTANIML "a blessing, soul of L".
🔗: ogham.celt.dias.ie/S-ORK-005
📷: @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social
I laughed way more than I should have at this
Sebastian on stage at the European Parliament
"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social
"What we have witnessed...are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years. We must name them as such, without euphemism and without equivocation."
www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
A nice, fun mini collection on show at the National Gallery.
Also includes this wall of Irish words for animals, vivid and suggestive and comical.
Fact. The screwdriver that tightens the arms of spectacles is only available inside Christmas crackers. Opticians have to pull dozens of crackers to get the tools of their trade, and if you look out the back at Specsavers, you’ll find bins full of wire puzzles, hair bobbles and fortune telling fish.
In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
As predicted, France, the UK, Italy, and mie Germany are now acknowledging, carefully and belatedly, what Spain said out loud from day one about Trump and Netanyahu’s Iran war:
reckless, unlawful, and strategically empty.
Courage, it turns out, has a lag time.
Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news.
(Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)
📖 Interesting read: "I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform"
matduggan.com/i-sold-out-f...
#genai #softwareengineering
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Need tubes? We got tubes if you want them
In cities with younger demographics, you can hire bikes.
The Secret Life of Books is up for an NYC podcast award! If you like it please vote! Early and often! @slobpodcast.bsky.social
www.silver-nyc.com/nycpodcastaw...
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here who's offered their congratulations about the British Book Award nom for Nessie. I started to thank people individually, but, ahem, eventually there were too many. Thank you so much, friends and followers!
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibu6vuc7ofetq5hla3gfcknocotbfl3yk2ajczk6qfd2hnjxrav6q)
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
A place selling Rennies and Gaviscon, called "Ulcer Says No".
UPDATE on The Prince Andrew Coin: 🪙👑
Truth
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#illegalwar
#epsteinfury
this is a great thing to do
Happening one week from today! Please join Patrick Wadden, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, John McCafferty, Catherine McKenna, me, and bunch of your best Celticists friends for the virtual book launch of An Eoraip. Register at uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
