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Writer living in Ireland. AI-free. Buy THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her. monicabyrne.substack.com patreon.com/monicabyrne

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Or nose! Cold nose tip!! Ugh

11.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I forget where I read it, but: she once said that she could only write in a cold cabin. Brrrr

11.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For sure. I’m going to see if I can set up a periodic delivery with Certa, because I never want that to happen again!

11.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have also ordered a cheap space heater. Was thinking to myself β€œI’ll just tough it out” but no. I literally need to be warm enough to move, like an iguana

11.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lying on my electric blanket, waiting for it to get warm enough so that I can write. Apparently I cannot write below a certain temperature. I am not Annie Dillard.

11.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Loved Mongolia. Just uncannily beautiful.

11.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man I am just one accidental picture folder click away from having my entire day derailed

11.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Me looking ominous in my kitchen, wearing a dry robe with a red hood

Me looking ominous in my kitchen, wearing a dry robe with a red hood

I spent my heating oil too quickly and air-locked the tank, so now I'm doing penance by going back to monkish austerity (and lots of layers)

11.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The very very very fucking different ways male-presenting and female-presenting authors are promoted and hyped by both the publishing industry and readers is utterly exhausting.

I am so tired of mid shit being treated like holy scripture because a cis white man wrote it.

11.03.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

the purpose of a system is what it does

11.03.2026 07:27 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 9

This took me a second but lol

11.03.2026 09:57 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Italy beats the USA 8-6

11.03.2026 04:18 πŸ‘ 4475 πŸ” 549 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 159
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 3277 πŸ” 1287 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 193

This has been a journey of more than a year, for me! I started watching in Hanoi last February. How much life has changed since then….

10.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only two episodes of Deep Space Nine left πŸ˜”

10.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember when I asked NPR’s Steve Inskeep why he wasn’t covering this story in advance of the 2016 election, when he was aggressively covering HRC’s β€œillness,” and he accused me of having an β€œagenda”

10.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

10.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 2581 πŸ” 1034 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 16
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The best summation of the AI bubble that I’ve seen yet. We’re headed for a sea change.

10.03.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway. Still hold that neither Twitter nor Substack (let alone their users) are uniquely evil, platform-wise, but it makes people feel good to designate one as the goat to drive out into the wilderness

10.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone (including me) makes sweeping generalizations about the people who are still on Twitter/X based on the very specific subset of people they see in their feed

(I’m still on it because I still get information and insight there that just does not exist here, mostly from the Global South)

10.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A wall of beautiful peach and pink clouds at sunset, over a roundabout, wet with rain

A wall of beautiful peach and pink clouds at sunset, over a roundabout, wet with rain

Ireland, why you so pretty alla time 🌸 #SpéirGorm

10.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh good. That is really a balm in these times.

10.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SAME!!!

10.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imma ask them….

10.03.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s just too much.

10.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TIL that sticker printers can’t print the color hot pink!?! FML.

10.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine bombing Macchu Picchu to rubble. Or the Pyramids of Giza. Or Uluru, or Lascaux.

That’s what this is. That’s what they’re doing.

09.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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On the corner where I was staying – I think this is also a plane tree?, but in general, yes!

10.03.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ohh *deep sigh*

10.03.2026 09:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Eh. Can’t find anything but rumors from randos. So probably not.

10.03.2026 08:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0