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✍️ Writer (Oestrogeneration, Poetry Ireland) 🚸 @childrensbooksireland.ie Raising Voices Fellow 🏳️‍⚧️ editor of the trans zine CAMP CRASH FILTH 🖌️ pfp by @kimberleychiu.bsky.social (my gf whom I love), header by Milly Meredith 🌱 pronouns sídhe/her

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in

"In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes.

Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 1h

Enthusiasm to actually vote was low last time because people reckoned Higgins would just sweep. I think this is just coming up from a dip

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 5h

greta gerwig really went off when she brought in bob odenkirk to say my little women in little women

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 1d

The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November!

30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates

Flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair, 28/29 November, Pearse Steeet Library

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 4h

This might bear some relation to the original Starbucks logo! Their website says the designer Terry Heckler looked through "old marine books".

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Ormston House @ormstonhouse.com · 1d

📣 OPEN CALL 📣

Ormston House welcomes submissions for the Limerick iteration of 'Memory of a Free Festival'.

Our project draws on Anti-Nuclear festivals that took place annually in Carnsore Point between 1978 and 1981.

Full information available here:

Open Call: Memory of a Free Festival - Ormston House

Ormston House welcomes submissions for the Limerick iteration of Memory of a Free Festival through our free Membership Scheme for artists. For this opportunity, we invite members living and/or working...

ormstonhouse.com

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 2d

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2d

the eternal struggle! i kinda cracked this a couple years ago and i think it's the point where the writing really started going well for me

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2d

I get this. I think knowing the problem is good progress. imo just tool around with stuff until you find something that feels like a good channel for the rage. you'll only find it in the doing

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

The fact that Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan have written a book together has changed my day. Everything is brighter. Finally, there will be a book that makes you really sad but...this time, you won't know why.

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🎃 Jo (a swarm of) Bee(s) 🦇 @jobeeart.bsky.social · 2d

hey #PortfolioDay I'm Jo, a freelance illustrator from the Netherlands who's currently studying graphic design! i love colour, girls and spooky things
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✨ jobeeart.tumblr.com
✨ instagram.com/jobeeart
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Self-portrait of the artist screaming. They are a white person with shoulder-length brown hair. They've got one hand around their neck. The background is red and black. Around the top and bottom are white thorns curling around each other.

Drawing of Florence Welch. She is a white woman with long, red hair. She is pictured from the thigh up, looking up, her arms out, hands with their palms up. She is wearing a see-through, sparkly dress with long sleeves.

Sketchbook page with a turnip, a fish, some eyes and the lyrics "I listen to music from 2006 and feel kind of sick" drawn in it.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2d

FUCK The Hobbit! They should have flown the eagles! one million followers please

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2d

This is interesting and you're probably right – I had taken it as a song about Olivia

clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 2d

don't really have one of these, but will you people give me 1k RTs if I pretend to hate a book you had to read in school

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

anyway say what you will but 'gundam sylph' would be good

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

i know, i just said it. about me.

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

this is my social life even though i don't watch gundam and they don't know each other

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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 3d

Tadaa, here’s the cover for my next romcom, Reality Check out April 9th (and available to preorder now!)

On reality tv, what’s behind the scenes will always filter through. It’s f/f, lovers to enemies to lovers, chaotic nonsense with hot disabled babes. 👰🏼‍♀️💓📚🎥✨

The paperback cover for Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones which shows two women in bridal dresses, facing forward but smirking at each other. One is tall blonde and fat, and the other is small and ginger haired. The background is a bisexual fade with confetti and film camera patterns.

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

NO!!!

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Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie · 3d

Introducing the latest companion publication to our Free To Be Me: The Diversity, Inclusion and Representation Reading Guide!

Download it for free here:
childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommen...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 7d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 4d

i always thought Lesbian Vampire Killers was about lesbians who kill vampires

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 4d

In fairness this is exactly what YouTube video essays were like for a while

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.