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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 11h

Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️

Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 19d

We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨

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Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press

We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica…

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 19h

Details of the "Magnetic North" symposium taking place next week at University of Oslo. Really looking forward to taking part:

www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english...

Magnetic North - Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages

One-day symposium marking 50 years of Seamus Heaney’s landmark poetry collection

www.hf.uio.no

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 1d

If the AI bubble bursts, the biggest job at risk is the creation of stock images of robots doing human things for articles about AI.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 1d

It was only some ravioli and we realised we were out of parmesan which I got post-facto

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Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic photo! 😂👌🏻

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 1d

A very dad-coded shop there:

Paracetamol
Glue
Baby soap
Parmesan

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got a shelf up for the cozy corner. Just in time for the autumn/winter.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 2d

Is there an argument to be made for Suck It and See and AM as the high point of the Arctic Monkeys? Brought to you by my listening to Suck It And See for the first time in ages.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 3d

I can really recommend the work of Conor Curran if you want to learn more about the history of soccer in Donegal!

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 3d

I went to a soccer and hurling school (is there a more classic urban Irish combo?) and they tried tag rugby and Gaelic football a few times (principal from Mayo) and quickly gave up the ghost!

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 3d

And we aren't anti-GAA at all. Waterford hurling is a religion to plenty of us as well. But there's no question it's "unique place in Irish life" is more a matter of its being part of a specific hegemony than anything intrinsic to the GAA which resembles most sporting organisations most places.

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 3d

Going to a Protestant primary school (very much a jolly hockeysticks millieu) has fairly inocculated me against the charms of the GAA, but it's also meant I don't really understand its pull on Irish society

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3d

GAA exceptionalism has definitely been due a peg-lowering.

The phrase "centrist rugby Dad" speaks to a fantasy where GAA is this benignly egalitarian, progressive and welcoming space. This is not everyone's experience but good luck to them if they say so.

www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest

www.irishtimes.com

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 3d

As someone who grew up in a staunchly soccer household with people involved at every level the grip of the GAA on so many narratives of public service and civic mindedness had always baffled me. Soccer in Ireland (and most sports too) are amateur, community based, voluntary activities.

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3d

GAA exceptionalism has definitely been due a peg-lowering.

The phrase "centrist rugby Dad" speaks to a fantasy where GAA is this benignly egalitarian, progressive and welcoming space. This is not everyone's experience but good luck to them if they say so.

www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest

www.irishtimes.com

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 6d

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

dublinsmallpressfair.com

dublinsmallpressfair.com

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

But they don't contain much those of us who were watching two decades couldn't have already told you.

David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

Johnson and Cena are two of the great modern action heroes and come from this world and are now bankers (or were) for Hollywood. & of course the rise of himself and by proxy Linda McMahon to a cabinet position means the think pieces about this world have finally emerged in recent times.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

I have a ton of unworked out thoughts abt the way in which pro-wrestling has always been derided as fake, as if it isn't something deeply rooted to an entire culture of popular entertainment and make-believe. Often wonder if it's why it's become such a compelling topic for Hollywood in recent times?

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n... catching up on my Fresh Air listening and have to say I really enjoyed this. As a WWE obsessive in the Attitude era, this is a really great interview about aspects of the wrestling game that will be familiar to people who've seen Beyond The Mat or The Wrestler.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson : Fresh Air

The WWE superstar considered pursuing a career in mixed martial arts before realizing, "I don't like getting punched in the face." Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Ma...

www.npr.org

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe they are accidentally going to hasten the arrival of fully automated luxury communism? Basic incomes for all!

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

The joke I came here to make.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

Are we going to give people with no experience and knowledge the job of running things? The point isn't whether it can be automated... But what knowledge is lost _by_ automating. And god help me, surely that also means losing the raisin d'etre of the businesses and their management.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

So the thing i don't understand about this thinking is.... If there are no people working in businesses at entry level, who will there be to learn the business and progress through it? Who is there to manage? Why have a CEO at all? I'm the CEO of this one neat AI trick?

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Nils Henrik @nilshenrik.bsky.social · 6d

László Krasznahorkai (f. 1954) spelte venstre vingback for Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club (ofte forkorta MTK) frå 1971-87. Han fekk 57 A-landskampar for Ungarn og representerte landet sitt i VM-sluttspela i 1978 og 82. Årets spelar i Nemzeti Bajnokság (den nasjonale ligaen) 1980.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 6d

Morning among the stacks.

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 7d

The first really dark morning of the year, where I've had to peel myself out of the bed. Ugh.