David Toms
@daithitoms.bsky.social
Writer. Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Arts Council Ireland Literature Bursary Award 2023. Maddock Fellow at Marsh's Library, 2024. New work coming soon. 🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
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you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay
Tips on how/where the watch Ken Burns' new documentary of the American Revolution if you are outside of the US?
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Tips on how/where the watch Ken Burns' new documentary of the American Revolution if you are outside of the US?
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Front row seats to bawlfest 2025 😭😭😭 #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Front row seats to bawlfest 2025 😭😭😭 #LateLateToyShow
Fucking hell I've been outed.
An accurate way to explain Irish Bluesky is #LateLateToyShow Book children that never got picked for the show.
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Fucking hell I've been outed.
Do The Silver Tassie!
Abbey Theatre announces centenary Plough and the Stars production for 2026
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt also feature in forthcoming season
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt also feature in forthcoming season
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
Abbey Theatre announces centenary Plough and the Stars production for 2026
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt to also feature in forthcoming season
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Do The Silver Tassie!
The RTE Player cuts out without fail after about 30mins each time. Consistent at least.
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The RTE Player cuts out without fail after about 30mins each time. Consistent at least.
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Literally everyone watching the #LateLateToyShow right now
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Literally everyone watching the #LateLateToyShow right now
Shane Lowry delivered that like a man being held hostage.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Shane Lowry delivered that like a man being held hostage.
This contains a seance I conducted with the photography of Norwegian musicologist Ole Mørk Sandvik from 1927. Delighted to see this piece come into print!
'Language is a virus.' - William Burroughs/Laurie Anderson
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This contains a seance I conducted with the photography of Norwegian musicologist Ole Mørk Sandvik from 1927. Delighted to see this piece come into print!
I am 2/3s Repsil at this stage.
It's been over a week with illness of varying degrees in our house and I am well and truly miserable. We both are. Just can't shake this bugger.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I am 2/3s Repsil at this stage.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3U2... here's my Christmas music playlist which includes some classics and some oddities. What am I missing? I also love songs that are just midwinter songs. The vibe is that it is dark almost all day in December in Norway.
Christmas
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
open.spotify.com/playlist/3U2... here's my Christmas music playlist which includes some classics and some oddities. What am I missing? I also love songs that are just midwinter songs. The vibe is that it is dark almost all day in December in Norway.
It's been over a week with illness of varying degrees in our house and I am well and truly miserable. We both are. Just can't shake this bugger.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's been over a week with illness of varying degrees in our house and I am well and truly miserable. We both are. Just can't shake this bugger.
My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–
Jeg latter som om det er det, og ser bare tv nyhet en gang om dagen. Har også startet med å lese nyheter på mobil kun tidlig om dagen og sent om kvelden.
Eller vi kunne KUN hatt denne ene nyhetssendingen per dag. Det hadde ærlig talt vært det beste.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Jeg latter som om det er det, og ser bare tv nyhet en gang om dagen. Har også startet med å lese nyheter på mobil kun tidlig om dagen og sent om kvelden.
Tom and Stoppard are dead.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n... << we shall not see his like again etc etc; oh to have such a brain
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tom and Stoppard are dead.
Er det noen der ute med erfaring med å abonnere på New Yorker i Norge? Er det mye forsinkelser med levering osv?
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Er det noen der ute med erfaring med å abonnere på New Yorker i Norge? Er det mye forsinkelser med levering osv?
I learned about this from the excellent book The World the Plague made. There's a whole bit on how precisely this fact complicates ideas of assumed plague transmission!
Fun fact: The oldest rat bone ever found in Iceland only dates back to the 17th century.
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I learned about this from the excellent book The World the Plague made. There's a whole bit on how precisely this fact complicates ideas of assumed plague transmission!
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Alt Text is an AI-training tool disguised as an accessibility feature ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Alt Text is an AI-training tool disguised as an accessibility feature ❤️
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Edward Hartwig (1909-2003): Ulica Ztota in Lublin, 1954
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Edward Hartwig (1909-2003): Ulica Ztota in Lublin, 1954
My commute is almost exactly the length of Vikingur Olafsson's recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My commute is almost exactly the length of Vikingur Olafsson's recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
I have made the horrible horrible discovery of two Norwegian translations of Fairytale of New York. One is at least vaguely based on the original and retains the paired voices though the lyrics are quite different and its generally quite schmaltzy
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
Et Juleeventyr
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have made the horrible horrible discovery of two Norwegian translations of Fairytale of New York. One is at least vaguely based on the original and retains the paired voices though the lyrics are quite different and its generally quite schmaltzy
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
open.spotify.com/track/5VGde0...
Today is the day my soul left it's body with the unrelenting darkness of the winter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is the day my soul left it's body with the unrelenting darkness of the winter.
Koka Björn on Disney is how I relax apparently.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Koka Björn on Disney is how I relax apparently.