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Catherine Crichton @catherinecrichton.bsky.social · 3h

So excited to see the cover for my novel based on the life of Irish artist Harry Clarke. It tells the story of his controversial Geneva Window as seen through the eyes of a young female assistant in Clarke’s studio. Set in 1920s Dublin, publishing January with @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

The cover features a highly detailed stained glass panel by Clarke. It features the character of Nelly from Liam O’Flaherty’s Mr Gilhooley. He picks her up from the street and she dances for him wearing only a thin veil. The figure of Nelly is depicted with a head of golden curls. Her pink veil, decorated with tiny star and heart shapes and a yellow zigzag border, seems to float around her. Clarke used a photo of a dancer from the Ballet Russes as inspiration. Cover text reads ‘The Window, A Novel, Catherine Crichton’

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1h

Space exploration. My kid has a ridiculous knowledge of every space probe humans have ever launched.

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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome to the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown 2026! A new mini-Uncanny case every day till #Halloween! 🎃 This is an eerie one! Are you feeling #TeamSceptic or #TeamBeliever? See you tomorrow for another nugget of nightmare fuel! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 3h

I'm reading it for the first time at the moment and agree, I loved seeing this illustration this morning.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 13h

This is an Autechre photo shoot

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 16h

Maya is the brains here. Hope she stays on for a while. #traitors #celebritytraitors

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mkmswain.bsky.social @mkmswain.bsky.social · 16h

Like Jerry Hall has ever touched a carb #celebritytraitors

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 17h

Joanne McNally chaotic queen heads in to the traitors. #traitors #celebritytraitors

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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 19h

The Irish grid in September: 🔹 43.0% renewables: 36.8% wind 💨, 4.8% solar ☀️, 1.1% biomass 🪵, 0.3% hydro 💧 🔹 39.1% fossil fuels: 37.5% gas 🏭️, 1.6% waste-to-energy 🔥 🔹 1.3% storage: 0.8% pumped hydro ⛰️, 0.5% batteries 🔋 🔌 16.5% imports All this and much more in the latest "Irish Grid Monthly"!

A map of Ireland with markers representing electricity generation and sized in proportion to amount of electricity produced.

Footnote reads: Excludes small wind and solar farms not registered with SEMO. Excludes rooftop solar. Marker positions are approximate in order to avoid overlaps. Source: SEMO

A treemap of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland. Larger sources are annotated with the GWh produced.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 23h

Ugh hope you’re free of it soon. After many got drinks today I’m a bit better and can talk.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh nice…. That’s a present and a half. Happy birthday!

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our neighbours down the way love doing up their house for the seasons. Right out the gate this morning she’s out putting up ghosts and skeletons etc for spooky season.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve had a cold all this week and I still can’t talk properly today. Eldest was almost late for school because I couldn’t roar the usual are you up yet reminders at her.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ha! Have you seen Make That Movie? It’s got that what am I watching energy too.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Went offline for a few hours and there’s a new Mogwai song! With Iggy Pop no less! Belter. youtu.be/agOOQ2wTS8I?...

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MOGWAI feat. IGGY POP - UNDERGROUND (official video)

YouTube video by mogwaiTV

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Big shower out of nowhere here too. Had the washing out thinking oh that's a lovely morning...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Noel Fielding telling Danii "you're not like anyone else, and that's why you're great". My little autistic heart! #gbbo

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really touching that Danni's takeaway wasn't that they were one of the best twelve bakers out of everyone who applied or whatever, but that they could make friends. #GBBO

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The two lads saying ‘big up’ about Connie is my fave thing. Up Connie. Up the lads. #GBBO

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mo is a parrot guy. I love this unbothered king. #gbbo

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 29/09/2026

“I don’t approve of calling food naughty. We’ve got to take pleasure where we can in life.” Not to put presenters against one another, but I’ve never forgotten Prue saying something was “not worth the calories” so Nigella saying this - along with familiar bakes! - is like a normality reset #gbbo

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

"We have to take our pleasures in life where we can" words to live by. #GBBO

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Made slow cooker butter chicken with homemade naan bread for dinner. So very tasty.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I should be glad if something occurred to me as a main idea that occurs to Dvorak simply in passing.” – Johannes Brahms Anyway, here are four Stevie Wonder songs that didn’t make it onto Songs In The Key of Life.

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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life – The EP

Listen to content by Stevie Wonder.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would urge people to recall, as we hear the government justify their choices in the coming budget, that long before the fuel protests, this govermment gave a massive and economically unjustifiable VAT cut to hospitality, which cost more than half of what an additional child benefit payment would

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah, right. No moves for reduction in public transport costs, or expansion of bus and train routes; no push for investment in housing, healthcare or regeneration of rural towns and villages. Mé féiners exploiting justified anger and hurt, to turn people against each other. #spéirghorm #ireland

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spent the afternoon with friends on the Garvaghy Road, listening to stories of local people’s grief and trauma from the last time around. This is no way to live. Love and solidarity, peace and progress to all. We have come so far. We are one society, one community. We cannot go back.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That blue is gorgeous on her and I love the neckpiece.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It really is. It was very interesting when I was in The Hague how people just took a quick selfie with Girl with the pearl earring and they didn’t even look at the other two Vermeers in the room. I was there ages and saw so many people race past. But maybe they thought I was the odd one.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many years ago (before phones) I was looking at the pieta in St Peters and someone pushed me out of their way because they had a camera and I didn’t. It’s always been a thing.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's pure shite that it has come down the players though. The FAI should have backed them, and got them out of the game.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very hard to be the first one to stand up and say it, fair play to him.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hope you get there soon. I really think I’m not cut out for quilting.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like An Béal Bocht might be the song of the year.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m also loving the new Gurriers album. Now I’m listening to Trá Pháidín’s Cloch’s Claí and it’s absolutely cracking too. What a day for Irish music.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I didn’t know them but this is superb stuff.

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Cal Cashin @calcash.in · 23/09/2026

I reviewed the new Trá Pháidín album for Best Fit. It is stupid good. Batshit good. A boggy mix of post-rock, free jazz, naturalistic ambient. Read here – it's out on Friday www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/tra-p...

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Trá Pháidín cultivate a modernist Irish sound that defies easy categorisation

Trá Pháidín aren’t trying to modernise a form rooted in tradition; rather, they are seeking to bricolage something novel.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Deeply unsettled. It’s great.

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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is another great album released by an Irish band Trá Pháidín today. youtu.be/Sxn-v7nytiE?...

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Trá Pháidín - 'An Béal Bocht' (Official Video)

YouTube video by worldofechomusic

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