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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Join us (and the neighbours of Haus 17, Lausitzer Platz) for the Open Mic Situation this evening from 19:00. It's basically a blind date with the neighbourhood's creative side. Hosted by my good self and as is tradition, I've prepared some word-salads for the occasion.

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Howie Good is now restocked at @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social so get yourself over there and buy him and every other Sacred Parasite author.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🧵 Polari latest | Controversial Irish author, & anti-trans activist, claims there is ‘no such thing as LGBTQ+ & that there are just individuals. This is historically & factually incorrect. It leans into the false conspiracy that you can separate trans ppl from the rest of the Queer community [1]

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Come on in, the natural air con of being half-underground is turned all the way up to 11.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The residents of Haus 17, Lausitzer Platz are getting together again for another blind date with the Kiez, and you're all invited. Join us this evening for the Open Mic Situation - an open-air, open mic - 7pm

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

An excellent point here, and some great follow-up discussion in the replies. When I was head of buying at Waterstones, and subsequently as a consultant for some independent publishers, I always argued against the basic uniform cover approach. I had reasons...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent: This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life. You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

A cookbook of 20 recipes, each one illustrated by a different artist, Tabkha was created by chef Mona Zahed while she lived in a tent having been displaced from her home in Gaza. 1/3

A picture of book cover Tabkha: Recipes from under the rubble. Gold lettering, a background of different shades of purple with green olive leaves. 18 July, 20:00

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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Wonderful news! Leila Aboulela, Saqi author and a truly powerful literary voice, has been awarded the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize. She’ll receive the honour on 10 Oct at the British Library. We’re so proud! Learn more here: www.englishpen.org/posts/news/l... #LeilaAboulela #PENPinterPrize #SaqiBooks

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Good news for album cover designers everywhere

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Join us this evening (8pm) for Heather Clark in conversation with Madeleine Watts.

The book cover of The Scrapbook by Heather Clark - a couple hugging in B&W. Curious Fox 04 July 20:00.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

‘An Illustrated Book of Pointless Movie Facts’ is the new book written and illustrated by Irish artist John Rooney. Do you know which actors were originally supposed to play the Ghostbusters? Or which film first showed a toilet flushing on screen? Of course you don’t, you have a life. 1/4

A comic-book illustrated poster for the Pointless Movie Facts Book Launch and Film Trivia Quiz, featuring scenes from the original Ghostbusters film.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We are transgressing the laws of physics again today and existing in two places at once. You can find Órla at Stand H12 at the Berliner Bücherfest until 19:00 (and again tomorrow) and Dave is in the shop as usual until 18:00.

A stand with an array of brightly coloured English language books.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This evening's event with Gregor Hens is sold out. If you didn't manage to book a (free) ticket, we will operate a waiting list, in case of no-shows. We'll also set up a speaker outside, so people can listen out in the fresh air of Lausitzer Platz.

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AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Two weeks away! This is a free, ticketless event. Just rock up

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The ludicrous softball interview with an Irish OpenAI exec in today's Irish Times has pushed me over the edge and I am now the kind of man who writes letters to the editor of the Irish Times.

Dear Sir,

I was interested to read your Technology Correspondent’s interview with an Irish tech executive at the forefront of AI, but surprised to find what the interviewer did not choose to ask.

For starters: how is an industry which is entirely based on un-recompensed plagiarism, the need to ingest vast amounts of human-created writing, art and music in order to output its results - how is such an industry going to deal with the vast debt it owes to the creative people whose work it needs to steal in order to survive?

The second question I was surprised was not asked is: how is the vastly unprofitable OpenAI, whose operating costs are an estimated €5 billion a year and rising, going to survive? What will their AI actually do in return for all that money? So far they have continuously failed to make an operating profit, and are deeply in the red. I would say it's because their product has no real value, but I would love to hear a tech exec’s answer.

The combined expenditure of all parts of the generative AI boom — data centers, utilities and applications — is estimated to cost a trillion dollars in the next several years alone, which begs one more question: "what trillion dollar problem will AI solve?”

Blithely suggesting, as Sarah Friar does, that we use it as a wine sommelier, or to manage our investments, is a little funny when you’re one of the thousands of creative people who are contemplating the loss of their future income because OpenAI has plagiarised their work.

Final queston: how are they planning to mitigate the enormous negative impact their data farms have on our environment (in Ireland they already account for 21% of all metered electricity consumption)?

I hope next time there’s an interview with someone from Big Tech your correspondent is a little more questioning. Not all of us have drunk the AI Kool-Aid.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/05/2025

While in Ireland, Jane and I enjoyed the opportunity of visiting with Irish President Michael D. Higgins, one of the outstanding progressive voices in Europe.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

That's wonderful news, and culturally healthy. (Kids in Britain are still expected to slog through 'An Inspector Calls' and 'Animal Farm' which are both excellent, but still....)

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Some pics from the launch of Poor Ghost! on Weds. Thanks to everyone who came out and to @lettretage.de for hosting, @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social for selling books, and @ajbwells.bsky.social for being his very charming self and asking great questions.

Me and Alex chatting on stage and laughing

A hand reaching for a copy of Poor Ghost!

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Two days to go until the launch of Poor Ghost! And very happy to announce that @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social will be there to sell copies of the book

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Our neighbours in Haus 17, Lausitzer Platz are back with the Open Mic Situation, this Saturday May 10th at 19:00. It's an open-air, open-mic and a blind date with the creativity in the Kiez. I'll be hosting, so please join us and bring your poems and songs and performances to share.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As tomorrow, 08 May, is a public holiday in Berlin this year, we will be closed. We are open on Friday and Saturday as normal.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Please share and give if you can 🙏

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

As tomorrow, May 1st, is a public holiday, the shop will be closed. But we are open as normal on Friday and Saturday.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I need to moan about small injuries I've accumulated from doing "exercise". Who's coming in for a coffee? We also have books, apparently.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

At the start of the year, I set myself a two-coffees-a-day limit. I actually didn't have a single coffee yesterday, so today I'm having four. Unassailable logic.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The non-white friends of mine who have already left have gone to Brazil, Senegal, Ghana, Morocco, and Ireland. They are so-called “good immigrants” - high-earning, German-speaking - and they’ve had enough. Good luck to them, they’ve got careers to continue, lovers to pursue. More will follow.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It's not too late for you to run out to the supermarket, but our Easter Opening Hours are as follows: Friday: Closed Saturday: 11:00 — 18:00 Sunday: Closed Monday: Closed Tuesday: 11:00 — 19:00

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The statement at the end of this article from the Berlin administration is a complete rejection of EU law. It sounds like something issued by Bismarck-era Junkers. EU citizens do not reside in EU cities at the pleasure of their Officials. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions

Lawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Far various reasons, we have to update our shipping info & prices on our website and I am attempting to rewrite the rules & conditions for the web-guy and boy, do I wish I was cleaning the toilet instead.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 20/03/2025

This boils my blood to volcanic temperatures. I didn't OK this. My agent put it in our contracts. And still, Zuckerberg used two of my three books to train his LLM. This is outright theft of something so deeply personal that it makes me feel violated.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

To all our a friends & family back home and wherever you find yourself, a happy St. Patrick's Day.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trans Rights Readathon is March 21-31 🏳️‍⚧️ and since it is especially needed this year, I made a booklist of trans horror authors to seek out and discover (myself included). These are exceptional works of fiction in a variety of formats, so please—take your pick (but do!)

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Join us this evening for Samantha Rose Hill in conversation with Ryan Ruby on this new collection of the poems of Hannah Arendt. Doors at 19:30, free entry.

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just a brief PSA to remind you all that tomorrow, Saturday 8 March is International Women's Day, and also a public holiday in Berlin. The shop will be closed, but maybe we'll see you at the Demo. Open on Monday from 14:00 to 19:00 as normal.

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Berlin! Meine Frau und ich suchen eine Wohnung. Ab 2 Zimmer, 700-900 Euro kalt. Sagt Bescheid & teilt gerne. Dankeschön! // Berlin! My wife and I are looking for an apartment. 2 rooms or more, 700-900 Euro kalt. Let us know & feel free to share. Danke! (Cat for illustration purposes, no Haustiere)

Foto einer schlafenden Katze mit einem Text zur Wohnungssuche in Berlin.

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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. Which ones are you excited to read first?

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Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

We are saddened to learn of the death of the Irish broadcaster and poet Pat Ingoldsby. Like most Irish people who grew up in the 80s and 90s, Pat has always had a special place in our hearts. Rest in peace, Pat.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Jennifer Johnston: chronicler of Ireland’s hidden civil wars. Johnston is one of Ireland’s greatest writers, says fellow author Dermot Bolger, focusing on our troubled history, family and coming of age www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Jennifer Johnston: chronicler of Ireland’s hidden civil wars

Johnston is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers, says fellow author Dermot Bolger, focusing on our troubled history, family and coming of age

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