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Eamonn Duffin @eamonnduffin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At least the Irish players are wearing black armbands. Nothing stops genocide quicker than a black armband, apart from thoughts and prayers, obviously. #stopthegame
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🎃 Smersh Pod 🎃 @smershpod.com · 14/09/2026
Coming Halloween 2026. Starting October 19th. Ending October 31st. 13 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN. A terrifying podcast event. Only from Smersh Pod.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/08/2026
A note from Dolly Parton to Eminem in 2022.
Screenshot of a tweet from @Eminem dated 25 August 2026. His text reads: "I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it.  Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words." Below that, he has included an image of a note signed by (or on a stationery of, or electronic stationery of) Dolly Parton. Her note reads:


Marshall (Eminem),

Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don’t know a lot about rap music, I’ve come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate ’em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we’ll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you’re doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don’t even know.

With love & respect,
Dolly Parton
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The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Less than a week left to submit your work for consideration. Guidelines on our website. Deadline is 1st September at midnight wherever you are.
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The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s time to shout about it - Issue 6 is here! Print & digital issues on our website. More prose, more poetry, essays and more - from writers in Northern Ireland and beyond 🍀💚🍀
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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Reposts very much appreciated...
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shoogles (comms open, see 📌) @shoogles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
ebay.io/m/coM1KR Selling a Cintiq Pro 27 (excellent condition) for £2,000. Really kind of need the money rn. Signal boosting would be appreciated. Show me your art and I'll knock an extra £250 off. Not joking. Not a scam. Will explain below.
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Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 (used, fully inspected and cleaned by Wacom) | eBay UK
Wacom Cintiq Pro 27, all cables and accessories included. Recently back from Wacom HQ in Germany.
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Sci-FI-Ireland @sci-fi-ireland.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Print on demand is live in the Republic of Ireland! Much love to Nick who made us aware of the postage issue and we're delighted to see issue 1 landing on his doorstep looking gorgeous 🍀 💚 🍀 Issue 2 submissions remain open!!! #sciencefiction #ireland #irishwriters #opensubmission
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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New on the site... for the next slot in our literary journals spotlight, we're introducing you to the brilliant Sci-Fi Ireland! irishwriterscentre.ie/.../literary...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/06/2026
There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Gonna be in NYC for the premiere of Me, Myself & Mary at Tribeca, SO while I'm there, if any NYC-based arts/culture people would like to talk to me about serving drinks to the Irish president OR my critically acclaimed new novel Prestige Drama, hit me in the DMs! tribecafilm.com/films/me-mys...
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Me, Myself and Mary | 2026 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca
Chris O'Dowd and Aisling Bea star in the viral, true story of Séamas O'Reilly, who got his days mixed up and ended up alone with his boss and the President of Ireland while high on drugs.
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Sci-FI-Ireland @sci-fi-ireland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It's less 6 days until we open for submissions for issue 2 - Submissions will be open 8th June - 26th of July so be ready 🚀👾🤖👽 Alex, Mark and the readers are absolutely buzzing so get ready and get your stories over to to us starting next Monday! #sciencefiction #ireland #irishwriters
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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"
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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories was a cultural pick on Radio 4’s Front Row yesterday. Huge thanks to @tds153.bsky.social for the mention
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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Brand-new Irish Science-Fiction journal Sci-Fi Ireland will launch their inaugural issue at @norncon.bsky.social in Belfast on Saturday 9th May! Featuring past International Debut Novel Competition winner RB Kelly 🌟 More info: norncon.org
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
'I imagined her soul as a small white electrical fuse, the kind you put into a plug. She was a tomboy, short-haired, freckled. Her family were Gaelgeoirs, she addressed me – An bhfuil tu sásta? An bhfuil? 'Best Friends' by Ger Duffy -- poetry from issue 18 👭 bansheepress.org/read/best-fr...
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‘Best Friends’ by Ger Duffy — Banshee Press
I imagined her soul as a small white electrical fuse, the kind you put into a plug. She was a tomboy, short-haired, freckled. Her family were Gaelgeoirs, she addressed me – An bhfuil tu sásta? An…
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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Four issues so far, and one in progress! Thank you again to everyone who submitted for Issue 5. In the meantime, head over to our website to learn more about The Four Faced Liar and secure a copy of Issue 4 www.the4facedliar.com
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Eamonn Duffin @eamonnduffin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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No more US military aid to Israel | Bernie Sanders
The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government
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Sci-FI-Ireland @sci-fi-ireland.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Next up on our author profiles ahead of issue 1 is Damien Kelly. We're ecstatic to be bringing @damosays.bsky.social back to the Sci-Fi fandom at our launch at @norncon.bsky.social 9th of May Tickets for NORNCON available at: norncon.org #sciencefiction #ireland #author
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thank you Irish News for picking up on me raising ongoing pollution at Cregagh Glen and the pathetic response from DAREA & its Alliance Party minister. They failed to move for months, until I put in an FOI request on the department's response. Now they have taken notice, this isn't good enough.
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
1 in 5 MLAs are landlords. Many councillors & their family members also are. Is there the political will to tackle the housing crisis? The housing crisis in NI has been created by the 5 parties who have been in power for 28 years. Connect the dots. It’s not the fault of minority communities.
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🎃 Smersh Pod 🎃 @smershpod.com · 03/04/2026
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination with @4hundredblows.bsky.social shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...
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The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination with Martin Fitzgerald | Smersh Pod
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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just over a year ago I was a guest on @smershpod.com talking about Oliver Stone’s JFK. That gave me the idea for my new book. Yesterday, we talked about everything that has happened since. Give it a listen. John really is the best at what he does.
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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Submissions are open! We look forward to reading your work. Head to the link below for information about guidelines and to submit your work for Issue 5! www.the4facedliar.com
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Eamonn Duffin @eamonnduffin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I suppose with Gerry Adams’s case being thrown out and Chuck Norris dying, you could say that it’s Chucky Norris ar la!
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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Check out our ✨freshly updated✨ list of competitions, opportunities, and calls for submission right here! irishwriterscentre.ie/resources/co...
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Competitions and submissions - Irish Writers Centre
Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
For St. Patrick's Day, @foylesforbooks.bsky.social asked Irish writers to recommend Irish books they love. Some great recommendations, inc. @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social on Molly Keane - everyone please read Good Behaviour. In shocking news, I picked Maeve Brennan. www.foyles.co.uk/further-read...
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St. Patrick's Day Author Picks
Happy St Patrick’s Day! We’re not the only ones obsessed with the wealth of Irish writing, so we’ve pulled in a few favours and asked some of the most iconic Irish writers to recommend us a b
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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If you’re not aware, it was reported last week that Trump is so enamoured with discount shoe brand Florsheim, that he’s bought pairs for every man on his staff, even going so far as to eyeball their shoe size and dispatch them to their new owners, unfitted. Said staff are now reportedly so terrified of offending him, that they constantly wear these cheap, ill-fitting shoes any time they’re in his presence. There followed a bewildering series of photos; of Trump flanked by flunkies parading their identical shiny brogues; of staffers posing, feet facing camera, with thumbs-up from their boss; of Secretary of State Marco Rubio – one of the most powerful man on the planet – making the case for Trump’s region-destabilising war in Iran while wearing shoes at least two sizes too big.
I suppose it was the sheer, petty oddness of this story that made it clear to me that sense will not help us here. The thousandth reminder that we are not witness to the actions of a merely eccentric or unpredictable administration, but the abject and absurd demands of a Mad King.The things that make Trump grotesque are not his personal peccadilloes, but his political actions. The craven self-enrichment he’s pursued through scams large and small, his administration’s gutter-level racism, its constant assaults on personal dignity and free speech, the imprisonment and torture of thousands of people by Ice, the cutting of every government department to the bone, the arguably genocidal annihilation of international aid, the actually genocidal backing of Israel’s war in Gaza, and their current pursuit of a war in Iran that risks killing tens of thousands of people, while destroying the global economy and what used to be called the rules-based international order.
As such, focusing on Trump’s surface-level weirdness might seem like an unearned holiday from considering his more pressing evils. It’s just that I’d argue that these are all connected, and always have been. That Trump’s actions and his demeanour are one and the same. That his are the politics of a braying, small-minded simpleton, enacted by a man who simply can’t pretend to be anything else. That a man with a toddler’s approach to truth, object permanence, and the value and complexity of other people’s lives, is not someone who should be entrusted with access to a website for discount shoes, let alone the largest military arsenal the world has ever seen.
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paddypadman @paddypadman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
She's going to bring the Oscar around to every school in the county like they do with the Sam Maguire
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Eamonn Duffin @eamonnduffin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
WTF are we at??
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🎃 Smersh Pod 🎃 @smershpod.com · 04/03/2026
"Jedi should be the Space SAS storming in when some bad galactic types need a good shoeing. Instead, these dullards toddle into situations and immediately reach for the herbal tea and the Jake Humphrey podcast" Wrote this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Submissions will be opening soon, 1 March. Free to submit (paid options for expedited response, feedback, extra submission). Free preview of current issue on our website. Submissions guidelines apply. Prose, max 6k words Poetry/Songs, max 3 pieces/pages Art/Photos, max 5 Scripts, max 20 pages
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words. On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...
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AI will not save us
In fact, it's probably going to make our lives much, much worse
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Delighted my proposal for a city wide graffiti removal and power washing team in Belfast will become reality. We've put a lot of work into the city centre in recent years, now it's time to expand this. Every neighborhood deserves cleaner greener streets.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just caught up with this excellent @smershpod.com from @johnrain.co.uk w John Thomson talking about a 1978 Richard Burton film that scared the bejeezus out of me when I saw it aged 11 on Granada's "Murder Mystery Suspense" strand c1987. The Medussa Touch. Well worth a listen. pca.st/episode/ca31...
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THE MEDUSA TOUCH with John Thomson
TELEKINESIS: A mental force that enables this man to move objects and control events. Science cannot explain the awesome power of the mind. And nothing can control it. Richard Burton has…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
People who say they're 'minded' to do something come across like an absolute cunt. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Wild Belfast @wildbelfast.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
While we're grateful to have this murmuration, we came so close to losing it, & the site remains unprotected in the Local Development Plan. In coming months there'll be a consultation on designating new Sites of Local Nature Conservation Importance, so be sure to respond & protect places like this!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Got contacted by a resident who lives on Ravenhill Avenue, that the alleyway was blocked by a fallen tree & in poor condition. DfI dragging their feet to get the alleyway cleared, but after contacting myself, it was sorted in a week. Feel free to contact me if you think I can help in SE Belfast.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Maidin mhaith from Silent Hill
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/01/2026
Bob Weir obituary
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Bob Weir obituary
One of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, brilliant guitarist and writer of many of the group’s key songs
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🎃 Smersh Pod 🎃 @smershpod.com · 10/01/2026
Smersh Pod is officially 9 years old today. Happy Birthday to me.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/01/2026
Actor and writer Paterson Joseph: ‘Tilda Swinton asked me a question that changed everything that came next’
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Actor and writer Paterson Joseph: ‘Tilda Swinton asked me a question that changed everything that came next’
Joseph on sussing the school system at the age of four, an awkward audition for the National Youth Theatre, and why he loves his ‘horrible’ Peep Show character
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Evergreen.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
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Eamonn Duffin @eamonnduffin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Crocodile Dundee has one of the best scores of the 80s. It is just perfect for the atmosphere of each scene, particularly the final scene, which in itself is absolutely brilliant.
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
First day of 2026 and the Brits are at it again.... We will not be silent. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
The Brits are at it again...

The British government has issued us notice that they will appeal the decision of their own magistrates court to throw out the case against Mo Chara. 

It is the view of our legal team that there is not an iota of logic for this, it is without any sound legal basis. 

It is another flailing arm to distract from,
and to try and silence those who stand on the right side of history as they are complicit. 

As Israel today moves to ban charitable organisations providing lifesaving aid and primitive shelter to millions, the British state once again turns to vilify those who oppose genocide. 

It will be heard on Jan 14th at the High Court, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London. 

We will not be silent. 

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
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🎃 Smersh Pod 🎃 @smershpod.com · 29/12/2025
Hello everyone. Keir Starmer, Lad Lawyer, here. Just to say that if you have enjoyed Smersh Pod's 2025 output, why not tell everyone? Why not review and rate on your platform of choice? Why not join the Patreon?
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