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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

So how are all my former gifted and talented kids who used to read several books a day and now rot their faculties doomscrolling while ignoring a TV show doing tonight

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My own swearing is probably worse. 😂 I can read it myself first and then hand it over!

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What ages do you recommend for? My 13 year old was able for Stranger Things. Without holding you to it (promise) would it be about the same scary-level?

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’ve no experience with GH, but experience with multiple similar dudes with power and the same playbook in the Irish literature scene. It was just really helpful to read this. Just to know others “see” this. Thank you.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There are shadows of the women used, blacklisted and abused so you can still have the craic.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cc: Irish lit scene. When you’ve heard the rumours but don’t want to turn down the reading. When you’ve heard the rumours but he’ll read your manuscript or give you a prize. When you just don’t want to be left out of the craic. You are donating the narcissistic supply that gives illusion of safety.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“men like that have class systems for the women they “know.” They spoil and flatter the women they NEED things from, business associates, press people etc. … Then there’s women like me, the underlings. We don’t need to be treated well...” —Neko Case nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

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IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A couple times a year I think about the line where he says he has to go to sea again because he’s in a mood and wants to go around knocking people’s hats off 🙌 Amazing excuse for a reread!!!

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dang they really got a category for everything

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@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yuko Shimizu (1965-) - Sweeping off the male gaze www.reddit.com/r/museum/com...

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If Hunter S. Thompson posted on Bluesky, it would be this specific thread. 10/10, highly recommend.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Leonora Carrington’s sketchbooks and letters from her time in a sanatorium. In a letter to her father, she begs him to send paintbrushes. The last image is from The Oval Lady short story collection, illustrated by her partner Max Ernst. The Symptomatic Surreal is at London’s Freud Museum until 10/08

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I enjoyed the thoughtfulness put into the structure and rhythm of the book. Poor Bridget Cleary.

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

re:verb starts tomorrow!

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A preview of "The Middle Floor," by Ben Tufnell, a Highly Commended short story in Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar. If you would like to secure a copy, you're in luck! Issue 4 is available online at www.the4facedliar.com/product-page...

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Pruning the upstart ambition-branch So the whole of my green body can thrive #poetry #fragments

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Agony Bogany Mother Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

No votives, no incense, no beads, no prayers are holier than your little head resting suddenly on my shoulder of a quiet Tuesday after school. #teabreaklines #fragments #poetry #NaPoWriMo

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Enjoy a preview of "The First Electrical Measurement of Starlight," the first place short story in Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar by Aoife Esmonde. Issue 4 is available in select stores and online: www.the4facedliar.com/product-page...

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Remember this, though: Amazon has calculated that poisoning water & making restitution payouts for sickness & even death is CHEAPER than whatever they plan to make on the Data Center. They’re STILL gambling with human lives with impunity.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

They were trapped by glass mid-exodus, bless. Maybe they’re gossiping, maybe complaining. Maybe assuring a god somewhere’s watching. Maybe, but time’s up. A spreadsheet is waiting for me. (2/2)

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’ve a strict 15 for divination at tea-break, for reading cherry blossom patterns across my windscreen. (1/2) #NaPoWriMo #poetry #teabreaklines

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The feline nudge the wraithing whine Signals it is coming to sit on your chest just when you thought it was fed and satisfied #teabreaklines #fragments #poetry #NaPoWriMo

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, via the Arts and Crafts movement.#womensart #WomensArt

Three images of elaborately embroidered book covers with floral patterns and other busy and neat details

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Give me the stubbornness Of every green shape sprung From decay, fighting For its right to heat, to light #teabreaklines #NaPoWriMo

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The character who loses his mind being morally perfect is my Roman Empire. I think of him at least monthly.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’m sorry, what??? Wordle 1,756 6/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thanks for the fantastic response to our open call!Submissions are now closed

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/04/2026

I’m beginning to think he’s dragging the FIFA Peace Prize into disrepute.

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m really looking forward to this book!

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

What if the world ends via nuclear war too soon for me to get my summer bod?

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The last day for submissions is Monday 6th!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 27/03/2026

Check this out. Free courses online from MIT. ocw.mit.edu I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free. Please share.

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MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Issue 5 Submissions open from Mar 23 - Apr 6th with @artscouncilireland.bsky.social support. Issue 4 is available from our shop to see the kind of Poetry/CNF/Short Stories/Flash we publish www.the4facedliar.com @irishwriterscentre @writing.ie @poetryireland.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Issue 5 submissions are underway! Meet our editors here on our social media, and on our website where information about The Four Faced Liar, as well as the page to submit your work, is available. www.the4facedliar.com