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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 17/03/2026

I will be so happy when we eventually have a Taoiseach who talks like this.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Lovely to hear the bit of Gaeilge and Irish music on TV and radio during the Seachtain na Gaeilge/St. Patrick's Day run every year, and would also suggest to broadcasters that they can incorporate those things into their shows on all the other days of the year too, at any time, it's not even illegal

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Project for Awesome (P4A) Charity livestream starts today at 5pm GMT! raising money for Save the Children, Partners in Health, and charities voted on by fellow nerdfighters 🥳 Let's make the world a little bit better. Please come check it out! 🦀 #nerdfighteria #DFTBA #charity projectforawesome.com

Project for Awesome, February 13th-15th 2026 with pictures of Hanklerfish and crabs

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you’re interested in attending #TBHillDay 2026 (especially if you’re from WY, HI, AR, ID, KS, LA, ME, ND, OK, RI, or SD) you can learn more and apply here: tbfighters.org/hill-day/

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Hill Day | TBFighters

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here: bsky.app/profile/ciar... Prints also available (currently on sale): www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Image of the Mini Mná print set against a photograph of Irish Women

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish #WomensChristmas

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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Wish I could internalize this

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage.

The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We’re celebrating the launch of Suleika Jaouad’s The Alchemy Journal! You can find event details on Suleika’s Substack: theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/a-game-nig...

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💫 A Game Night, a Jar of Prompts, and John & Hank Green

You're invited: A celebration of The Alchemy Journal

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#ThrowbackThursday 🐊 Part 8 "Gently Smiling Jaws", printed in @emberjournal.org (Sept 2024) "Albert. What was she to do with Albert?" An old woman's love for her unconventional pet is tested when his quality of life is at stake. julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/gent... #WritingCommunity

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

joinery like fallow earth

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 13/11/2025

The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation

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African Translation Project / November: Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2870, 43% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is cur...

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#ThrowbackThursday 🔊 Part 7 "Craft Your Own Adventure", re-printed and recorded in audio in @castofwonders.org (May 2024) It's an absolute delight to see this brought to life by narrator Louise Ratcliffe for a Young Adult audience! julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/craf... #WritingCommunity

Cover photo of Little Wonders 44 - Portal Fantasies: Cast of Wonders 586. A female figure follows a path through the ruins of what perhaps might be a cathedral with three tall rectangular windows at her back. She carries a sword in her right hand, unsheathed, and birds fly overhead. the sun rises (or sets) through the windows behind her as she walks towards the viewer.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 25/10/2025

Landslide for Catherine Connolly 914,143 first preferences, 63% of the vote Breaking two records: More first preferences that De Valera in 1959 (56.3%) and more total votes than Michael D in 2018 (822,566). A massive achievement for Connolly and a great day for the Irish Left.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Saw one of these at Trá na bhForbacha last weekend and didn't have a clue what it was. birdwatchireland.ie/birds/oyster... Now feeling very lucky! 😮 I'm always in awe of migratory birds. These fly over from Iceland & the Faroe Islands ❄️ #birdwatching @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #IrishBirds

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Oystercatcher - BirdWatch Ireland

The Oystercatcher is a large, distinctive wader with long orange-red bill, black head, chest and upperparts and white underparts.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#ThrowbackThursday 🧶Part 6 "Devil's Lace", published in @diabolicalplots.com (Feb 2023) This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere. This Sept would have made her 101st bday. Miss you Mem x julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/devi... #WritingCommunity

Looking over a person's shoulder as they crochet some purple yarn/wool. "Devil's Lace: Diabolical Plots" is written at the bottom in yellow font.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#ThrowbackThursday ⛈️ Part 5 "Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022) When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction. julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/clou... #WritingCommunity

Paper Lanterns Issue 10, Autumn 2022. A close-up image of a white dandelion head in green, with hot pink font on a white background at the top.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 14/09/2025

The Wolf's Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, incredibly illustrated by Júlia Sardà Portabella, is a gorgeous romantic fairy tale. I got it from my local library. You should too.

Cover of The Wolf's Secret. Flowers and leaves in reds, oranges and greys tangle on a speckled black background. Two set of yellow eyes, one canine, one human, stare out from behind the petals.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#ThrowbackThursday 🤖 Part 4 "The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022) An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying. My first SFWA pub! 🥳 julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/the-... #WritingCommunity

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2022 issue. Heroes make their way across a perilous rope bridge strung between skyscrapers.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 12/09/2025

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 24/08/2025

Help @wck.org feed folks in Gaza and get 14 books by @marthawells.com, one of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy authors currently writing. Remember to click on Adjust Donation so you can maximize World Central Kitchen's share. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

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Gerard Hynes @gerardhynes.com · 03/09/2025

Once again reminding folks that calling these child murderers "vaccine skeptics" is journalistic malpractice. "Vaccine science deniers" is a perfectly accurate alternative.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.

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Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

#AvianAugust day 5, the Pueo! 🦉🌅

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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Should I just rename this ThrowbackFriday? Maybe 😅 #ThrowbackThursday 🌲 Part 3 "They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words 😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die? Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021 julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/they... #WritingCommunity

Haunted Waters Press (artfully typed and displayed with inky coffee mug rings)

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 25/07/2025

Bird sounds.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It's #ThrowbackThursday! a day late because #parenting 🧶Part 2 "Craft Your Own Adventure" "While Marya was usually excellent at imagining the worst, opening a portal to another world while crocheting had never really crossed her mind." julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/craf... #WritingCommunity

Issue 4 of Paper Lanterns, March 2021: watercolour painting of clouds in blue and white

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Floral snapshot, July, in case your brain is noisy and overloaded:

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I emailed a letter to my local TD and Minister of State for Nature and Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan on the government's plans to abandon Marine Protected Areas. Please write to your local government TDs asking them not to shaft our marine ecosystems and coastal communities like this!!!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

this is important work I believe white Christians need to be doing in their faith spaces. right wing Christians are perfectly comfortable ruining your Sunday over abortion. left wing Christians need to start doing the same thing about voting for the torture and death of immigrants. call it by name.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My house is a big fan of his work in Míp and Fox and Son Tailers -- must see about adding this one to the shelf 👀📚

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Anyway it's pride and there are lots of queer writers who put out work that isn't best selling! Buy a gay book by an unpopular irrelevant queer today!!!

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New Island Books @newislandbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A gift for Pride 🏳️‍🌈 A collection of poems by Irish revolutionary, humanitarian, essayist and sometime poet, Roger Casement. Originally published in 1918, this beautiful new hardback edition includes both the original introduction as well as a specially commissioned introduction by Seán Hewitt.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's #ThrowbackThursday! Speculative fiction style 🚀Part 1 "Tended" was my first published flash fic 🥲 julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/tend... "[She paddled] down the great, bloated river towards the sea, following the remaining birds. They would know where the last seeds grew." #WritingCommunity

Issue 2 of Channel Magazine, published in Spring 2020. An all-black cover with white lettering, and an image of a tunnel showing light and clouds.

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Julie Le Blanc @julieleblancwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Well hello there! I'm a spec-fic writer living in Ireland 🤗 🐊Do you think alligators make good pets? 🤖Robots should grow old together? 🧶Crochet might unlock a hole in the universe? Then check out my stories at www.julieleblancwrites.com ! Also, trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 #introduction

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Julie Le Blanc writes speculative fiction and mythological non-fiction

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