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Irish speaker/writer; tech, politics + the future. Hope's not a 'nice to have'. It's our moral duty. she/her mariafarrell.com "We need to rewild the […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@mariafarrell, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

The face of a happy dog who has the Whole Garden to himself for a change and is choosing to sit under the rose arch to guard some Very Important shirts.

Colour photo of a scruffy urban garden. In the foreground a laughing white samoyed dog lies under a flowering pale pink rose arch with three white-ish shirts hanging from it. Behind him is some tufty grass broen up by patches of Cotswold stone coloured pebbles, a raised vegetable bed with a few small lettuces, and a blue-green wooden garden shed with a line of flower-pots under its front-facing window.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

"I hope you find out who did this."

Photo of a kitchen with a grey polished concrete floor. In the foreground is a black and white collie dog, Chip, looking guiltily up at the picture taker, and behind him, along a wall of white units, is a knocked over food bin, its lid upside down and several feet away, and dog kibble sprayed all over the floor between them.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

well getting briefly out of London was very, very good. who knew?

Colour photo of two dogs - a medium sized black and white border collie, Chip, and a slightly larger, white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo - standing on a dried mud track through a field of blossoming yello rapeseed with a big blue sky in the background.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

well ok then YOU try and write a book with an emotionally needy collie boy demanding love, walks, and above all face-time every waking moment of his life (he also prefers to nap while lying on me)

Colour photo of a medium-sized black and white dog - a smooth-haired border collie called Chip - looking up beseechingly at the picture taker with his paw on her leg. He is sitting on a grey rug on a pale wood floor with green cupboard in the background.

Colour photo of a black and white collie dog, Chip, in the foreground with his upturned face in front of a white woman with brown hair sitting in front of a green painted wall of book shelves.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Last year in Oslo I was given this card with embedded flower seeds by the legendary @beabusaniche of www.vialibre.org.ar/en/home Well, I've just planted those seeds in the burgeoning northern hemisphere Spring. Let's see how some Argentinian flowers […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Colour photo of a paper card that says in blue ink "Understanding how this works is an act of REBELLION' by ViaLibre 25. The card is in a large, square black plastic flower pot, sitting on a white painted brick wall with flowers growing out of the wall. Beside them is the corner of a clay flower pot and the plastic bag of compost.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

why yes, once again I am on social media posting pictures of my dogs in the park instead of bringing my actual dogs to the park

Colour photo of two dogs in a park in winter, lying on a large, flat, grassy space and chewing sticks. One dog is a white fluffy samoyed, Milo. The other is a smooth haired border collie, Chip. Behind them a greyhound walks across the green, following a woman in a long, dark coat. In the background are leafless trees and obscured houses.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Saw this Very Good Boy in our London park walk this morning. He was ever so poignantly watching his human children as they played on the swings and slides in the no-dogs area. Setters really are such especially sweet family dogs. What am I saying? I love them all.

Colour photo of a reddish-blonde red setter dog with a blue harness and red and yellow lead tied to a railing as he sits on a path looking through the railing.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

I'm officially writing a book! "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. It's uses ecology to show why we've got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Image of a Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for a new book deal.
The text of the Deal Report reads: "REWILD THE INTERNET By Maria Farrell Imprint: One Signal, Continuum Irish tech writer and speaker Maria Farrell's REWILD THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESIST BIG TECH showing how to resist today’s toxic tech monoculture and grow a flourishing, competitive internet ecosystem where we can live better, freer lives, to Alessandra Bastagli at One Signal at auction by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA) on behalf of Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton. UK & Comm rights to Octavia Stocker and Tomasz Hoskins at Bloomsbury Continuum by Antony Topping.
Translation: krizzo@greeneheaton.co.uk

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