Remembering the great Miles Davis. ‘He used the trumpet as a songbird’: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

‘He used the trumpet as a songbird’: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more

Ahead of the centenary of Davis’s birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather outf...

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Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 90981: Unhappiness is not a prerequisite for making good art. Tea as a writing medium works quite as well as blood, and comes out a lot cheaper...

I'm very excited to have a recent photograph selected for this exhibition, opening in Cork's LHQ Gallery Friday and running through to December 19th...

Cork County Council Presents Open Call Winter Exhibition

Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery presents the now annual Open Call Winter Exhibition which will run throughout November and December 2025. 74 works from 68 Cork-based artists will be presented in Cor...

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badaude@badaude.bsky.social · last yr.

it's happening! (if you're in the EU and you'd like to request an event, please get in touch.) (+ me & @laurenelkin.bsky.social are looking for a Paris venue to talk about Amateurs! x Art Monsters - any leads very welcome :)

Sunday... #Jazz #NowSpinning #VinylLovers #MusicSky #JazzSky

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Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · last yr.

The FT has surely published this as clickbait, but John Self is a respected commentator, so I'm taking the bait. First of all, we've been having these 'let's be reasonable' conversations for five years. The attitude to LLMs in publishing today has evolved from those. 1/ www.ft.com/content/7ce8...

... #NowSpinning... Erik Satie Piano Works, Anne Queffélec, piano... sublime music... #ClassicalMusic #VinylLovers

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Martin Doyle@martindoyle.bsky.social · last yr.

Booker Prize longlist 2025: ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’, says chair of judges Roddy Doyle. Trinidad-Irish author Claire Adam and former winner Kiran Desai on most international list ever www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · last yr.

WeTransfer recently announced a change to its terms of services, which could be interpreted as allowing the right to use customer files for training AI models. Swift criticism from customers and industry, led them to revise the wording to make the language easier to understand. 🧵

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Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last yr.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Colin Eaton, ‘Rayon de Soleil’, papercut collage & mixed media, 42x32cm framed. Part of ‘Out of Lines’, a Bloomsday / Summer group show at Olivier Cornet Gallery. www.oliviercornetgallery.com/out-of-lines... We are open until 8pm tonight @colineaton.bsky.social #oliviercornetgallery

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Meta wins AI copyright case in blow to authors

US court finds using online books to train artificial intelligence models without writers’ consent is ‘fair use’

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This week, committing to listening through this: Beethoven, The String Quartets, Hungarian String Quartet. #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky

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Mslexia@mslexia.bsky.social · last yr.

We're looking for pitches for four-part columns on any aspect of creative writing to fit broadly within the following categories: craft, creativity, performance, career. Please send pitches to maxine[@]mslexia.co.uk with PITCH in the subject line 💌

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Molly Twomey@mollytwomey.bsky.social · last yr.

🧈 Bealtaine & Butter 🧈 This #PoetryDay, May 1st, join us at 10AM for a free tour @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social! 💛 After, we’ll gather at Maureen’s for tea/coffee & a writing session 🌻 ✍️ DM / email bealtainebutter@gmail.com to register! Thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social's Bright Ideas Bursary 💛

I'm sharing this petition again protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool, as it is near the magic 1000 signatories mark. Will you sign too? #dontzuckourbooks my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

my.uplift.ie

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Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Remembering Andrei Tarkovsky on his birthday 🎂 📷 Gueorgui Pinkhassov, 1979 #filmsky "Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams.... He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow?" - Ingmar Bergman

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

my.uplift.ie

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · last yr.

10 of the Best Psychedelic Songs That’ll Melt Your Mind zurl.co/623S9

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti@drcarpineti.bsky.social · last yr.

The Partial Solar Eclipse, from the beginning to maximum!

Next Thursday, 03 April, 5pm, is the deadline to apply for places in the Summer School from @stingingfly.bsky.social . I'll be running the ONLINE Creative Non-Fiction Workshop. Hope you can join me!

Congratulations @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🎊

Sinéad Gleeson@sineadgleeson.bsky.social · last yr.

The paperback of Hagstone is published today. Huge thanks to everyone who has supported the book in the last year, and to Ross for asking me to sign books at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social today. @cormackinsella.bsky.social

Patrick Holloway reads from his debut novel The Language of Remembering @booksupstairs The last launch of the tour that took in Cork, Galway and Belfast

Thursday classical mode... #NowSpinning Mozart 'Complete Works for String Quartet,' a 9-LP boxset from the Quartetto Italiano. Sublime music 🎶 #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #RecordCollectors

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hollowaywriter.bsky.social@hollowaywriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the day! 🕺🕺

today on Bartók's birthday I have already dialed up a couple of Hungarian mixcloud playlists with Bartók stuff and right now in the space before driving my son to school I am jamming "Concerto for Orchestra" (Reiner & CSO). You too can live this triumphant life. Happy birthday Bela Bartók!

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Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the final day to apply for one of six reading slots available at the Prebooked Poetry Introduction readings at the Cork International Poetry Festival this May. For more information - southword.submittable.com/submit

Thanks @alcs.co.uk ! Writers! Check them out and register if you haven't already done so! Happy #ALCSDay !

ALCS@alcs.co.uk · last yr.

Happy #ALCSDay to our members! We’re so proud to have once again paid more money, to more members than ever before.

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the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last yr.

tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.