whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane
Ellen Dillon
@drnollid.bsky.social
bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Limerick’s independent, experimental festival Féile na Gréine returns for 2026, including three performances at Ormston House on Sunday, 16 August. Admission is free, no ticket is required but capacity will be limited.
Yesterday, the CSO announced that a record number of households are in arrears over electricity bills. Today, we learn the CEO of state owned ESB has a pay rise to €410k. Such blatant unfairness is a result of EU deregulation of the energy sector in the 90s.
“I’ll tell you who wrote it. I can tell you his name. Rod Liddle. He’s the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one” youtu.be/EqjQSk1PQ4o?...
Eamon Dunphy drunk rant
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All the GC gowls lining up to mourn "the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one" on Eamon Dunphy's birthday. What a time to be alive.
When someone like Rod Liddle dies, it's fun to watch journalists try praise him, without mentioning all that stuff he used to say. Like watching Lenny try explain why he should keep his job without using the letter E
poets: “I really haven’t been writing” also poets: have two collections in the wings
That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim
Don't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social
“Ah! poor fellow! he’ll have to die now,” ejaculated the Long Island sailor.
Reports to the EPA show multiple wells and streams on site contain contaminated water in excess of regulatory limits. This figure has been broadly similar since at least 2021. Some water sources on site have become significantly more contaminated since last year. The EPA has taken no action.
Arsenic 133 times above legal level found in Aughinish Alumina groundwater
Water testing reports from Co Limerick refinery show more than half its wells and streams contain contaminated water breaching Irish rules
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Some journalist better fucking ask him what "woke" means and get him to spell it out *exactly*
Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d agoNoel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage. Department of Agriculture confirms his attendance at the event but says the Minister of State for Agriculture was present in personal capacity. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
"He was only at the Nazi rally in a personal capacity" would you not be embarrassed
Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d agoNoel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage. Department of Agriculture confirms his attendance at the event but says the Minister of State for Agriculture was present in personal capacity. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Four minutes and forty-eight seconds. We're all dead. Burned to a crisp.
get a taster here: minorliteratures.com/2026/06/11/h...
How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net — Ellen Dillon
Note: Use of italics indicates citation. A note on sources follows the text. How complete + final the feeling In the rowboat someone whispers from the future hold your temper loosely or lik…
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Ellen Dillon@drnollid.bsky.social · 6d agoSummer sale weekend over on @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 20% off my new one, among a host of other gems 💙 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Thank you everyone who made it to Waterstones on Tuesday. Most especially Liz and Leeanne, my fellow poet-evangelists ;)
Summer sale weekend over on @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 20% off my new one, among a host of other gems 💙 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Ellen Dillon - How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net | Broken Sleep Books
How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a work of hybrid lyric-essay by Ellen Dillon that moves between elegy, translation, and ecological witness, finding its gravitational...
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Out now! The first title in Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images & poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. Buy the pamphlet + poster here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-...
Thank you. I have a two-part question.
Gotta say it thrills me to see US production companies saving money by making The Price Is Right in Ireland using the S481 tax break that was designed to create an indigenous film industry while many Irish filmmakers (including me) don't have a fucking pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
I'll bet no one said it yet so alright kristen stewart greenlight the descent of alette
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Well, obviously, we've had to make some major sacrifices as a result of having children. But no, it's not your fault.
Losing multiple high profile -and v expensive- lawsuits and then *just pretending you won them*, is the kind of dogbrained manouvre that sounds too stupid to work. Luckily for transphobes, the UK press have failed to spot this, or mention that it happens quite a lot. Probably nothing to worry about.
“The people of this country have had enough of blanketies”
