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Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "We never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations. We are really to defend ourselves as long as it takes until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war. There are people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun."

The Wexford Opera Festival - one of this country's most encouraging underdog successes and a great example of what cultural festivals can do for our towns - is on this year from the 15th to the 31st of October.

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Those are Trump's own second-hand shoes or I'll eat a separate, less embarrassing shoe. I guarantee they're in his size. He gave Marco Beag a pair of his old shoes as a "gift" and now Marco has to wear them if he ever wants to be Gauleiter of Havana.

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Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

This for all writing that's in any way important or consequential, not just long-form writing. Important text message? Read it out loud. Email? Read that bish. Memo for work? Recite! Another valuable hack, if you've time: set it aside. Do other things. Come back to it. You'll see things you hadn't.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...