For anyone near @barbican.bsky.social and wants some plant clippings www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... 🌱🧪

Conservatory Plant Adoption | Barbican

Bring home a living piece of the Barbican Conservatory

barbican.org.uk

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In communist countries, like the one I was born in, distribution of inappropriate, i.e. state uncensored, books was also punishable by law.

@bookriot.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Librarians and booksellers could face up to a year in prison if they’re found to have “distributed” inappropriate material to those under the age of 18. Book displays, book recommendations, and other means of highlighting materials would be folded into the definition of “distributed.”

© Mark Lague. 'London Rain.' Oil on panel, 2022. 28 × 12 inches.

FREE BOOK KLAXON. I need 200 volunteers to read a free, funny, illustrated book about dogs, the many revolting substances they would happily eat off a pavement before licking your face, and why they do it. Read the excerpt. Apply at the bottom. thewolfthatchewsrocks.com/introduction... #BookSky

Read an Extract | The Wolf That Chews Rocks

Why your dog is weird, according to science. Read an extract from Russell Jones’s funny illustrated popular-science book about dogs.

thewolfthatchewsrocks.com

Welcome to our #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview series. Today we are chatting with Valeria Vescina, author of the novel That Summer in Puglia. @valeriavescina.bsky.social @breakthroughbook.bsky.social #booksky

Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...

Our first time at the Bregenzer Festspiele,seeing #LaTraviata. The set on the seebuehne (lake stage) before and after the show. The production is stunning and technically perfect. #opera #bodensee #lakeconstance #bregenz

Finished #ElenaFerrante 's The Days of Abandonment. I know it's been out for over two decades, took me a while! A more intimate story than her Neapolitan novels. Olga was incredibly relatable and I felt so worried for her. Fab translation by Ann Goldstein 👌 Easy 5/5 ##booksky #amreading

The hall was dark, a solitary lightbulb swaying uncertainly like a dowsing rod searching vainly for water. Read "Passageways" by E.C. Traganas here: buff.ly/ML4bNPN Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry. #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Poetry #LitMag

My short story The Visiting Scholar is published today. I wrote it last November on our holidays in Tenerife and can't wait to see it in hard copy. So grateful it found such a great home in @thebelfastreview.bsky.social 🙏

The Belfast Review@thebelfastreview.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s close enough to midnight - our new issue is available! Grab your copy (print or digital) from our website. The glossy A4 magazine version is available. We’re still waiting on approval for the Amazon version & will announce when it’s up. Free preview unavailable this time due to data limits.

So pleased that my short story has been longlisted in the Write By the Sea competition. Last year another story of mine made it onto the shortlist, and while it didn't win, it was subsequently published by The Honest Ulsterman magazine. #booksky #amwriting writebythesea.ie/writing-comp...

The Honest Ulsterman magazine submissions are open until 31 July. I was super excited when they accepted my short story earlier this year :-) Honest Ulsterman - Submissions share.google/cXrQmdrkQ4hw...

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will be screening in Cinemax Bantry from next Sunday the 2nd of August, with a Q&A after that first showing (film starts 7pm). If you live in counties Cork or Kerry, this is a chance to see a film so beautifully shot, so immersive, it will steal your breath away.

My dentist said today she'd read my story in the Irish Country Magazine a few months ago! I had no idea. Really pleased & celebrating with a strawberry cake. ICM will kindly send me a copy but I need to tell them which issue. Anyone here has 2026 issues and would be happy to look pls? #speirghorm

Just added to stock - over 500 titles from the huge backlist of Clare based poetry publisher @salmonpoetry.bsky.social - all in 'as new' condition ( although we bought the stock from another bookshop) - and from as low as €4.20 each thebookshop.ie/fiction/salm...

This kind of AI use has my full support. Plus it's really good to read positive news from the #Czech Republic for a change. 👏❤️🇨🇿 Story via expats.cz

Homecoming celebrations for #Limerick #hurling champions at the end of our street, 20,000 expected. Pic by @tomtdowling.bsky.social

Very sad news.

Brenda Fricker, Irish Oscar-winning actor, has died aged 81

Dublin born and raised, Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar in 1990 for her role in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot

irishtimes.com

Today I'm catching up on replays for #DevelopYourPremise writing conference. Loved @jessicaberg.bsky.social of @roseclifflit.bsky.social very clear talk. Thank you @writingdaniel.bsky.social for putting this event on. I'm on the free pass and getting so much out of it 🙏 #booksky 📚 #amwriting

Loved #TheOdyssey... possibly the greatest story of all time beautifully told on screen. #christophernolan

New door wreath by the very talented Tara in White Dove. I love going to her gorgeous shop in Wickham Way. Pop in if you're around, you won't regret it. I particularly love the dried artichoke in the wreath 😍

Delighted and honoured to be nominated by @flarelitmag.bsky.social . Read the mag, it's excellent. 🙏📚 #booksky #BestoftheNet

FLARE Magazine (SUBS CLOSED)@flarelitmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

Announcing our 2027 Best of the Net Nominees... Tagging nominees @pleomorphic2.bksy.social and @marketadee.bsky.social who are on Bluesky! Go follow/read their incredible work!! It was a tough choice, but we're so excited! See the nominated pieces here: flare-magazine.com/nominations/

Rock legend Patti Smith took a Palestinian flag from an audience member and held it up at her concert in Limerick, Ireland on Tuesday. The star went on to thank Ireland for its solidarity with the Palestinian people and its efforts to call out Israeli abuses of international law. ✊🇵🇸✊🇵🇸✊🇵🇸✊

Patti Smith was incredible in King Johns Castle. What a gig, total legend. Thank you @dolanslimerick.bsky.social for bringing the arts to the city. 🙏 #PattiSmith #Limerick

Saw the #WilliamBlake exhibition in @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social Would've enjoyed more Blake but what was there was stunning and the exhibiting is beautifully curated. Finished on 19 July, well worth catching. #Dublin #Art #loveart

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

nysfocus.com

on this day in 1799 the "Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign." This Stone was a key to translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, "unlocking 3,000 years of lost history and culture."

After Margaret Atwood on my Kindle I'm moving on to paper and my first Erica James. Gifted to me by a friend from a writers group I was part of, as the perfect summer read. #amreading #booksky 📚

#JamesTaylor with @tomtdowling.bsky.social at Iveagh Gardens tonight was epic. Shower the ones you love with love. ❤️