Maybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at the GPO, Arnotts lobbies. The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.

Maybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at GPO, Arnotts lobbies

The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.

dublininquirer.com

Thank you to the performers for their presentation of Swim Litany at 37 Looe Street on Thursday 27th. Thanks to everyone who turned out to listen, your attention and focus was appreciated. And thanks to Angela Piccini and Sefryn Penrose for the opportunity. photo: @angelapiccini.bsky.social

Good post day #1: three splendidly spare Uniformpamphlets from @uniformbooks.bsky.social www.colinsackett.co.uk/uniformbooks...

I wonder if the Lord Mayor also approves of the sarcastic quotation marks they put around "religion" when referring to (presumably) Catholicism 🤣

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A little more:

This is an Instagram post from the Lord Mayor of Dublin encouraging Dubliner's to visit "the world's largest floating book fair" on a ship docked in Dublin for "educational" purposes, and to "meet the crew" etc etc and doesn't even mention that it's actually an evangelical Christian organisation

Swim Litany an A3 visual text and score. On August 27th at 37 Looe Street Gallery, a group of performers will read from the text, their voices mixing, blending, bumping against each other as they navigate the three sections. Performance: 1800hrs Thurs 27 Aug at 37 Looe Street, Plymouth, PL4 0DQ

It's the last week of our World Book Night exhibition next week, ending Friday 31st July. Catch it while you can. After that all the artworks will be getting swapped and posted out from 6th August in our hand stamped and drawn mountain envelopes. More info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/

In C D Rose's letter below, you'll find a rich reading list headed by women who "write like it matters." In turn, this list reveals that the original reviewer drew upon a shallow reading list composed of much-hyped books (not their fault, of course), books he judged by their spines

David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 3mo ago

British author C D Rose (2026 Goldsmith Prize winner and no lightweight) efficiently demolishes the TLS hack's lousy review of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything' which is, for my money, one of the novels of the decade. Readers will discover this, and be enriched.

Day 1 saw Burnham back the US in using UK bases to carry on its war of aggression. Day 2, we've heard his plans to saddle low-income countries with more debts. New face, old politics. We need real change: standing up to Trump and showing real leadership on the world stage.

Or, to be accurate, it will will boost US economic growth. There is no such thing as military Keynesianism. You cannot have trickle-down to British communities when you pour money into the pockets of a handful of US-based defence conglomerates. It just doesn't even make a lick of sense.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Increased defence spending will boost UK economic growth, Streeting says

Lectureship in Creative Writing at the University of Leeds; full time; ongoing contract. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lectureship in Creative Writing

Ranked 29th in the world (QS 2026), the School of English at the University of Leeds operates at the leading edge of recent developments in literary studies and creative practice. Located within the F...

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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here’s what the guidance has to say about policing people’s sex.

Catriona has worked for more than a decade now in many ways to advance migrant/refugee rights, women's rights, children's rights etc. (in Brussels and in Ireland) She has long been a passionate advocate for those in need. She is also a talented musician (we were in orchestra together).

Sally Hayden@sallyhayd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Extremely distressing video on Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir's X account, showing Irish activist Catriona Graham being assaulted & dragged away, & the treatment of those who were on the sumud flotilla. I know Catriona since we were teenagers. New Irish gov statement here: x.com/itamarbengvi...

If you are in central London on Saturday to march with the Palestine Coalition, don't forget these five key 'Know Your Rights' messages – and share them with others who may not know them

Amazing the hysteria over a €127k spend on a bike shed, yet just by looking at photo, it's quite clear this is a substantial structure. Meanwhile, actual millions are spent building car parks, but what have commentariat got to say about it? Absolutely nothing. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

HSE chief defends €127k spend on bike shed at Kerry Hospital

HSE chief executive Anne O’Connor also acknowledged 'the reality of hospital overcrowding' to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation conference today

irishexaminer.com

For the benefit of the small flurry of recent followers: Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk and may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/search?keyword=uniformbooks

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

If you actually want to improve Holocaust education in schools, maybe you should start by ensuring that the most popular book being used to teach it isn't one that's an absolute steaming pile of pseudohistorical garbage from someone who knows fuck all about the topic.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Highly recommended - brilliantly filmed and endearingly presented. Really opened our eyes to the fact that there's an awful lot more to bees than honey and bumble!

My Garden of a Thousand Bees

Wildlife film-maker Martin Dohrn is bee obsessed. He has found over 60 species in his Bristol garden and sets out to film them, with mind-blowing results.

bbc.co.uk

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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The UK papers have now pushed a narrative of Muslims ‘dominating’ the UK for celebrating a holiday and praying in public, something all other religions do and Muslims have done for centuries, while also decrying any attempts to disestablish the Church of England as an attack on Christianity per se

This is what evil states do - torture - mass torture of people in detention. “Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent”.”

Israel systematically torturing Palestinians in custody, says UN expert

Report by Francesca Albanese says 'torture in detention used on unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance'.

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Some of the 200 pieces received for World Book Night 2026 The Mountains Are Calling… Our exhibition opens in April at UWE Bristol Bower Ashton Library and is on show until 31st July. Works here by: @rareautumn.bsky.social @nickwhimster.bsky.social @porcovolente.bsky.social @markleahy.bsky.social 🗻⛰️

Congratulations! 10% off is a good deal. Perhaps for my little Broken Sleep title? robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n.... Or for dozens of others.

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books

My new book Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Br...

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Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We've won Small Press of the Year for Wales! It's great to be recognised for our work degentrifying the arts, platforming low socio-economic writers, & without grants or institutional support! To celebrate, everything is 10% off on our website with code 'WINNERS2026' www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

My brain may be rubbish today... but I did a thing.

PIC - Plymouth Illustration Collective@picplymouth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Plymouth Illustration Collective (PIC) is a new group for illustrators in Plymouth, UK delivering community events, workshops, exhibitions and more. More info coming soon!

Rocks to Reef with @tidelines.bsky.social, Anne-Marie Culhane, Exe Estuary shellfishers. Learning about the delicate and ever-adjusting balance of estuary lives over centuries. I wrote about the early stages of our immersion. tidelines.uk/blog/a-toe-i...

A Toe in the Mud - Exe Oysters and Mussels - Tidelines

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