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t.m.d. lee
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Dark words | Bright lines
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Maybe it's not 'harder', but just not worth it πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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❛A converted barn all to myself, beautiful countryside on the doorstep... I managed about a months worth of writing condensed into one inspired week. – Susan Allott, author

The Moth Retreat offers accommodation for writers and artists of all disciplines in rural Ireland.

www.themothmagazine.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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You can visit #Yeats: The Life and Works of #WilliamButlerYeats, a #free #exhibition at the National Library of Ireland on Kildare St, #Dublin.

πŸ“† Open Monday to Sunday: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/exhibition-yeats-life-and-works-william-butler-yeats-0
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
My biggest crush as a 15y-old πŸ˜…
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Crowd Work by Sam Furlong
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Volunteer as a Reader for the Orwell Youth Prize!

The @orwellprize.bsky.social is looking for experienced professionals across publishing, literature, academia, civil society (and more) to provide personalised feedback as part of their judging process.
Volunteering | The Orwell Foundation
How you can help support our young writers
www.orwellfoundation.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Not his fault, he was trying to say 'How you doing' to the pretty gate agent for the flight to Paris, in the approximate French learned from Phoebe. He got distracted πŸ˜‚
September 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Does soap actor count? 🀣
two men are talking in a kitchen and one of them is saying " i 'm getting a new brain "
ALT: two men are talking in a kitchen and one of them is saying " i 'm getting a new brain "
media.tenor.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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ICYMI: The Royal Society for Blind Children has issued an urgent appeal to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app, following its launch last week πŸ‘‡ #BookSky
RSBC appeals for story donations for new audiobook app for visually impaired children
ebx.sh
September 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Totally justified mistyping habit! T was born in February. H and N, conjoined twins on the keyboard, were born in December of the same year. A is the little vowel with a big mouth who's catching up, although born in the summer in between, it's a step-sibling trying to find its place in the family πŸ˜‰
September 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
All Fours and The Scarlet Letter
September 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The ceramic penguin in Misery.
September 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oh, and I recently enjoyed 'Supremacy' by Parmy Olson.
September 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
'This is Water' (David Foster Wallace's cautionary speech / essay) touches the need for power more than its nature, but I think about it a lot now the original target audience is 20 years older.
September 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🀣
September 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
'After you.' (knowing you arrived in the non-queue before them)
'After YOU.'
'You go on.'
'No no, YOU go on.'
'Aw, cheers.'
September 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
My mother worked on a mobile library and it was the most wonderful job!
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
September 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Walden and Little Women
September 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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BREAKING NEWS

Anthropic agree to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems. This is the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history.

The settlement is still subject to the judge's approval.

🧡

authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic SettlementΒ  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systemsβ€”the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v…
authorsguild.org
September 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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and as always, worth noting again: this settlement is for *pirating* works. the judge in the lawsuit ruled that the way anthropic *trained* on works was legal!
September 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Katherine Mansfield
September 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM