Brendan G
@brendang66.bsky.social
Retired IT worker. Wannabe Science Fiction writer.
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For those of you who might have an interest, I'm back at the Irish Writers Centre this September facilitating my Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy course. Please feel free to like and share. Details here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ... #writing #sciencefiction #fantasy #irishwriterscentre
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy with John Kenny - Irish Writers Centre
Looking for a greater understanding of the tropes of the science fiction & fantasy genres, and the tools to enable you to write exciting stories. Starts Tues 9 Sept 2025
irishwriterscentre.ie
July 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
For those of you who might have an interest, I'm back at the Irish Writers Centre this September facilitating my Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy course. Please feel free to like and share. Details here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ... #writing #sciencefiction #fantasy #irishwriterscentre
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When customer services answer your joke
April 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
When customer services answer your joke
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Date with an agent is back! ✍️
Do you have a potential New York Times bestseller under the bed? Pitch to top agents at Date With An Agent at ILFD’s Insider’s Guide to Publishing in Merrion Square Park!
Click here for more & make a submission:
ilfdublin.com/whats-on/dat...
Deadline Fri April 4th
Do you have a potential New York Times bestseller under the bed? Pitch to top agents at Date With An Agent at ILFD’s Insider’s Guide to Publishing in Merrion Square Park!
Click here for more & make a submission:
ilfdublin.com/whats-on/dat...
Deadline Fri April 4th
February 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Date with an agent is back! ✍️
Do you have a potential New York Times bestseller under the bed? Pitch to top agents at Date With An Agent at ILFD’s Insider’s Guide to Publishing in Merrion Square Park!
Click here for more & make a submission:
ilfdublin.com/whats-on/dat...
Deadline Fri April 4th
Do you have a potential New York Times bestseller under the bed? Pitch to top agents at Date With An Agent at ILFD’s Insider’s Guide to Publishing in Merrion Square Park!
Click here for more & make a submission:
ilfdublin.com/whats-on/dat...
Deadline Fri April 4th
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We hear it's #HandwritingDay, obviously no examples of handwriting survive from the Mary Rose (well, not from the wreck site anyway - see the next post), but we did find an inkpot with a couple of feather quill tips, suggesting that one of the crew was writing letters home.
January 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We hear it's #HandwritingDay, obviously no examples of handwriting survive from the Mary Rose (well, not from the wreck site anyway - see the next post), but we did find an inkpot with a couple of feather quill tips, suggesting that one of the crew was writing letters home.
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Submissions Call: Ragaire Literary Magazine
Submissions deadline: 3rd February 2025
Ragaire Literary Magazine is now open and accepting submissions of short stories, nonfiction, poetry and cover art for consideration for Issue 3.
Full details:
www.writing.ie/resources/su...
#writerslife #writers
Submissions deadline: 3rd February 2025
Ragaire Literary Magazine is now open and accepting submissions of short stories, nonfiction, poetry and cover art for consideration for Issue 3.
Full details:
www.writing.ie/resources/su...
#writerslife #writers
January 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Submissions Call: Ragaire Literary Magazine
Submissions deadline: 3rd February 2025
Ragaire Literary Magazine is now open and accepting submissions of short stories, nonfiction, poetry and cover art for consideration for Issue 3.
Full details:
www.writing.ie/resources/su...
#writerslife #writers
Submissions deadline: 3rd February 2025
Ragaire Literary Magazine is now open and accepting submissions of short stories, nonfiction, poetry and cover art for consideration for Issue 3.
Full details:
www.writing.ie/resources/su...
#writerslife #writers
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Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘crapulence’ (18th century): sickness or indisposition resulting from excessive drinking or eating.
January 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘crapulence’ (18th century): sickness or indisposition resulting from excessive drinking or eating.
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Nerd and Jock 277
January 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Nerd and Jock 277
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You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇
December 24, 2024 at 1:37 AM
You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇
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Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.
December 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.
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One of the coolest things about publishing a book in Norway is that the gov will automatically buy 1k copies, 1.5K if its a children's book, these will then be distributed to all the libraries.
December 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM
One of the coolest things about publishing a book in Norway is that the gov will automatically buy 1k copies, 1.5K if its a children's book, these will then be distributed to all the libraries.
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Some five-word horror stories for Friday the 13th:
Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself
Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Some five-word horror stories for Friday the 13th:
Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself
Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself
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Or @seismosue.bsky.social with the greatest abstract in the history of seismology pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
December 13, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Or @seismosue.bsky.social with the greatest abstract in the history of seismology pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good number of books, must be in want of a bookcase.
I'm looking to move away from the standard, white, IKEA Billy bookcases. Anyone have any recommendations?
I'm looking to move away from the standard, white, IKEA Billy bookcases. Anyone have any recommendations?
December 12, 2024 at 10:37 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good number of books, must be in want of a bookcase.
I'm looking to move away from the standard, white, IKEA Billy bookcases. Anyone have any recommendations?
I'm looking to move away from the standard, white, IKEA Billy bookcases. Anyone have any recommendations?
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"13 Yule Lads" is the name of my Netflix Holiday Romcom
Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland’s 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains tonight. All the children put a shoe in the window that he will put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
December 12, 2024 at 1:13 PM
"13 Yule Lads" is the name of my Netflix Holiday Romcom
Just started reading Deep Work by Cal Newport. Its goal is to help you develop your ability to focus on a task and to ignore distractions. Wonder if it will help me to... Squirrel!
December 10, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Just started reading Deep Work by Cal Newport. Its goal is to help you develop your ability to focus on a task and to ignore distractions. Wonder if it will help me to... Squirrel!
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PSA:
Given @bsky.app's still-evolving account verification policy, you're gonna just have to trust us when we say that *this* is the official Popular Science Bluesky account.
We have no connection to whoever is squatting on @popsci.bsky.social right now.
Be not fooled by Not Popular Science!
Given @bsky.app's still-evolving account verification policy, you're gonna just have to trust us when we say that *this* is the official Popular Science Bluesky account.
We have no connection to whoever is squatting on @popsci.bsky.social right now.
Be not fooled by Not Popular Science!
December 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM
PSA:
Given @bsky.app's still-evolving account verification policy, you're gonna just have to trust us when we say that *this* is the official Popular Science Bluesky account.
We have no connection to whoever is squatting on @popsci.bsky.social right now.
Be not fooled by Not Popular Science!
Given @bsky.app's still-evolving account verification policy, you're gonna just have to trust us when we say that *this* is the official Popular Science Bluesky account.
We have no connection to whoever is squatting on @popsci.bsky.social right now.
Be not fooled by Not Popular Science!
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How dare they not include us in a scheme we opted out of!
No…papers like The Express persuaded people to vote for BREXIT and this is part of the result!
And why did they do that? Because Europe was looking into their owners tax havens and of course they didn’t like that did they?!
No…papers like The Express persuaded people to vote for BREXIT and this is part of the result!
And why did they do that? Because Europe was looking into their owners tax havens and of course they didn’t like that did they?!
December 2, 2024 at 5:58 AM
How dare they not include us in a scheme we opted out of!
No…papers like The Express persuaded people to vote for BREXIT and this is part of the result!
And why did they do that? Because Europe was looking into their owners tax havens and of course they didn’t like that did they?!
No…papers like The Express persuaded people to vote for BREXIT and this is part of the result!
And why did they do that? Because Europe was looking into their owners tax havens and of course they didn’t like that did they?!
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Photo of all the workers who have spent the last five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral.
December 2, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Photo of all the workers who have spent the last five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral.