Ellen Dillon
@drnollid.bsky.social
bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Pinned
Ellen Dillon
@drnollid.bsky.social
· Jan 23
UCC and the Arts Council announce 2025 Artists in Residence
Director and writer Tom Hall; plurilingual poet Ellen Dillon and multi-instrumentalist and composer Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K) announced as recipients of 2025 awards.
www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
Director and writer Tom Hall; plurilingual poet Ellen Dillon and multi-instrumentalist and composer Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K) announced as recipients of 2025 awards.
www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
Still thrilled by this honour, which hasn't quite sunk in yet, and shouting it from the rooftops now that the 'spam' label has vanished from my account as mysteriously as it appeared 👻❤️
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
So Micheál Martin has time as Taoiseach to critique a drone incursion by Russia but has not critiqued a actual drone attack by Israel, on a ship with many Irish citizens and elected representatives, on a peaceful humanitarian mission? #Spéirgorm
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has called Russia's drone incursion into Poland's airspace a "reckless and unprecedented act"
Russian drones in Polish airspace 'reckless' - Taoiseach
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has called Russia's drone incursion into Poland's airspace a "reckless and unprecedented act".
www.rte.ie
September 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
So Micheál Martin has time as Taoiseach to critique a drone incursion by Russia but has not critiqued a actual drone attack by Israel, on a ship with many Irish citizens and elected representatives, on a peaceful humanitarian mission? #Spéirgorm
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
There is no shame in reserving empathy for the downtrodden and withholding it from the wearer of the boot.
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There is no shame in reserving empathy for the downtrodden and withholding it from the wearer of the boot.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
you see the wonderful thing about *my* petard is that it's used exclusively to hoist only *other people*
allow me to demonstrate
allow me to demonstrate
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
you see the wonderful thing about *my* petard is that it's used exclusively to hoist only *other people*
allow me to demonstrate
allow me to demonstrate
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
the vague, made-up sounding job titles on #traitorsirl are so great. logistics therapist. vibe consultant. estate agent.
September 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
the vague, made-up sounding job titles on #traitorsirl are so great. logistics therapist. vibe consultant. estate agent.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
so obsessed with paudie, they can’t catch you out if you don’t know what the fuck is going on #traitorsIRL
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
so obsessed with paudie, they can’t catch you out if you don’t know what the fuck is going on #traitorsIRL
‘Rather than defend and protect the norms of the genetic family against the predations of the market, we can and should advance a critique of private property radical enough to posit neonatal humans as people who are a collective responsibility’
It's too easy to hear the story of Cindy Bi suing her surrogate for murder & infer that what we need to get rid of is surrogacy (rather than the way parenthood is organized under capitalism).
So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
So many ppl sent me the Wired article that I ended up writing my response: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
That Wild “Wired” Article Is Not a Case Against Surrogacy
It’s a horror story about Silicon Valley, and an extreme example of what happens when we conceive of children as property.
www.thenation.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘Rather than defend and protect the norms of the genetic family against the predations of the market, we can and should advance a critique of private property radical enough to posit neonatal humans as people who are a collective responsibility’
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
And I’m thinking Moby Dick doesn’t bite so much as he swallows.
September 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
And I’m thinking Moby Dick doesn’t bite so much as he swallows.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck; on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that very place, is the thickest part of him.
September 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck; on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that very place, is the thickest part of him.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021.
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021.
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
September 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
A steak, a steak, ere I sleep!
September 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A steak, a steak, ere I sleep!
I promise not to do this tonight at O'Bhéal go béal 😉
www.obheal.ie/blog/
www.obheal.ie/blog/
September 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I promise not to do this tonight at O'Bhéal go béal 😉
www.obheal.ie/blog/
www.obheal.ie/blog/
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
Can’t believe* I get to use this again
*I can believe it
*I can believe it
September 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Can’t believe* I get to use this again
*I can believe it
*I can believe it
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series showcased the nation’s most influential and vital poetry. The 2025 landmark edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman—and to the enduring power of poetry.
Available now. https://bit.ly/3I2kwyZ
Available now. https://bit.ly/3I2kwyZ
September 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
I am excited for the Traitors Ireland but still have some concerns.
This country is too small. Like I'm worried I'll spend two weeks calling someone a conniving psychopath on here, only to learn that they're my cousin.
This country is too small. Like I'm worried I'll spend two weeks calling someone a conniving psychopath on here, only to learn that they're my cousin.
August 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I am excited for the Traitors Ireland but still have some concerns.
This country is too small. Like I'm worried I'll spend two weeks calling someone a conniving psychopath on here, only to learn that they're my cousin.
This country is too small. Like I'm worried I'll spend two weeks calling someone a conniving psychopath on here, only to learn that they're my cousin.
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
September 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
Can't believe nobody mentioned @cmatbaby.bsky.social rendering Bertie unelectable with a single song
www.thejournal.ie/bertie-ahern...
www.thejournal.ie/bertie-ahern...
Bertie Ahern rules himself out of presidency, citing lack of support from Fianna Fáil leadership
Ahern said he wouldn’t consider running as an Indpendent because he respects Fianna Fáil too much.
www.thejournal.ie
September 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Can't believe nobody mentioned @cmatbaby.bsky.social rendering Bertie unelectable with a single song
www.thejournal.ie/bertie-ahern...
www.thejournal.ie/bertie-ahern...
Timeline’s full of the worst men in the world using the legal systems of 2 countries to draw attention to their mantrums over the existence of trans people. May they die roaring. Solidarity with everyone in the trans community, always 🏳️⚧️
September 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Timeline’s full of the worst men in the world using the legal systems of 2 countries to draw attention to their mantrums over the existence of trans people. May they die roaring. Solidarity with everyone in the trans community, always 🏳️⚧️
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
This whole story is so telling of the weaselly ways the Irish Government negotiates its complicity with the genocide in Gaza.
They know there is popular appetite for action but they evade and obfuscate, terrified of the US reaction to unilateral moves on Israel.
thecurrency.news/articles/200...
They know there is popular appetite for action but they evade and obfuscate, terrified of the US reaction to unilateral moves on Israel.
thecurrency.news/articles/200...
Hollow victory: Central Bank retains key role for Israeli bonds approval - The Currency
A feeling of victorious jubilation spread fast among Palestinian solidarity activists and on opposition benches on Monday morning as news spread that the Central Bank would not be approving the new pr...
thecurrency.news
September 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This whole story is so telling of the weaselly ways the Irish Government negotiates its complicity with the genocide in Gaza.
They know there is popular appetite for action but they evade and obfuscate, terrified of the US reaction to unilateral moves on Israel.
thecurrency.news/articles/200...
They know there is popular appetite for action but they evade and obfuscate, terrified of the US reaction to unilateral moves on Israel.
thecurrency.news/articles/200...
Reposted by Ellen Dillon
As for the great head itself, that was doing as well as could be expected.
September 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
As for the great head itself, that was doing as well as could be expected.