Maria Farrell
@mariafarrell.bsky.social
Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
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Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
And here's a photo of Bug where you can see his sweet, smiling face. He really is a special little guy and just wants some humans who can give him walks and love and lots of sofa time. He is a lovely little chap and I wish I could have him myself.
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And here's a photo of Bug where you can see his sweet, smiling face. He really is a special little guy and just wants some humans who can give him walks and love and lots of sofa time. He is a lovely little chap and I wish I could have him myself.
And here's a photo of Bud where you can see his sweet, smiling face. He really is a special little guy and just wants some humans who can give him walks and love and lots of sofa time. He is a lovely little chap and I wish I could have him myself.
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
And here's a photo of Bud where you can see his sweet, smiling face. He really is a special little guy and just wants some humans who can give him walks and love and lots of sofa time. He is a lovely little chap and I wish I could have him myself.
fireworks unbelievably loud and persistent around ours. even the normally implacable Milo is terrified.
the only consolation of Mol's loss is that she would have been shaking unconsolably, night after night. at least she was spared another firework season cowering behind her favourite chair.
the only consolation of Mol's loss is that she would have been shaking unconsolably, night after night. at least she was spared another firework season cowering behind her favourite chair.
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
fireworks unbelievably loud and persistent around ours. even the normally implacable Milo is terrified.
the only consolation of Mol's loss is that she would have been shaking unconsolably, night after night. at least she was spared another firework season cowering behind her favourite chair.
the only consolation of Mol's loss is that she would have been shaking unconsolably, night after night. at least she was spared another firework season cowering behind her favourite chair.
"Blue Machine" UK paperback has a breathtakingly beautiful and evocative (Hokusai, fluid dynamics, chaos) cover. It just begs to be photographed by the sea
Here it is in Beirut, the eastern limit of the Med; a very salty sea as the rivers running into it bring less water than evaporates each day.
Here it is in Beirut, the eastern limit of the Med; a very salty sea as the rivers running into it bring less water than evaporates each day.
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Blue Machine" UK paperback has a breathtakingly beautiful and evocative (Hokusai, fluid dynamics, chaos) cover. It just begs to be photographed by the sea
Here it is in Beirut, the eastern limit of the Med; a very salty sea as the rivers running into it bring less water than evaporates each day.
Here it is in Beirut, the eastern limit of the Med; a very salty sea as the rivers running into it bring less water than evaporates each day.
Beirut is a cracking town. Street art ten storeys tall and smart semi-feral pussy cats who hang out by the pet food shop. Don't start me on the food..
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Beirut is a cracking town. Street art ten storeys tall and smart semi-feral pussy cats who hang out by the pet food shop. Don't start me on the food..
best little rainbow-dog, Bran, doing his cheesiest grins this morning to wish me goodbye. such an excellent furry ally.
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
best little rainbow-dog, Bran, doing his cheesiest grins this morning to wish me goodbye. such an excellent furry ally.
I'm in Brussels so #MorningWalk was with my 'nephew', Bran, who's v. worried by buses and lorries, and jumped like he'd been cartoon-electrified when he saw a cat in a window, and LOVED his chewbie treat in the café but lodged a complaint with management (me) when there was only one.
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I'm in Brussels so #MorningWalk was with my 'nephew', Bran, who's v. worried by buses and lorries, and jumped like he'd been cartoon-electrified when he saw a cat in a window, and LOVED his chewbie treat in the café but lodged a complaint with management (me) when there was only one.
The rather pleased face of a Very Good Dog who got up early, read the fun bits of the paper himself, and is now propping the rest up so his human man can read the serious important bits
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The rather pleased face of a Very Good Dog who got up early, read the fun bits of the paper himself, and is now propping the rest up so his human man can read the serious important bits
Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
TBF the old old internet was not All That either.
Been skimming this zine from 1993 for users of Major BBS's and it's ... bringing back memories
(not technical ones. I have none. but the hairdo! the prices! the tone! just very special and unique)
And hey, in some ways BBSs are now coming back.
Been skimming this zine from 1993 for users of Major BBS's and it's ... bringing back memories
(not technical ones. I have none. but the hairdo! the prices! the tone! just very special and unique)
And hey, in some ways BBSs are now coming back.
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
TBF the old old internet was not All That either.
Been skimming this zine from 1993 for users of Major BBS's and it's ... bringing back memories
(not technical ones. I have none. but the hairdo! the prices! the tone! just very special and unique)
And hey, in some ways BBSs are now coming back.
Been skimming this zine from 1993 for users of Major BBS's and it's ... bringing back memories
(not technical ones. I have none. but the hairdo! the prices! the tone! just very special and unique)
And hey, in some ways BBSs are now coming back.
Photo from 5 years ago. Mol had such a happy life. 3 months on and mine just ain't the same without her.
(you would not BELIEVE the amount of border collie content there is on the internet and I've probably watched most of it)
(you would not BELIEVE the amount of border collie content there is on the internet and I've probably watched most of it)
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Photo from 5 years ago. Mol had such a happy life. 3 months on and mine just ain't the same without her.
(you would not BELIEVE the amount of border collie content there is on the internet and I've probably watched most of it)
(you would not BELIEVE the amount of border collie content there is on the internet and I've probably watched most of it)
this very arthritic but delighted-with-himself-and-with-life-in-general little chap greeted Monday as happily as he carried on with it
and licked my memory-impaired neighbour who asks after Molly every day, and is newly sad each time I say she's died, and who I love for just remembering her.
and licked my memory-impaired neighbour who asks after Molly every day, and is newly sad each time I say she's died, and who I love for just remembering her.
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
this very arthritic but delighted-with-himself-and-with-life-in-general little chap greeted Monday as happily as he carried on with it
and licked my memory-impaired neighbour who asks after Molly every day, and is newly sad each time I say she's died, and who I love for just remembering her.
and licked my memory-impaired neighbour who asks after Molly every day, and is newly sad each time I say she's died, and who I love for just remembering her.
Milo's quiet sense of slightly stunned pride is palpable here.
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Milo's quiet sense of slightly stunned pride is palpable here.
Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year.
This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.
This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year.
This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.
This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.
So, THIS is happening
"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.
Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.
(tk u @robin.berjon.com)
"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.
Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.
(tk u @robin.berjon.com)
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
So, THIS is happening
"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.
Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.
(tk u @robin.berjon.com)
"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.
Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.
(tk u @robin.berjon.com)
while I'm away my urban garden is flourishing. it is RAMPANT. apples, clematis, climbing rose, lavendar, daisies; all flourishing. god those japanese anemones wrap their blush pink petals around my heart and squeeze it
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
while I'm away my urban garden is flourishing. it is RAMPANT. apples, clematis, climbing rose, lavendar, daisies; all flourishing. god those japanese anemones wrap their blush pink petals around my heart and squeeze it
oh my dude we've had autumn for 10 days already in the south west of Ireland (I'm so bummed! I was counting on 2 more weeks of post-work swims). herewith today's 'beach walk' pic.
August 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
oh my dude we've had autumn for 10 days already in the south west of Ireland (I'm so bummed! I was counting on 2 more weeks of post-work swims). herewith today's 'beach walk' pic.
floofmeister in receipt of his love
August 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
floofmeister in receipt of his love
My neighbour, Glen, waits for his quad-driver to get going again and finish their rounds of the fields.
August 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My neighbour, Glen, waits for his quad-driver to get going again and finish their rounds of the fields.
Milo is solo dog, now. He's not hating it.
August 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Milo is solo dog, now. He's not hating it.
I just read Bruce Scheier's 2023 account of reviewing the Snowden revelations in Brazil back in 2013. He gets at what we all felt strongly back then.
We weren't surprised by USG surveillance, but were shocked by it. Like with death, there's knowing and.
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9446/
We weren't surprised by USG surveillance, but were shocked by it. Like with death, there's knowing and
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9446/
July 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I just read Bruce Scheier's 2023 account of reviewing the Snowden revelations in Brazil back in 2013. He gets at what we all felt strongly back then.
We weren't surprised by USG surveillance, but were shocked by it. Like with death, there's knowing and.
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9446/
We weren't surprised by USG surveillance, but were shocked by it. Like with death, there's knowing and
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9446/
Yesterday, to Foyles in London to buy brain-soothing SF novels. Lurking in the foyer thumbing ecology books only to find ...
A new James C. Scott (RIP) book, about rivers and specifically the Irrawaddy River of Burma. Right beside MacFarlane's 'Is a river alive?' and answering firmly 'Yes'.
A new James C. Scott (RIP) book, about rivers and specifically the Irrawaddy River of Burma. Right beside MacFarlane's 'Is a river alive?' and answering firmly 'Yes'.
July 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yesterday, to Foyles in London to buy brain-soothing SF novels. Lurking in the foyer thumbing ecology books only to find ...
A new James C. Scott (RIP) book, about rivers and specifically the Irrawaddy River of Burma. Right beside MacFarlane's 'Is a river alive?' and answering firmly 'Yes'.
A new James C. Scott (RIP) book, about rivers and specifically the Irrawaddy River of Burma. Right beside MacFarlane's 'Is a river alive?' and answering firmly 'Yes'.
This utter GEM of a book by @lifewinning.com is a love letter to the internet's physical and material presence in New York - or how it was in 2016.
Gorgeous line drawings, fascinating insights, and a guide to reading the cable markings, manhole cover symbols, spycams + assorted infras of the city.
Gorgeous line drawings, fascinating insights, and a guide to reading the cable markings, manhole cover symbols, spycams + assorted infras of the city.
July 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This utter GEM of a book by @lifewinning.com is a love letter to the internet's physical and material presence in New York - or how it was in 2016.
Gorgeous line drawings, fascinating insights, and a guide to reading the cable markings, manhole cover symbols, spycams + assorted infras of the city.
Gorgeous line drawings, fascinating insights, and a guide to reading the cable markings, manhole cover symbols, spycams + assorted infras of the city.
