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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 9h

Pigeons

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 21h

If more people read Il Gato Pardo, the world would be a better place.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 1d

Link (with many sighs from me):

The Next Generation of Scottish Writers – The Skinny

To celebrate 20 years of The Skinny we look ahead, presenting our Next Generation of Scottish Writers: 12 poets, novelists and essayists who are shaping the future of Scotland's literary landscape. We asked them to write about each other.

www.theskinny.co.uk

Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 1d

The Scottish journal, The Skinny, has another great new authors (some are long established) list... I know it's a bit of clickbait, and I know it's only a regional, but can we please get something, anything different in poetry?

Link below

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 2d

"My pulsing blood had transformed music to silence and sight to sound," to Relent and to Know, a wee short in @Dreich25197318 @dreich.bsky.social

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #literature #books

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 2d

Back when I was a kid in Ireland, family going on international flights was so rare that we'd all make a trip of it, go early, have a good lunch, watch planes, play in the arcade, bookshop, then gather to welcome. It really was lovely.

Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 3d

I'm enjoying this phase of life.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 3d

This is disgusting:

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …

www.theguardian.com

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 4d

If you couldn't do your job without AI, you shouldn't have been hired.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 4d

Every single fucking day I get shit like this mailed to me.

Can you AI grifters not just fuck off?

Nobody likes you.

They never will.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 7d

After three days in France, getting home an actually eating a real breakfast, full of nutrients and deliciousness...

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 8d

The one thing I'll never understand about France is the country's complete inability to comprehend a decent breakfast.

Like how did it never catch on? Hot, savoury, and including vegetables.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 9d

Writer giggles in Marseille.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 11d

Marseille here we go!

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 13d

Just so

Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 13d

Entering the dentist,new tagline on the door: 'your smile, our passion.'

Can we please stop with the corporate coded bilge waffle?

You're a dentist, that's quite sufficient. I do not need you to be passionate, simply competent.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · 18d

Performing tomorrow at Stockbridge Cricket Club at 1530, as part of Irish culture day, which kicks off at 1230, featuring craic agus ceoil, so music, dance, pints, art, and fun.

Welcome along.

www.ireland.ie/en/gr...

#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #literature #books

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 15

There's something very weird about getting a bus home, then ordering a pizza that is delivered in a private car.

I mean hey, why can't my pizza pick me up?

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Guy who argues gun controls are bad, dies because there are no gun controls.

Yeah, from Europe, 20 years ago we signed condolence books...

At this point...

It's fairly obvious why this happens, and unless you act to prevent it, our response is now: 'well, duh!'

Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ahhhhnd home.

Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

There is definitely something substantially less cool and more childish about vapes, when compared to a cigarette.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

You know, I'm really looking forward to 14 degree weather!

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 6

God speed.

Would have loved to attend but work malarkey.

Hope it goes brilliantly.

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Instead of tours, which I despise and ignore, I'd love, say, a no frills minivan, picks you up every two days, moves your bags to the next two days stop, and nothing else. Hotel/apartment pickup/drop off. Just that.