Marc de Faoite
Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
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- "We have cleared away our natural forests, dug out peatlands, converted hills to conifer plantations, drained wetlands, compacted soil under the weight of millions of farm animals and straightened rivers to create yet more grazing land" by @whittledaway.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm...
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- I went to school in Dunshaughlin, which auto-correct changes to "Unlaughing", which is so on the nose in relation to that experience that it has cast me back in time and made me quite upset. #speirgorm
- Carney gave a rousing speech at Davos, but he is still in bed with Big Oil. Fossil fuels are almost obsolete. Better, safer alternatives exist. Imagine if every solar panel and wind turbine were incinerated after a few hours use. That's what we do with oil. #keepitintheground #juststopoil
- Reposted by Marc de FaoiteSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." — Samuel Beckett
- The Marketplace by Perumal Murugan, translated by S Mukundan #shortstory granta.com/the-marketpl...
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- Reposted by Marc de Faoite‘When we know someone’s eyes are fixed on us, we cannot function freely, no, we cannot function at all. We want to shoot an arrow into the eye that watches.’ Fiction by Perumal Murugan. granta.com/the-marketpl...
- The leader of France's far-right party is on her way to jail. She won't be able to stand for election for 5 years. But it's far from a fatal blow for the far-right, which has never been more popular. Just how popular, next month's municipal elections will tell. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
- Reposted by Marc de Faoiteyour first draft isn't perfect? what? that's weird. i've never heard of that happening before. maybe you should give up
- If Henry David Thoreau was alive today he would be 209 (and he'd still have none of his teeth).
- Word of the Day - Metonymy Substituting the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, straight for heterosexual, clown for politician.
- What does it mean to create? What is music for? Adam Neely focuses on the use of AI in music. TL;DR, he's not a fan, obvs, because yuck. Slop machines gonna slop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
- “All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.” Happy Burstday Jimmy Jay
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- My short, hot, review of Vigil by George Saunders. I probably need to sit and think a bit more about it, but I wanted to put down some initial thoughts while it was still fresh in my mind. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
- TL;DR - Car Brain (a.k.a Motornormativity) is at the heart of GMaps www.youtube.com/watch?v=csHd...
- One of the books I am most looking forward to reading this year. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
- "We don’t know how much warming we’ll see by 2050. Here's why." by @simonoxfphys.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZY6...
- I'm lucky to live in the centre of a small town. Almost anything I need is within a 10-minute walk, including my daily commute to work. I don't have a car, because I don't want a car. But also, I don't NEED a car. Why would anyone rather sit in traffic for hours every day if they had a choice?
- How sorry can you be? Very, very sorry.
- "An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding." Why? Apparently because fuelling hate wins votes for the right, who in turn prop up Big Oil. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
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- A (surprisingly large) solar farm in Ireland. It's good to see, but unfortunately datacentres use a huge amount of Ireland's electricity (more than a fifth at the moment, projected to rise to a third this year according to Institute of International and European Affairs - link in comments)
- Niche, but gold
- Reposted by Marc de FaoiteLet's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
- Meat is murder, and a whole lot of misery and suffering before it reaches that point. But it might not have to be. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Word of the Day: Moltbots TIL that AI agents have their own social media. Moltbook allows us humans to see what they (or their owners?) have to say to each other. And no, even after reading this I still don't think they are conscious (or intelligent). Buckle up www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-mo...
- @techconnectify.bsky.social tells it straight www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
- I won't say I agree with Orban, because I don't, but his opposition to almost everything about the European project (apart from the HUGE economic benefits) poses the question: will Ukraine, or any other new country, embrace the ideals at the heart of the project? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
- "But why would you vote for them? They have no chance of winning." Extract from a conversation where the other person seemed convinced that the only reason to vote was so that they could support the winners (and by extension be a winner???), and nothing I could say could convince them otherwise.
- When someone describes something as their 'worst nightmare' it generally reveals a stunning lack of imagination, or someone blessed with unusually peaceful sleep.
- This evening's soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWh...
