Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf

Brazil TV is showing images of voters who were unable to catch buses arriving at polling locations. This is a mess in Brasil, a total mess.

www.facebook.com/share/19bPd4... Russian tanker off Donegal Course in trouble. May be part of US diesel deal. Fears of ecological disaster - the west coast of Ireland is so ecologically rich it would be

@pictcon.bsky.social is now half way to breaking even for 2027. Do you live in Scotland or near enough that a one day science fiction and fantasy convention (with an optional dinner the night before, for early arrivals) appeals? Just £30/£20!- we just need to sell 26 more tickets to be on target!

A punch in the face for Musk.

One for you @ianmcdonald.bsky.social www.msn.com/en-gb/entert...

Why yes, we ARE an audiobook (and soon to be ebook) company that shares profits from your purchases with your indie bookstore of choice 💅

A real writer wouldn't blame his editor. Instead he should shake his head, sigh and say "once again, my less attentive readers are missing the larger point I was making" without clarifying in any way.

At some point, if we survive this, there will be a Dr Strangelove-style movie about how Trump and Putin almost destroyed the world because they were constantly being fed false information of impending success by terrified and cowardly underlings.

On Sally Rooney - we are not an overly political shop but books have always been about freedom of thought and expression, and we support that. We are able to continue to stock Sally’s books, and we will continue to sell them. Jo and Chris

Good getting time to call into @jozebwrites.bsky.social on #indepedentbookshopday and indulge in some alfresco reading

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.

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Looks the Norn Irish noble art of battening down the hatches will be commencing. Off for wine supplies as soon as….

The start of the bookshop’s story - as Jo unpicks where our little books space began and how it grew. Enjoy! (You should be able to click the link) substack.com/profile/1398...

Welcome to the UK. Fascist terrorists are called "activists" and anti-genocidal activists are called "terrorists".

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

Here's a tiny baby sloth to brighten your day . 😍

Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...

We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.

Ah dear. Ed Sheeran sitting so hard on the fence he got a skelf up his arse. Like us or not, agree or not (and we make an art form of disagreeing) the Irish hate weasels.

"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism

No election fraud to be seen here.

Party of Thugs.

Just finished this from @scalzi.com - great fun, very nerdy, but some very touching moments too. Five stars! (Bought at @jozebwrites.bsky.social The Secret Bookshelf in Carrickfergus of course - where discerning readers get their subversive materials)

BonesSpurs McDraftDodger had the unmitigated gall to post this image & I just threw up in my mouth a little. At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency? #StolenValor

#OpDeathEaters "I promise it will grow into its name - it's the biggest story in centuries" - Heather Marsh, in 2014, 12 years ago, while naming nearly all of those names. 👇 vice.com/en/article/b...

As I predicted when Ukraine began striking Russian refineries, Trump is going to blame Ukraine for gas prices & begin to pressure them to stop doing it. Once again, the US will side with Putin against a country fighting for its survival. We’re morally bankrupt under Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...

We would love to see Worldcon come back to Dublin, and if you have funds right now, this is the best way you can make it happen AND secure your membership nice and early!

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth." Greta Thunberg in UN Speech, 2019

Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…

Tim Curry ending up in Muppet Heaven like a mighty warrior being accepted into Valhalla.

Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️

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There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 

Whoa! A whole secret bunker was built under the White House during the Obama administration - separate from the old bunker under the East Wing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...