Oisín

Irish Financial Journalist (@RIABiz), & Poet.

[Oisín @Breen]

I was so happy my copies arrived from @Downingfield, I...

Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life!

https://t.co/j8zNLS4yCr

#poetry #writing #ireland

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Saturday, 730. Come.

#Cork #writing #poetry

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@stoneandthestar I would love it if no large publisher and no agent were allowed to publish or sell any writer who has not published at least two books off their own work with an indie.

It is galling how poor work is lauded because of who writes it.

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@sixucls There's a novel about it too, read it as a kid.

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@ArieLJLit I'll judge enough for both of us, don't worry!

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Twitter is awash with insane 'book' discourse.
1. Romantasy etc. is not literature, it's comfort slop, fine, but not 'reading.'
2. Boys and girls like different things, that's fine too, and yes it's a generalisation.
3. Identity should have no role in choosing what to publish.

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@ArieLJLit Er. I agree that it is nice that all sorts of people can make a living and all sorts of people can enjoy things. I just think a lot of people enjoy bilge and we shouldn't celebrate it as anything actually valuable. Doesn't mean that I'm against people earning a living, deary me.

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@ArieLJLit Like, I enjoy SF on planes, it's totally fun brain candy, though 99% dreadfully written pulp. I wouldn't genuinely consider it serious 'reading'. There are, of course, exceptions, but few.

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@ArieLJLit Afternoon m'dear :)

Winning a prize does not = quality, especially today. Nor did I say SF or any other genre 'can't' be well written, just that 99% of the time it isn't. SF also has a merit romantasy doesn't, in that it allows speculative imagination, but it's 99% slop.

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@kingkane Still think there's a better choice here I.e grand bargain, pay rise higher than they want, but reduce their protection from dismissal to private sector levels.

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@bodHelen We can agree to disagree there.

In this instance, I'm fairly sure the staff are not of that mind either. I know a few of them to see from later night venues around & several are quite partial to being squeezed into bars like sardines.

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Scotland, #Edinburgh independent cafés, it is okay to close your doors to keep in the heat in the middle of November.

We go places expecting it to not be freezing indoors!!!!!

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The redefinition "might end up resulting in legislation that changes the $100 million AUM threshold for SEC vs. state registration purposes," says Max Schatzow, discussing the SEC change of what constitutes a 'small' RIA -- the answer? most RIAs.

https://t.co/jHIE5FDUck

#RIA

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@FinanceDirCFO Every single attempt to totalise a complex system, in which the analysis engine is part of the system, is guaranteed to fail.

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Daoine Chorcaí, I'll be performing at Ó'Bhéal go Béal Festival, Nov. 21, 1930 @ Bolt Studios, Patrick's Quay, and I can't bloody wait.
A treat to perform in the father's home county.
It will be a riot, & I guarantee fury, song & fire.

#Cork #poetry #writing #art #performance

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@patrickc I mean, it's all just a bit crap isn't it? I can't really see anything it has improved for most. Algorithmic enshittification to follow marketing/data-led enshittification. A ubiquitous lower C student that can do a lot badly for no reason -- a bravura display of SF thinking.

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@AndrewWittstadt Definitely think a lot of this isn't actually 'gender-based,' as most presume, but based on a misconception that relational=relative, ergo quality is subjective, ergo zeitgeist morality=king; and the corollary that the morality of the artist is more important than the work.

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@AndrewWittstadt Yup. It's ridiculous, and has been for some time. I've always struggled with the idea, largely because isn't the point of a journal, or a publisher to publish the best (or the most saleable) work, rather than the most moral? Knut Hamsun is not a good guy, but Sult is brilliant

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@HarleyShah When I lived in Galway in 03 there was a place, Chinese restaurant in back, wine sold illegally at front, open very late and taxi company next door.
You could also go to Java coffee, café with a bouncer, and just drink coffee and chat till 6, when the buses started running.

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@sophiegrenham ah they've been there a good few years now, I just have a hypersensitivity to 'pop' in the higher octaves. Class place, of course, but I don't really get why we need 'muzak.'

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@ArieLJLit Actually I think the opposite. What's fuddy duddy is 30 years of 'revolutionary' deconstruction of quality only to result in celebrating bad quality work, because it's still something.

Wonder is as at home in the hayloft as it is in the palace, but it is full and awesome.