@Breen

Irish Financial Journalist (@RIABiz), & Poet. https://xitter.cf/t.co/D7Rwg23nyt

 Edinburgh, Scotland
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Joined March 2007
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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! amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819/ #poetry #writing #ireland
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There's one thing I don't get about this stuff that just won a Forward prize. I get why people like it - it's passably amusing stand-up - & why he likes doing it, he's fun on stage. He seems likable too. But why insist it's poetry when it clearly isn't? youtu.be/vK4wYhvTJXI?is=AaLv…

Biff Smith - Dumbarton East || Spoken Word Poetry ||

Our 14th March 2025 Loud Poets Showcase at the Scottish Storytellin...

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It's also extremely old hat at this point. Yet every blurb, every 'award' nominated by criteria that don't put quality first... They all claim revolutionary status, redefining XYZ, and pushing XYZ boundaries, as a rebellion... Yet it's all identikit sameasthelastoneism
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On the adjacent, aye, can see that, definitely fel like this could be stronger in France :) Though the Tempest/McNish/Pederson ilk, oh lord makes me want to smash my face in with a rock. So dulled down, so bland. And again, thank ye both!
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Why co-opt a concept then say you're stylistically rebelling against gatekeepers? The institutions have even given up so this stuff now is the gatekeeper. What on Earth is the point? Why did stand-up (& trauma diarying elsewhere) decide to steal the word poetry?
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Equally, why do they then constantly attack actual poetry for being bahhd elitism. It's like wandering into a film set and just recording aardvarks, insisting it's an action movie, that all action is aardvarks, and yelling at anyone who wants a bit of Arnie or Sly Stallone.
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An absolute classic 🤣🤣
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"A roll-up is a data integration problem disguised as a wealth firm," says Tim Welsh, CFP, kindly helping to explain and crack the nut of what's going on between Nevis & Focus Financial. Latest for @RIABiz riabiz.com/a/2026/10/22/an-a… #AI #fintwit #RIA #fintech

An Amazon intern in 2020, Nevis CEO Mark Swan is the unlikely dream weaver for Focus Financial and...

With a new Nevis contract, Focus CEO Adam Biernbaum concluded he was buying a process, not a product, because applying 'pre-designed AI capabilities onto existing processes' is a losing game.

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New work in a New Ulster - Tinbergen.
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One thing on the strikes in Ireland, I'd personally meet their demands on pay, but with the condition that it becomes much easier to fire underperforming state employees. Better pay, but you get the same protection as a private sector worker.
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"We could and we would have been much more certain about this, if State Street had acquired a majority stake in Apex, [but] State Street stopped short," says Alois Pirker on the new SSGA custody launch. Latest for @RIABiz. riabiz.com/a/2026/10/14/stat… #fintwit #fintech #RIA

State Street's newly launched Apex-powered RIA custody unit has sizzle and 'wedge' power, especia...

State Street-Apex team-up brings RIA unlikely institutional-level heavy artilliery and retail-level light digital touch, though analysts question whether unseen priorities will prevent frictionless...

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Nothing, having gotten a lot of replies to a post about Carson, in which I was nonplussed by what I'd read, but curious if she had less glib, bland work, there are armies for and against her here, none of whom use their real names. Social media really needs to force real names.
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