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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼

@ainemccaul.bsky.social
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Currently writing my first novel: an urban fantasy steeped in Irish mythology for YA readers. Donegal-dwelling bodysurfer, baker, hiker, and mountain biker.

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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1h
Aurora over Donegal tonight #SpeirGorm
The black silhouette of a tree against the pink/purple hue of the aurora in the night sky and green just above the horizon. The plough is visible above the tree.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 12h
I'd like to say I'm surprised but...
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 13h
#SingaporeGP Sprint right now
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Man on Flamingo Float in Flood
ALT: Man on Flamingo Float in Flood
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They must be absolutely knackered.
One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October
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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 21h
As is Meryl Streep for the same reason.
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Miko.The.Cat @mikothecat2025.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 22h
And all the while it's a smoke screen whilst they steall all our money and livelihoods.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 22h
I thought eggflation had finally got the better of them.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And thisnis what they're letting you see. Imagine what's going on behind the scenes.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A lot of people didn't die waiting?
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Yikes Eleanor Shellstrop
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I caught the most amazing wave on Wednesday. It was huge (for me) and quicker than anything I've ever caught before. I went from terror to exhiliration as it opened up and carried me across the beach. I catch myself smiling every time I think about it. 😊
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looking at these reasons for banning books, the Bible ahould be top of any list.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And not one thought to test that windscreen with a breeze block? 🤔
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is another great move that you would be likely to use in real life youtube.com/shorts/BVkDo...
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Technique | Self Defense
YouTube video by Zona Desconocida
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's hard to explain but similar to this. You have a lot of power in your legs when you rotate your hips from this position. Especially as his centre of gravity is high. youtube.com/shorts/zCjqj...
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What to do if someone if choking you
YouTube video by Sideshow Jiu-Jitsu
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They prioritise content (noun) over content (adjective)
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StuffbyStef🐚🌊🪸✍🏻🌈🚫👑 @stephaniebumpus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remember, guys, she isn’t playing hard to get, you’re playing hard to get rid of.
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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My dream house
A wooden staircase with a bookshelf built below it and a cosy nook full of cushions and blankets in behind the bookshelf where the cupboard under the stairs is usually located. It has soft lighting and blankets and looks very inviting.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh these look lovely. I have found so many wonderful books because of this thread. Thank you so much 🙏🏼
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With tou on your back
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here son, have a robot cuddle.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've a brown belt in kickboxing and learned self defence as part of my grading. I got grabbed by the wrist by a guy trying to pull me into a van in a market in Stockholm and muscle memory kicked in to roll my hand against his thumb to break the grip. I roared at him and not a single person helped.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My kickboxing instructor taught us how to get away if someone is on top of you on the ground - a very difficult thing to do. But he also recommended grabbing the nuts and squeezing them together 😬
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wait until they realise you can't buy air with those billions.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Legal aid should be granted for those found innocent. Anyone found guilty should be liable for any and all fees.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A chat up line that'll leave you drier than Arrakis
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fine art prints for the season of 🍂 spooktivity 🍂 and much more available on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints - if you're in the market for some Irish Human-Made Art, please take a look, I have children* to feed. *Alright, crows.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bluesky, I am up for an award! You can vote for me! Please vote for me! It's for the "best children's book of the decade". Yes I realise the decade isn't over. Maybe it's counting from 2016 to 2026 or something. Vote Stowell early and vote Stowell often! nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards
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Book Are My Bag Readers Awards
The only book awards curated by bookshops and chosen by readers like you!
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You have my vote. Good luck Louie! 🤞🏼
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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Since today is #InternationalLesbianDay, which celebrates the identity, history & resilience of the global lesbian community while raising awareness of ongoing discrimination & social challenges, let’s hear it for Lella Lombardi, a lesbian & the only woman to score #F1 world championship points. 🌈
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Those same Ukrainians recently asked my husband and me to help them look for work and said they'd take anything. The lady giving out reckoned they were 'too brown' to be real Ukrainians. I despair at the racism and stupidity of some people, I really do.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just had a conversation with a woman who lives in a house built cheaply by her brother who made his fortune in the US working construction. 3 of her kids are working in Oz in the mining sector. And she's giving out about the Ukrainians who've moved in down the street and our taxes paying for them. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now for a little nap
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
26 plus 6 equals 1
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was our youngest a few years back
A child with a Minecraft Villager head made from a cardboard box.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also great for laying down in the garden to kill off the grass to save digging it over for a new veggie patch.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why is it always planting and not rewilding? Biodiversity never gets a look-in on this conversation. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Replacing beef farming with forestry would boost incomes and help meet climate goals
Afforestation is the most significant climate change mitigation option available to Ireland’s land use sector
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JedGuard
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Den M @mousketeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My Kerry born Nan passed on her pronunciation of butter to her descendants. It used to give me great amusement to hear son as a Cockney accented small boy in a London creche demand more 'buthher' and only Jamaicans could understand what he wanted.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The temperature was down in the single digits this morning for the first time in a long time. Goodbye salads, we're back in soup season 🍲
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Jon Snow: Winter Is Coming (Game of Thrones)
Alt: Jon Snow: Winter Is Coming (Game of Thrones)
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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
is it boardom, it’s boardom isn’t it
Longtime surfers are being diagnosed with this strange condition 🤔 🏄‍♀️ 🤔
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Collapsed tubes
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tydephoid
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
;-)
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's time to put the heating on. I can't hang on any longer. I can no longer spread my room temperature butter.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 22,1974
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE IN THE CLASSROOM WITH SEVERAL OTHER KIDS, THE TEACHER ASKS SLUGGO A MATH QUESTION 

TEACHER: SLUGGO, IF YOU HAD FIVE CANDY BARS AND I ASKED YOU FOR TWO, HOW MANY WOULD YOU HAVE LEFT?

SLUGGO ANSWERES WITH A GRIN : FIVE
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I never understand how a woman being intoxicated is used as a defence by men. If someone is out of it then they definitely were raped because they were incapable of consent.
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did you ever read Rumer Godden's book The Diddakoi? I loved that book.
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