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laura-blaise

@blaisinsquad.bsky.social
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It’s mortifying to be scrambling to fill a bookstore event but that’s the reality. I’m in Scotland and England next week. There are tix left for these events. The London one will be cancelled if I don’t sell some tickets soon so all pre-bookings and help with getting the word out is appreciated.
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laura-blaise @blaisinsquad.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
had such a lovely time reading at @dinglelit.bsky.social last weekend as part of the shirt story showcase ✨❤️
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laura-blaise @blaisinsquad.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
looking forward to heading down to @dinglelit.bsky.social tomorrow morning. catch me and the other short story folk at 4.30. you can read my winning story here 🐍🌊 dinglelit.ie/shortstory/t...
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'The Next World' by Laura-Blaise McDowell
It is winter and Ava is sitting at the bottom of her family’s swimming pool, surrounded by leaves. In front of her is the body of a red squirrel and at the other end of the pool is a snake, shifting l...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
First the orcas, now the foxes. The animals are rising.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
IT’S FUCKING CHESS What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
The Times headline: Transgender teenager’s German chess triumph prompts call for ban
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laura-blaise @blaisinsquad.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Really happy to have won this years English language short story competition at @dinglelit.bsky.social 💚 thank you to John Patrick McHugh and all at Dingle Lit ✨
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marky_marky_marky61 @marktheblogger1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#NewMusic: SAOL – Fool’s Gold. A powerful argument against falling for liars that want us to hate, not think. Read more on the @analoguetrash.com #musicblog 🖤 www.analoguetrash.com/blog/saol-fo...
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Tits Upon Tyne @titsupontyne.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
SAOL - 'Fool's Gold'
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
These ladies do amazing work that is sadly in more demand than ever If you can, please throw a few Euros their way.
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laura-blaise @blaisinsquad.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
new music Friday from an amazing new Irish act, SAOL 🪄 open.spotify.com/track/1uY4cV...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17/04/2025
A year to the day that @robin.berjon.com and my viral article was published by @latams.bsky.social at @noemamag.com I got news that My book proposal "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in" may just have found its dream US publisher! More news soon...
Photo of a battered, crossed out and coffee-stained front page of a book proposal which reads: "REWILD AND RESIST: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in" and further down the page: "by Maria Farrell, Proposal for a book of 70-80k words, For delivery XXX".
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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you were wondering whether outright authoritarianism and repression in the US could create a perceived permission structure for similar behaviour elsewhere, the lads have come right out and said it here.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Appalling and absolutely unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Immigration is good! It's a good thing. Immigration is not at the root of any of our problems. I'm not prepared to cede that ground, to be honest.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The first print issue of fallow magazine, based in Ireland and out soon, includes: Helen Charman, Oisín Fagan, Wayne Koestenbaum, Patrick Nathan, Ellen Dillon, Eva Griffin, Chris Beausang, and Greg Gerke, & interviews with Gabriel Josipovici and Pascale Sardin. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01
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kelly @earley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
☘️🤖 new substack 🤖☘️ i'm exploring whether we're doing more harm than good by introducing irish-language AI by taking a few points into consideration: 👉 is there even enough gaeilge on the internet to train AI? 👉 could AI bastardise what irish we *do* have on the internet? 👉 protect translators ‼️
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Mí na Gaeilge: Irish and AI? Let’s think this through…
Do we really need an Irish-language ChatGPT?
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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.
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