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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have to leave you a little early @octocon.bsky.social, but I had an excellent weekend. Four panels makes this my busiest ever Octocon. Looking forward to next year!

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Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@patch-notes-int.bsky.social made our public debut last week at #NexusGamesSummit If I'm being honest, I'm still getting used to the sound of "CEO". It’s a label that is always going to feel a bit foreign...

Ellie presenting at the main stage at the 2026 Nexus Games Summit in Dublin. They are seated with a mic in one hand as they engage with the audience. Their walker is off to the side of the stage, partially in view.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry you're still having to deal with this Emma. It's unbelievable seeing it surge back up there.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The heartbreak is like the shards of a mirror, endlessly reflecting and refracting. Thank you for making some kind of cohesive image out of it.

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i really, truly feel for everyone at lost in cult. i'm so relieved to see this is the action taken.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 02/10/2026

This pitch was one of the highlights of a great show.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the main things keeping me sane today is translating a German story for the first time in a few years. I love the problems translation throws your way. Creative and analytical in equal measure. I get proper engrossed in it.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was looking forward to reading this essay, so thank you Mike.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you think about it an infinite amount of negative money is basically the same as an infinite amount of positive money

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@patch-notes-int.bsky.social made its debut in the Irish scene this Thursday gone! Ellie and I presented our new title, 1000 Cuts, at a pitching event. We got a delightfully warm reception, replete with business card exchanges, and even had devs asking us for our slide deck afterwards. Good craic.

An image of a seated audience attending to a small stage where Eóin (standing, on left) and Ellie (seated, on right) are presenting their PowerPoint on a projector screen.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks so much Alanna! I appreciate it. I’m looking forward to what you folks are doing over at @aossiproductions.bsky.social. I hope we can play each other’s games sometime soon. 😊

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bunny | comms & games consulting @wingedlioness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eóin & Ellie’s pitch was absolutely *fantastic* Everyone was laughing and wincing in equal measure. It’s going to be a brilliant game. patch-notes-interactive.ie

patch-notes-interactive.ie

Patch Notes Interactive | Irish Indie Game Studio

The studio behind "1000 Cuts", nominated for BEST PITCH at Nexus Games Summit 2026.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you want to follow us, you can find us @patch-notes-int.bsky.social, or wherever else you get your links. See you soon. 👋

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now, I am not abandoning prose. There are many stories I want to write and I am gratified by the interest in No Sympathy. With Patch Notes though, there is a clearer path to full-time creative work, which’ll let me both write and design. I hope to reveal our first game soon. It’s an explosive one.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey all. After being quiet for months, I can finally share what I’ve been working on: I’m co-founding a video game studio! With @fairemortal.bsky.social! It’s called Patch Notes Interactive, and I’ll be its creative director. We’re making bold, story-driven titles, and I could not be happier.

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hate the Citizenship Amendment Rules. It's one of the most plainly cruel proposals I can remember being put forward by the Irish government in quite some time. Does little other than harm those who are working hard to make Ireland their home. I'm keeping a very close eye on whoever endorses it.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad you liked it Mark! Hope to see you at Octocon this year ☺️

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Glad you’re enjoying it Mark! ☺️

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Mark Kielty @markkieltywriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I finally started reading @eoindooley.bsky.social's novella, No Sympathy. I've been meaning to read this for some time since I picked it up at @octocon.bsky.social last year. Enjoying it so far. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Fantasy @press-android.bsky.social #IrishLit #BookSky #ReadingCommunity

No Sympathy by Eóin Dooley. The cover is a silhouette of a man playing guitar on a street on a wet night.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tomorrow, Count Binface faces off against Farage. For those who think he can't pull it off, in 2002, H'Angus the Monkey became the mayor of Hartlepool, defeating Labour. The actor Stuart Drummond stood down as mascot afterwards, but won two more terms and was the first mayor to ever win three terms.

An image of H'Angus the Monkey, a mascot dressed in a blue-and-white jersey, standing on a football pitch.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This really is very good.

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GCL Boisset @gcl-boisset.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

2) Telling the Bees by @eoindooley.bsky.social : widow visits apiary of mutated bees for husband’s final goodbye. Brutal tale. Brilliant end. Love it.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In all the furore about E.D.E Bell’s behaviour it’s important not to lose sight of the authors. What my friend Emma says here is heartbreaking. The downside of relying on whisper networks is they leave newcomers who have not yet been integrated vulnerable.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I will continue to be angry about how publisher bullshit hurts authors who have done nothing wrong. Please support Emma in whatever way you feel best. I also including her patreon in my list (next post)

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So… I know shit is going down again. But my novella is really a good read, and I just want you to know that.

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Thanks for the support so far, folks. It means a lot. Gonna point people to this thread where Krista D. Ball went out of her way to find other places to support some of the authors affected by this publisher. bsky.app/profile/kris...

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Morning, all. Felt the need to say something given a bit of discourse in Writer Land this week.

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What I’m writing here maybe should’ve been said publicly a while ago. Except publishing is all about power, and when you’re the author, you don’t feel like you have much sometimes.

There’s a publisher out there behaving in ways that, to be very Canadian, I find abhorrent. One I’m tied to because they’ve published me and still hold most of the rights to that work.

I’ve watched this publisher attack friends and colleagues, spread disinformation, goad well-meaning people and use others as shields. I’ve watched people reach out in genuine kindness and be labeled the enemy. I’ve experienced toxic behavior firsthand. I’m watching it happen again, right now.

Last year, I set boundaries and addressed my concerns privately, and you can imagine the fallout from that.

But what matters more is the idea of unaware authors being trapped by this publisher, while the same cycle repeats. There are plenty of genuinely good people spending their energy raising red flags, so I will, too.

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Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Does your team need a senior writer or designer with shipped exp in narrative RPGs, imm sims, or emergent stories? I'm available, and am open to temp/contract/FTE. I specialize in delivering rich, player-driven narratives and developing living worlds in historical settings. REPOSTS APPRECIATED ♥️

A loose digital self-portrait of Ellie rendered in surrealist pinks and electric yellows. They look at you thoughtfully out of the corner of their eye. Ellie wears a dark shabby button down and a black wide-rim fedora. Sunlight glints off their round, wire-rimmed glasses. Swatches of violet, ember red, and sky blue cut through the middle distance behind them.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Just finished reading this bad boy. Narrative design is an extremely interesting field to come to from a prose perspective. So many radically different problems to solve, but also, a lot of the same ones too.

The cover of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, containing hundreds of essays on the craft of game writing, collated by Jon Ingold.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hey, my good friend @slashnburnett.bsky.social is publishing EX PARTUM and it's a great novella about the anxiety of new parenthood told through a dystopian frame. See the links here for the many places you can pick it up: emmaburnett.carrd.co You should consider doing so.

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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Remembering a conversation with a Russian graduate student about games. HIM: So what's your favorite game? ME: Disco Elysium. HIM: Really? Are you sure you get it? I don't understand how an American can understand that game. ME: I'm divorced. HIM: Ah ok. Yes, I see.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Somehow missed this had come out. I have a flash fiction piece in here called “Telling the Bees”. On the plus side at least the readership will have had the chance to enjoy it already.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Irish people: St. Patrick's Day presents such a stereotypical portrayal of Ireland that doesn't reflect its modern, vibrant culture. Irish people when they see Americans setting Leprechaun traps: You fools! You've doomed us all! The children will be changelings. The crops will wither in the field.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I left academia following a crisis of faith in my ability to produce meaningful knowledge within that institution. It just hit me how much worse I would be doing right now if I had stuck to my guns and continued following that path.

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Especially within the context of the AI bubble, which is a highly energy-intensive sector propping up the US economy. Spikes in energy costs may very well create the critical mass of investor doubt. Personally, I'm reminded that the South Sea Bubble coincided with one of the Golden Ages of Piracy.

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you want to see how I (NOT an artist) make the art for our game (without AI) by remixing public domain bird illustrations - check out this short documentary about the making of our game! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Gonna count the play time as me coming in just a hair under budget, given how much it loves 33s and 99s😅

A Steam play time counter showing 98 hours.

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Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I published my first bit of short fiction yesterday. Deep Space Drift is a flash fiction piece about toxic ambition, alchemy, and the limits of love. Thanks to @elegantliterature.bsky.social for selecting this humble bit of flash fiction for your Ink and Iron issue (March 2025) #elegantliterature

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A little overwhelmed to see ‘25 Peppercorns’ on the BSFA’s Best Short Fiction shortlist. I cried for three days when this story came out. It meant so much to me to be able to give life to these feelings, and I’m grateful to all the readers who voted for it.

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One Step at a Time
Rick Danforth Vivid Worlds (Slab Press)

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends
Eugenia Triantafyllou Uncanny Magazine

25 Peppercorns Emma Burnett Mythaxis

Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers A. J. Van Belle Augur Society

Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike E.M Faulds Podcastle (Escape Artists)

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