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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A general appeal. If you are an author of any book or books available from Irish publishers (via Gill Distribution, Áis, Poolbeg etc) we'd love to (a) sell your books (b) publish your thoughts on your books, publishing, writing - anything - on our shop blog. (1/2)

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Family life guy way to busy in August, this my reading wrap up the best of my recollection. It was at least these three books, but it's mostly been audio for me recently.

3 book covers - 'the butcher's masquerade' by Matt Dinniman, 'the eye of the bedlam bride' by Matt Dinniman, 'everything that is beautiful' by Louise Nealon

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got way behind on reading and on tracking reading, this is my July reading wrap up to the best of my memory. Started a dungeon crawler carl buddy listen to the Audiobooks alongside my husband, sharing theories has been a lot of fun!

3 book covers - 'a parade of horribles' by Matt Dinniman, 'dungeon crawler carl' by Matt Dinniman, 'Carl's Doomsday scenario' by Matt Dinniman

3 book covers, 'the dungeon anarchist's cookbook' by Matt Dinniman, 'strange Sally diamond ' by Liz Nugent, 'the gate of the feral gods' by Matt Dinniman

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Delighted to have my story 'I'm the reason the sea is mad' published by @frazzledlit.bsky.social, they are such a lovely team to work with! www.frazzledlit.com/p/im-the-rea... (Audio and print versions available at the above link)

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I'm the reason the sea is mad

By Katie McDermott (Highly Commended)

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Robot beats Usain Bolt" So? 'Hot air balloon ascends higher than Olympic high jumper Gale Lark' 'Submarine can stay underwater longer than Karen Fish of Guildford' 'Lawn mower cuts grass quicker than Herbie Vorr when he's on all fours nibbling' It's a *robot*. False equivalence.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I do not like AI generated video captions and AI generated articles and AI generated voice-overs and AI generated posters and AI generated videos and AI generated music, I do not like being treated as nothing more than a vessel to be force-fed zero-effort empty soulless content, I do not like it!

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie

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Visa for Gaza students

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm my almost thirty years of wearing glasses, this has never happened to me before. I feel like a cartoon character.

A pair of glasses, broken in half on the bridge of the nose (there is a bit of tape around the bridge but it only lasted a few minutes before they fell apart again)

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Beautiful weather to be knitting a very heavy, very warm, winter jumper 😅 (Pattern is the Aprés Ski MAL by Katie Jones)

In the foreground: a hand holding knitting needles and a striped jumper - blue, red, turquoise, orange, pink

In the background: lovely sunny garden, table and chairs, and bonus blurry dog cameo

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

June reading wrap up (I also read a parade of horribles last month and listened to the audiobook this month)

4 book covers:
'there is no anti mimetics division' by qntm
'meander spiral explode' by Jane Alison
'the fifty minute mermaid' by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
'All systems red' by Martha wells

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thanks so much to Meath county council arts office! I'm delighted to have been awarded the PADF to buy time to edit my middle grade novel.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“I’ve been following the discourse about how I don’t have to get mad at everything and have written this essay about why that opinion is retrogressive and enraging…”

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

April reading wrap up. I started lots but finished very little.

Two book covers, 'whatever happened to Madeleine stone?'by Louise o' Neil, and 'project hail Mary' by Andy Weir

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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Before you drive, check www.tiitraffic.ie @livedrive.dublincityfm.ie For Luas: www.luas.ie/travel-updat... Buses: www.dublinbus.ie/news/central... www.buseireann.ie/service-upda... www.goaheadireland.ie/service-upda... www.transportforireland.ie/news/service... Pinning this to my profile.

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TII Traffic Map | Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) Map

Message Signs · Travel Times · Incidents · Active Roadworks · Cameras · Weather Warnings

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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

…and not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. -Sarah Teasdale #speirgorm

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Criteria for new basic income for artists scheme was released today (and no, it's not an April fools). Every practicing artist should apply. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

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Basic Income for the Arts Scheme 2026 – 2029 - FAQ

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

OMG we know them!

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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I feel the need to shout out that the Irish people (for the most part) are adamantly against this junket. It's an absolute disgrace that we are doing a ceremonial gifting of Shamrock to a fucking paedophile war criminal. That is all. #SpeirGorm #PaddysDay

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

People in UK publishing take note. In case you haven’t heard, your government is still at it. And anything that hoovers up British publications is liable to get a lot of Irish ones too. #SpeirGorm

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Currently reading 'Stag Dance' by Torey Peters during the day, 'Operation Bounce House' by Matt Dinniman during the night feeds and listening to 'the eye of the bedlam bride' also by Dinniman while doing chores or out walking Happy #IrelandReads day

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“Pre-emptive strike” is an interesting way of spelling “terrorist attack”.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/02/2026

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

M&S has 20% off footwear and accessories, tried to buy some cosy socks but it turns out there's no discount on them because they are, in fact, "lingerie", not footwear or accessories. Gonna have to do some seducing in them to justify the full price 😂

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I have never seen a hard back book curve like this in my life. Still perfectly usable

An image looking at the edge of a hardback book, the whole book is curved like a banana

Said book is Neven Maguire's perfect Irish Christmas recipe book

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

January 2026 reading wrap up, I finished reading dungeon crawler carl then started at the beginning again with the Audiobooks

4 book covers, all by Matt Dinniman: the dungeon anarchist's cookbook, carols Doomsday scenario, dungeon crawler carl and this inevitable ruin

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

James Joyce - born on this day #botd 1882: “Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Playing mario kart and nephew (4) is refusing to throw any turtle shells because he says they're pets 😂 bless.

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If, like me, you've had to tap out of the news for a few weeks, this podcast is a very good guide to the devastation that continues in Gaza open.spotify.com/episode/1xut...

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Gaza and the Board of Peace feat. Dana El Kurd

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I just ploughed through all of Dungeon Crawler Carl and now I've started back at the beginning, this time in audiobook format. Great, fun books!

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Conor O'Mahony @conorom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New year's resolutions: more tattoos, including a trip somewhere to get a tattoo. Learn to sew. Eat more kinds of pasta, including shapes , sauces etc. (in part, to set the bar low so I can achieve something and in part to help encourage my eldest to eat a slightly broader range of food).

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So I got quite sick, and wasn't able to focus on reading very much, and didn't keep track of what I did read. Then I had a baby late in the year and during the endless night feeds I read 6 dungeon crawler carl books. I'll try keep better track in the new year!

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EHarris @nbgbgb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#spéirghorm Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh! 🥂🍾

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/12/2025

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday.
The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.
"My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Google AI search results are a bit like an Irish person giving directions. They might not know the answer but they're happy to give it a go and guess along with you.

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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Wonder if he's ever said this about homelessness. ##speirgorm

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This bears repeating.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this. A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂

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Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

September reading wrap up: no photos for this one as I've mostly been editing my own novel and Beta reading a novel for my friend, neither of which are published (yet!). But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅

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