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Nigel Quinlan

@nigellicus.bsky.social
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Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 9h
A popular skeet! Check out my soundcloud/new comedy-horror YA novel as they say.
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Dead Teenager Movie
In this YA slasher, a horror-obsessed girl joins a group of wealthy teens for a wild weekend in a remote house, only to discover that the local murder rumours may be far more real – and far closer – t...
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 7h
Nancy 9/30/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 3
Nancy is in shock at the sight of Sluggo’s new hat.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 9h
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 7h
In which Romance takes over the world and saves us all. I think it's interesting how these narratives are circulating below the surface of the public sphere. It's a sign of a wider shift in subjectivity. Also the fact that all these guys also want to write tells us about changing identity.
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The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’
It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11h
Most TV is just this now.
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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop Climate Chaos & Environmental Pillar wrote to Minister O’Brien ahead of the Informal Meeting of EU energy ministers setting out priorities for energy affordability, energy efficiency & renewables & energy security by cutting dependence on fossil fuels www.environmentalpillar.ie/app/uploads/...
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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 21h
Burn her as a witch Esther has gone full Fox Mulder. These were my favourite drawings of the first half of the story. Unlike snakebite and black, the chupacabra was invented in about 1995. I once made a print with a chupacabra on it, alas the artwork is lost to history.
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Burn her as a witch
Esther has gone full Fox Mulder. These were my favourite drawings of the first half of the story. Unlike snakebite and black, the chupacabra was invented in about 1995. I once made a print with a chupacabra on it, alas the artwork is lost to history.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 23h
Status report, "Just Thought I'd Mention": Noting some Discourse on alternate YA material about young #wizards (without toxic additives). If you're interested (and not in the UK: sorry, Brexit issues...), these nine diverse & inclusive works are on #sale at a really low price!🙂 bit.ly/YWNMESET
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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set
Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why yes, of course you can build out your gigantic 72,500 m2 energy and resource-sucking data centre, but be sure to “encourage staff to use public transport, cycling & walking”. Beyond parody from the crack squad at An Coimisiún Pleanala. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Põhja Ohakas @eex97623.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Truth About Russia's Campaign of Interference in British Democracy
The British people have been lied to and manipulated for years. It's time we learnt the whole truth, writes whistleblower Sergei Cristo
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My illustration for Irish Artists For Palestine is on the cover of the next issue of Misneach's "Mionlach" 🇵🇸 More information here: www.instagram.com/p/DH-9dDqNoA...
Front cover of Mionlach, with the illustration I made for Irish Artists For Palestine on the cover (a woman in a thobe and keffiyeh holding a flag that says "Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na Palaistíne")

#Gaeilge #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Palestine
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Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association @imirt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Irish Games Fund - Development Fund supports up to four teams with €50,000 in funding to further development on validated concepts and prototypes that are progressing toward production and commercial release. Find out more about the IGF and how to apply below. www.imirt.ie/irish-games-...
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Irish Games Fund — Imirt
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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 28/09/2026
The same glass I had to do some research on the origins of "snakebite and black" for this comic, and find out when it emerged. Wikipedia said it was popularised in the 1980s but like power-ups in video games, every time I thought I'd found the earliest instance, I then found an earlier one.
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The same glass
I had to do some research on the origins of "snakebite and black" for this comic, and find out when it emerged. Wikipedia said it was popularised in the 1980s but like power-ups in video games, every time I thought I'd found the earliest instance, I then found an earlier one.
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sweet Jesus.
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finger on the pulse there, interchangeable bland functionary NI secretary.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/09/2026
Call to fact-check columnists after another anti-MetroLink article from Colm McCarthy A new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists....
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Call to fact-check columnists after another anti-MetroLink article from Colm McCarthy
A new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists. Councillor Feljin Jose, the Green Party's spokesperson on transport, made the call after McCarthy wrongly claimed in the Sunday Business Post today that "The only available evaluation of MetroLink’s costs and benefits was released as part of the TII’s preliminary assessment in 2022."
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I dunno, whiy IS there this silent entrenched acceptance of the housing crisis running through Irish society, it's a mystery. #speirgorm
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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That's all we need, these fuckers on the rampage. Public opinion is not going to be so kind this time around. Where were you all when the man responsible was over for a golf tournament? Certainly weren't protesting, you fuckers.
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WELL THAT IS CERTAINLY A POINT OF VIEW
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Landscape with a Geoglyph ll' by contemporary painter Sarah Lees #WomensArt
Painting of a stylised landscape with rolling hills with fields in browns and creams and  bare trees
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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cayce @cayce.zone · 25/09/2026
"Sister Midnight -- Daughter of the Moon" by Mike Mignola
painting by Mike Mignola of a skeleton in a habit-like outfit with a huge amulet/necklace. really good watercolor-y background that looks vaguely stellar
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Using goats to ‘protect biodiversity’, getting rid of nuisance plants like… hazel. Picturing @irishrainforest.bsky.social ‘s reaction to this article. 🤯 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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No scrub: Aran Island goats for hire to combat nuisance plants and protect biodiversity
Under an agricultural scheme, Fionn Ó Flaithearta can be paid for targeted grazing and thriving wildflowers
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ol' blusky starting to feel a touch stale and sour - oh wait haven't seen this go round in a bit:
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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 25/09/2026
Did a reverse image search and came across this pictorial of Baikonur.
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Inside Baikonur, Kazakhstan's Gateway To Space
As liftoff nears for the first astronauts launched from U.S. soil since 2011, we take a look at the Soviet-built cosmodrome that sent more than a dozen NASA astronauts into orbit.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 25/09/2026
I stumbled across this photo from 1983-ish, no idea who took it, from Kazakhstan near Baikonur. It is basically the plot to one of my favorite books, “The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years” by Chinghiz Aitmatov.
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Associate Marshallian Spillover Coordinator @stevenlandgraf.com · 25/09/2026
Carlyle called it the "dismal science" in the context of an essay where he lamented that emancipated formerly enslaved people were demanding too high wages on West Indies sugar plantations and criticized economists of the day for supporting slavery abolition and free immigration of black people.
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's like making counterfeits of something. Fake Rolex watches, Gucci handbags, flooding a market with cheaply-produced marked-up knockoffs. But not of luxury goods, of basic human creativity.
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What they don't realise is that we are all living in houses made of data, rendering traditional housing obsolete. #speirgorm
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
forest magic #drawing #art #ink
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
© William H. Hays. 'Ice Dawn,' 2016. 7-colour linoleum block print. 30.5 × 22.9 cm.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 24/09/2026
Got a very nice write up on Spooky Isles!
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Dead Teenager Movie By Cethan Leahy | Book Review
Gemma Johnson reviews Dead Teenager Movie by Cethan Leahy, a slow-burning young adult horror set in Cork with gore, mystery and nods to classic horror.
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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My audio dramas 'Mildew Manor, or The Italian Smile' and 'Sarah Minds the Dog' are being performed live for one night only at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington this Halloween. Tickets available here - www.tickettailor.com/events/pithe...
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Buy tickets – Kim Newman; Double Bill. GrimFest Halloween Special! – Old Red Lion Theatre
Kim Newman; Double Bill. GrimFest Halloween Special! – Old Red Lion Theatre, Sat 31 Oct 2026 - KIM NEWMAN; DOUBLE BILL; "SARAH MINDS THE DOG" & "MILDEW MANOR (OR THE ITALIAN SMILE)" Spend Hallowee...
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*An irate F. R. Leavis claims that C. P. Snow is such a lousy novelist that he must be an AI (in 1962). #slop #novelists #literarycritics
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
R.I.P. Kirby! (ht Spike Millgan) #speirgorm
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 24/09/2026
This story was unbelievable. The whole country is crying out for more enforcement, for more use of technology to make our roads safer (5 roads deaths this week), yet a @labour.ie TD is giving out about a speed camera and defending people who break the law.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 24/09/2026
Minister Darragh O'Brien has announced a €2000 oil boiler scrappage scheme for older boilers, on top of grants up to €12,500 for heat pumps. I spoke on Morning Ireland about the latest incentive to get Irish homes off heating oil. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Govt to propose boiler scrappage scheme
Kieran McCarthy, Director of KMC Homes in Cork, and Hannah Daly, Professor of Sustainable Energy at University College Cork, discuss the decision by Energy minister Darragh O'Brien to bring a boiler s...
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Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You have to wonder if at the back of it all these hacking incidents are showcases for the real customers - hackers.
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This trilogy is GREAT, one of my favorite things I've read recently! The world building is immaculate, the love stories are agonizingly delicious, and on top of it all they're PHYSICALLY BEAUTIFUL objects :D
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Peter Kröner @sirpepe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection." noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 24/09/2026
New website provides details of greenways across Ireland A new website promoting Ireland's greenways -- mostly rural shared walking and cycling routes -- has been launched by the Department of Transport....
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New website provides details of greenways across Ireland
A new website promoting Ireland's greenways -- mostly rural shared walking and cycling routes -- has been launched by the Department of Transport. Greenways.gov.ie includes route information and maps for most of Ireland's longer greenways. The website includes details such as the distance, elevation, estimated travel times, the surface finish of the greenways, and the facilities available along different parts of routes, including public transport access, park and ride and toilets.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exclusive: New report says Ireland could have built 50,000 new homes over the five years of the data centre boom - and cannot “afford” to continue building. Authors called for a moratorium on new data centres - and have hit out at government comparisons painting them as “our German car industry.”
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur on Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association: “Across Europe and beyond, I am seeing peaceful environmental defenders met with disproportionate criminal charges, legal abuse, and prison sentences that bear no relation to the nature of their actions."
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Construction capacity directed towards building data centres driven by speculative, debt-driven market demand, rather than socially-necessary housing and infrastructure projects. This is highly irrational allocation of resources can only be reversed by a progressive, green industrial strategy.
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