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Peadar Ó Guilín

@thecallya.bsky.social
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Award-winning author of The Call and The Invasion. Pubbed by @dfb_storyhouse and @scholastic. Repped by @mollykh Also wrote The Inferior ❤️Gaeilge. Eats plants.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 22h
Press Release: Wizard's Tower to Publish Beowulf in Hel by Adam Roberts wizardstowerpress.co...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some adorably handsome bears to brighten the day.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.
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sezworldjustice.bsky.social @sezworldjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The killing of journalists continues to silence the crimes being committed by the Israeli state. The ethnic cleansing continues.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what happens when an entire people is defined as collectively to blame. Ethnic cleansing is too polite a phrase to describe the horrors and yes I did also condemn Hamas attacks on people attending a pop concert. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Al Mawasi before Joe Biden decided to be Israel's Santa Claus (image, Feb 2023) vs after (image, Dec 2024). Most of these tents are refugees from Israel's May '24 Rafah offensive-Biden's "Red Line" which, if crossed, he would totally Do Something (he didn't do anything, Rafah was depopulated)
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔥 HUGE NEWS - Exclusive with The Independent.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Young cowboy, Newcastle, 1950s, photo by Jimmy Forsyth.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's something darkly fascinating about the idea of a technological revolution that is a net drag on efficiency. It upends a lot of what we think futurology should be. But you can see a sort of inexorable logic to it...
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dr Emma Strada 1908 1st woman in #Italy to graduate in #engineering (@ Uni of Turin). Committee dithered over ingegnere or ingegneressa. Had electric light installed in home to celebrate. 1st President of Italian Assoc of Engineering & Architects d. #OTD 26 Sep 1970 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_St...
Emma Strada in later life - serious fashion icon vibes  #WomenInSTEM #HistSTM #HistSTEM
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We must support Gavin Bazunu for standing up against genocide. He’s being thrown under the bus with no support from his team and may be in a lonely place. Fuck the FAI and well done to Gavin for his strength. #StoptheGame #FreePalestine www.instagram.com/p/DdwuIoGRaO...
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gavin_bazunu on Instagram
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for injured children in Gaza have been stuck in warehouses in Jordan after the Israeli occupation blocked their entry into Gaza. Kids on Wheels Alliance donated 570 wheelchairs and Wheelchairs for Kids donated Source: ABC
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Noreen Dalton 🌱🍉 @nordaltsee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How things start
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The whole point of humans as a sociable, tribal species is we should eject people like this, so they starve in the wilderness alone. There are consequences to sociopathic behaviour. Somehow the abstract idea of money has short circuited our basic evolutionary safeguards.
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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A great article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social here about PEM and M.E. Some may be more familiar with the out of date term chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“Humanity goes before the sport - it's that simple." Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara wants to send a message to Irish football - boycotting the games against Israel would send a powerful message to the world. Full interview & video here: philipoconnor.com/humanity-goe... #SpeirGorm
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*sings* Underground, overground, rambling free The Uruks of Saruman's army are we
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Rosie @dozyrozy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Redhaven by V. V. James
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The irony here is that this is a guy assiduously marketing himself as a Proper Writer by making up a fairy story about everyone else who gets published having to be an Oxbridge Londoner who has relatives in the media and 1m insta followers
I have a horse in this race, so you don't have to believe me. But I ended up self publishing because despite 2 Sunday Times bestsellers I couldn't get arrested by a publisher.
When I tried, this was the response (I'm not joking)... 1/4
1: Are you prepared to do 100% of your own marketing, at your own expense?
2: Will you move to London?
3: Do you have any famous relatives in the media?
4: Which university did you attend?
5: How many Instagram followers do you have? 2/4
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•••(You'll note I do item 1 anyway. Sorry.)
But publishers don't want writers. They want packages. They want somebody who dazzles on TikTok, rubs shoulders with the London set, and can pull strings to get a spot on BBC Front Row. Without any marketing spend.
Those are marketeers, not writers.
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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love this... (artist: Janis Goodman)
Image shows a drawing by artist Janis Goodman and it shows a huge computer that is plugged into 4 electrical sockets and is guzzling water via a hose attached to 2 taps. There is a woman sat nearby. This drawing is titled "The Data Centre Who Came To Tea"
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
trying to whip up some Halloween feelings
Illustration of a ghoul in a cloak with a hood, holding a goblet of something in one hand, the moon in another
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I repeat here that it was very obvious in the 2000s and 2010s that the Israeli public were being aggressively prepped for The Day Of Vengeance, when men of will would Do What Must Be Done, and our politicians and media outlets unified to scream filthy abuse at everyone who warned this was bad.
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Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for genocidal murderers. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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Petition to #stopthegame
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for g...
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You do not need perfect Irish. You do not need to remember every irregular verb. You only need somewhere to begin. 💚 Molly Nic Céile called into Chapters with Gaeilge inár Saol, her warm, practical guide to making Irish part of everyday life - I love this idea, even though my Irish is rubbish.
Molly Nic Céile stands in bright sunshine outside the glass frontage of Chapters Bookstore, holding her green-covered book, Gaeilge inár Saol: Irish in Our Lives. She wears a dark blue denim dress and black high-top trainers. The Chapters sign and a large poster for Sebastian Barry’s The Newer World are visible behind her.Molly Nic Céile stands inside Chapters Bookstore holding a copy of her green-covered book, Gaeilge inár Saol: Irish in Our Lives. She wears a dark blue denim dress and is photographed in front of tables and shelves filled with new books, beneath the large Chapters Bookstore sign.
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Tammi @tammilee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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tom t @bankphysics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧪A reminder that the stories in the Brilliant Void podcast all came from this great anthology from @tramppress.bsky.social - expertly edited by @jfennellauthor.bsky.social A really great read. Wonderful stories, wonderfully told. tramppress.com/product/a-br...
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A Brilliant Void
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tom t @bankphysics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧪The 3rd and final episode of our series of Classic Irish Science Fiction, Lady Clanbevan's Baby is out now. #ScienceFiction #Sci-Fi Thanks to @tramppress.bsky.social and to @jfennellauthor.bsky.social for backing this project, which officially launched last night. stg-productions.simplecast.com
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A Brilliant Void
Audio drama - beginning with three classic Irish Science Fiction stories adapted from A Brilliant Void, an anthology published by Tramp Press.
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
you often hear footballers speak about how proud they are to pull in the jersey and line out for their country. well what would truly represent their country on this occasion would be refusing to play. there's massive popular for it. I wonder if the penny has dropped for any of them yet
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA
Human rights organisations express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists
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Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Terrifying
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
realised I haven't shared this little fella in a little while, available here >>> shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #crow #skull #artsky
print of a stylised crow stomping along the ground with the sun in its beak. Under the ground are human bones
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Years ago, after an extremist Islamist attack, a well known influential columnist came into the shop going on about moderate Muslims never apologising. I quietly asked him if he had apologised after any IRA bombing. His next column asked forgiveness from the Muslims of Ireland for his prior rhetoric
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Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: The Fine Young Cannibals' Victim
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The climate crisis is very much on the ballot in this election.” Irrespective of the way you usually vote, if you care about the climate, the most powerful way to oppose more North Sea drilling is to vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social at the coming by-election 👇
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People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski
Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OI! DEVON! I AM COMING TO STEAL YOUR CHIPS! Or at least Loki is, at Budleigh Salterton literary festival On Sept 26th 10am. Tickets here! Come! And do share! Being an author who does events = constant worry that no one will come to your birthday party budlitfest.org.uk/event/louie-... #KidlitUK
A four panel comic in my wobbly black-line style. The first panel shows Loki from my books transforming into a seagull. The second panel shows a couple at the seaside with chips. In the sky is an outline of a bird, labelled, "Me. In the third panel, Seagull!Loki is stealing a chip. In the fourth panel, seagull!Loki is saying delicious. The chip steal-ee is saying, "fucking seagulls" except it's made up of doodled symbols like skulls and stars cos this is a kids book.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible: New Hors D’oeuvre
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
By Jenny Bloomfield
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