Nigel Quinlan
@nigellicus.bsky.social
Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.
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Nigel Quinlan
@nigellicus.bsky.social
· Feb 28
The Hungry Giant | Ember
There was no safe place in the entire world from the rain of stars. The fox fled to the one place he knew, the one place he remembered, where he had felt safe and secure and happy. He ran to the…
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My short story - you know, for kids - The Hungry Giant is up on Ember Journal if anyone wants something a bit odd and scary and sad but also hopeful to read....
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
HOOK JAW (1976): Controversial kids' comic Action's main event - a vengeful great white with a dirty great gaff hook lodged in its mouth. Initially written and drawn by Pat Mills and Ramon Sola, this was an insanely, deliriously violent strip, with arms, legs, and heads popping off.
February 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Winsor McCay
February 3, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Winsor McCay
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When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
February 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home
Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm
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Wooooo hooo. Delighted to announce this today. Thank you @newislandbooks.bsky.social for bringing me in to your good house
New Island is thrilled to announce it has signed Clare Murphy, a rising star of Irish storytelling, for her first book, The Spanking Goddess and Other Discarded Tales. www.newisland.ie/new-island-a... @storyclare.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Wooooo hooo. Delighted to announce this today. Thank you @newislandbooks.bsky.social for bringing me in to your good house
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"Regarding truth, generative #AI is fundamentally unreliable. It does not aim at factual accuracy”
"Flawed and opaque AI systems are undermining human reasoning, eroding a cornerstone of democratic citizenship and public debate."
–Dr Eileen Culloty, DCU,
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
"Flawed and opaque AI systems are undermining human reasoning, eroding a cornerstone of democratic citizenship and public debate."
–Dr Eileen Culloty, DCU,
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
AI is undermining democracy, Oireachtas committee to hear
TDs and senators to hear that AI portals' use of online journalism without payment is leaving quality journalism 'under existential threat'
www.irishexaminer.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"Regarding truth, generative #AI is fundamentally unreliable. It does not aim at factual accuracy”
"Flawed and opaque AI systems are undermining human reasoning, eroding a cornerstone of democratic citizenship and public debate."
–Dr Eileen Culloty, DCU,
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
"Flawed and opaque AI systems are undermining human reasoning, eroding a cornerstone of democratic citizenship and public debate."
–Dr Eileen Culloty, DCU,
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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New comic: "How have you been?" badmachinery.com/comic/2026-0...
How have you been? - Bad Machinery
OH DEAR.
badmachinery.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
New comic: "How have you been?" badmachinery.com/comic/2026-0...
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A little Dublin #painting from a few years ago. "Trinity College & College Green" was done one cold morning when I cycled into town and sat down on a traffic island where I sketched the city centre cluster-fest in front of me. Surprisingly nobody came up to me when painting. #art #urbansketching
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
A little Dublin #painting from a few years ago. "Trinity College & College Green" was done one cold morning when I cycled into town and sat down on a traffic island where I sketched the city centre cluster-fest in front of me. Surprisingly nobody came up to me when painting. #art #urbansketching
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"Both Beers On Tap" lmao I'm so ready
Yes yes yes yes TIME FOR THE BEST SHOW TO COME BACK I MISSED MY IDIOTS
February 15, 2026 at 11:32 PM
"Both Beers On Tap" lmao I'm so ready
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Irish Aviation Authority are planning to restrict air space in the city to facilitate a single takeaway-food company.
Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers.
Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...
Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers.
Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...
Proposed restrictions on drones
YouTube video by Oliver Moran
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February 15, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Irish Aviation Authority are planning to restrict air space in the city to facilitate a single takeaway-food company.
Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers.
Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...
Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers.
Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...
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One benefit of being laid up with the flu - I finally got to read this. It's a hugely important book and I cant recommend it enough. It takes a lot of complex and overwhelming ideas and makes them easy to access and digest. Despite the subject matter it gave me a lot of hope. #spéirgorm
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
One benefit of being laid up with the flu - I finally got to read this. It's a hugely important book and I cant recommend it enough. It takes a lot of complex and overwhelming ideas and makes them easy to access and digest. Despite the subject matter it gave me a lot of hope. #spéirgorm
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Global ecosystem collapse is a real prospect. An appropriate response would be for us to restore our own ecosystems and diversify our food production.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Pádraic Fogarty: Ecosystem collapse is real and is happening here now
Ireland can breeze through the collapse of our own ecosystems because of the stabilising effect of much larger ecosystems elsewhere. Now those ecosystems too are at risk of collapse, due principally t...
www.irishexaminer.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Global ecosystem collapse is a real prospect. An appropriate response would be for us to restore our own ecosystems and diversify our food production.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind
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There's also a plaque in Limerick City - on Bedford Row - to commemorate a public lecture he gave there to an enthusiastic audience on the anti-slavery movement in November 1845.
February 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
There's also a plaque in Limerick City - on Bedford Row - to commemorate a public lecture he gave there to an enthusiastic audience on the anti-slavery movement in November 1845.
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And an adopted son of Belfast, with a grand statue of him round from the firebrand United Irishman church of the first presbyterians inRosemary st ( what this taig thinks of as 'her' church because of its history of rebellion ).
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 7:28 PM
And an adopted son of Belfast, with a grand statue of him round from the firebrand United Irishman church of the first presbyterians inRosemary st ( what this taig thinks of as 'her' church because of its history of rebellion ).
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Presents for the First Family Of The USA this St Patrick's? Personalised box of Cards Against Humanity called Donald Against Humanity and a brooch of The Eye Of Balor. #speirgorm
Micheál Martin presented Donald Trump with a custom golf tee and marker set during his visit to Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day. They were in a personalised wooden box.
Melania Trump was given a Government harp brooch worth €148 and a Bord Bia hamper.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Melania Trump was given a Government harp brooch worth €148 and a Bord Bia hamper.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Taoiseach gave Trump personalised golf set during last year’s St Patrick’s Day visit
JD Vance presented with silver cufflinks while his wife Usha received Meab Enamels silk scarf
www.irishtimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Presents for the First Family Of The USA this St Patrick's? Personalised box of Cards Against Humanity called Donald Against Humanity and a brooch of The Eye Of Balor. #speirgorm
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I've just finished this - a full review to follow. Deeply flawed characters are this author's speciality, and this one is a cracking read.
#TheTruthAboutRubyCooper by Liz Nugent
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social
#TheTruthAboutRubyCooper by Liz Nugent
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I've just finished this - a full review to follow. Deeply flawed characters are this author's speciality, and this one is a cracking read.
#TheTruthAboutRubyCooper by Liz Nugent
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social
#TheTruthAboutRubyCooper by Liz Nugent
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social
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The miracles of St Brigid are brilliantly odd. From Cogitosus' Life of St Brigid translated by Liam De Paor
January 29, 2026 at 11:59 AM
The miracles of St Brigid are brilliantly odd. From Cogitosus' Life of St Brigid translated by Liam De Paor
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I wanted to challenge myself and decided to try to make a game using a kid's game engine! I didn't have any coding classes growing up, so I was excited to give this a go & purposely limit myself using the Scratch engine.
Here's my game: Top Potato!
#gamedev #indiegames unaminh.itch.io/top-potato
Here's my game: Top Potato!
#gamedev #indiegames unaminh.itch.io/top-potato
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I wanted to challenge myself and decided to try to make a game using a kid's game engine! I didn't have any coding classes growing up, so I was excited to give this a go & purposely limit myself using the Scratch engine.
Here's my game: Top Potato!
#gamedev #indiegames unaminh.itch.io/top-potato
Here's my game: Top Potato!
#gamedev #indiegames unaminh.itch.io/top-potato
If the intro music isn't Rip It Up what are they even doing
February 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
If the intro music isn't Rip It Up what are they even doing
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1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.
February 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.
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The best one page ghost story ever put to paper.
February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The best one page ghost story ever put to paper.