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
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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.
Yeah let Laird Barron mess up your mind you were only using it for doomscrolling anyway and Barron's weird cosmic dooms will scroll INTO YOUR SOUL I don't know what that means and THAT’S WHAT'S SO SCARY
Made a little @lairdbarron.bsky.social book rec post over in the other place.
Do you love cosmic horror…or just beautiful complex contemporary horror in general?
If so, don’t sleep on his work :)
Do you love cosmic horror…or just beautiful complex contemporary horror in general?
If so, don’t sleep on his work :)
February 15, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Yeah let Laird Barron mess up your mind you were only using it for doomscrolling anyway and Barron's weird cosmic dooms will scroll INTO YOUR SOUL I don't know what that means and THAT’S WHAT'S SO SCARY
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Boyne Boardwalk, February 2026
February 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Boyne Boardwalk, February 2026
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Suzanne, 1957 - by Hans Hammarskiöld (1925 - 2012), Swedish
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Suzanne, 1957 - by Hans Hammarskiöld (1925 - 2012), Swedish
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Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles ( #SUV ‘s) are killing and maiming many more people in accidents than less high-fronted ones. Phase them out, tax the off the roads, stop this lunacy now. They are not needed status symbols causing death and damage. More investment in #public #transport needed!
February 15, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles ( #SUV ‘s) are killing and maiming many more people in accidents than less high-fronted ones. Phase them out, tax the off the roads, stop this lunacy now. They are not needed status symbols causing death and damage. More investment in #public #transport needed!
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I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
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This is cute, but it hides that fact that curling was originally played with the heads of your enemies.
The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
February 15, 2026 at 11:16 AM
This is cute, but it hides that fact that curling was originally played with the heads of your enemies.
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Doctored video triggers attacks by five EU States on UN Special Rapporteur - now who would do that?
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
European states must retract outrageous attacks on Francesca Albanese
They should publicly apologize and retract calls for her resignation
www.amnesty.org
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Doctored video triggers attacks by five EU States on UN Special Rapporteur - now who would do that?
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C
This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes
This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes
February 15, 2026 at 2:53 AM
From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C
This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes
This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes
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Just tapping the sign again ...
February 15, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Just tapping the sign again ...
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New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Village Feb-March in shops now
February 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Village Feb-March in shops now