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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Fellas, is it worth being a mudguard for a right wing government in exchange for policy concessions that will be immediately reversed following our electoral devastation
“The government keeps talking about infrastructure and enabling infrastructure – and they’ve just paused one of the big infrastructure projects."
There's after it emerged that a Dart expansion through Adamstown and Celbridge will be delayed by at least four years.
www.thejournal.ie/dart-south-w...
There's after it emerged that a Dart expansion through Adamstown and Celbridge will be delayed by at least four years.
www.thejournal.ie/dart-south-w...
Four-year delay to major upgrade of Dart network 'flies in the face' of best practice
It was hoped construction could begin on Dart+ South West next year – that’s now been pushed out to at least 2030.
www.thejournal.ie
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Fellas, is it worth being a mudguard for a right wing government in exchange for policy concessions that will be immediately reversed following our electoral devastation
I'm actually convinced he's waiting for Venezuela to buy a few billion of his cryptocoins to make him go away.
Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm actually convinced he's waiting for Venezuela to buy a few billion of his cryptocoins to make him go away.
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BILLSON FILM DATABASE (kindle or pbk)
"super pithy (like Halliwell but without the snobbery)"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"tremendously informative and very, very funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
"super pithy (like Halliwell but without the snobbery)"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"tremendously informative and very, very funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BILLSON FILM DATABASE (kindle or pbk)
"super pithy (like Halliwell but without the snobbery)"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"tremendously informative and very, very funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
"super pithy (like Halliwell but without the snobbery)"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"tremendously informative and very, very funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
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All our childish fears were true! Quicksand exists to capture you anywhere!
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
All our childish fears were true! Quicksand exists to capture you anywhere!
This is my lovely lovely Annemarie in @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social talking about her YA book. She is using her teaching voice because it's for a book club designed to teach people Irish and she is very good at teaching Irish and I love her and she's the best. #speirgorm #books #ya #gaeilge
17 reactions · 4 comments | We are delighted to present 'An Seol atá Fút', our December book for Club Leabhar Léigh Linn, written by our very own Annemarie Nugent.
Order your copy now and join us nex...
We are delighted to present 'An Seol atá Fút', our December book for Club Leabhar Léigh Linn, written by our very own Annemarie Nugent.
Order your copy now and join us next month....
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November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is my lovely lovely Annemarie in @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social talking about her YA book. She is using her teaching voice because it's for a book club designed to teach people Irish and she is very good at teaching Irish and I love her and she's the best. #speirgorm #books #ya #gaeilge
It's 2025, electing a furry should in no way make anyone an alarming laughing stock to ordinary decent straight society, the way it might have done ten years ago, because Republicans elected Donald Fucking Bastarding Shithead.
Michigan’s 7th district has a chance to do the funniest thing ever
""I'd heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think they were real. Then one filed to run against me for Congress," stated the email. "Samuel Smeltzer, whose furry name is Elyon Badger, announced he's running against me, in costume, on a far left progressive platform.""
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It's 2025, electing a furry should in no way make anyone an alarming laughing stock to ordinary decent straight society, the way it might have done ten years ago, because Republicans elected Donald Fucking Bastarding Shithead.
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Europe’s water reserves are drying up due to the climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Europe’s water reserves are drying up due to the climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚶♀️A 1,000-mile riparian pilgrimage for our rivers!
Emmeline Hardisty walked an incredible 1,000+ miles alongside our precious rivers and established the Voices of Water Foundation to campaign for their rights, protection, and restoration.
Learn more 👇
theriverstrust.org/about-us/new...
Emmeline Hardisty walked an incredible 1,000+ miles alongside our precious rivers and established the Voices of Water Foundation to campaign for their rights, protection, and restoration.
Learn more 👇
theriverstrust.org/about-us/new...
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🚶♀️A 1,000-mile riparian pilgrimage for our rivers!
Emmeline Hardisty walked an incredible 1,000+ miles alongside our precious rivers and established the Voices of Water Foundation to campaign for their rights, protection, and restoration.
Learn more 👇
theriverstrust.org/about-us/new...
Emmeline Hardisty walked an incredible 1,000+ miles alongside our precious rivers and established the Voices of Water Foundation to campaign for their rights, protection, and restoration.
Learn more 👇
theriverstrust.org/about-us/new...
Annemarie was asking me about this poem ('the one where the pig gets up and walks away at the end') and I can honestly say this is the first I've ever heard of it. #speirgorm
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Annemarie was asking me about this poem ('the one where the pig gets up and walks away at the end') and I can honestly say this is the first I've ever heard of it. #speirgorm
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Sketches in Bedlam (1823) — a book gathering together glimpses into the personalities and stories of more than 140 mental patients confined to the Bethlem Hospital in the early part of the 19th century: http://buff.ly/1olkDH0
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sketches in Bedlam (1823) — a book gathering together glimpses into the personalities and stories of more than 140 mental patients confined to the Bethlem Hospital in the early part of the 19th century: http://buff.ly/1olkDH0
It's belabourung a fucking cliche but LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT USING CHATGPT FOR SUICIDE DESPITE OUR DO NOT-USE-CHATGPT-FOR-SUICIDE TOU. It's utterly monstrous. Recall your dangerous and poorly functioning product, gobshites.
This is evil. Just pure fucking evil.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
www.pcgamer.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's belabourung a fucking cliche but LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT USING CHATGPT FOR SUICIDE DESPITE OUR DO NOT-USE-CHATGPT-FOR-SUICIDE TOU. It's utterly monstrous. Recall your dangerous and poorly functioning product, gobshites.
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Was on @newstalkfm.bsky.social earlier to discuss the existential risk to north-western Europe posed by a shutdown of the AMOC.
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/the...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/the...
Will we become climate refugees? | Newstalk
Refugees entering Ireland is a widely spoken about topic, but could the climate crisis push us to...
www.newstalk.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Was on @newstalkfm.bsky.social earlier to discuss the existential risk to north-western Europe posed by a shutdown of the AMOC.
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/the...
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/the...
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The brilliant @susanzieger.bsky.social has an entire chapter about this space junk, Elon Musk’s role in creating it, in her fascinating book LOGISTICS AND POWER.
Buy it for the holidays here: bookshop.org/p/books/logi...
Buy it for the holidays here: bookshop.org/p/books/logi...
![SUSAN ZIEGER
[a picture of her book:]
LOGISTICS
AND
POWER
SUPPLY CHAINS
FROM SLAVERY TO SPACE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xalxqffcayyidntafmptzhta/bafkreicz47fmjxaode4o6lwzxbmynrckdtr46e46wfgfxbazdeq2wrrtwu@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The brilliant @susanzieger.bsky.social has an entire chapter about this space junk, Elon Musk’s role in creating it, in her fascinating book LOGISTICS AND POWER.
Buy it for the holidays here: bookshop.org/p/books/logi...
Buy it for the holidays here: bookshop.org/p/books/logi...
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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Case taken in January, State doesn't bother to file their opposition papers until June, the case is immediately heard in July and judgment delivered in November. An Bord Pleanála took three years to make a decision. But JRs are the problem?
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Case taken in January, State doesn't bother to file their opposition papers until June, the case is immediately heard in July and judgment delivered in November. An Bord Pleanála took three years to make a decision. But JRs are the problem?
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Yup, and keep your money out of our politics also.
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Yup, and keep your money out of our politics also.
Approaching the end of the year having read another massive amount of books, and it's not good, it's bad, it's me dissociating. Loads of them are audio books! Listened to while doing constructive things! But I should have been thinking! I'm supposed to be a writer! Who thinks about writing things!
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Approaching the end of the year having read another massive amount of books, and it's not good, it's bad, it's me dissociating. Loads of them are audio books! Listened to while doing constructive things! But I should have been thinking! I'm supposed to be a writer! Who thinks about writing things!
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolly Parton, 1977
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolly Parton, 1977
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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Really fascinating which one of these the media has seized upon
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Really fascinating which one of these the media has seized upon
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I think that just because we look like we're getting wetter while so many other places are drying, it doesn't mean that we're not going to have loads of water problems - we already have. #speirgorm
Meanwhile, water shortage in countries like Spain could affect food supplies in the many countries they produce food for.
5/6
5/6
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I think that just because we look like we're getting wetter while so many other places are drying, it doesn't mean that we're not going to have loads of water problems - we already have. #speirgorm
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Professor Hannah Cloke told us,“We should be focusing on water reuse, using less water in the first place, separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use, using nature-based solutions + thinking about the way that we’re building".
4/6
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
4/6
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Professor Hannah Cloke told us,“We should be focusing on water reuse, using less water in the first place, separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use, using nature-based solutions + thinking about the way that we’re building".
4/6
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
4/6
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Post your favorite “The Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Post your favorite “The Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
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500,000 hectares forestry. 100,000ha rewetting, 68,000 acres solar panels, 1000 onshore wind turbines, 120,000ha grassland for Anaerobic Digesters etc.
Where will it all go?
Minister O’Brien says we’re getting the (long awaited) Land Use Review for Christmas.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Where will it all go?
Minister O’Brien says we’re getting the (long awaited) Land Use Review for Christmas.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Gas men in Meath
A new anaerobic digester in Meath, one of the first of many, raises questions about where will all the grass to feed them come from? Minister Darragh O’Brien promises to publish the long awaited Land ...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
500,000 hectares forestry. 100,000ha rewetting, 68,000 acres solar panels, 1000 onshore wind turbines, 120,000ha grassland for Anaerobic Digesters etc.
Where will it all go?
Minister O’Brien says we’re getting the (long awaited) Land Use Review for Christmas.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Where will it all go?
Minister O’Brien says we’re getting the (long awaited) Land Use Review for Christmas.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...