Peadar Ó Guilín
@thecallya.bsky.social
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.
@dfb_storyhouse and @scholastic. Repped by @mollykh
Also wrote The Inferior ❤️Gaeilge. Eats plants.
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Peadar Ó Guilín
@thecallya.bsky.social
· Oct 14
The Call by Peadar O'Guilin | Waterstones
Buy The Call by Peadar O'Guilin from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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UK folks!
I am excited to see that ‘The Call’ reissue is included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE on selected pre-ordered books this week! 😍🎉
Enter the code OCTOBER25 at the checkout to redeem your discount and pre-order your copy now.
Offer ends at 23.59 Friday 17th October.
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I am excited to see that ‘The Call’ reissue is included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE on selected pre-ordered books this week! 😍🎉
Enter the code OCTOBER25 at the checkout to redeem your discount and pre-order your copy now.
Offer ends at 23.59 Friday 17th October.
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Government could start by not going out of its way to screw the entire knowledge work sector. Just spitballing here. Maybe back your creatives when they say they've been ripped off by huge tech firms instead of finding ways to give our work to megacorps free of charge? I dunno man it's a MYSTERY...
Ahead of the National Year of Reading, the Education Committee has launched a new inquiry to understand how reading can be nurtured following the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure 👇 #BookSky
MPs launch inquiry into how the joy of reading can be kept alive
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Government could start by not going out of its way to screw the entire knowledge work sector. Just spitballing here. Maybe back your creatives when they say they've been ripped off by huge tech firms instead of finding ways to give our work to megacorps free of charge? I dunno man it's a MYSTERY...
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Our #BlackFriday sale is now on! 🖤 📚
Enjoy 25% off children's and YA books with the code 'BF25' - only at littleisland.ie until 2 Dec 2025.
#books #BlackFriday2025 #BlackFridayDeals #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #YAbooks #booksale #bookstagram #booktok
Enjoy 25% off children's and YA books with the code 'BF25' - only at littleisland.ie until 2 Dec 2025.
#books #BlackFriday2025 #BlackFridayDeals #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #YAbooks #booksale #bookstagram #booktok
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Our #BlackFriday sale is now on! 🖤 📚
Enjoy 25% off children's and YA books with the code 'BF25' - only at littleisland.ie until 2 Dec 2025.
#books #BlackFriday2025 #BlackFridayDeals #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #YAbooks #booksale #bookstagram #booktok
Enjoy 25% off children's and YA books with the code 'BF25' - only at littleisland.ie until 2 Dec 2025.
#books #BlackFriday2025 #BlackFridayDeals #childrensbooks #kidsbooks #YAbooks #booksale #bookstagram #booktok
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Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
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Strong letter in today's Irish Times, we are sick of waiting, the government must enact the full #OccupiedTerritoriesBill with services included, immediately.
#EndIsraeliImpunity
#EndIsraeliImpunity
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Strong letter in today's Irish Times, we are sick of waiting, the government must enact the full #OccupiedTerritoriesBill with services included, immediately.
#EndIsraeliImpunity
#EndIsraeliImpunity
🎵And only our rivers run green...🎵
European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
share.google
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🎵And only our rivers run green...🎵
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European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
share.google
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out.
The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.
The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out.
The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.
The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
This is an extraordinary performance. And from Donegal? Always stuffed with talent, that place.
youtu.be/bIAI78o-Rd0?...
youtu.be/bIAI78o-Rd0?...
George Houston - Lilith (Later... with Jools Holland)
YouTube video by BBC Music
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is an extraordinary performance. And from Donegal? Always stuffed with talent, that place.
youtu.be/bIAI78o-Rd0?...
youtu.be/bIAI78o-Rd0?...
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Exhausted Stable Boy Clearly Just Going Through Motions Of Tearing Open Bodice https://theonion.com/exhausted-stable-boy-clearly-just-going-through-motions-of-tearing-open-bodice/
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Exhausted Stable Boy Clearly Just Going Through Motions Of Tearing Open Bodice https://theonion.com/exhausted-stable-boy-clearly-just-going-through-motions-of-tearing-open-bodice/
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It's this beautiful book's birthday again. Reposting last year's post so you can join me in happy nostalgia. :) www.patreon.com/posts/its-ya...
It's the YA Guide's 10th Birthday! | Gabrielle Harbowy
Get more from Gabrielle Harbowy on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It's this beautiful book's birthday again. Reposting last year's post so you can join me in happy nostalgia. :) www.patreon.com/posts/its-ya...
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Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
Wow! I never even heard of this before, but it looks pretty spectacular.
youtu.be/DURXi6V5q0g?...
youtu.be/DURXi6V5q0g?...
Ireland's BIGGEST SECRET Is Hidden In This Forest...
YouTube video by Stephen J Reid
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wow! I never even heard of this before, but it looks pretty spectacular.
youtu.be/DURXi6V5q0g?...
youtu.be/DURXi6V5q0g?...
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🇵🇸No more delay on the Occupied Territories Bill
I was proud to stand today with other Leaders of Opposition Parties and Senator @francesblack1 to call on the Government to progress the Occupied Territories Bill.
It has been a year since FF and FG campaigned on this during the general election(1/2)
I was proud to stand today with other Leaders of Opposition Parties and Senator @francesblack1 to call on the Government to progress the Occupied Territories Bill.
It has been a year since FF and FG campaigned on this during the general election(1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🇵🇸No more delay on the Occupied Territories Bill
I was proud to stand today with other Leaders of Opposition Parties and Senator @francesblack1 to call on the Government to progress the Occupied Territories Bill.
It has been a year since FF and FG campaigned on this during the general election(1/2)
I was proud to stand today with other Leaders of Opposition Parties and Senator @francesblack1 to call on the Government to progress the Occupied Territories Bill.
It has been a year since FF and FG campaigned on this during the general election(1/2)
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Last year's Christmas cards will also be restocked, and can be ordered at the link (will also begin to ship towards the end of November) www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Last year's Christmas cards will also be restocked, and can be ordered at the link (will also begin to ship towards the end of November) www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - La Disparition...
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - La Disparition...
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"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Yup it is.
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
www.irishtimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yup it is.
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“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction? A short history and new anthology of speculative writing from India” —
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction? A short history and new anthology of speculative writing from India” —
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
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Do you remember that brief couple of days where it was deemed utterly unacceptable antisemitism to suggest Israel would ever attack a hospital, that then turned into a year of the media telling us Palestinian hospitals were all secret command bases actually?
I don’t see a need to reiterate what I’ve spoken about repeatedly and what we all saw in real time, but I will say: every media outlet fell over themselves to repeat clearly insane claims from the Israeli government and coordinated bullying to toe the line was instant, harsh and extremely intense.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Do you remember that brief couple of days where it was deemed utterly unacceptable antisemitism to suggest Israel would ever attack a hospital, that then turned into a year of the media telling us Palestinian hospitals were all secret command bases actually?