AineMcCaul ✍🏼
@ainemccaul.bsky.social
Currently writing my first novel: an urban fantasy steeped in Irish mythology for YA readers. Donegal-dwelling bodysurfer, baker, hiker, and mountain biker.
Interesting article
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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Interesting article
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After travelling the 12 hour round trip all the way down to Wexford, I can confidently say Ireland really doesn't do motorways very well. Despite the endless warning signs: 'Tiredness kills' there are next to no roadside services available. As for those constantly sitting in the overtaking lanes 🤬
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
After travelling the 12 hour round trip all the way down to Wexford, I can confidently say Ireland really doesn't do motorways very well. Despite the endless warning signs: 'Tiredness kills' there are next to no roadside services available. As for those constantly sitting in the overtaking lanes 🤬
Now that is some weird framing!
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Now that is some weird framing!
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Great to hear a scientist and environmentalist - @elainemcgoff.bsky.social - and a farmer in nitrates derogation separately say the same thing here: that the government-led drive for maximum productivity was a MASSIVE mistake, with our rivers and (now, potentially) farmers paying the price.
I had the a welcome opportunity to move beyond the standard Punch & Judy media setup to properly look under the derogation hood, & explore why the Government measures are failing our waters & failing our farmers.
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Nitrates derogation
Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derog...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Great to hear a scientist and environmentalist - @elainemcgoff.bsky.social - and a farmer in nitrates derogation separately say the same thing here: that the government-led drive for maximum productivity was a MASSIVE mistake, with our rivers and (now, potentially) farmers paying the price.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
If you're looking for a unique Christmas gift, Ciara's art is beautiful and I really can't imagine who wouldn't appreciate it.
A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If you're looking for a unique Christmas gift, Ciara's art is beautiful and I really can't imagine who wouldn't appreciate it.
But how else can they manipulate race results to ensure the title race runs right to the end of the season and so line their pockets even more? F1 has been a fix for years. Way too much money involved to let the cards fall where they may.
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Carlos Sainz: F1 drivers need 'urgent' meeting over racing guidelines
Formula 1 drivers
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November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
But how else can they manipulate race results to ensure the title race runs right to the end of the season and so line their pockets even more? F1 has been a fix for years. Way too much money involved to let the cards fall where they may.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Obscene greed.
The Irish State is dumping €450 million of wind energy a year, despite 29% of households suffering fuel poverty, because 'there's no market'.
If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
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If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
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Up to €2.7m worth of energy ‘wasted’ every day by State, committee told
Wind farms wound down or shut down at night while households are in fuel poverty, says energy charity chief
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November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Obscene greed.
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Had a trainee science teacher tell me this was better than any of their recommended reading. You should read it to see why:
Why Don’t Things Fall Up?
Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…
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November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Had a trainee science teacher tell me this was better than any of their recommended reading. You should read it to see why:
'Readers may be particularly intrigued, indeed, by the stories here about Python or Python-adjacent projects that (...) never happened. Jones originally considered making the film of Erik the Viking with the Muppets...'
We have been robbed! 😭
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We have been robbed! 😭
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Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python
An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War
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November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
'Readers may be particularly intrigued, indeed, by the stories here about Python or Python-adjacent projects that (...) never happened. Jones originally considered making the film of Erik the Viking with the Muppets...'
We have been robbed! 😭
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We have been robbed! 😭
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Am I allowed to mention the C word yet coz it's snowing outside.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Am I allowed to mention the C word yet coz it's snowing outside.
Don't understand why anyone lets their kid play Roblox in the first place.
yes let's protect children by (checks notes) forcing them to upload biometric data to a corporation that famously exploits children using targeted psychological monetisation practices, and also to a third party silicon valley techbro startup that's been caught using user data to train its AI. great!
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Don't understand why anyone lets their kid play Roblox in the first place.
Today, for the first time, I really experienced that role reversal so many have commented on - doing tasks FOR elderly parents which were once done BY them. For me, it was driving to the bus to meet my 79 yr old Dad and my 75 yr old Mum who just arrived back from a month's backpacking around Europe.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today, for the first time, I really experienced that role reversal so many have commented on - doing tasks FOR elderly parents which were once done BY them. For me, it was driving to the bus to meet my 79 yr old Dad and my 75 yr old Mum who just arrived back from a month's backpacking around Europe.
Just back from Christmas shopping where I picked up this beauty. Womdering how I can read it myself before I wrap it for the kids so it doesn't look pre-owned. 🤔
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just back from Christmas shopping where I picked up this beauty. Womdering how I can read it myself before I wrap it for the kids so it doesn't look pre-owned. 🤔
This is the most insane race I have ever seen! The fitness! The technical skill! The enormous cojones it must take to even consider competing. 😲
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MEGAVALANCHE 2025 💥 From 100th to the PODIUM 😤 | SURVIVING the Full Race X Kilian BRON
YouTube video by Kilian Bron
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November 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is the most insane race I have ever seen! The fitness! The technical skill! The enormous cojones it must take to even consider competing. 😲
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
We send messages out into space and look for answers from the stars yet, right under our noses, we ignore the clear message from our maritime cousins to stop stealing all their bloody food.
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A crisis unfolds in the Pacific as humpback whales form never-before-seen defensive patterns against fishing fleets
Videos flicker through WhatsApp groups, night-shift radios crackle with warnings, and scientists scramble to verify. It looks organised. It feels new. And
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November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We send messages out into space and look for answers from the stars yet, right under our noses, we ignore the clear message from our maritime cousins to stop stealing all their bloody food.
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But they forgot to factor in all the intense chocolate cravings you get for hours after each session.
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Body surfing is GREAT exercise & helps to lose weight fast — WAW Handplanes
The benefits of swimming are many and it certainly is good for weight loss– but neither surfing waves or swim workouts come close to the benefits of body surfing.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
But they forgot to factor in all the intense chocolate cravings you get for hours after each session.
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I wonder at what point we will collectively start ignoring governments, media moguls and celebrity grifters or influencers, and just get back to living our lives in peace.
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
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This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I wonder at what point we will collectively start ignoring governments, media moguls and celebrity grifters or influencers, and just get back to living our lives in peace.
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An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
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The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration.
Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...