Nigel Quinlan

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

The story of a successful Irish-language TV detective series that has been sold to nearly 70 countries, and what it tells us about cross-border trade on the island of Ireland www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Throughout the entire Fare Hike saga, Government maintained this was a decision by the NTA We now know it was the Dept of Public Expenditure & it was decided 12 months ago Government lied to to the public, the did it repeatedly, & they did it intentionally

Reminds me of how important Repeal Shield was during the 2018 referendum. The amount of mental space that was freed up by just ignoring the anti-choicers instead of trying to argue with them. It let us focus on putting forward our own points

Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is reissued in 4K on its 20th anniversary.  Here's my original Empire review. www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Can highly recommend.

Out next month, I just carried these over the threshold

Eric Bauza’s final film performance, as of right now, is Coyote VS ACME. Roadrunner’s testimony is one of his final character performances in the film. He says “Beep” around 46 times, that’s all he says. Yet it says everything about his strengths and passion as a voice actor, with just one word.

Accidental Chuck Tingle headline.

FIRESTARTER (1980) Acrylic on Masonite - 20” x 30” It might surprise some fans that my first work with Stephen King wasn’t THE GUNSLINGER. We first met at the World Fantasy Convention in 1979 when we were both Guests of Honor. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

A story that explores all the themes of Halloween: mythology, local history, the celebration of trickery, spiritualism and belief, the importance of food and farming, and harking back to a time when winter represented a thinning of the veil between life and death. #Halloween #Samhain

I’m actually pretty freaked out by the amount of people that don’t think children should have bodily autonomy. Also, should Ministers be allowed to just pull charity campaigns with no discussion or engagement. Manufactured outrage over on X that becomes an edict in an afternoon. Dodgy AF.

Things that would actually help is reducing the cost of living and helping small local businesses instead of allowing giant corporations from having monopolies and causing them to go out of business. There are some medical stuff I fully can't get in the EU because the shops don't exist anymore

After the Budget, millions will use online tax calculators. But there's a privacy catch: we tested the seven most popular, and every one sends your income to a server. Here's what MoneySavingExpert sends:

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

‼️‼️"Council plans to hand multinationals a licence to dodge labour law"‼️‼️ @belgaenglish.bsky.social @vrtnws.be @terzake.bsky.social @rtbf.be @lapremiere.bsky.social @standaard.be @lechobe.bsky.social @lavenirnet.bsky.social @knack.be @apache.be @dewereldmorgen.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/etuc...

50,000 excess deaths related to heat this summer across Europe. This is just one of the reasons why fossil fuels must stay in the ground.

(it dodged a badly configured paywall to access read-only statistical information that was already available to anyone willing to pay a few dollars. Anthropic notified the Georgia government of the breach and they ignored it) www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

I assume everyone who wrote about the hospital bike shed in their columns and talked about the hospital bike shed on their radio shows and tweeted about the hospital bike shed on their Nazi owned micro blogging app are very excited to discuss this

A bike shed for Kerry hospital - which takes cars off the road and results in cleaner air - became a national scandal earlier this year, amid media and politician-driven furore over "costs". Thank you @pantibliss.bsky.social and @tinydbass.bsky.social for highlighting the hypocrisy! (Thread)

Morning.

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Catching owls under a full moon

Goodnight.✨ Fireflies at Kinu River in Tennoji, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1880.

Irish pals! There are lots of tickets left for this and it is FREE. Shocking stuff. Come write some climate crisis fiction with me on Halloween! Awe, hope, despair! Conscious plants and more await you. Tickets: kildare.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...

Two children’s laureates to give royalties to Sally Rooney after her UK sales halted www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

Steve Pugh

okay yes, Multiple Things Can Be True At Once but at the same time Some Things Are More Important Than Other Things

Highest electricity in Europe thanks in no small part to these parasites, and that's before we look at the environmental damage they cause. There should be a full moratorium on all data centre projects.

Céard atá i ndán do Barry i sraith a 2 de CRÁ?! 👮🏻‍♂️🚨 CRÁ. 03.11.26 Beidh gach eagrán sa tsraith nua ag sruthú ar TG4+ (www.tg4.ie) an oíche chéanna! ▶️

While Ireland is at risk from the impending bursting of the AI bubble, it has not benefitted much from AI's growth. The investment happening here is producing little that can be taxed, and few jobs. It's virtually all cost and no benefit to us as a country. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

It's all turning into an undifferentiated political grey goo, isn't it?

Oh hell no

Next public awareness video will have to be You Should Never Throw Your Granny Off The Bus, because no, you should NEVER throw your Granny, cause she's your Mammy's Mammy, you should never throw your Granny off the bus. #speirgorm

#SpeirGorm

New Gist: The Petty Bourgeoisie This week Jim O'Callaghan, the Minister for Justice, had a rollercoaster ride through the media landscape, provided that rollercoaster was Oblivion, the vertical drop into darkness. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

They re-elected Trump bad US! But there's Trumps everywhere all over Europe Putin's a Trump UK Conservatives are Trumps UK Labour's a Trump rump Ireland is run by a pack of cross-party Trumpadáns: pro fossil fuel pro big tech pro money in politics anti regulation anti public services that's Trumpism