Katie McDermott
@katiemcd.bsky.social
Reading, writing, etc. https://katiemcdermott.com/ She/her 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Family life guy way to busy in August, this my reading wrap up the best of my recollection. It was at least these three books, but it's mostly been audio for me recently.
Katie McDermott@katiemcd.bsky.social · last wk.Got way behind on reading and on tracking reading, this is my July reading wrap up to the best of my memory. Started a dungeon crawler carl buddy listen to the Audiobooks alongside my husband, sharing theories has been a lot of fun!
Got way behind on reading and on tracking reading, this is my July reading wrap up to the best of my memory. Started a dungeon crawler carl buddy listen to the Audiobooks alongside my husband, sharing theories has been a lot of fun!
Katie McDermott@katiemcd.bsky.social · 3mo agoJune reading wrap up (I also read a parade of horribles last month and listened to the audiobook this month)
Delighted to have my story 'I'm the reason the sea is mad' published by @frazzledlit.bsky.social, they are such a lovely team to work with! www.frazzledlit.com/p/im-the-rea... (Audio and print versions available at the above link)
I'm the reason the sea is mad
By Katie McDermott (Highly Commended)
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"Robot beats Usain Bolt" So? 'Hot air balloon ascends higher than Olympic high jumper Gale Lark' 'Submarine can stay underwater longer than Karen Fish of Guildford' 'Lawn mower cuts grass quicker than Herbie Vorr when he's on all fours nibbling' It's a *robot*. False equivalence.
So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed
I do not like AI generated video captions and AI generated articles and AI generated voice-overs and AI generated posters and AI generated videos and AI generated music, I do not like being treated as nothing more than a vessel to be force-fed zero-effort empty soulless content, I do not like it!
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
my.uplift.ie
I'm my almost thirty years of wearing glasses, this has never happened to me before. I feel like a cartoon character.
Beautiful weather to be knitting a very heavy, very warm, winter jumper 😅 (Pattern is the Aprés Ski MAL by Katie Jones)
June reading wrap up (I also read a parade of horribles last month and listened to the audiobook this month)
Katie McDermott@katiemcd.bsky.social · 4mo agoMay reading wrap up
Thanks so much to Meath county council arts office! I'm delighted to have been awarded the PADF to buy time to edit my middle grade novel.
“I’ve been following the discourse about how I don’t have to get mad at everything and have written this essay about why that opinion is retrogressive and enraging…”
Patrick Ness@patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoOkay, BlueSky, you don’t actually have to get mad at everything.
April reading wrap up. I started lots but finished very little.
Katie McDermott@katiemcd.bsky.social · 5mo agoMarch reading wrap up
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…and not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. -Sarah Teasdale #speirgorm
Criteria for new basic income for artists scheme was released today (and no, it's not an April fools). Every practicing artist should apply. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Basic Income for the Arts Scheme 2026 – 2029 - FAQ
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I feel the need to shout out that the Irish people (for the most part) are adamantly against this junket. It's an absolute disgrace that we are doing a ceremonial gifting of Shamrock to a fucking paedophile war criminal. That is all. #SpeirGorm #PaddysDay
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 7mo agoThe Taoiseach begins his official visit to the United States today, as part of St Patrick's Day celebrations. Micheál Martin is visiting Pennsylvania this weekend before travelling to Washington DC for the traditional St Patrick's Day celebrations
People in UK publishing take note. In case you haven’t heard, your government is still at it. And anything that hoovers up British publications is liable to get a lot of Irish ones too. #SpeirGorm
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 7mo ago🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
Currently reading 'Stag Dance' by Torey Peters during the day, 'Operation Bounce House' by Matt Dinniman during the night feeds and listening to 'the eye of the bedlam bride' also by Dinniman while doing chores or out walking Happy #IrelandReads day
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)@nalaireland.bsky.social · 7mo agoCelebrate the joy of reading with #IrelandReads! 📚 Get lost in a good book—adventure, romance, comedy, or whatever you love. Read for as long or as short as you like. Find out more at irelandreads.ie or visit your local library today. #GetLost
“Pre-emptive strike” is an interesting way of spelling “terrorist attack”.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 7mo agoTehran is preparing for retaliation after the attack, with the response set to be crushing, an Iranian official said rte.ie/b/1560893
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
