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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.

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Peadar Ó Guilín@thecallya.bsky.social · 10h ago

Ha ha. AA Ireland sending me an insurance quote that's 270 more expensive than last year's, with a cheery, "Good news, we saved you on how bad it could have been!" Every year, whatever insurer I have tries this on. Every year, I easily find cheaper when I shop around. 1/2

Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · yesterday

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 47: Here's an experiment to try: Take a paragraph of your WIP. Highlight the most important word in each sentence. Now try rewriting with the important words at the very end of the sentences. Look at the difference it makes each way, and the way it affects emphasis.

Minerva47874627.bsky.social@minerva47874627.bsky.social · 19h ago

This👇. How much more proof does the world need to know that Israel is a terrorist state, with no moral boundaries, and Netanyahu is the man leading a genocide that started with the Palestinians, moved on to the Lebanese and now is destroying the planet itself.

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · yesterday

💥 Israel is burning the forests of Wadi al-Slouqi and Houla in South Lebanon. Not military targets. Forests, valleys, hills and entire ecosystems. Environmental crime & deliberate erasure of a piece of Lebanon’s natural heritage. 8/4 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

Gillian Martin@gillmartin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another Israeli airstrike in Gaza. More people murdered. Since the ‘ceasefire’ over 1,230 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza,and over 4,000 injured. There is no ‘ceasefire’ Stop selling UK arms to Israel.

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d ago

An Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887

John Picacio@johnpicacio.bsky.social · 3d ago

🧵 Three things new @laworldcon.bsky.social attendees & 1st-time Hugo Awards voters sometimes don’t know: 1) You don’t have to vote on every category for your votes to count. EX: Just because you don’t have time to read every Hugo-nominated book doesn’t mean you can’t vote on films & visual arts.

Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 4d ago

Crime novelist Derek Raymond, whose memoir The Hidden Files I'm re-reading for the Patreon, came from the upper crust & was sent to Eton (he escaped at 16). His summation of the British upper class from which he came is memorable.

I thought that the way my forebears had evolved was truly abhorrent… my family reflected, in microcosm, the nauseating national tendency of the time, which can be summed up as: We have a nasty feeling that what we are doing is disgusting, so we'd better have a society in which disgusting is the right thing to be.'
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)@bestonetx.bsky.social · last wk.

Someone gave me a "summary" that some AI had produced of a panel I was on, including pull quotes. The quotes were all invented -- no one on the panel said that stuff -- even though the AI was given an audio recording of the whole thing. I told them to trash it and did the transcription myself.

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

Clare Moriarty@quiteclare.bsky.social · last wk.

We should be livid. The article says students are asked to do everything with originals via post (no email when there's no functioning post service?!) and failed for "insufficient evidence of strong obligations to return to your home country". What would that case look like in Gaza right now?!

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.

Sources within the universities say the refusal rate this year is in marked contrast to last year, when more than 80 Gazan students left Gaza in an evacuation organised by the Irish Government.

Roderic O’Gorman TD@rodericogorman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Last night on Primetime, I discussed water quality in Ireland, and how ultimately, there is no central political responsibility for it.

Green Party / Comhaontas Glas@greenparty.ie · 6d ago

Last night @rodericogorman.bsky.social was on Primetime about the deterioration in our water quality. We need access to clean water, not just for our health, but also because water is such a huge part of our economy, our biodiversity and increasingly our wellness and leisure. #speirgorm

Toby Miller@tobytram.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Atul Haria (immigrant)@atulharia.bsky.social · 7d ago

This was posted a few days ago but I think it needs more traction. If you cook with gas and have asthma - read this and think about going electric.

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

You Call Yourself a Film Critic@filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 6d ago

I will always-and I truly mean always-share this story the Rubberbandits shared about a competition held in Cork to see a classic movie screened by him (which sounds like they're offering water boarding as a prize) and this was the recounting

Facebook message from an unknown male: "George Hook, on Newstalk, used to do a monthly competition to "Win tickets to see a Classic Film with George Hook'. Which to my friend, Patrick, was the worst prize he'd ever heard of. So, naturally he entered the competition and ended up winning 3 tickets to the Gate to see Taxi Driver on, like, a Wednesday at 7. Dreadful. We went along and found a handful of people in the first few rows. But no George. 5-10 minutes go by. We hear, 'Are you all ready for a Classic film?'. George Hook was hiding up in the back. In the dark. No reason for it. He comes down and proceeds to make a speech about Taxi Driver for 20 minutes. Most of which was inaccurate. He had this whole segment he repeated ad infinitum about it being 'Scorsese's first picture' which it wasn't, and 'De Niro helping him kick his heroin habit to get it made' (cocaine, and he was thinking of Raging Bull). All inaccurate, rambling nonsense. He talked all the way through the film, laughing at scenes that weren't remotely funny or even meant to be funny, irritated everyone with his bizarre guttural noises and may have even fallen asleep. Film ends. Lights go up. Everyone leaves. Not a word said. He just disappears into the night. --- And you boys think you know Performance Art?"
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 6d ago

Once I was at a Christmas party where George Hook was the compère. He began by saying "before I begin, an important news announcement - a truck of viagra has been stolen. The gardaí are on the lookout for a gang of... hardened criminals". A woman sat next to me said "is this some sort of joke?"