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AineMcCaul ✍🏼

@ainemccaul.bsky.social

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Currently writing my first novel: an urban fantasy steeped in Irish mythology for YA readers. Donegal-dwelling bodysurfer, baker, hiker, and mountain biker.

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 7h

That one's new on me. You kids and your lingo.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 7h

was 'spoopy' a freudian slip? 👻💩

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 7h

Same gobshite probably follows Man United.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 11h

5 movies to get to know me 📽️🍿

Empire of the Sun
The English Patient
The Mission
Raging Bull
Point Break

Lucy McCaul @lucymccaul.bsky.social · 1d

5 movies to get to know me (at this moment, anyway)
Muppet Christmas Carol
Terminator
Predator
Jaws
Jurassic Park

Zᐰphod Boobleebledoc ❤️❤️➕🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @zaphodbeebledoc.bsky.social · 1d

5 movies to get to know me

LOTR (all three, yes)
The Wrath of Khan
Terminator 2
The first 8 Star Wars films, plus Rogue One and Solo
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 11h

An eclectic mix of fluff and teeth 🤔

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

You should use the money to learn Spanish then move to Panama or Argentina.

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

As a straight woman, I always found homophobia in men a red flag as it is a pretty good indicator of how those men think about, and treat, women. I reckon homophobes are afraid gay men will look at them and think of them in the same disrespectful way they ogle women.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

I watched Katla during Lockdown and found it quite absorbing. As far as movies go, the most frightening thing I have ever watched is Pan's Labyrinth 😬

The series artwork for Katla showing grey, shadowy naked figures emerging from a volcanic cave amidst the smoke.

The movie poster for Pan's Labyrinth showing a small child in an old-fashioned dress coat and ankle socks walking towards a gap between gnarled and twisted trees resembling the textbook shape of a womb and ovaries.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

I can't tell you how many times some gombeen online has told me my child wouldn't be allergic to peanuts if only I had eaten them all through pregnancy and breastfeeding. I did. He's still highly allergic.

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Halayloween 🎃 @halaylah.com · 3d

No such thing as "parental rights."
Kids have rights.
Parents have obligations.

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

Can we add neurodivergence and allergy to the list please? It's unbelievable how many opinionated assholes have come to the conclusion these conditions are caused by lazy or liberal lifestyle choices amongst pregnant mothers. As a consequence they refuse to accommodate anyone with these conditions.

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

The head of a company should only be allowed to earn a maximum of four times the amount of the lowest paid employee. Wage theft is immoral.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 1d

This will drive the undecided to vote for Connolly in droves. There's nothing we love more than someone telling us what to think!

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of a king eating a burger with the burger king logo on his crown

Alt: a cartoon of a king eating a burger with the burger king logo on his crown

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d

I was waiting for Bane to show up 😂🤣

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d

Don't need ChatGPT - I've been watching F1 for about 35 years.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d

These comparisons are utterly meaningless when there's twice as many races per year in the modern era.

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d

JD. He's sofa king creepy.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 2d

When kids become interested in politics, you know the country has woken up.

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 3d

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AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 3d

We had soldiers land on the football pitch as we were playing. Let us hold his rifle if we showed him how to use a hurl 🤣

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 4d

Another plastic Paddy parading their ignorant opinions?

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 4d

I pity the child with a pushy parent who won't allow failure. Making decisions for them. Mandating participation. Insinuating themselves into every meeting or committee to ensure their child is picked. Waiting to catch them before they fall. My greatest lessons have come from my greatest mistakes.

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 4d

The day University Degrees jumped the shark

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Union concerns as six join University of Suffolk esports course

Unison's regional organiser says money spent on esports could have been invested in existing courses.

www.bbc.com

AineMcCaul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 5d

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er aisles and tills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of lengthy shopping bills;

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