Katie McDermott
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If, like me, you've had to tap out of the news for a few weeks, this podcast is a very good guide to the devastation that continues in Gaza open.spotify.com/episode/1xut...
Gaza and the Board of Peace feat. Dana El Kurd
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January 26, 2026 at 8:58 AM
If, like me, you've had to tap out of the news for a few weeks, this podcast is a very good guide to the devastation that continues in Gaza open.spotify.com/episode/1xut...
I just ploughed through all of Dungeon Crawler Carl and now I've started back at the beginning, this time in audiobook format. Great, fun books!
January 15, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I just ploughed through all of Dungeon Crawler Carl and now I've started back at the beginning, this time in audiobook format. Great, fun books!
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Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.
New year's resolutions:
more tattoos, including a trip somewhere to get a tattoo.
Learn to sew.
Eat more kinds of pasta, including shapes , sauces etc. (in part, to set the bar low so I can achieve something and in part to help encourage my eldest to eat a slightly broader range of food).
more tattoos, including a trip somewhere to get a tattoo.
Learn to sew.
Eat more kinds of pasta, including shapes , sauces etc. (in part, to set the bar low so I can achieve something and in part to help encourage my eldest to eat a slightly broader range of food).
January 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM
New year's resolutions:
more tattoos, including a trip somewhere to get a tattoo.
Learn to sew.
Eat more kinds of pasta, including shapes , sauces etc. (in part, to set the bar low so I can achieve something and in part to help encourage my eldest to eat a slightly broader range of food).
more tattoos, including a trip somewhere to get a tattoo.
Learn to sew.
Eat more kinds of pasta, including shapes , sauces etc. (in part, to set the bar low so I can achieve something and in part to help encourage my eldest to eat a slightly broader range of food).
So I got quite sick, and wasn't able to focus on reading very much, and didn't keep track of what I did read.
Then I had a baby late in the year and during the endless night feeds I read 6 dungeon crawler carl books. I'll try keep better track in the new year!
Then I had a baby late in the year and during the endless night feeds I read 6 dungeon crawler carl books. I'll try keep better track in the new year!
September reading wrap up: no photos for this one as I've mostly been editing my own novel and Beta reading a novel for my friend, neither of which are published (yet!).
But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅
But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅
August reading wrap up
January 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
So I got quite sick, and wasn't able to focus on reading very much, and didn't keep track of what I did read.
Then I had a baby late in the year and during the endless night feeds I read 6 dungeon crawler carl books. I'll try keep better track in the new year!
Then I had a baby late in the year and during the endless night feeds I read 6 dungeon crawler carl books. I'll try keep better track in the new year!
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#spéirghorm Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh! 🥂🍾
December 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#spéirghorm Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh! 🥂🍾
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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The Google AI search results are a bit like an Irish person giving directions. They might not know the answer but they're happy to give it a go and guess along with you.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Google AI search results are a bit like an Irish person giving directions. They might not know the answer but they're happy to give it a go and guess along with you.
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Wonder if he's ever said this about homelessness. ##speirgorm
Immigration numbers are too high. We have to listen to the people in this country. The increase is too high.
- Simon Harris, via @news.rte.ie
Welcomed by Aontu.
Matt Carty says SF has been saying this for some time.
- Simon Harris, via @news.rte.ie
Welcomed by Aontu.
Matt Carty says SF has been saying this for some time.
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Wonder if he's ever said this about homelessness. ##speirgorm
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This bears repeating.
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This bears repeating.
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❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
September reading wrap up: no photos for this one as I've mostly been editing my own novel and Beta reading a novel for my friend, neither of which are published (yet!).
But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅
But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅
August reading wrap up
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
September reading wrap up: no photos for this one as I've mostly been editing my own novel and Beta reading a novel for my friend, neither of which are published (yet!).
But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅
But I sure did START reading a lot of different things, now I just need to finish something 😅
August reading wrap up
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
August reading wrap up
Just gave the 3-year-old a "disco bath" - we turned the lights down, put glow sticks in the bath and I played maniac 2000 from my phone. Everyone had fun, definitely recommend it.
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Just gave the 3-year-old a "disco bath" - we turned the lights down, put glow sticks in the bath and I played maniac 2000 from my phone. Everyone had fun, definitely recommend it.
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The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:
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Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.
Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd
We’d love to hear from you.
stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...
Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd
We’d love to hear from you.
stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.
Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd
We’d love to hear from you.
stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...
Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd
We’d love to hear from you.
stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...
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It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
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Q. Can you vote in the Presidential election next month?
A. Of course I can. I always vote.
Q. Are you on the Register?
A. Why wouldn't I be?
*Checks Register. Name absent*
Q. Who erased me?
*Applies to be registerred*
There are only a few days left to register.
A. Of course I can. I always vote.
Q. Are you on the Register?
A. Why wouldn't I be?
*Checks Register. Name absent*
Q. Who erased me?
*Applies to be registerred*
There are only a few days left to register.
September 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Q. Can you vote in the Presidential election next month?
A. Of course I can. I always vote.
Q. Are you on the Register?
A. Why wouldn't I be?
*Checks Register. Name absent*
Q. Who erased me?
*Applies to be registerred*
There are only a few days left to register.
A. Of course I can. I always vote.
Q. Are you on the Register?
A. Why wouldn't I be?
*Checks Register. Name absent*
Q. Who erased me?
*Applies to be registerred*
There are only a few days left to register.
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To paraphrase David Graeber: The ultimate hidden truth of society is that it is something we make, and can just as easily make different.
September 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
To paraphrase David Graeber: The ultimate hidden truth of society is that it is something we make, and can just as easily make different.
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FFFG is complicit by STILL not passing the OTB, by STILL allowing arms through SNN & Irish airspace, by STILL not legislating to stop the central bank from validating genocide bonds, by STILL not stepping away from the EU's complicity to take action.
Spitting in the face of our own famine history
Spitting in the face of our own famine history
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
FFFG is complicit by STILL not passing the OTB, by STILL allowing arms through SNN & Irish airspace, by STILL not legislating to stop the central bank from validating genocide bonds, by STILL not stepping away from the EU's complicity to take action.
Spitting in the face of our own famine history
Spitting in the face of our own famine history
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You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week.
The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.
The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week.
The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.
The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.