Katie McDermott
@katiemcd.bsky.social
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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.
Had a lovely Saturday writing in Rossnari house with a view of Newgrange from my seat
August 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Had a lovely Saturday writing in Rossnari house with a view of Newgrange from my seat
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Remember when we hounded & harassed kids who put books online for public educational access?
Or the music geeks we threw in jail for sharing mp3s?
It’s all just “oopsie” now?
His product can only ever be profitable if we continue to allow him to steal the commons & sell it back to us.
Or the music geeks we threw in jail for sharing mp3s?
It’s all just “oopsie” now?
His product can only ever be profitable if we continue to allow him to steal the commons & sell it back to us.
August 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Remember when we hounded & harassed kids who put books online for public educational access?
Or the music geeks we threw in jail for sharing mp3s?
It’s all just “oopsie” now?
His product can only ever be profitable if we continue to allow him to steal the commons & sell it back to us.
Or the music geeks we threw in jail for sharing mp3s?
It’s all just “oopsie” now?
His product can only ever be profitable if we continue to allow him to steal the commons & sell it back to us.
Introduced the three-year-old to 'My Neighbor Totoro' today. She loved it, but especially the soot gremlins or "spud gremlins" as she kept calling them. Studio Ghibli, but for culchie kids 😅
August 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Introduced the three-year-old to 'My Neighbor Totoro' today. She loved it, but especially the soot gremlins or "spud gremlins" as she kept calling them. Studio Ghibli, but for culchie kids 😅
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This is what the phrase “wiping them off the face of the Earth” actually looks like. Devastating aerial footage of the literal annihilation of #Gaza by Israel, truly one of the worst war crimes of the last century.
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is what the phrase “wiping them off the face of the Earth” actually looks like. Devastating aerial footage of the literal annihilation of #Gaza by Israel, truly one of the worst war crimes of the last century.
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Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social)
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social)
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
July reading wrap up
August 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
July reading wrap up
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This is the thing about self-pub and now even trad-pub (if things go that way.) I have five kids. I have some chronic illnesses. The time I do have at my disposal should be for the writing portion of the gig. If I have to try and go viral on TikTok? If I have to have an aesthetic on Instagram? Oof.
Of course the irony is, a lot of publishers leaned hard into the "no, YOU do it" marketing plan of "having authors post on social media," which was never ever going to be a substitute for a publisher's efforts to move copies. But it was free for them and work for us, sooooo. *whistles*
August 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is the thing about self-pub and now even trad-pub (if things go that way.) I have five kids. I have some chronic illnesses. The time I do have at my disposal should be for the writing portion of the gig. If I have to try and go viral on TikTok? If I have to have an aesthetic on Instagram? Oof.