Nigel Quinlan
@nigellicus.bsky.social
Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.
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Nigel Quinlan
@nigellicus.bsky.social
· Feb 28
The Hungry Giant | Ember
There was no safe place in the entire world from the rain of stars. The fox fled to the one place he knew, the one place he remembered, where he had felt safe and secure and happy. He ran to the…
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My short story - you know, for kids - The Hungry Giant is up on Ember Journal if anyone wants something a bit odd and scary and sad but also hopeful to read....
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
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Periodic reminder:
If you use less gas for transportation, you help drop the value of a barrel of oil, which makes the people looking to profit off of stealing from Venezuelans, lose money.
🇻🇪♥️
Take the bus/train/bike/scooter, buy an EV, don't use gas.
If you use less gas for transportation, you help drop the value of a barrel of oil, which makes the people looking to profit off of stealing from Venezuelans, lose money.
🇻🇪♥️
Take the bus/train/bike/scooter, buy an EV, don't use gas.
Which makes invading Venezuela a much less profitable endeavor.
Venezuela either has "The most oil in the world!" Or "Not that much oil really," depending on what the price of oil is.
🙂🙃
Oil is currently near a 4 year low.
More!
Venezuela either has "The most oil in the world!" Or "Not that much oil really," depending on what the price of oil is.
🙂🙃
Oil is currently near a 4 year low.
More!
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
@Chasteen
True. It's complicated.
"How much oil does Venezuela have? And is it high or low quality?" are questions whose answer changes greatly depending on what the global price of oil is. 🤷🏿♂️
...
hachyderm.io
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Periodic reminder:
If you use less gas for transportation, you help drop the value of a barrel of oil, which makes the people looking to profit off of stealing from Venezuelans, lose money.
🇻🇪♥️
Take the bus/train/bike/scooter, buy an EV, don't use gas.
If you use less gas for transportation, you help drop the value of a barrel of oil, which makes the people looking to profit off of stealing from Venezuelans, lose money.
🇻🇪♥️
Take the bus/train/bike/scooter, buy an EV, don't use gas.
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New year's resolution to work on your writing or try something new?
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
New year's resolution to work on your writing or try something new?
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
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The very first episode of our very first TV soap Tolka Row aired on RTE #otd in 1964. It ran for five series.
It was based on the play written by Maura Laverty, a woman who had many strings to her bow: screenwriter, editor, novelist, and cookery expert.
It was based on the play written by Maura Laverty, a woman who had many strings to her bow: screenwriter, editor, novelist, and cookery expert.
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The very first episode of our very first TV soap Tolka Row aired on RTE #otd in 1964. It ran for five series.
It was based on the play written by Maura Laverty, a woman who had many strings to her bow: screenwriter, editor, novelist, and cookery expert.
It was based on the play written by Maura Laverty, a woman who had many strings to her bow: screenwriter, editor, novelist, and cookery expert.
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You know, fuck climate and fuck carbon. The fact that wars and lots of blood for oil are somehow an acceptable price to pay for energy has never ever been ok. This alone is more than enough reason to phase out fossil fuels asap.
Response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela: a fossil-fueled act of war - Oil Change International
In response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela, Elizabeth Bast, Executive Director, Oil Change International, said: “President Trump’s launch of large‑scale military strikes in Venezuela…
oilchange.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
You know, fuck climate and fuck carbon. The fact that wars and lots of blood for oil are somehow an acceptable price to pay for energy has never ever been ok. This alone is more than enough reason to phase out fossil fuels asap.
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#Discourse2000 returns with the best #2000AD story yet as Judge Dredd goes epic in a story about horror, history, Britain's idea of America and what it means to be "THE LAW" - join me for a saunter across THE CURSED EARTH
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
#Discourse2000 returns with the best #2000AD story yet as Judge Dredd goes epic in a story about horror, history, Britain's idea of America and what it means to be "THE LAW" - join me for a saunter across THE CURSED EARTH
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...
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I've got my conspiracy board out again, with loads of statements by the Healy Raes posted on it. When you put them back to back it honestly seems like they want the housing crisis to continue indefinitely. Not sure why, or how this makes sense.
Anyway, my next step is to check if they own any land.
Anyway, my next step is to check if they own any land.
Healy-Rae urges ‘serious rethink’ of planned short-term lets crackdown
Healy-Rae urges ‘serious rethink’ of planned short-term lets crackdown
Minister of State tells Taoiseach this should happen ‘before irreparable damage is done to rural Ireland’
www.irishtimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I've got my conspiracy board out again, with loads of statements by the Healy Raes posted on it. When you put them back to back it honestly seems like they want the housing crisis to continue indefinitely. Not sure why, or how this makes sense.
Anyway, my next step is to check if they own any land.
Anyway, my next step is to check if they own any land.
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the world's gone so crazy that I'd completely forgotten til reminded this week of the main Kerry news last year, that my mum's cleaner's cousin's step-son was now Number Two of the Sinaloa drug cartel
all roads lead back to the Kingdom
all roads lead back to the Kingdom
January 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
the world's gone so crazy that I'd completely forgotten til reminded this week of the main Kerry news last year, that my mum's cleaner's cousin's step-son was now Number Two of the Sinaloa drug cartel
all roads lead back to the Kingdom
all roads lead back to the Kingdom
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Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.
January 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.
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Artists as the world crumbles around us
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Artists as the world crumbles around us
We can now expect Trump to open peace talks with himself, reach a completely unworkable agreement that nonetheless lets him build a Trump Tower in Caracas, declare victory, and demand another peace prize, and the sooner he does it the better. What a world.
January 3, 2026 at 9:24 AM
We can now expect Trump to open peace talks with himself, reach a completely unworkable agreement that nonetheless lets him build a Trump Tower in Caracas, declare victory, and demand another peace prize, and the sooner he does it the better. What a world.
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Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
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"It's a tasty fish; I have nothing against it"
youtu.be/DF24lyzxFSo?...
youtu.be/DF24lyzxFSo?...
January 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"It's a tasty fish; I have nothing against it"
youtu.be/DF24lyzxFSo?...
youtu.be/DF24lyzxFSo?...
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
Winter scene
Artist: SR Badmin
Winter scene
Artist: SR Badmin
January 2, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
Winter scene
Artist: SR Badmin
Winter scene
Artist: SR Badmin
I genuinely can't articulate how atrociously wrong and awful this is.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I genuinely can't articulate how atrociously wrong and awful this is.
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‘When you call people invaders, you are calling them the enemy. That sets a tone’
‘When you call people invaders, you are calling them the enemy. That sets a tone’
UK Labour peer says home secretary is ‘unnecessarily hardline’ on asylum seekers and he doesn’t ‘denigrate’ Reform voters
www.irishtimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:19 PM
‘When you call people invaders, you are calling them the enemy. That sets a tone’
Cypress Hill: Bar Mitzvah on the chain
Bar Mitzvah on the blockchain.
Bar Mitzvah on the blockchain.
January 2, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Cypress Hill: Bar Mitzvah on the chain
Bar Mitzvah on the blockchain.
Bar Mitzvah on the blockchain.
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It’s that time again.
![Two panels from Twin peaks: the return
Top panel: What year is it?
Bottom panel: [screaming]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3jfzwj56qsjgwkjmtf7scagx/bafkreibvrdck6fgxpjey5brda43bxb6w7trpj43oipoxrjikcl6atjs6qa@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
It’s that time again.
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Mariangela Hungria developed a bacteria fertilizer that saves farmers about $25 billion and prevents 54 million cars’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions every year.
These farmers are cutting pollution and fighting hunger — with bacteria
Mariangela Hungria won the 2025 World Food Prize for her work on microbes that feed plants nitrogen, allowing farmers to slash fertilizer costs and pollution.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Mariangela Hungria developed a bacteria fertilizer that saves farmers about $25 billion and prevents 54 million cars’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions every year.
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YES MADAM is further proof that few action directors hook up their actors like Corey Yuen! The finale is an absolute all-timer punctuated by hard hitting stunts and brilliant choreography!
January 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
YES MADAM is further proof that few action directors hook up their actors like Corey Yuen! The finale is an absolute all-timer punctuated by hard hitting stunts and brilliant choreography!
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Dandelions by Sophie Grandval. 1990
January 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Dandelions by Sophie Grandval. 1990
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I'm in the process of tidying up the Bad Machinery website ready for a new year of comics, so Savage Sword of Susan gets its own little subsite. scarygoround.com/savagesword/
Scary Go Round Comics: SAVAGE SWORD OF SUSAN
A super-powered tale
scarygoround.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I'm in the process of tidying up the Bad Machinery website ready for a new year of comics, so Savage Sword of Susan gets its own little subsite. scarygoround.com/savagesword/