laura-blaise
@blaisinsquad.bsky.social
she/her | represented by zoë waldie at RCW | #EndDP | 🇵🇸🫀🔮🌙
had such a lovely time reading at @dinglelit.bsky.social last weekend as part of the shirt story showcase ✨❤️
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
had such a lovely time reading at @dinglelit.bsky.social last weekend as part of the shirt story showcase ✨❤️
looking forward to heading down to @dinglelit.bsky.social tomorrow morning. catch me and the other short story folk at 4.30. you can read my winning story here 🐍🌊 dinglelit.ie/shortstory/t...
'The Next World' by Laura-Blaise McDowell
It is winter and Ava is sitting at the bottom of her family’s swimming pool, surrounded by leaves. In front of her is the body of a red squirrel and at the other end of the pool is a snake, shifting l...
dinglelit.ie
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
looking forward to heading down to @dinglelit.bsky.social tomorrow morning. catch me and the other short story folk at 4.30. you can read my winning story here 🐍🌊 dinglelit.ie/shortstory/t...
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First the orcas, now the foxes. The animals are rising.
Residents of a south Dublin housing estate are trying to uncover the cause of damage to around 40 cars which has resulted in repair bills totalling tens of thousands of euro
Foxes in south Dublin estate accused of damaging cars
Residents of a south Dublin housing estate are trying to uncover the cause of damage to around 40 cars which has resulted in repair bills of totalling tens of thousands of euro.
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
First the orcas, now the foxes. The animals are rising.
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If you’re looking to help a family who hasn’t raised much Reham has raised under $500 and hasn’t had a donation in almost a month ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Reham. Reham is the primary caregiver for her 3 children Joan, 7, Emad, 6 and Kenan, 4. Her husband has a chronic illness and unfortunately cannot help much. They recently were able to return to their home but found it completely destroyed.
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you’re looking to help a family who hasn’t raised much Reham has raised under $500 and hasn’t had a donation in almost a month ❤️
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IT’S FUCKING CHESS
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
June 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
IT’S FUCKING CHESS
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
Really happy to have won this years English language short story competition at @dinglelit.bsky.social 💚 thank you to John Patrick McHugh and all at Dingle Lit ✨
May 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Really happy to have won this years English language short story competition at @dinglelit.bsky.social 💚 thank you to John Patrick McHugh and all at Dingle Lit ✨
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#NewMusic: SAOL – Fool’s Gold. A powerful argument against falling for liars that want us to hate, not think. Read more on the @analoguetrash.com #musicblog 🖤
www.analoguetrash.com/blog/saol-fo...
www.analoguetrash.com/blog/saol-fo...
May 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#NewMusic: SAOL – Fool’s Gold. A powerful argument against falling for liars that want us to hate, not think. Read more on the @analoguetrash.com #musicblog 🖤
www.analoguetrash.com/blog/saol-fo...
www.analoguetrash.com/blog/saol-fo...
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SAOL - 'Fool's Gold'
Fool's Gold
SAOL · Fool's Gold · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
SAOL - 'Fool's Gold'
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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These ladies do amazing work that is sadly in more demand than ever
If you can, please throw a few Euros their way.
If you can, please throw a few Euros their way.
Please donate and remember it could easily be you at the end of the queue through no fault of your own.
May 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
These ladies do amazing work that is sadly in more demand than ever
If you can, please throw a few Euros their way.
If you can, please throw a few Euros their way.
new music Friday from an amazing new Irish act, SAOL 🪄 open.spotify.com/track/1uY4cV...
Fool's Gold
SAOL · Fool's Gold · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
new music Friday from an amazing new Irish act, SAOL 🪄 open.spotify.com/track/1uY4cV...
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them
There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
‘My son was killed in front of my eyes. Three bullets in his chest’: Patrick Freyne in Chad’s desert camps
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris Mad...
www.irishtimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them
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A year to the day that @robin.berjon.com and my viral article was published by @latams.bsky.social at @noemamag.com I got news that
My book proposal "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in"
may just have found its dream US publisher! More news soon...
My book proposal "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in"
may just have found its dream US publisher! More news soon...
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A year to the day that @robin.berjon.com and my viral article was published by @latams.bsky.social at @noemamag.com I got news that
My book proposal "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in"
may just have found its dream US publisher! More news soon...
My book proposal "Rewild and Resist: How ecology can tame Big Tech to create a world we want to live in"
may just have found its dream US publisher! More news soon...
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If you were wondering whether outright authoritarianism and repression in the US could create a perceived permission structure for similar behaviour elsewhere, the lads have come right out and said it here.
Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Ruth Coppinger personally knew some of the protestors.
She alleged that protesters were told by gardaí: “What do you think would happen if you were outside the White House right now?”
www.thejournal.ie/mothers-agai...
She alleged that protesters were told by gardaí: “What do you think would happen if you were outside the White House right now?”
www.thejournal.ie/mothers-agai...
Women at Mothers Against Genocide Leinster House protest 'were strip-searched', Dáil hears
Eleven people in a vigil for the children and mothers of Gaza were arrested yesterday morning outside Leinster House.
www.thejournal.ie
April 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
If you were wondering whether outright authoritarianism and repression in the US could create a perceived permission structure for similar behaviour elsewhere, the lads have come right out and said it here.
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Appalling and absolutely unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Appalling and absolutely unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
March 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
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Immigration is good! It's a good thing. Immigration is not at the root of any of our problems. I'm not prepared to cede that ground, to be honest.
March 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Immigration is good! It's a good thing. Immigration is not at the root of any of our problems. I'm not prepared to cede that ground, to be honest.
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The first print issue of fallow magazine, based in Ireland and out soon, includes: Helen Charman, Oisín Fagan, Wayne Koestenbaum, Patrick Nathan, Ellen Dillon, Eva Griffin, Chris Beausang, and Greg Gerke, & interviews with Gabriel Josipovici and Pascale Sardin. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01
March 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The first print issue of fallow magazine, based in Ireland and out soon, includes: Helen Charman, Oisín Fagan, Wayne Koestenbaum, Patrick Nathan, Ellen Dillon, Eva Griffin, Chris Beausang, and Greg Gerke, & interviews with Gabriel Josipovici and Pascale Sardin. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01
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☘️🤖 new substack 🤖☘️
i'm exploring whether we're doing more harm than good by introducing irish-language AI by taking a few points into consideration:
👉 is there even enough gaeilge on the internet to train AI?
👉 could AI bastardise what irish we *do* have on the internet?
👉 protect translators ‼️
i'm exploring whether we're doing more harm than good by introducing irish-language AI by taking a few points into consideration:
👉 is there even enough gaeilge on the internet to train AI?
👉 could AI bastardise what irish we *do* have on the internet?
👉 protect translators ‼️
Mí na Gaeilge: Irish and AI? Let’s think this through…
Do we really need an Irish-language ChatGPT?
open.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
☘️🤖 new substack 🤖☘️
i'm exploring whether we're doing more harm than good by introducing irish-language AI by taking a few points into consideration:
👉 is there even enough gaeilge on the internet to train AI?
👉 could AI bastardise what irish we *do* have on the internet?
👉 protect translators ‼️
i'm exploring whether we're doing more harm than good by introducing irish-language AI by taking a few points into consideration:
👉 is there even enough gaeilge on the internet to train AI?
👉 could AI bastardise what irish we *do* have on the internet?
👉 protect translators ‼️
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Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.
Ecommerce giant Amazon goes live with dedicated Irish store
Ecommerce giant Amazon goes live with dedicated Irish store
The company said that In 2023, Irish SMEs selling on Amazon recorded over €170 million in export sales, with over half of those n export sales outside the European Union
www.businesspost.ie
March 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.