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Claudia Dalby
@claudiadalby.bsky.social
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writer, teacher, (former?) journalist
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Really delighted to see @claudiadalby.bsky.social in Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025/Speculative Fiction, for a short story she wrote on my course @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. It was a brilliant story in the first flourish onto the page, and evidently got to publication with minor redrafting. Fab!
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Treat to randomly spot Rhasidat Adeleke winning silver in China on the gym television
May 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Talking to an AI customer service bot inspires a really unique frustration. It's like being locked in the bathroom and the only people outside the door are a two year old and a goldfish in a bowl
April 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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...
‘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 10:03 AM
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"Back to my own life! Back to my own life!" this is my post-hour-long-social-media-stalk-of-people-I-hardly-know chant
April 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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the more I write my book the more I realise that I am writing a book
April 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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sineadgleeson.bsky.social
The exhibition runs until August 10th. Have written about here: momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-artisti... @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social
On artistic friendships: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone
​I've been an admirer of Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone since I first encountered their work in Dublin’s National Gallery as a teenager.
momentsofrecognition.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I just saw a White Lotus finale spoiler but I'm pretending to not understand its full meaning. Pretending to have poor reading comprehension
April 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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thanks google AI overview
March 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The greatest book….how indebted I am to The Years
seventydys.bsky.social David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Mar 30
Silence and solitude

Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Years’
Silence and solitude, he repeated; silence and solitude. His eyes half closed themselves. He was tired; he was dazed; people talked; people talked. He would detach himself, generalize him-self, imagine that he was lying in a great space on a blue plain with hills on the rim of the horizon. He stretched out his feet. There were the sheep cropping; slowly tearing the grass; advancing first one stiff leg and then another. And babbling - babbling. He made no sense of what they were saying. Through his half-open eyes he saw hands holding flowers - thin hands, fine hands; but hands that belonged to no one. And were they flowers the hands held? Or mountains? Blue mountains with violet shadows? Then petals fell. Pink, yellow, white with violet shadows, the petals fell. They fall and fall and over all, he murmured. And there was the stem of a wine-glass; the rim of a plate; and a bowl of water. The hands went on picking up flower after flower; that was a white rose; that was a yellow rose; that was a rose with violet valleys in its petals. There they hung, many folded, many coloured, drooping over the rim of the bowl. And petals fell. There they lay, violet and yellow, little shallops, boats on a river. And he was floating, and drifting, in a shallop, in a petal, down a river into silence, into soli-tude... which is the worst torture, the words came back to him as if a voice had spoken them, that human beings can inflict ...
March 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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my body told me not to have seconds yet now I feel so much better after ignoring it and having seconds. stop lying to me!!
March 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
It's estimated that $150 billion would eradicate world hunger by 2030
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · Feb 16
Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR.

aftermath.site/meta-horizons-...
February 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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kitdewaal.com
Great prize here for writers who are also carers.

Please share :)
bookwormvaught.bsky.social BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · Jan 21
So please talk about it. Share the site link, tell people it's free to enter and all they need is on the site, along with the entry criteria - the definition of the unpaid carer role. thecuraeprize.uk Be part of it, offer to add to the bursaries, but mainly spread the word. #Curae
The Curae Prize
A writing prize - just for writers who are also carers
thecuraeprize.uk
February 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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you're allowed to watch the kendrick lamar halftime show on repeat twelve times in a row . yes you actually actually are
February 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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there has been an alarm going off all morning :)
February 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes.

There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.

Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Been thinking about this line all weekend

Edna O’Brien, The Love Object
February 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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dublininquirer.com
Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...
Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech - Dublin Inquirer
Why’s this new social media network different? What does it mean to be able to pick your own algorithm, instead of having Musk or Zuckerberg pick for you?
dublininquirer.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It took getting to season five of Mad Men for me to finally almost maybe nearly want an office job again
January 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
"Then, aged thirty, I took an evening course at the Irish Writers Centre, where I was encouraged to take my writing seriously for the first time."

Thanks Roisín O'Donnell! Great to learn our courses helped you on your writing journey. Read about Roisín's debut #Nesting 🔽

image.ie/living/page-...
Page Turners: ‘Nesting’ author Roisín O’Donnell | IMAGE.ie
Here, we sit down with Roisín O’Donnell to discuss how magical fiction can be crafted from the most ordinary of surroundings.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Still incredibly cool to me that this was made!
emmet.quiddity.ie Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · Jan 22
The original inspiration for the neighbourhood mapping project was this @claudiadalby.bsky.social article (dublininquirer.com/2021/09/29/i...) and this animation by the late Nick Perry (@historyofstokey.bsky.social) of 80 people's drawings of the boundaries of Stoke Newington...
January 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Oscar 4 Timmy
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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just left several WhatsApp groups I have never contributed to
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM