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Stephanie Rains 🪼

@acidrains.bsky.social

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Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 10h

Well that’s the first time I’ve seen a Princess Di in memoriam post right next to an nsfw fetish selfie 🤣

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 10h

Mr Ben’s career seems to have taken a bit of a turn in recent years. I guess you have to pay for all that costume hire somehow.

Poster at a train station, advertising something called Mr Ben’s Casino

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 13h

This is it - you kinda cupped it in your hand and that snapped it shut by clenching your fist. It was VERY satisfying!

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 13h

Me too! I was a bit vague about him cos you know, Sport Boy, but thought he was basically ok. Apparently we were wrong

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently that is v real - they stick in a very emphatic way, I think only chemicals move them. The signal failures are what I don’t understand!

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 14h

No, this just happens *all the time*. Autumn leaf fall doesn’t help, but it’s just the norm 🤷‍♀️

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 14h

Endless “train failures” and several major signal failures.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 14h

This happened exactly the same in semester 1 last year too. I never know how long it’s going to take me to get to work and I don’t know when I’ll be home. It’s REALLY stressful.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 14h

has there been a single day in the last fortnight when the dart/Maynooth line has run any semblance of a timetable? 🤯

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

So YOU’RE what’s been happening to the Maynooth trains for the last couple of weeks?!

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

These were all in my school library. And I can still see why I found most of them quite unsettling! They seem a v different affect from most of the other Ladybird illustrations (perhaps fittingly, cos a lot of fairytales are also quite unsettling!)

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

And she attended the hearing. That we should all have that woman’s strength and courage.

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

especially important given it starts at age 16, so not even just higher education!

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

Good work!!

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

The British Pathe title card for this film of the 1920 burning of Cork describes it as a “mystery fire” 🤔

Ireland’s Agony

The Burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of December 11th and 12th 1920 during the Irish War of Independence. It followed

ifiarchiveplayer.ie

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 1d

When I’m out running at 6.15am in perfectly quiet streets, I sometimes encounter people out walking their dog while having a loud chat on their phone (“so what I said to her was…”) and I just don’t know WHY??!

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

a black and gray long-haired yorkiepoo sits at a desk in a university classroom. a piece of paper lays on the desk in front of her, her paws propped up on the desk as if she's bracing herself. there are students in the background hunched over and working on paper in front of them. the pup looks at the camera with a concerned side eye. she's realizing she probably should have read some of the homework before eating it.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

Whomst amongst us, etc etc 🤣

our shared future
our shared future
A still from the original video showing the Reichstag in Berlin, and the new video with Belfast City Hall.
Heather Humphreys removes campaign video mistaking Belfast for Berlin
A shot of the Reichstag in Berlin appeared to have been included in the video instead of Belfast City Hall.

HEATHER HUMPHREYS HAS taken down a campaign video after a shot of the Reichstag in Berlin appeared to have been included instead of Belfast City Hall.

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 2d

Fax spam!! 😮

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely more efficient, I’m not *totally* convinced about the mess 😬

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

And most of the world doesn’t have them - I’ve lived in 3 countries and never had a credit score

Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

I have some questions about the logistics of repeatedly throwing someone under a bus. Do you pick them up yourself so you can throw them the second time, or…?

The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: “He was repeatedly thrown under the bus”

@fionnansheahan on how the Fianna Fáil leadership handled Jim Gavin’s withdrawal from the presidential race.

Watch the full debate here: https://f.mtr.cool/tqgzqhruyo
#TonightVMTV | @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 3d

Hearing reports of Jim Gavin canvassers in the Wicklow mountains who are refusing to surrender.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 3d

The eternal feline fear of missing something.

Two cats on a windowsill peering out of the window, very nosily!

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 5d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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