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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 3h

I should re-read Hamilton by Catherine Cookson.

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Denise Murray/Donnacha Ní Mhuireadhaigh @mousketeer.bsky.social · 9h

Well, this isn't concerning at all.
The biggest cause of deaths in Ireland between the 1880s and 1950s.
The slow moving droplet disease that thrives in poverty and overcrowding.
In 1949 a policy of universal vaccination was introduced, but ceased in 2015.

#SpéirGhorm

Ireland's TB care centre says it cannot meet current or future demand as cases soar

HSE data shows there were 289 TB cases in Ireland last year, the highest since 2018

www.irishexaminer.com

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 3h

I've started on my birthday present! It's a restoration project. Someone else did the sanding down the old paint, outdoors, earlier today. I started painting.

Visually cluttered image but the important part is a patterned plastic tablecloth on which is a cast iron Singer Sewing Machine Table Treadle Base in a mix of orange and beige and pale blue paint, rusty and sanded down in parts to the underlying metal.

The same treadle base, turned upside down so the foot pedal is at the top

The upside down treadle base, from the back, partially painted dark green

The upside down treadle base, from the front, mostly painted dark green

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 7h

Oh NO that's kind of worse. On a personal level, anyway.

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 10h

Is this like setting a guard on the potatoes so they got stolen and the population learned to love them?

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d

How do you do, fellow cats?

Middle aged woman dressed like the Steve Buscemi How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? meme, holding a cat

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 23h

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. A strange-looking alien with artificial antennae made from tin foil emerged.

"Greetings, Earthlings!! We come in..." It consulted a device. "In trick or treat?"

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 22h

No it doesn't say that, no autism isn't an illness as @kathryndeplume.com below says. Where are the science journalists who actually understand results sections? Covid infection is bad full-stop but this study does not show a link to autism. And it's also damaging to the autistic community.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Researchers say Covid infection during pregnancy is tied to autism

www.independent.co.uk

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 21h

Oh ugh, I'm glad you saw it coming

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Reweth 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🐦‍⬛ @birb.mom · 22h

Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons telling his parents "two vast and trunkless legs of stone were in the desert and I saw their shattered visage and the visage told me to look upon its works and despair"

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Allow us to turn off the reposts of individuals.
Allow us to turn off the reposts of individuals.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 1d

Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.

We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky

Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...

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pere uwu @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 1d

Well FUCK.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

Bill 94 has passed in Quebec.

Students and staff will have to attend school with their faces uncovered. Menus adapted to religious restrictions will be prohibited. Absences or leave granted to staff for religious celebrations also gone. montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/q...

Religious symbols ban: Quebec passes law to prevent students, staff from covering their faces

The Legault government passed Bill 94 on Thursday, aimed at strengthening secularism in the Quebec school system. From now on, students will have to attend school with their faces uncovered, as will v...

montreal.citynews.ca

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 1d

Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns.

Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com

Please share widely!

Purple background, white text, which says Mrs Palm is an interesting Discworld character, as is the historical context her story references. Discworld's foremost witch, Granny Weatherwax, describes Mrs Palm as "almost a witch."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

many people absolutely do seem to believe that women are inherently bourgeois

basically, they view women as luxury objects more than they view them as people

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 1d

(Whisper.) Are women bourgeois?

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 1d

That's terrifying neglect from the school

Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 1d

SCHISM

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grimm 🍂 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2d

"People are getting free food and they might not deserve it!" who gives a shit man literally one of the unambiguously good things about the 21st century is we have lots of excess food production and we have the capacity to have hunger be significantly less important in decision making.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

With huge thanks to my friend Patrick for spotting this.

The new MGM Robin Hood series.

Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...

...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!

Crying!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#Archaeology 🏺

Sean Bean resting on his arm while eating. His cloak is fastened with a horse bit!!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

I haven’t posted about my Enchroma glasses much lately, but I have to say that autumn is a *different season* with colorblind correction.

All those leaves are deep red & bright orange, not slightly different shades of brown.

I get it now. It’s very nice.

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 1d

Well??!

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 1d

Henry VIII couldn't get an annulment.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

PARENTS BE VIGILANT check your kids' Halloween sweets, I just found two vast and trunkless legs of stone in an eternal king of kings wrapper 😠

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Joseph Fink, no longer spooky 🍂🦃 @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

data point: at my daughter's school, the halloween parade had countless kpop demon hunters and only 3 Elsas. A new era has dawned.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

early elementary school report: kpop demon hunters has at last dethroned elsa as the costume of choice for little girls

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 1d

If you cannot see children trick-or-treating, maybe consider not driving tonight?

A photograph with children trick-or-treating with text overlaid saying "If you can't see them then you're not paying attention". (Image by @tomflood.bsky.social for @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social but it applies worldwide)

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #Halloween! A few years ago, midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Lancashire created "dilation pumpkins" - and I don't think I've ever seen anything scarier in my life.* 😂😩

*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.

Pumpkins with googly eyes and mouths - the sizes of which correspondence to different dilations.

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