Ailbhe
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environment, sewing, books, art
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Never noticed this before. On the Latin inscription on the pediment of the Monument, is a deleted line at the bottom, hacked away.
It once read “BUT POPISH FRENZY WHICH WROUGHT SUCH HORRORS IS NOT YET QUENCHED”.
Blaming the Catholics for the fire of London. This last line was only deleted in 1830.
It once read “BUT POPISH FRENZY WHICH WROUGHT SUCH HORRORS IS NOT YET QUENCHED”.
Blaming the Catholics for the fire of London. This last line was only deleted in 1830.
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Never noticed this before. On the Latin inscription on the pediment of the Monument, is a deleted line at the bottom, hacked away.
It once read “BUT POPISH FRENZY WHICH WROUGHT SUCH HORRORS IS NOT YET QUENCHED”.
Blaming the Catholics for the fire of London. This last line was only deleted in 1830.
It once read “BUT POPISH FRENZY WHICH WROUGHT SUCH HORRORS IS NOT YET QUENCHED”.
Blaming the Catholics for the fire of London. This last line was only deleted in 1830.
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"All blows to the head and striking children in anger is completely forbidden, along with the stupid custom, used here and there in the country, of scaring children with yulelads and ghosts."
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"All blows to the head and striking children in anger is completely forbidden, along with the stupid custom, used here and there in the country, of scaring children with yulelads and ghosts."
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Here is the beginning of a royal decree from 1746 by Christian VI, the king of Denmark and Iceland, about how much people in Iceland were allowed to beat their children.
It also forbids scaring children with tales of Yulelads and ghosts.
It also forbids scaring children with tales of Yulelads and ghosts.
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here is the beginning of a royal decree from 1746 by Christian VI, the king of Denmark and Iceland, about how much people in Iceland were allowed to beat their children.
It also forbids scaring children with tales of Yulelads and ghosts.
It also forbids scaring children with tales of Yulelads and ghosts.
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Art imitates life
2025:
2025:
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Art imitates life
2025:
2025:
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Imagine being the kind of person who is happy for anyone who knows your email address to find you on social media. IMAGINE.
v1.112 is live!
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Imagine being the kind of person who is happy for anyone who knows your email address to find you on social media. IMAGINE.
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Tentacle Pot 312
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Tentacle Pot 312
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Hero.
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hero.
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US military branch officially stops classifying swastikas as hate symbols
US military branch officially stops classifying swastikas as hate symbols
www.independent.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
US military branch officially stops classifying swastikas as hate symbols
This is so layered it's an onion. Or a donkey.
South African immigration authorities raid a US refugee processing center
South African immigration authorities raid a US refugee processing center
South African immigration authorities raid a US refugee processing center
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is so layered it's an onion. Or a donkey.
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Duke of Marlborough charged with three counts of intentional strangulation
Duke of Marlborough charged with three counts of intentional strangulation
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Duke of Marlborough charged with three counts of intentional strangulation
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Facebook operator Meta has been granted High Court permission to challenge a possible fine of up to €430M that could be levied against the tech giant originating from a single complaint relating to personal data processing.
jrnl.ie/6905867
jrnl.ie/6905867
Meta gets High Court permission to challenge possible €430m fine from Data watchdog
The judge put a stay on any possible fine being levied by the DPC until next year.
jrnl.ie
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Facebook operator Meta has been granted High Court permission to challenge a possible fine of up to €430M that could be levied against the tech giant originating from a single complaint relating to personal data processing.
jrnl.ie/6905867
jrnl.ie/6905867
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A European rocket using Irish-designed technology has blasted off from France's Kourou space base in French Guiana.
Lift-off of the Ariane 6 was at 5:01 Irish time for the fourth commercial flight since the expendable rockets came into service last year.
jrnl.ie/6905991
Lift-off of the Ariane 6 was at 5:01 Irish time for the fourth commercial flight since the expendable rockets came into service last year.
jrnl.ie/6905991
Lift-off for European Space Agency rocket with Irish-designed technology
Irish space company Réaltra provides the Video Telemetry System for the rocket, while Nammo Ireland supplies components for two of the six engines.
jrnl.ie
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A European rocket using Irish-designed technology has blasted off from France's Kourou space base in French Guiana.
Lift-off of the Ariane 6 was at 5:01 Irish time for the fourth commercial flight since the expendable rockets came into service last year.
jrnl.ie/6905991
Lift-off of the Ariane 6 was at 5:01 Irish time for the fourth commercial flight since the expendable rockets came into service last year.
jrnl.ie/6905991
Well today is a bit of a crash!!!
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Well today is a bit of a crash!!!
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My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
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Alpha should bring back the Charleston just to really fuck with old timer's brains.
December 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Alpha should bring back the Charleston just to really fuck with old timer's brains.
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Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
High asylum seeker numbers are a threat to ‘social cohesion’, says Jim O’Callaghan
High asylum seeker numbers are a threat to ‘social cohesion’, says Jim O’Callaghan
Minister ‘not setting any numbers’, but says population growth is too high, putting services under pressure
www.irishtimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
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A knitted cap doesn’t look extraordinary—until you try to make one!
In this current issue of Archaeology Ireland Ryan Daniel Koenig reconstructs the sixteenth-century Ballybunion knitted cap, revealing the immense skill, time and embodied knowledge behind what was once everyday clothing.
In this current issue of Archaeology Ireland Ryan Daniel Koenig reconstructs the sixteenth-century Ballybunion knitted cap, revealing the immense skill, time and embodied knowledge behind what was once everyday clothing.
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A knitted cap doesn’t look extraordinary—until you try to make one!
In this current issue of Archaeology Ireland Ryan Daniel Koenig reconstructs the sixteenth-century Ballybunion knitted cap, revealing the immense skill, time and embodied knowledge behind what was once everyday clothing.
In this current issue of Archaeology Ireland Ryan Daniel Koenig reconstructs the sixteenth-century Ballybunion knitted cap, revealing the immense skill, time and embodied knowledge behind what was once everyday clothing.
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Happy 250th birthday to the brilliant Jane Austen! Here’s our special anniversary episode of BBC You’re Dead To Me about her life, featuring my guests @lucyworsley.bsky.social & Sally Phillips
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Jane Austen: the life of a Regency literary icon - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the life and works of literary legend Jane Austen.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy 250th birthday to the brilliant Jane Austen! Here’s our special anniversary episode of BBC You’re Dead To Me about her life, featuring my guests @lucyworsley.bsky.social & Sally Phillips
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
December 16, 2023 at 4:33 PM
*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
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Just been laughed at by an entire vet’s waiting room when the receptionist loudly welcomed me and ‘ASTEROID DESTROYER!’ to the building.
Look guys.
She’s even in her space suit.
They will be laughing on the other side of their labradors when she RULES THE WORLD!!!! ✊😾
👩🚀 ☄️🐈⬛
Look guys.
She’s even in her space suit.
They will be laughing on the other side of their labradors when she RULES THE WORLD!!!! ✊😾
👩🚀 ☄️🐈⬛
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Just been laughed at by an entire vet’s waiting room when the receptionist loudly welcomed me and ‘ASTEROID DESTROYER!’ to the building.
Look guys.
She’s even in her space suit.
They will be laughing on the other side of their labradors when she RULES THE WORLD!!!! ✊😾
👩🚀 ☄️🐈⬛
Look guys.
She’s even in her space suit.
They will be laughing on the other side of their labradors when she RULES THE WORLD!!!! ✊😾
👩🚀 ☄️🐈⬛