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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh

@andreacannady.bsky.social

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Former ED+ NASA writer. Loves cats, feminist humour, LeGuin, Russell's teapot, veganism, Pratchett,humanism,misplaced modifiers,Traitors Ireland- Siobhán, Oyin 💚. Choir. Interrupt cruelty. Inspire laughter. Be kind. #SpéirGorm #Booksky #Resist

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Nov 19

#booksky, I'm looking for book recommendations!
Queer MCs welcome.
* Feminist humour
* Irish feminist
* Irish fantasy /sci-fi
I'm searching for the lovechild of Terry Pratchett and Octavia Butler. I love "Nnedi" Okorafor and Ursula LeGuin. I loved "Prophet Song," but I need +uplifting+ now. ♥️

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · 13h

They're decorating the current "cat room." It's going to be a guest room eventually, but for now, the cats have it for themselves.

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · 13h

I admit. I stuck to working on a watercolour of a heron instead.
They're still murderous bastards, though? Watch one kill a fish sometime, like. They're gorgeous but terrifying.

Just a few beginning watercolor streaks of a heron

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · 2d

I read"Three Little Birds" as fast as possible... Loved it so much. and now I really want to do facial reconstruction sculpture in my art class tomorrow. My beginner art class. I... Don't think my teacher will appreciate this... 😆

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · 12d

I love Oyin and Vanessa so much! And Siobhán. 💚

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · 12d

This rook landed on our cafe table and helped herself to my daughter's leftover baked beans. I'm in love with corvids. I want to befriend them. 😊

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · 12d

I just moved to Cork from the USA and I love love love Traitors and Oyin and
Siobhán and the pagan stuff and Christine and the ogham stones and the cupla focal and Every! damn! thing! about that show and the people. And the wolfhounds.

But yes...I want everyone to see it.

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Sep 2

This was a good reminder to re -request @samblakebooks.bsky.social Three Little Birds in Carrigaline. 😁

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yeah. This actually sounds good now.

Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · Sep 2

BRO. THAT’S THE BOOK. THAT’S LITERALLY THE BOOK. WHAT THE FUCK.

Duncan MacMaster The Sweetheart of the Internet @duncanwriter.bsky.social · Sep 2

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.

Oh my.

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you again for the prints of my cats! I'm finally unpacking our shipping container and I'll be hanging up the "cat art" soon!
Hope you evaded the flooding. 🤞

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just tried "Juicy marbles" vegan "filet" tonight with some teriyaki and sesame seeds, and dang... It's good. The texture is nice, and the flavour was mild. No weird seasoning that made me wonder what it was (it's just soy and beet juice). Yummy.

A pinkish, stringy food seems to be beef

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'll see you there, stranger. I've just moved to Cork and discovered IDWCON from my former neighbours in the US. this will be my first DW Con. No idea what to expect.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 9

Well said, Mo Salah.

Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

Mo Salah respond to a post by UEFA with:

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

The UEFA post reads:

Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'.

A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Aug 7

Walking down the Carrigaline to Crosshaven greenway today but feeling homesick for friends and family

Low tide mud across a harbour with green hedges in front

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · Jul 27

The arrival of amazon.ie has vacuumed billions already from the local market. Shop small, shop local. Kenny's is a great bookshop, Liber in Sligo and Chapters in Dublin too.

Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · Jul 27

We don’t just keep saying this because it affects us and we love working in a bookshop, living, breathing, talking, lugging books -

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Why supporting indie Irish bookshops matters in the age of Amazon

The message was stark but indisputable. "Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon.ie, both online and in the high street," said Kenny's bookshop on Instagram.

www.rte.ie

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Jul 23

found out on Irish media that you, like us, have recently moved to IE. We're down in Cork. My kiddo is 11... Couldn't get into any of the ET schools around here but found a great school anyway. Happily astounded at how very welcoming they are....so much in common with ye. Glad we're all here.

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Jul 23

I haven't seen Space Cat yet in Ireland, but I did walk by Death of the Author in the village library a couple of days ago. ♥️

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 23

NEW: Israelis have marched through the capital Tel Aviv demanding an end to the starvation of Gaza.

Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.

A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Jul 13

We're back in Ireland.
it's gloriously sunny and hot outside: Good hot. Maybe 23°C / 75°F . It's indoors that's kinda stuffy, because there's no air con. But I'll take it. So nice in contrast to Maryland's 90° days with high humidity and dictatorship....

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · Jul 4

I'm looking forward to visiting this little grocery store again.

quaycoop.com share.google/MRJ6aBG6mGA2...

Quay Co-op

We are out delivering to Cork City and surrounding suburbs and can offer a next day delivery that features a wide range of health food, organic

quaycoop.com

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Cork Safety Alerts @corksafetyalerts.com · May 27

Cork libraries now open 8am-10pm daily! New My Open Library service launches at Carrigaline, Kinsale & Mallow with 145% more opening hours for the community. csalert.ie/4jjpy6P

Cork County Council Extends Library Opening Hours with New Technology Service

Cork libraries now open 8am-10pm daily! New My Open Library service launches at Carrigaline, Kinsale & Mallow with 145% more opening hours for the community.

csalert.ie

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · May 22

Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Too late, judge, but thanks, I guess.

Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling Education Department

www.nytimes.com

🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🩶AndreUh @andreacannady.bsky.social · May 19

Ben folds improvises with an entire symphony orchestra

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Apr 30

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines”
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

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