Antiqueight
@antiqueight.bsky.social
I don't remember what I said over there. Here I am really just me to people who know who I am already.
Pronounced Auntie Kate
She/Her Engineer Irish
History, Feminist, STEM, Wikipedia & SFF
Pronounced Auntie Kate
She/Her Engineer Irish
History, Feminist, STEM, Wikipedia & SFF
The dog just woke me up for apparently no reason.
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The dog just woke me up for apparently no reason.
@kithrup.bsky.social Just checking you are above the water.....
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@kithrup.bsky.social Just checking you are above the water.....
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I am actually increasingly pissed off at a panel I'm watching for a panel about Smart Tech at work.
4 people on the panel. Global audience.
4 white guys.
Right.....
4 people on the panel. Global audience.
4 white guys.
Right.....
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I am actually increasingly pissed off at a panel I'm watching for a panel about Smart Tech at work.
4 people on the panel. Global audience.
4 white guys.
Right.....
4 people on the panel. Global audience.
4 white guys.
Right.....
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is an amazing photo.
Presidents past and present 🇮🇪
President Connolly was joined at the Áras by her predecessors Mary McAleese, Michael D Higgins and Mary Robinson.
President Connolly was joined at the Áras by her predecessors Mary McAleese, Michael D Higgins and Mary Robinson.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is an amazing photo.
Ah Family tree discoveries - who is it you say - my mother's Grandmother's cousin's husband's aunt ... right.... ok....
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Ah Family tree discoveries - who is it you say - my mother's Grandmother's cousin's husband's aunt ... right.... ok....
This is a harrowing piece, but what I loved was that the journalist who 'used' this child as a focus for the original piece stayed a major part of his life and never gave up on him.
They could have walked away. They never did.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
They could have walked away. They never did.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong
The long read: I knew he was running away from something. It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered the truth
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is a harrowing piece, but what I loved was that the journalist who 'used' this child as a focus for the original piece stayed a major part of his life and never gave up on him.
They could have walked away. They never did.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
They could have walked away. They never did.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What's on my mind today?
The deafening silence
With flags unfurled
2 minutes to remember
The wars of the world
The deafening silence
With flags unfurled
2 minutes to remember
The wars of the world
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
What's on my mind today?
The deafening silence
With flags unfurled
2 minutes to remember
The wars of the world
The deafening silence
With flags unfurled
2 minutes to remember
The wars of the world
I score, at most, 1. (Number 9....though I suspect I tried it at least once in my room)
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I score, at most, 1. (Number 9....though I suspect I tried it at least once in my room)
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World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Does anyone here know what an irish celtic anvil would have looked like - one Bridget might have used?
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Does anyone here know what an irish celtic anvil would have looked like - one Bridget might have used?
dag nab it - not only did I get no lunch today I got back to this email "after we recently spoke, I passed on the information to executive management and what can I say - you are practically being showered with praise"
-> "Well done! The message "Positive Feedback" was part of a training simulation"
-> "Well done! The message "Positive Feedback" was part of a training simulation"
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
dag nab it - not only did I get no lunch today I got back to this email "after we recently spoke, I passed on the information to executive management and what can I say - you are practically being showered with praise"
-> "Well done! The message "Positive Feedback" was part of a training simulation"
-> "Well done! The message "Positive Feedback" was part of a training simulation"
9a. Realising there is a difference between " If you can write a thousand words a day" and " If you can write a thousand words in a day". Being able to repeat it daily for 60 days is a whole other skill.
9. If you can write a thousand words a day, you can write a 60,000 word first draft in two months.
10. Whatever the field of endeavour - gardening, writing, PowerPoint, Gaeilge, cooking - if a list of advice is mostly "don'ts", it's shit.
11. Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
10. Whatever the field of endeavour - gardening, writing, PowerPoint, Gaeilge, cooking - if a list of advice is mostly "don'ts", it's shit.
11. Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
9a. Realising there is a difference between " If you can write a thousand words a day" and " If you can write a thousand words in a day". Being able to repeat it daily for 60 days is a whole other skill.
Success is Preparation+Opportunity+Luck. And the greatest of these is Luck. Without luck you can have all the other two in the world and go nowhere.
You can even gain success with "just" opportunity+luck.
Opportunity is often based on privilege of some shape and can be replaced by 'Luck'
You can even gain success with "just" opportunity+luck.
Opportunity is often based on privilege of some shape and can be replaced by 'Luck'
'Luck' often comes up in How I Got Published stories. In a non-writing white male success story I recently saw luck defined as preparation+opportunity. My immediate reaction was 'yes, we all have to do the work but opportunity isn't equally distributed'. This is exactly the sort of thing I mean.
The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Success is Preparation+Opportunity+Luck. And the greatest of these is Luck. Without luck you can have all the other two in the world and go nowhere.
You can even gain success with "just" opportunity+luck.
Opportunity is often based on privilege of some shape and can be replaced by 'Luck'
You can even gain success with "just" opportunity+luck.
Opportunity is often based on privilege of some shape and can be replaced by 'Luck'
So those most likely to be held at fault for the perception of a dangerous city center are actually most likely to be victims of what crime there is...
The survey results also suggest that people with darker skin are over-represented among people who've been victims of crime in Dublin city centre. 7/
People with darker skin over-represented among crime victims, new survey suggests
The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
So those most likely to be held at fault for the perception of a dangerous city center are actually most likely to be victims of what crime there is...
Entirely apart* from the various bigotries or other, I find her descriptions of school kids to be creepy.... I don't think she meant them to be creepy... but they are....
*others better qualified comment on those
*others better qualified comment on those
The BBC and The Times have decided to resurrect the victimhood of Clanchy. But the facts are the facts: Clanchy wrote her racist, Islamophobic, ableist, and Anti-LGBT thoughts for all to see, and when challenged attempted to deny it. (See full 🧵).
bsky.app/profile/snig...
bsky.app/profile/snig...
I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Entirely apart* from the various bigotries or other, I find her descriptions of school kids to be creepy.... I don't think she meant them to be creepy... but they are....
*others better qualified comment on those
*others better qualified comment on those
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I hate it how everyone wants you to use their app! And then claim whatever you are trying to do will be easier on the app. Fuck off! Let me use a web page!!
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I hate it how everyone wants you to use their app! And then claim whatever you are trying to do will be easier on the app. Fuck off! Let me use a web page!!
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It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
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I cannot recommend this series highly enough. Heart of Stone is the first novel, but there is so much more in this wonderful world, and I'm so glad they are being released again. Buy this book, and the one after it, and the one after that...
It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I cannot recommend this series highly enough. Heart of Stone is the first novel, but there is so much more in this wonderful world, and I'm so glad they are being released again. Buy this book, and the one after it, and the one after that...
Someone bring me chocolate plz...
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Someone bring me chocolate plz...
A child bride faces execution in Iran for the killing of her abusive husband unless she can raise 10bn tomans (about £80,000) to pay off the victim’s family by a December
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’
Goli Kouhkan, 25, on death row for seven years for killing her abusive husband, has until December to settle with the victim’s family
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A child bride faces execution in Iran for the killing of her abusive husband unless she can raise 10bn tomans (about £80,000) to pay off the victim’s family by a December
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
It was just over 20 years ago now that I did the tour of my house and decided to put in a bid. Between a slow process and an upcoming holiday it took til after the new year before it was all finalised.
Kids from the area I first met are ALL GROWN UP. They are 26-40 now. They have kids. It's so weird
Kids from the area I first met are ALL GROWN UP. They are 26-40 now. They have kids. It's so weird
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It was just over 20 years ago now that I did the tour of my house and decided to put in a bid. Between a slow process and an upcoming holiday it took til after the new year before it was all finalised.
Kids from the area I first met are ALL GROWN UP. They are 26-40 now. They have kids. It's so weird
Kids from the area I first met are ALL GROWN UP. They are 26-40 now. They have kids. It's so weird