emma q burns [festive mode]
@betaburns.bsky.social
Mother of mongrels. Researcher: PhD political participation & disability; advocacy; DPOs; repro justice. Autistic community organiser. Lover of bogs, stray dogs and odd sods. Found at CDLP Galway or in #Tipperary. #SpéirGorm She/they/yer wan ♾️🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
@markruffalo.bsky.social Mark, you are following 135 people, what do you expect? Follow some Palestinians. Believe me they are talking about it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@markruffalo.bsky.social Mark, you are following 135 people, what do you expect? Follow some Palestinians. Believe me they are talking about it.
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No disrespect to @deanbuckley.bsky.social, who is a genuinely good journalist, but it is absolutely mental that he's the one who has had to pick up this Gareth Sheridan shit, as opposed to seeing some accountability from the much more high profile people who initially gave him positive attention
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
No disrespect to @deanbuckley.bsky.social, who is a genuinely good journalist, but it is absolutely mental that he's the one who has had to pick up this Gareth Sheridan shit, as opposed to seeing some accountability from the much more high profile people who initially gave him positive attention
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Literal years of disabled people BEGGING senators and MPs to listen to them that death would be offered before the necessary care, and they brushed us off.
Only for the obvious inevitable to happen.
We fucking told you. Multiple times.
What now?!
Only for the obvious inevitable to happen.
We fucking told you. Multiple times.
What now?!
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Literal years of disabled people BEGGING senators and MPs to listen to them that death would be offered before the necessary care, and they brushed us off.
Only for the obvious inevitable to happen.
We fucking told you. Multiple times.
What now?!
Only for the obvious inevitable to happen.
We fucking told you. Multiple times.
What now?!
The absolutely most ridiculously cute couple 🥰🤩😍🤩🥰
Totally lost track of #ResearchAdvent over the last few days, so I have a couple to catch up on.
Engagement - funnily enough, @frankiegolucky.bsky.social and I got engaged recently, and I'm afraid that's the only meaning I can take from that at the moment! 💍
Engagement - funnily enough, @frankiegolucky.bsky.social and I got engaged recently, and I'm afraid that's the only meaning I can take from that at the moment! 💍
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The absolutely most ridiculously cute couple 🥰🤩😍🤩🥰
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Her: 🎶 I really can't stay...
Him: 🎶 But baby it's cold outside
Her: 🎶 I've got pepper spray...
Him: 🎶 But baby it's-- wait what? AHHHHHHHHGHFUCK
Him: 🎶 But baby it's cold outside
Her: 🎶 I've got pepper spray...
Him: 🎶 But baby it's-- wait what? AHHHHHHHHGHFUCK
December 21, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Her: 🎶 I really can't stay...
Him: 🎶 But baby it's cold outside
Her: 🎶 I've got pepper spray...
Him: 🎶 But baby it's-- wait what? AHHHHHHHHGHFUCK
Him: 🎶 But baby it's cold outside
Her: 🎶 I've got pepper spray...
Him: 🎶 But baby it's-- wait what? AHHHHHHHHGHFUCK
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"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
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👀If you get your friend Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social, you can also let them know that they can access 'zines, a handy discussion/reading guide, a workbook, and more resources related to the book, all for free, here:
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
👀If you get your friend Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social, you can also let them know that they can access 'zines, a handy discussion/reading guide, a workbook, and more resources related to the book, all for free, here:
Who is the audience for these Kingsman films? This WW1 nonsense is possibly the worst thing I have ever accidentally witnessed.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Who is the audience for these Kingsman films? This WW1 nonsense is possibly the worst thing I have ever accidentally witnessed.
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Your boyfriend small as hell
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Your boyfriend small as hell
Eeeeeeeeeee our queen showing exactly the appropriate amount of enthusiasm I feckin love her #LateLateToyShow
Most excellent song choice. But is CMAT coming on? Omg. #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Eeeeeeeeeee our queen showing exactly the appropriate amount of enthusiasm I feckin love her #LateLateToyShow
Most excellent song choice. But is CMAT coming on? Omg. #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Most excellent song choice. But is CMAT coming on? Omg. #LateLateToyShow
Bonnie giving kick-ass Elle Woods vibes
#LateLateToyShow
#LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Bonnie giving kick-ass Elle Woods vibes
#LateLateToyShow
#LateLateToyShow
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Yeah, yeah, video message to this, VIP guest signings that... but only real ones know this moment...
#latelatetoyshow
#latelatetoyshow
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yeah, yeah, video message to this, VIP guest signings that... but only real ones know this moment...
#latelatetoyshow
#latelatetoyshow
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Omg those two friends on the toy show. That's positive masculinity there. We're all crying here #SpéirGorm #LateLateToyShow
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Omg those two friends on the toy show. That's positive masculinity there. We're all crying here #SpéirGorm #LateLateToyShow
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Time is a flat circle
December 12, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Time is a flat circle
Stories of people becoming Irish citizens only ever fill me with pride that they think we are a decent enough country to want to become part of us. As is right, the settlement of Ireland has always been a story of folk coming & going, it's what has made us.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
'This completes the family unit': Keith Wood's wife among those celebrating Irish citizenship
Applicants from more than 132 countries will make a declaration of loyalty to the State and become Irish citizens at the INEC Killarney on Monday and Tuesday
www.irishexaminer.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stories of people becoming Irish citizens only ever fill me with pride that they think we are a decent enough country to want to become part of us. As is right, the settlement of Ireland has always been a story of folk coming & going, it's what has made us.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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a shop that sells plus sized hats exclusively for irish people called Big Irish Head On You is this anything
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a shop that sells plus sized hats exclusively for irish people called Big Irish Head On You is this anything
After a long stop-and-start history of higher ed - drop out, mediocre results, finally success via distance & small classes - here I am yrs overdue finally finishing PhD with my autism dx still in a drawer & no notion of registering with access office. Sure I'm grand... (history suggests otherwise).
I once talked to a student who self-described as having a "mild" ADHD diagnosis about why they hadn't sought accommodations. The literal first thing that they said was "I'm not ADHD enough to need them," which was something that I've kept in mind as I listen to this "discourse" about accommodations.
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
After a long stop-and-start history of higher ed - drop out, mediocre results, finally success via distance & small classes - here I am yrs overdue finally finishing PhD with my autism dx still in a drawer & no notion of registering with access office. Sure I'm grand... (history suggests otherwise).
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Hardiman PhD Scholarship. 📝 These generous scholarships are funded for four years, with a stipend of €25,000 p.a. plus tuition fee covered.
›https://www.universityofgalway.ie/hardiman-scholarships/
#Hardiman #Scholarship #StudyinGalway #UniversityofGalway
›https://www.universityofgalway.ie/hardiman-scholarships/
#Hardiman #Scholarship #StudyinGalway #UniversityofGalway
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Applications are now open for the 2026 Hardiman PhD Scholarship. 📝 These generous scholarships are funded for four years, with a stipend of €25,000 p.a. plus tuition fee covered.
›https://www.universityofgalway.ie/hardiman-scholarships/
#Hardiman #Scholarship #StudyinGalway #UniversityofGalway
›https://www.universityofgalway.ie/hardiman-scholarships/
#Hardiman #Scholarship #StudyinGalway #UniversityofGalway
Woke up exhausted after a whole night of those dreams where one has to do slightly stressy yet utterly mundane tasks like laundry and tax returns and being in a queue in a German store except it was all set in a dark and twisted Jim Henson universe. I need so much coffee now.
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Woke up exhausted after a whole night of those dreams where one has to do slightly stressy yet utterly mundane tasks like laundry and tax returns and being in a queue in a German store except it was all set in a dark and twisted Jim Henson universe. I need so much coffee now.
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Very cool. Every local authority should have at least one.
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Very cool. Every local authority should have at least one.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That wanders high o'er hill and coomb
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dull and grey mushrooms
Bethought myself, what if combined
The lowly fungus and lofty vapour
A towering mushroom shape defined
When atoms split against their nature.
Worth a try.
That wanders high o'er hill and coomb
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dull and grey mushrooms
Bethought myself, what if combined
The lowly fungus and lofty vapour
A towering mushroom shape defined
When atoms split against their nature.
Worth a try.
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That wanders high o'er hill and coomb
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dull and grey mushrooms
Bethought myself, what if combined
The lowly fungus and lofty vapour
A towering mushroom shape defined
When atoms split against their nature.
Worth a try.
That wanders high o'er hill and coomb
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dull and grey mushrooms
Bethought myself, what if combined
The lowly fungus and lofty vapour
A towering mushroom shape defined
When atoms split against their nature.
Worth a try.
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Sat down to write a Santa letter with my 3 year old last night, she thought for ages and decided what she most wants for Christmas is ‘a fry’
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Sat down to write a Santa letter with my 3 year old last night, she thought for ages and decided what she most wants for Christmas is ‘a fry’
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R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.