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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃

@bioniclaura.bsky.social

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Knitting, crocheting and ranting. Sewing too. Raving about music. Cyborg. MSc Physics. GradCert Green Energy. Climate Justice. Dublin, Ireland. She/Her

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · Jan 16

Let us all make our art, the weirder the better.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 9h

I’m casting on some goth mittens, my eldest designed the colourwork. Of course the background colour is black to make things hard on my eyes. #knitting 🧶

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 15h

Tumblr, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn

Four pics of four Young Conservatives, each with different visual characters because of their clothes and presentation

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 17h

I've been meaning to read the melancholy of resistance by László Krasznahorkai ages so I should probably do that now.

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 19h

Just listened to part one of this excellent podcast. I've read a few books about Shackleton but learned something new. In college I lived across the road from a house he lived in when he was young.

Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs Podcast @shipwreckspod.bsky.social · 6d

Coming Tuesday, Oct 7, "Sir Ernest Shackleton: The Boss." This 2-part series will cover the entire life of the famed explorer. His feats of survival in the face of certain death cemented his place in history and legend.

#Shackleton #history #Antarctica #Endurance #skystorians #maritimehistory

Ernest Shacklton stands on a boat in a heavy turtleneck sweater with a blackened, sunburned, and windburned face. A sled dog is visible to his right.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

irishpen.com

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

You love to see it.

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. She's a treasure.

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I'm not able for that.

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 1d

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT ABOUT CATERPILLAR CAKES? PERCY PIGS? CREAM FLOUR? this is so stupid and embarrassing for any MEP who voted for this

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. 💙

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Happy world dyslexia day! Some good info and resources on the Dyslexia Ireland page. Much more resources and support needed in Ireland. dyslexia.ie/dyslexia-awa...

Dyslexia Awareness Month 2025 | Dyslexia Ireland

dyslexia.ie

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

She can feic off so.

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Dublin Live @dublinlive.bsky.social · 1d

Lesley Anne Clare was last seen at approximately 9:30pm in Clonee on Monday, October 6

Gardai seeking public's help in finding woman missing from west Dublin home

www.dublinlive.ie

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Going through it at the moment. It's not all sewing and knitting and nice things here. But today a load of interesting birds appeared in my garden as if they knew I needed to see them.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Local Family Doing Fine As Long As No One Gets Sick, Needs Dentist, Clothes, Air To Breathe http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2018/07/19/local-family-doing-fine-as-long-as-no-one-gets-sick-needs-dentist-clothes-air-to-breathe/

Local Family Doing Fine As Long As No One Gets Sick, Needs Dentist, Clothes, Air To Breathe

A LOCAL WATERFORD family are sitting in a financially stable sweet spot in which they can continue chugging along, easily able to afford everything they need with a little extra on the side as long …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing adverts for Kickstarter and it seems it's now a website that sells jackets with an ever increasing amount of ridiculous pockets.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

One of mine too.

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

Song is Mother by Idles. youtu.be/BuQG6_evFc8?...

IDLES - MOTHER (Official Video)

YouTube video by IDLES

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 1d

As the man said ‘the best way to scare a tory is to read and get rich’!

Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

It's a nice pattern. The details are nice I think and makes it more interesting to make.

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Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn't remember where I got this fabric but when I texted the group chat a friend said she'd sent it to me. So she was happy that it's being used.

Bionic Mecha Laura 🎃 @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

Finished sewing the cielo top by closet core this morning. It turned out really nicely. Lots of nice details like the cuffs and slight gathers on the sleeves. I like how the darts were placed too. #Sewing #GarmentSewing

Photo of a woman wearing a grey short sleeved top with coloured spots on it

Photo of a home sewn top hanging up. It is grey with coloured spots

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 2d

Three of the kidnapped Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived home to a huge welcome last night. They talk about why they tried to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza, acting because our governments refuse to. #FreePalestine #LiftTheSiege
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