dóchas is grá
@dochasisgra.bsky.social
She/her, Irish, 2 kids, 3 cats, 1 dog; many books, unfinished knitting projects, dreams and good intentions; insufficient dopamine receptors. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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Some poems don’t whisper, they warn.
The 2nd person address is confrontational but the poet deliberately avoids naming the guilty, meaning 76 years later there is still terrible truth and relevance in this poem.
“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.”
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The 2nd person address is confrontational but the poet deliberately avoids naming the guilty, meaning 76 years later there is still terrible truth and relevance in this poem.
“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.”
#poetry
#poemoftheday
January 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Some poems don’t whisper, they warn.
The 2nd person address is confrontational but the poet deliberately avoids naming the guilty, meaning 76 years later there is still terrible truth and relevance in this poem.
“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.”
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The 2nd person address is confrontational but the poet deliberately avoids naming the guilty, meaning 76 years later there is still terrible truth and relevance in this poem.
“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.”
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Longish thread on the whole X/Grok sexual abuse image generator.
2.5 years ago Twitter was used by a man to harass and abuse me. Horrendous stuff, much of it sexual, including placing my face on images of women's bodies in bikinis.
Today I checked to see if he's back at it.
2.5 years ago Twitter was used by a man to harass and abuse me. Horrendous stuff, much of it sexual, including placing my face on images of women's bodies in bikinis.
Today I checked to see if he's back at it.
January 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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The great Irish singer Sean O Se has passed away, at the age almost 90. If you’re never heard him , pin your ears back and have a listen to this. Don’t worry if you can’t speak Irish, just let it hit you.
An Poc Ar Buile
YouTube video by Seán Ó Sé - Topic
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 AM
The great Irish singer Sean O Se has passed away, at the age almost 90. If you’re never heard him , pin your ears back and have a listen to this. Don’t worry if you can’t speak Irish, just let it hit you.
Have been contacted by some victims of deepfaking / non-consensual manipulation of their images by AI - about their experiences.
If anyone else in Ireland has a story they'd like to share on the issue, please feel free to contact me.
If anyone else in Ireland has a story they'd like to share on the issue, please feel free to contact me.
January 14, 2026 at 9:39 AM
I have done a thing. There is now a UKSFFBookBargains Bluesky feed
This might even be a link to it.
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you like cheap books please consider pinning it, sharing it and posting using the #UKSFFBookBargains hashtag.
This might even be a link to it.
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you like cheap books please consider pinning it, sharing it and posting using the #UKSFFBookBargains hashtag.
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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#SpeirGorm, can we give this a big boost please? 👇🏻
If you live in Ireland and truly care about nature and our environment, please make a submission objecting to the government's plans to *severely* restrict communities' ability to defend them in the courts.
Instructions below, it only takes minutes, and the deadline is the day after tomorrow!! 🙏
Instructions below, it only takes minutes, and the deadline is the day after tomorrow!! 🙏
Have your say by January 15 deadline.
In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair.
For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
#environmentaljustice
In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair.
For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
#environmentaljustice
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
#SpeirGorm, can we give this a big boost please? 👇🏻
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On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 PM
On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
#speirgorm and everyone, with the X influx, please be aware of the excellent work done by @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social (and other block lists) and report transphobes to them for blocking (of course you can report and block individually too but the block list is a great tool for reducing reach).
January 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
#speirgorm and everyone, with the X influx, please be aware of the excellent work done by @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social (and other block lists) and report transphobes to them for blocking (of course you can report and block individually too but the block list is a great tool for reducing reach).
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This warms the cockles of my little heart.
January 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
This warms the cockles of my little heart.
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Always reminding people that the avoidance of politics is political. “I avoid politics” is the same as "I'm perfectly happy with the state of things and how others are currently treated."
January 12, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Always reminding people that the avoidance of politics is political. “I avoid politics” is the same as "I'm perfectly happy with the state of things and how others are currently treated."
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Since there’s an influx of new users, I think now would be a good time to remind everyone to add alt-text to your images.
January 11, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Since there’s an influx of new users, I think now would be a good time to remind everyone to add alt-text to your images.
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing & sharing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same?
I've signed this petition calling for the government to stop X allowing their chatbot Grok to ‘digitally undress’ women and share sexualised and illegal photos of children. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
January 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie
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In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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For anyone who's not clear what's wrong with the phrase 'biological male', or needs more fuel for their complaints, I wrote this:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
For anyone who's not clear what's wrong with the phrase 'biological male', or needs more fuel for their complaints, I wrote this:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
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BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
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File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’
![Comic strip script:
Scene is a SUPERMARKET, a MAN is walking past a display of CREME EGGS with his trolley.
1
MAN:
Tut
2
CREME EGG [talking to him from the shelf]:
Excuse me - did you just tut at us?
3
MAN:
W-what?
CREME EGG:
Tutting because you’ve seen ‘Easter eggs’ on January 11th, is it?
4
MAN:
What? Well, y-yes, I -
CREME EGG:
Listen, Tut boy
5
CREME EGG:
We are not Easter eggs. We are Creme Eggs.
6
CREME EGG:
We are the shock troops of seasonal capitalism. Eldritch simulacra of rebirth. Fondant mockery of life.
7
CREME EGG:
Not for us the grand safety of a cardboard box. Oh no.
They put us out here first, in our little foil uniforms, every January, to face the wrath of the nation.
8
CREME EGG:
And what you gonna do about it? Tut? Snark about us on social media?
9
CREME EGG:
Maybe you’ll write a little column in the Telegraph titled “It Is Sad That The Easter Eggs Are Out Already”.
10
CREME EGG:
You tut because you know that unlike you, we will return, every January…
…forever.
11
CREME EGG:
The eternal rebirth of mammon! The endless -
MAN:
Oh go on then
[He puts one of the Creme Eggs in his trolley]
12
CREME EGG:
HA HA YOU WORM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreigf4nleeln6m3pznu3n33mmk4m2f7uwxg7qh6khg4e5l65yycrdjy@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’
Careful on the roads #speirgorm. Half melted and refrozen is the worst. Got kids to school safely thankfully but had a skid and hit a pole on the turn into our road on the way home. I'm fine, car is missing a large chunk, rang the mechanic but he can't get down his own drive!
January 6, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Careful on the roads #speirgorm. Half melted and refrozen is the worst. Got kids to school safely thankfully but had a skid and hit a pole on the turn into our road on the way home. I'm fine, car is missing a large chunk, rang the mechanic but he can't get down his own drive!
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Tributes have been paid to Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion Josef Veselsky, who was also reputed to be Ireland's oldest man, following his death aged 107
Ireland's oldest man, who survived Holocaust, dies at 107
Tributes have been paid to Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion Josef Veselsky, who was also reputed to be Ireland's oldest man, following his death aged 107.
www.rte.ie
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Tributes have been paid to Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion Josef Veselsky, who was also reputed to be Ireland's oldest man, following his death aged 107
#speirgorm highly recommend, really unusual and gripping series.
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies each of @robertjbennett.bsky.social's Shadow of the Leviathan books, The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption. These are both *very good*. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!
January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
#speirgorm highly recommend, really unusual and gripping series.
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The hazards of inviting W.B. Yeats around for tea … this is Lady Olive Ardilaun of #HouseofGuinness fame, hoping for a banger and getting new material instead #speirgorm
January 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
The hazards of inviting W.B. Yeats around for tea … this is Lady Olive Ardilaun of #HouseofGuinness fame, hoping for a banger and getting new material instead #speirgorm
#speirgorm feel free to report..
Googled to see if it was a widespread phenomenon (it doesn’t seem so) but it did throw up a petition, which I’ve reported, citing false information (he is categorically NOT in prison for refusing to call a student by their chosen name) and the people posting that shit are hate filled wee delights.
Sign the Petition
Free Enoch Burke
www.change.org
January 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
#speirgorm feel free to report..
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Googled to see if it was a widespread phenomenon (it doesn’t seem so) but it did throw up a petition, which I’ve reported, citing false information (he is categorically NOT in prison for refusing to call a student by their chosen name) and the people posting that shit are hate filled wee delights.
Sign the Petition
Free Enoch Burke
www.change.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Googled to see if it was a widespread phenomenon (it doesn’t seem so) but it did throw up a petition, which I’ve reported, citing false information (he is categorically NOT in prison for refusing to call a student by their chosen name) and the people posting that shit are hate filled wee delights.
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Tadhg Hickey is a twat, pass it on
#speirghorm
#speirghorm
January 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Tadhg Hickey is a twat, pass it on
#speirghorm
#speirghorm
#speirgorm very worthwhile piece of research here
I'm excited to be at the 'Interview' stage of my Doctoral research. If you work in the Republic of Ireland and might have contacts with students who could participate, please share with parents (for age 13-15 years) and/or students (age 16+). Thank you!
January 1, 2026 at 1:37 PM
#speirgorm very worthwhile piece of research here
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"We were all too busy chuckling over the meme to see that the incomplete restoration was never the story – the restorer was."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cecilia Giménez’s botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones
The restorer, who died on Monday, brought unwanted attention to herself – and her small Spanish town. Then, slowly, a small miracle took place, says Sam Jones, the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:02 PM
"We were all too busy chuckling over the meme to see that the incomplete restoration was never the story – the restorer was."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...