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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 6h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 10h

Things continue to go from bad to worse for the Humphreys campaign

Bertie Ahern has joined the likes of Mary Harney in endorsing Heather Humphreys for President.
He's been speaking on @NTBreakfast

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11h

How to be a Ladybird man, part 20.
Smoke a pipe. Never cigarettes. Always a pipe
Artist: Robert Ayton
(The Weather, 1962)

A man, smoking a straight pipe, looks intently at a rain gauge. He is wearing collar, tie and a sensible sweater

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 11h

The 40 ran at a frequency of around 12 mins during the week. The F2 and F3 replacement is 15 mins and at times the F3 could be 20 mins.

What I'm saying is "Dublin Inquirer, I might be on to you yet".

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

Ladybird book in the spotlight.
‘Snow White and Rose Red’
Artist: Eric Winter (1969)

Front cover of the book showing two girls dressed in Alpine costume trying to free the long white beard of an angry dwarf which has become trapped in a log of wood

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

In the garden

Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Helping at Home, 1961)

Mother and daughter are in their garden on a windy early autumn day. They are in front of a bed of colourful blooming dahlias

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

What do you think when you see this hand sign? Live long and prosper? Well this is a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt maybe 400 years old. It’s the sign of the kohanim priestly blessing, which Leonard Nimoy is said to have remembered from his childhood, and which he adopted for Spock.

A pair of hands both showing the characteristic four fingered V used in Star Trek.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 2d

I have long awaited this day with joyous anticipation, and @independent.ie is the one to finally deliver, in their article on New Ross Drama Workshop’s staging of my black comedy play “Dead Man’s… BELLS”.

A screenshot from an article on the Irish Independent website. It reads: “Fresh from the recent success of their performances as part of the Wexford Culture Night celebrations in September, New Ross Drama Workshop is back and preparing to thread the boards of St. Michaels Theatre as they bring two nights of comedy to the stage, under the direction of Kate O’Keeffe and Peggy Hussey.
The first one-act play that will be performed by the award-winning team is Méabh de Brún’s Dead Man’s Balls (directed by Kate O’Keeffe), which is a darkly comic plot that follows three sisters as they recount, bicker over, and obscure the story of their family farm, inheritance, and their absent brother. Told in a sharp, witty style with an unreliable narrator quality, the play layers rural Gothic atmosphere with biting humour, as sibling rivalries, secrets, and omissions shape the narrative as much as memory itself.”

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Cornelius (aka Con) Traas @theapplefarmer.bsky.social · 2d

Some personal news. Our youngest has released a song he wrote, performed and produced, on Spotify this morning. Any listens or promotes would be much appreciated.
open.spotify.com/album/2TPUzx...

Nothing Left

open.spotify.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

Writing is how poor people, as long as they have something to say that continues to be meaningful, can live forever. Rich people too, obviously, but they rarely have that much of interest to say.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 2d

The British Army have had more number one singles in Ireland (one) than Aslan, The Corrs, Van Morrison, or The Cranberries (zero).

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 2d

Starting soon on Irish Number Ones: all our chart-topping singles and acts of 1972, including:
☘️ Nationalist protest songs
☘️ New Irish global superstars
☘️ Ireland's only no. 1 single in Irish
🇬🇧 A British Army unit stationed in Northern Ireland

Yes, it'll be weird: irishnumberones.com

Collage of photos superimposed with the text 1972

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

Tulips, from Florilegium novum (New Book of Flowers)
Johann Theodor de Bry
c. 1612

(Yale University)

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Asbestos is a great analogy because like asbestos, AI aka machine learning and LLMs are good for very specific use cases, but when you put it into everything hither and yon you end up with massive problems.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2d

How do you know if you live in a free country?

Because it says so on your police registration papers.

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Michael Taft @michael-taft.bsky.social · 2d

Hospitality VAT cut was farcical. But tax cuts for property developers were insidious. Developers’ lobby told the Government – give us more subsidy or we won’t help meet your housing targets. And the Government blinked. Because it has no strategy: tinyurl.com/bdfc9kwd

Profits and Threats in the Irish Housing Market

While the VAT cut on food services was farcical, the tax cuts for property developers was insidious. It was framed as necessary measures to increase apartment construction viability. But the …

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Ross Crawshaw-Lopton @rosslopton.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of my friend Gary Way today. ❤️
The AIDS Memorial Quilt, begun in 1987, is the world’s largest community folk art project. You can find Gary on Panel #0233.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d

#OtD which most likely translates to 13 Oct c1157 BC, the first recorded strike in history was first reported. In ancient Egypt, gangs of construction workers building for Ramses III launched sit-down strikes in protest at insufficient food rations shop.workingclasshistory.com/search

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11d

There are any number of legitimate reasons to use the passive voice, including not knowing who did the action you’re describing, or the whom is more interesting/germane than the who.

Exonerating the Gestapo is not one of those legitimate reasons.

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 2d

…statement from Catherine Connolly being turned breathlessly into a gotcha moment by her Establishment opponents. It is great to have a candidate who knows her own mind and can think and speak with independence and courage. #Áras25

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