Rebecca O'Neill
@rebeccanineill.bsky.social
Jack of all trades, feminist, museum & cat enthusiast. Cis, she/her, Q10471332
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#speirgorm Long shot ⏬️
Hey, anyone out there know Breton? I have a couple of phrases I could use someone to look at.
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#speirgorm Long shot ⏬️
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Only a few days left to enter #WikiScience 2025! ⭐️💫🌟
“I used a Canon 600D on Kilfarrasy beach in Waterford on a freezing night. My friend jumped on the rock so I could get him the background stars of Orion and nebula using a star tracker.”
Anthony’s astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“I used a Canon 600D on Kilfarrasy beach in Waterford on a freezing night. My friend jumped on the rock so I could get him the background stars of Orion and nebula using a star tracker.”
Anthony’s astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Only a few days left to enter #WikiScience 2025! ⭐️💫🌟
“I used a Canon 600D on Kilfarrasy beach in Waterford on a freezing night. My friend jumped on the rock so I could get him the background stars of Orion and nebula using a star tracker.”
Anthony’s astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“I used a Canon 600D on Kilfarrasy beach in Waterford on a freezing night. My friend jumped on the rock so I could get him the background stars of Orion and nebula using a star tracker.”
Anthony’s astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sometimes we talk about how a certain 2020s talking point would baffle a normal person in the 1980s, like "all my apes gone" or "AOC Donkey Kong Livestream for Trans Rights".
But I think THIS book would baffle a normal under 40 person today.
But I think THIS book would baffle a normal under 40 person today.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Sometimes we talk about how a certain 2020s talking point would baffle a normal person in the 1980s, like "all my apes gone" or "AOC Donkey Kong Livestream for Trans Rights".
But I think THIS book would baffle a normal under 40 person today.
But I think THIS book would baffle a normal under 40 person today.
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Ireland has a different rail gauge from the rest of Europe a strategy which has successfully prevented the invasion of Ireland via Rail for almost 200 years.
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ireland has a different rail gauge from the rest of Europe a strategy which has successfully prevented the invasion of Ireland via Rail for almost 200 years.
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More on Maureen Sweeney (1923-2023) here:
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November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
More on Maureen Sweeney (1923-2023) here:
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@rebeccanineill.bsky.social you agree, surely?
It has to be named after Maureen Sweeney, the Irish meteorologist who gave the Allies a critical weather report before D Day.
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@rebeccanineill.bsky.social you agree, surely?
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Delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Colmcille Small Grant for the WikiMuir project, which will focus on preserving maritime heritage through Irish and Scottish Gaelic🐙
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/07/w...
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/07/w...
WikiMuir Project Awarded Colmcille Small Grant!/Bronnadh Miondeontas Cholmcille ar Thionscadal WikiMuir! - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Bronnadh Miondeontas Cholmcille ar Thionscadal WikiMuir! Tá lúcháir ar Phobal Éireann Wikimedia a fhógairt go bhfuil Miondeontas Cholmcille bronnta ar ár dtionscadal nua, WikiMuir. Tá an tionscadal se...
wikimedia.ie
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Colmcille Small Grant for the WikiMuir project, which will focus on preserving maritime heritage through Irish and Scottish Gaelic🐙
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/07/w...
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/07/w...
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🌷March was filled with folklore and feminism for Wikimedia Community Ireland. Find out about how we celebrated International Women’s Day at the Trinity Library and three new collaborations, including one with Rising Voices!
💜+ Last call for #WikiLovesFolklore
🌷Read: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
💜+ Last call for #WikiLovesFolklore
🌷Read: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
Newsletter March 2025 / Nuachtlitir Márta - Wikimedia Community Ireland
March was filled with folklore and feminism for Wikimedia Community Ireland. Now, as we find ourselves at the Days of the Brindled Cow (Laethanta na Bó Riabhaí), it's time to update you on all our new...
wikimedia.ie
March 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🌷March was filled with folklore and feminism for Wikimedia Community Ireland. Find out about how we celebrated International Women’s Day at the Trinity Library and three new collaborations, including one with Rising Voices!
💜+ Last call for #WikiLovesFolklore
🌷Read: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
💜+ Last call for #WikiLovesFolklore
🌷Read: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
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WikiMuir, MeithealWiki, + tionscadal nua i gcomhar @globalvoices.org darbh ainm 'Rising Voices'.
Go leor déanta & idir lámha againn ag @wikimediaireland.bsky.social faoi láthair, mar is gnáth! Léigh ár nuachtlitir nua anois le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais:
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
Go leor déanta & idir lámha againn ag @wikimediaireland.bsky.social faoi láthair, mar is gnáth! Léigh ár nuachtlitir nua anois le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais:
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
Newsletter March 2025 / Nuachtlitir Márta - Wikimedia Community Ireland
March was filled with folklore and feminism for Wikimedia Community Ireland. Now, as we find ourselves at the Days of the Brindled Cow (Laethanta na Bó Riabhaí), it's time to update you on all our new...
wikimedia.ie
March 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
WikiMuir, MeithealWiki, + tionscadal nua i gcomhar @globalvoices.org darbh ainm 'Rising Voices'.
Go leor déanta & idir lámha againn ag @wikimediaireland.bsky.social faoi láthair, mar is gnáth! Léigh ár nuachtlitir nua anois le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais:
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
Go leor déanta & idir lámha againn ag @wikimediaireland.bsky.social faoi láthair, mar is gnáth! Léigh ár nuachtlitir nua anois le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais:
wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...
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That fake Met Éireann account has now been suspended
January 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
That fake Met Éireann account has now been suspended
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Official confirmation that this is an impersonated account: twitter.com/MetEireann/s...
January 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Official confirmation that this is an impersonated account: twitter.com/MetEireann/s...
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I have confirmation from a friend who works in Met Éireann that they have no official Bluesky account yet.
January 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I have confirmation from a friend who works in Met Éireann that they have no official Bluesky account yet.
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Met Éireann are away of this and have contacted Bluesky.
January 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Met Éireann are away of this and have contacted Bluesky.
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The Met Eireann account on Blue-sky is not an official account, and has posted something racist. Perhaps you should consider unfollowimg them
January 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The Met Eireann account on Blue-sky is not an official account, and has posted something racist. Perhaps you should consider unfollowimg them
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As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).
"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).
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Most importantly he tweeted a screenshot of one of my jokes with my name cropped out.
The thing about Elon Musk to me is that there just doesn't seem to be anything to him, all the memes he posts are stolen, he pays someone else to play games for him, he makes surface level references to media that he probably hasn't seen (NERV), it's all affectation of a personality he doens't have.
endlessly funny to me that of all the things elon musk can buy the one thing he cannot buy and will never be able to do is write a good post on a microblogging website
December 29, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Most importantly he tweeted a screenshot of one of my jokes with my name cropped out.
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I'm very fond of wikipedia.. my good friend @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and I had a whole podcast about it before life derailed our plans to rule Headstuff Towers with iron fists!
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headstuffpodcasts.com/show/the-wor...
Show: The World According to Wikipedia
headstuffpodcasts.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:25 PM
I'm very fond of wikipedia.. my good friend @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and I had a whole podcast about it before life derailed our plans to rule Headstuff Towers with iron fists!
headstuffpodcasts.com/show/the-wor...
headstuffpodcasts.com/show/the-wor...
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This is one of my favourite bits from a news article in 2024.
December 22, 2024 at 9:42 AM
This is one of my favourite bits from a news article in 2024.
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Once again, Rolling Stone proves it’s better at delivering solid, truthful information than most mainstream outlets stuck pushing their bought and paid for narratives.
Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare
The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Donald Trump can cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy and corporations.
www.rollingstone.com
December 22, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Once again, Rolling Stone proves it’s better at delivering solid, truthful information than most mainstream outlets stuck pushing their bought and paid for narratives.
After many years, I have finally made some of my more precious stickers into magnets using promotional and advertising magnets we had collected. And added some magnet tape to my Pacman ghost tin 🙂
@wikimedia.bsky.social
#wikimedia #thebeatles #pacman #libraries #ukraine
@wikimedia.bsky.social
#wikimedia #thebeatles #pacman #libraries #ukraine
December 19, 2024 at 8:44 AM
After many years, I have finally made some of my more precious stickers into magnets using promotional and advertising magnets we had collected. And added some magnet tape to my Pacman ghost tin 🙂
@wikimedia.bsky.social
#wikimedia #thebeatles #pacman #libraries #ukraine
@wikimedia.bsky.social
#wikimedia #thebeatles #pacman #libraries #ukraine
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This.
I am disgusted.
If nothing else, I hope someone sets up a decent alternative, too. But this is crawly behaviour.
I am disgusted.
If nothing else, I hope someone sets up a decent alternative, too. But this is crawly behaviour.
Irish Times' announcement that it'll charge 100 euro for a RIP.ie death notice service whose marginal cost is, what, .25 cent?
Price-gouging an effective monopoly service used by people who've literally just been bereaved - this is why we have competition law.
Expect better, people!
Price-gouging an effective monopoly service used by people who've literally just been bereaved - this is
Expect better, people!
December 17, 2024 at 11:26 PM
This.
I am disgusted.
If nothing else, I hope someone sets up a decent alternative, too. But this is crawly behaviour.
I am disgusted.
If nothing else, I hope someone sets up a decent alternative, too. But this is crawly behaviour.
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A bunch of car park owners have been granted a High Court review to try and get rid of the Dublin City Transport Plan.
So far the plan has delivered faster buses and reduced traffic - while footfall keeps growing.
Backwards stuff that must be resisted.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl...
So far the plan has delivered faster buses and reduced traffic - while footfall keeps growing.
Backwards stuff that must be resisted.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl...
Dublin City Council acted 'beyond its powers' with traffic changes on quays, traders say | BreakingNews.ie
By way of judicial review, the traders are seeking to challenge traffic changes and restrictions on the use of private vehicles at O'Connell Bridge.
www.breakingnews.ie
December 17, 2024 at 5:27 PM
A bunch of car park owners have been granted a High Court review to try and get rid of the Dublin City Transport Plan.
So far the plan has delivered faster buses and reduced traffic - while footfall keeps growing.
Backwards stuff that must be resisted.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl...
So far the plan has delivered faster buses and reduced traffic - while footfall keeps growing.
Backwards stuff that must be resisted.
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl...
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There is NO public healthcare for trans kids in the South anyway- we are extremely lucky we can afford private care, it takes a large lump of our budget but the alternative was to risk losing our child. This ban will cost lives. Shame on Sinn Féin #speirgorm #Irishpol #transrights
December 11, 2024 at 11:25 AM
There is NO public healthcare for trans kids in the South anyway- we are extremely lucky we can afford private care, it takes a large lump of our budget but the alternative was to risk losing our child. This ban will cost lives. Shame on Sinn Féin #speirgorm #Irishpol #transrights
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This is a straightforward explanation of Amnesty’s investigation of Israel’s attack on Gaza that labels it clearly a genocide - given by the (Irish) executive director of Amnesty USA
'This is genocide': Amnesty International accuses Israel of Gaza genocide
YouTube video by MSNBC
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December 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
This is a straightforward explanation of Amnesty’s investigation of Israel’s attack on Gaza that labels it clearly a genocide - given by the (Irish) executive director of Amnesty USA