@scoutfinchreads.bsky.social
North Belfast/South Derry - sometimes a potent mix. Music, books, football and some of the less important stuff. Uppa millies. YNWA.
Regency era novels enlivened by Hiberno-English.
“Miss Crawford’s enjoyment of riding was such, that she did not know how to leave off.”
No wonder Fanny Price hated her.
#speirgorm
“Miss Crawford’s enjoyment of riding was such, that she did not know how to leave off.”
No wonder Fanny Price hated her.
#speirgorm
January 6, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Regency era novels enlivened by Hiberno-English.
“Miss Crawford’s enjoyment of riding was such, that she did not know how to leave off.”
No wonder Fanny Price hated her.
#speirgorm
“Miss Crawford’s enjoyment of riding was such, that she did not know how to leave off.”
No wonder Fanny Price hated her.
#speirgorm
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Platforms/social media communities that distribute Child Sexual Abuse Material usually make the news when story breaks about how the owners have been arrested as part a pan national police operation involving multiple agencies from different countries. Yet, now, CSAM is now openly available on X.
it is just so 🥴🥴🥴 to me that governments and law enforcement bodies across the world have to be begged and pleaded with to even consider investigating what is quite literally sexual crime on an unbelievable scale, taking place openly on one of the most popular digital platforms in the world.
January 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Platforms/social media communities that distribute Child Sexual Abuse Material usually make the news when story breaks about how the owners have been arrested as part a pan national police operation involving multiple agencies from different countries. Yet, now, CSAM is now openly available on X.
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Actually I think every Christmas should be for women
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Actually I think every Christmas should be for women
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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This morning Rape Crisis Ireland has called for a ban on AI 'nudification' functions which can (and have) produced sexual images of children and adults.
RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'
RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'
January 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This morning Rape Crisis Ireland has called for a ban on AI 'nudification' functions which can (and have) produced sexual images of children and adults.
RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'
RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'
Dedicating my Nollaig na mBan blessings to my lovely aunt Eileen in the Royal Victoria Hospital and her baby sister, Mae who’s been holding her hand. Celebrating their dignity, integrity, fortitude, honesty and their 85 years of love. #nollaignamban #graforthemna #speirgorm
January 6, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Dedicating my Nollaig na mBan blessings to my lovely aunt Eileen in the Royal Victoria Hospital and her baby sister, Mae who’s been holding her hand. Celebrating their dignity, integrity, fortitude, honesty and their 85 years of love. #nollaignamban #graforthemna #speirgorm
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Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here:
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here:
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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We need to figure out how to hold our public leadership to account, so when they fail we don’t just become pessimistic we become angry and impatient and insistent on change. Not just politicians but the entire apparatus of state.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
We need to figure out how to hold our public leadership to account, so when they fail we don’t just become pessimistic we become angry and impatient and insistent on change. Not just politicians but the entire apparatus of state.
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This Brazilian woman hates AI
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I wrote this!
"10:30 A.M. Send another overdue notice to the impish man who checked out 'Tom Sawyer' months ago and listed last known address as 'Heaven.' Men like this are why I’m a single spinster."
A Day in the Life of Mary Hatch in the Alternate Bedford Falls
7:00-8:30 A.M. Wake up whenever I want—no kids! 9 A.M. Open library, feeling refreshed and ready for the day. 10:30 A.M. Send another overdue notic...
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I wrote this!
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It's only “DEI” if it comes from liberal coastal cities. Otherwise it's just sparkling white supremacy.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's only “DEI” if it comes from liberal coastal cities. Otherwise it's just sparkling white supremacy.
For the day that’s in it.
‘It rained when it should have snowed.
When we went to gather holly’
@shhomeplace.bsky.social #speirgorm
‘It rained when it should have snowed.
When we went to gather holly’
@shhomeplace.bsky.social #speirgorm
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For the day that’s in it.
‘It rained when it should have snowed.
When we went to gather holly’
@shhomeplace.bsky.social #speirgorm
‘It rained when it should have snowed.
When we went to gather holly’
@shhomeplace.bsky.social #speirgorm
Another week for women in the north. #speirgorm
December 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Another week for women in the north. #speirgorm
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OK, but in the interest of balance it's worth pointing out that fuck 'im.
Fianna Fáil general secretary Sean Dorgan has acknowledged that Bertie Ahern should have been told sooner that he was not the party’s preferred presidential candidate. jrnl.ie/6905527
Fianna Fáil report on Jim Gavin's disastrous €400k candidacy shows Taoiseach told him to withdraw
TDs have just received the long-awaited report ahead of a showdown parliamentary party meeting
jrnl.ie
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
OK, but in the interest of balance it's worth pointing out that fuck 'im.
Yayyyy! Here comes the summer … as some Derry wans might say. #speirgorm
Today is 2025-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:45 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 02 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yayyyy! Here comes the summer … as some Derry wans might say. #speirgorm
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So. We're very very very nearly there. Let's see if we can hammer the world with #TheGrandStretchIsBack at 16:05:45 Dublin time.
Hi all.
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So. We're very very very nearly there. Let's see if we can hammer the world with #TheGrandStretchIsBack at 16:05:45 Dublin time.
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For those people who think the world started in October 2023, watch this.
This is Tony Benn in 2009 appealing for Gaza aid and speaking about the hypocrisy and bias of the BBC.
One of Tony Benn’s finest moments a man who spoke truth with heart.
This is Tony Benn in 2009 appealing for Gaza aid and speaking about the hypocrisy and bias of the BBC.
One of Tony Benn’s finest moments a man who spoke truth with heart.
December 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
For those people who think the world started in October 2023, watch this.
This is Tony Benn in 2009 appealing for Gaza aid and speaking about the hypocrisy and bias of the BBC.
One of Tony Benn’s finest moments a man who spoke truth with heart.
This is Tony Benn in 2009 appealing for Gaza aid and speaking about the hypocrisy and bias of the BBC.
One of Tony Benn’s finest moments a man who spoke truth with heart.
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Hi all.
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hi all.
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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If Nikita Hand had got proper justice her rapist would be in prison but at least now he’s been told to fuck of by the Supreme Court. Hopefully she can get on with her life and that she can heal after the constant ordeals she’s been subjected to, the past 7 years.
#spéirgorm
#spéirghorm
#spéirgorm
#spéirghorm
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If Nikita Hand had got proper justice her rapist would be in prison but at least now he’s been told to fuck of by the Supreme Court. Hopefully she can get on with her life and that she can heal after the constant ordeals she’s been subjected to, the past 7 years.
#spéirgorm
#spéirghorm
#spéirgorm
#spéirghorm
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A goodly prize, fit for the devil’s grace!
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A goodly prize, fit for the devil’s grace!
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Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3