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Gráinne 🍉

@thrillpool.bsky.social

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Sometimes I pretend to be smart. I mostly express myself through memes. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🌱🤸‍♀️🎶🍉✖️ Dublin ➡️ Leipzig (for some dumb reason I can no longer remember) they/she | siad/sí | sie

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · Nov 15

I still use the other website for gymnastics and Irish twitter so if I could just find all of those here that'd be swell

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 14h

Annoyingly, i've already seen sexual assault be replaced by "SA" in "serious" conversations. So women aren't raped, they're SA'd.

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 17h

(Side note: Not a good idea while recovering from a throat/respiratory infection.)

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 17h

German B2 expectations: Engaging in intense discussions, advanced grammar, widening vocabulary, conversing authentically with native speakers.

German B2 reality: Finally learning how to say the letter r properly.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 1d

How about securing our future with the help of an IRA?

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 2d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 1d

I know nothing about these things but for some reason I blame Taylor Swift.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 1d

I'm as relieved as anyone that we moved away from the sugarpaste/fondant trend, but will I ever see cakes that aren't hearts with ruffles ever again?

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 2d

Love how I brought back so much cheap ibuprofen and paracetamol from the UK and used it all in a week on this illness I also brought back with me.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 2d

A poorly edited screenshot of a tweet. Just heard a mother on Henry Street: Well you wouldn't be much use in the áras race, crying over €3000.

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure Harris wouldn't mind.

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 4d

I love the responses from people sharing quotes that their families/household members will use in various situations.

For us, anytime some food is dropped/burned/otherwise imperfect my parents will go "It's still good! It's still good!"

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7d

"Gotta do something til bingo"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 7d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7d

Or maybe I'm just in my thirties now.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7d

I thought I had a strong immune system, but now I think it's just that the viruses around here are just weak. Five days in Scotland and I think I am on my deathbed.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7d

From Futurama. Fry is sitting in front of the TV in the dark. Caption says: [ Old Man ] Do you remember a time when chocolate chip cookies came fresh from the oven?

Same scene as image 1. Caption says: Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses?

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 7d

Now catching up on Szombathely. Can we please stop giving control to directors/camera operators who clearly have a foot fetish?

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you! Come say hi if you see me again (or if I see you)

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 12d

Something about the way Frank played A Wave Across the Bay, gave an emotional speech about mental health, then went straight into Ceasefire on the eve of my 30th birthday makes me think that he's trying to kill me.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 16d

That explains why most of our dates are video games and cartoons

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 18d

Side on, *slight* angle, a bit high if possible. Anything else makes for a nice slo-mo replay only.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 18d

Just getting around to watching the Paris Challenge Cup now. They show beam from so many creative angles, none of which are correct.

Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 19d

There's a woman in the airport wearing a jumper that says "I'm on the list". Honey I don't know what that was referring to when you bought it but it might be time to throw it out.