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mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social
#Spéirghorm
#Sparegollum
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February 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
ciaraioch.bsky.social
Belated good day from the Kingdom ☁️
Photograph of mountains and the sea, with clouds skimming closer to the water. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
February 7, 2026 at 11:17 PM
drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Calls for UCD to revoke award given to Noam Chomsky over Epstein links #spéirgorm jrnl.ie/6949693
Calls for UCD to revoke award given to Noam Chomsky over Epstein links
The latest documents appear to shed new light on the relationship between the pair.
jrnl.ie
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
bgormley.bsky.social
Nice piece on @cnbc.com about @tudublinsustain.bsky.social Tallaght campus which has reduced carbon emissions by using excess heat from an Amazon Data centre. @seai-ie.bsky.social @codemadublin.bsky.social #SpeirGorm
This university campus is heated by an AI data center. Your home could be next
AI’s energy problem may also be its solution, as cities are increasingly exploring opportunities to repurpose excess heat from data centers.
www.cnbc.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
quiatimet.bsky.social
The dodder #speirgorm
February 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
orlaegan1.bsky.social
#SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d
Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution.

Latest Irish Times poll.
President Connolly with Greta Thunberg
February 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
oisinmcgann.bsky.social
I see there’s some more British people who need geography explained to them again.

#SpeirGorm
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Narrator: ‘It was not, in fact, “bringing the Gaeltacht to you.”’

#SpeirGorm
ciaraioch.bsky.social Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d
"Minus any chance of human interaction with real people who actually use the language"
Screenshot from Gaeilgeoir AI: "Why Learn Irish Online With Gaeilgeoir AI? Bringing the Gaeltacht to you, Gaeilgeoir AI offers a modern approach to mastering Irish with the expertise of a native speaker—minus the awkward small talk!" ##SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Gaeilge
February 7, 2026 at 11:13 AM
rdisc0mb0bulate.bsky.social
Hamnet..
#SpeirGorm
a woman is laying on the floor with her eyes closed and her mouth open .
Alt: a woman is laying on the floor sobbing hard
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
bgormley.bsky.social
Brent Geese flying over the @tudublinsustain.bsky.social campus at dusk. #SpeirGorm #IrishBirding @grangegormandev.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
oisinmcgann.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm
oisinmcgann.bsky.social Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d
When I was working on this book, I went through a LOT of images and diagrams of John Philip Hollland's submarines, so I wanted to draw the Subversive, the version of the boat in this story, to help people visualize it. (Not quite up to @covertshores.bsky.social's standards, but hopefully it'll do!)
The full cover, back and front, of my novel, Steel-Plate Subversive. Overall, it’s a deep blue and sea green, the colour of sea at night. On the front, the view is from above, looking down at the deck of a small, steel-grey submarine at night. The hatch in the low-profile turret is open. A bearded white man in a green woollen jumper and brown flat cap is in the open hatch, holding a Thompson submachine gun. He’s lit from below by the red light inside the submarine. The title is vertical, in orange, down the left side, and the tagline is in white, much smaller to the right: ‘Irish revolutionaries, British spies, German mercenaries, and a submarine that shouldn't exist.’ My name is in white at the bottom. The back cover shows the same submarine in the harbour of a small town at night, racing away at speed. The blurb reads: There's something out there in the water. A shaky truce has been established in Ireland's War of Independence. In 1921, as negotiations begin in London to finally free the Irish from British control, a young intelligence agent named Esther Sinclair discovers that a nightmarish weapon has gone missing in France. Akiko Regan and her cousin Liam O'Leary have made their own discovery: Akiko's father, Michael, is the leader of the mysterious rebel group known as the Selkies. Michael is an engineer who trained under the famous John Philip Holland in New Jersey. At the start of the century, Holland's designs had established the submarine fleets of five nations. But the Irishman's very first submarines were built for the Irish republican movement. The Royal Navy have no idea that a Holland vessel has heen operating in the Irish Sea. Michael had hoped to shield Akiko and Liam from the ongoing violence. Now, however, the family find themselves drawn into a crisis that threatens not just their lives but the future of their country. There’s an Arts Council of Ireland logo across from the barcode, to acknowledge funding for the writing of the book. A black-and-white illustration of the exterior of the submarine in the story, the Subversive, based on the designs of John Philip Holland. It's a small vessel, cylindrical and tapering at both ends, with a torpedo hatch on the nose and propellor and fins on the stern, and a small turret and hatch on the centre of the top. It's about 21 metres or 70 feet long, and 3 metres or 10 wide. These are the labels: Compass Housing, Engine Exhaust Box, Propellor, Conning Tower Hatch, Torpedo Loading Hatch, Anchor Chain, Torpedo Hatch, Rudder Hydroplanes, Main Ballast Tank Sea Valve, Hydrophones, Secondary Ballast Tank Sea Valve. A black-and-white illustration of the exterior of the submarine in the story, the Subversive, based on the designs of John Philip Holland. It's a small vessel, cylindrical and tapering at both ends, with a torpedo hatch on the nose and propellor and fins on the stern, and a small turret and hatch on the centre of the top. It's about 21 metres or 70 feet long, and 3 metres or 10 wide. There are three air intake pipes and a periscope extended from the top. It's a cutaway drawing, so we can see inside, with the motors at the back, the torpedo tube taking up the front and a large bank of batteries along the bottom, raising the front two thirds of the deck. There are five crew members on board. These are the labels: Electric Motor, Diesel Engine, Air Intakes, Periscope, Conning Tower Helm, High Pressure Air Tanks, Torpedo Controls, Torpedo Tube, Hydrophones, Torpedo Compensating Tank, Diesel Tank, Head (Toilet), Batteries, Hydrophone Station, Main Ballast Tank Sea Valve, Diving Controls, Helm Position at Periscope, Air Compressor, Propellor Shaft.
February 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
trionac.bsky.social
This is hard to watch. #irevfra #speirgorm #sixnations
February 5, 2026 at 8:34 PM
lbruno.org
cc #speirgorm Google continues to distribute the twitter/x/grok apps on its play store, which continue to distribute/generate csam and porn deepfakes
lbruno.org لجبر خوارزمیا 🇮🇪🇵🇹🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lbruno.org · 6h
Google finally replied to my report that Twitter's app is distributing CSAM in violation of Irish law.

They told me that I should first reach out to X, for no good reason. I've replied, fully expecting they'll take a few more weeks to say something inane like `uh duh Section 230` as exculpatory.
February 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
izzyfox.bsky.social
So, it turns out that February is just three Januarys in a trench coat.

#Rain #SpéirGorm #SpéirLiath #DublinFloods #Flooding #IrishWeather #OrangeWarning
February 7, 2026 at 11:54 AM
ciaraioch.bsky.social
👍✨All good!!✨👍
Greyscale cartoon, woman on boat with life ring gives a thumbs up and says "Hope you're doing okay!" to a woman very clearly struggling underwater as she's pulled down by hands tugging on ropes around her body. A little fish looks on, bemused. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Cartoon
February 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
sharrow.bsky.social
#Spéirgorm #Housing #Supergluedpockets #togetherforhousing
unamullally.bsky.social Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 3d
"We are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s."

A damning reality laid bare in this piece of well-researched analysis.
'We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
The issuing of 5,000 eviction notices in three months last year is quite revealing when viewed against Ireland's historical record
www.rte.ie
February 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
suekirk.bsky.social
#MagicWandMicheál #speirgorm
carlkinsella.bsky.social Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 1d
'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.'

This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
Surrealing in the Years: Oh good, something else that Magic Wand Micheál is powerless to solve
We’re not talking about orcs here, man.
www.thejournal.ie
February 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
philipb-h.bsky.social
“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Flood Prevention
Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...
www.rte.ie
February 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
ciaraioch.bsky.social
"Minus any chance of human interaction with real people who actually use the language"
Screenshot from Gaeilgeoir AI: "Why Learn Irish Online With Gaeilgeoir AI? Bringing the Gaeltacht to you, Gaeilgeoir AI offers a modern approach to mastering Irish with the expertise of a native speaker—minus the awkward small talk!" ##SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Gaeilge
February 7, 2026 at 8:29 AM
simonb84.bsky.social
This is the worst government we've ever had.

Fucking useless.

#IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm
February 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
clodaghtait.bsky.social
For some reason every time they say 'Cortina' my mind prefixes it with 'Funky Ford'. #Dustin #SpéirGorm
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social
The National Museum of Ireland - Natural History has 350 custom display cases from 1850s to 1910s that are part of the major conservation of the building www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
@nmireland.bsky.social @archiseek.bsky.social #SpeirGorm
Reviving the Past: Restoring Historic Display Cases for a New Generation | National Museum of Ireland
Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions
www.museum.ie
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
darylfeehely.com
The country owes @cmatbaby.bsky.social a huge debt.

#Speirgorm
thejournal.ie The Journal @thejournal.ie · 3d
Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said it is "not clear to me" what George Mitchell is being accused of over his appearance in the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. jrnl.ie/6947568
Bertie Ahern says 'it's not clear' what George Mitchell is being accused of over Epstein files
The latest release of files related to Epstein appeared to show that he and Mitchell corresponded via email between 2010 and 2013.
jrnl.ie
February 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
aidanobrien.bsky.social
Lookit, #speirgorm we’re doing this wrong. We need to stop compulsively correcting the British on this kind of nonsense, it’s clearly pathological.

Instead, we should just shut up and not say anything. Worst case scenario is they end up building some transport infrastructure in Ireland by mistake…
acjsissons.bsky.social Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 1d
Absolutely tremendous work here, no notes.

(Apart from to say that this proposal is by the actual president of RIBA)
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
irishphilosophy.bsky.social
A modest proposal for Irish cyclists.

Maximum visibility.

#SpéirGorm
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2d
Meeting the contemporary safety standards in #earlymodern Europe by wearing a helmet - decorated with plumes. Safety first, #skystorians.
Armed knight on horseback riding to the left; decorated with large plumes. The woodcut is from 1509. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-274
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM