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Stephanie Rains 🪼

@acidrains.bsky.social
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The Barbara Woodhouse of llamas. Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com

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Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social · 19h
And of course we could never do anything just because it is the Right Thing To Do. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
irishexaminer.com
Taoiseach: Boycott of Israel match may 'harm' Ireland with no benefit to Palestinians
Pro-Palestinian groups have called on the FAI and players to scrap the Uefa Nations League fixture over Israel’s war in Gaza and illegal settlements in the West Bank
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 19h
Sunday morning #speirgorm
Orange and black dramatic striped sky over Dublin Bay with Howth head silhouetted in the distance
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is an amazing gem for someone (me!) teaching a module on podcasting to Irish students this semester. RIP, the podcast 👻
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Owls only do this in daylight when they’re very distressed
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 02/10/2026
Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the state agency responsible for roads (and greenways), using pure AI slop. Left hand drive car, sign on wrong side of road, driver looking behind her 🤦‍♂️
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We belatedly watched Red King (2024) and not only is it surprisingly good (excellent performances and terrifying props/costumes) but it's impossible not to suspect that the creators of Widow's Bay didn't see it too. The similarities are...startling.
poster for The Red King TV series, looking down a crowd of actors, some looking up towards us with their faces upturned, others wearing absolutely terrifying masksposter for Widow's Bay, showing two figures at sea in a red rowing boat, with the island and a lighthouse in the background
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She actually goes further than that and seems to have latched onto the Acts of Union as super-important. By her logic you’re British not English if your lineage includes Scottish ancestors. How many and how far back, who knows? What if you didn’t even know you had a Scottish great-grandparent? 🤷‍♀️
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WE WILL REBUILD. www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/people/...
Northumberland Gazette 

Public toilets in Morpeth's Carlisle Park targeted by vandals.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you zoom in, even the guy next to him looks a bit taken aback by this.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
QRP with your skull art! #photography #Salzburg
Photograph of life size marble carvings of two skulls (one wearing a cap) on the memorial to a bishop inside a church in Salzburg, Austria)
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While looking for something else, I just discovered that from 1928 till at least 1936, members of the Gardaí weren’t allowed to vote. What was that about?!
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s so happy!
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’d like Cork to explain to me how or why it has stray portaloos, surely the Council could re-home them?
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LIVE: Crash and stray portaloo cause major South Ring delays
Long tailbacks forming
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So in other words, this GP agrees that the 3-day waiting period is currently preventing some people from getting the abortion they need.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday I spent 20 mins filling in 10 words + my signature in a pdf form, and that’s despite having the paid-for version of Adobe.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nobody tell the HSE about this, I got mine for free last week. Run to your local pharmacy!
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And often *in the middle of teaching*, which happened to me (yet again) yesterday!
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Paula Gilligan @gilliganpaula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Does anyone have any experience of this company-Gaelspell software? #Cruinneog cruinneog.com
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GaelSpell Irish Spelling Checker and Irish Grammar Checker Anois
Irish spelling checker GaelSpell and Irish grammar checker Anois for Microsoft Word on Windows and Mac.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shouldn’t this mean McGregor is also charged?
rte.ie
Man, woman charged with perjury over McGregor appeal
A man and a woman have been charged with perjury following an investigation by gardaí into evidence filed in Conor McGregor's failed appeal against a civil court jury's finding that he raped Nikita Ha...
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It astonishes me that those of us whose laptops contain confidential work info (in my case student marks, personal info shared via email etc) haven’t been told by our employers to absolutely under NO circumstances download or activate these things (including Copilot on our emails)!
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m really hoping it’s dogging, if only because the MoD has been at great pains to claim they already knew ALL about it before the 999 call and this plot twist would make things quite sticky for them (so to speak) 😁
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Several Circles by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And tell me, is there a Mrs Anzalone?
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is horrifying stuff - location tracking, constant messaging etc, it’s full-on stalker behaviour. Thank god that when I went to university there was one pay phone for a hall of 150 students so we were almost unreachable except in an emergency. Weekly(ish) letters seemed to work just fine!
bbc.com
'It's a brutal adjustment': How to cope when your child goes to university
Parents say social media groups and tracking apps are feeding their anxiety about children who have recently gone to uni.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hahahahaha 😆
Irish Times story thumbnail headline "John Boyne: "I can't compare myself to Oscar Wilde, but I certainly feel a connection", under photo of him sitting in an overly-familiar way next to the Oscar statue.
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Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
My money is on the worms in the mid-to longer term
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm absolutely baffled by this. Even assuming you want both Meta and AI in your life, why do you want a whole extra device to carry around as well as your phone, which this in no way replaces? Madness.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do have sympathy for teachers on this front. Imagine if university departments had to hold daily assemblies?! I’d definitely have resorted to interpretive dance and random renting by now, and there’d probably be a few defamation cases pending.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
today I went to work wearing jeans and a blue-and-white striped long-sleeved t-shirt. And so did an astonishing number of other women - from students to colleagues to random women on the train, it's been like participating in a female Where's Waldo all day.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every word of this is more surprising than the last.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@dublincommuters.bsky.social is there anything to be said for a fare strike by Dubliners? Would be in the spirit of the looming public sector pay strikes!
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our v unhinged deputy headmistress did an assembly on how she’d travelled to Africa over the summer, her whole party were taken hostage by guerrillas and she negotiated their release. We were all sure none of this had happened, but did agree anyone who kidnapped Mrs Lindley would have regretted it.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Imagine trusting your dog to this man’s care 😱
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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're a totally normal academic / columnist then it's totally normal for you to appear on a totally normal conspiracy theory podcast to promote your latest book.
A screenshot from an RSS reader of a podcast called The Irish Channel hosted by Paul Treyvaud, Elaine Mullally and Nick Delehanty. The episode is titled "Is Irish Media Biased? Guest Host Eoin O'Malley"
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Appalling headline and framing of this report (which may also be appalling itself). Clearly it’s not 6 out of which 10 people, cos it certainly isn’t 60% of the general population. FFS, RTÉ.
rte.ie
Six in ten people turn to AI for mental health support
Six in ten people in Ireland are now turning to artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for mental health support, with a third of those saying that the advice has led to harmful behaviour.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On an unrelated matter, the new semester has begun so I’m commuting by train regularly again. No, I don’t know why this post struck such a chord 🤷‍♀️
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dublin By Dusk | Kildare Street After-hours 🌃 Visit the Reading Room and enjoy talks, tours and more at the NLI. 📅 Thurs, 24 Sept 2026 | 5pm - 8.30pm ow.ly/E8re50ZJgfj 🌙 #DublinByDusk invites you to experience Dublin city as it stays open late on the last Thursday of every month.
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Dublin By Dusk | Kildare Street After-hours
Visit the Reading Room and enjoy talks, tours and more at the NLI
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A 70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First light on Dublin Bay
A line of dark gold on the horizon behind Howth Head and over the water, as the sun first begins to appear A pink gold sky mirrored in the water at Baldoyle
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Because who could forget the talking lion in the Bible?
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In the United Kingdom we also have a constitution day, but its date is not written down.
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Where I do my posting from
Image of Bunsen Honeydew standing in the Muppet Lab, from the 1970s original show. Behind him is a 1969s era computer, huge with random lights
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#spéirgorm
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Conor McGregor would absolutely love being President once he found out what the job actually involves, wouldn't he? You can just picture him doing it 😱
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I mean, come on. I know a tabby when I see one.
Photo of a small tabby cat with a slightly daft expression Photo of a small cat with tabby markings and a slightly fierce expression, over headline: Meet the First New
Cat Species
Discovered in 100...
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Never let anyone tell you modern youth has no sense of tradition. Incoming 1st years were mainly born in 2008, yet they know who the yardstick for deep loathing is!
Ucd debate soc poster with a photo of Thatcher and the words: THIS HOUSE WOULD RATHER DRINK WITH THATCHER THAN DRINK WITH A TRINITY
STUDENT
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Shihotan, a white rabbit with a red bow tie and a legal book, is the mascot for the Tokyo Judicial Scriveners’ Association.
A white rabbit with a red bow tie, a pink vest, and a book stands in front of a blue-and-white striped tent.
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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.
A graph of Noem and Kash
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just another hard day’s work here at Cat Towers.
A pale tabby cat laying on her back with her paws in the air in a patch of sunlight on a red fluffy rug
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