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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 7h

A great bit of history here. I'm looking forward to the rest of the spooky October repertoire too! 🎃 #Speirgorm

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I'm so grateful for this pushback. I'm grateful to be seeing widespread pushback against AI because of the cost to the environment, our wallets, and our rights, but I'm worried that too few people are pushing back because it undermines our trust in expertise and experience. #spéirgorm

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Intelligent arguments about complex realities are HARD. Stupid arguments about prejudiced fantasies are EASY.

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Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed this chat with David. Grab yourself a glass of wine or a cup of tea and spend an hour in our company. You won’t regret it. Thanks for joining me, @daithitoms.bsky.social

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hylyween 🎃🍭 @hayleymulch.com · 01/10/2026

I literally had no time to share this on socials until now. But catch me at Cork Comic Con this weekend at the Marina Market!!! #CorkComicCon #MarinaMarket #convention #market #Ireland #Cork #SpéirGorm

HayleyMulch will be at... Cork Comic Con. Artist Alley is in Event Hall 1!

And I will be here! I literally only got my merch finalised and packed tonight so I can't show you the new stuff I'll have so you'll have to come down and see me to find out :)

also my name is spelled wrong on the map, disregard pls ty

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't think of a better way to start October than with Max Klinger's Der Tod am Wasser (Der pinkelnde Tod), c. 1880. Yes, that's Death taking a leak. Remember your mortality and stay hydrated! 💀

Max Klinger, Der Tod am Wasser (Der pinkelnde Tod), c. 1880, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. A vertically formatted landscape painting with the figure of Death as a skeleton resting his scythe on the ground and taking a piss

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

As someone who used to work in a letterpress shop printing broadsides (yes! People still do this!): yes.

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Evan Romero @pilgerschloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We need a European plan for the ICC to have this court continue to function,” said French MEP Chloé Ridel. Last year, Ridel secured backing for an EU statute that would allow EU companies to ignore US sanctions against the ICC, but it has not been activated.

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shocked, just shocked that the FAI is mess.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is #InternationalTranslationDay, so it's the perfect time to share our new resource: Why Translators Are Better. Download it now on the Resources section of our website.

Translators are explorers. They are seekers. They are the book's greatest asset and champion.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The end times religious fervor of it all is absolutely real. :)

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saying you're like Tomas MacCurtain (dismantling the British state in Ireland) while pleading for a colonial-era barracks to be preserved is quite a thing. #speirgorm #SpéirGhorm

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Harmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The systems in this country for diluting, diffusing, obfuscating and ultimately disappearing responsibility and accountability are very well developed.

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For anyone wanting to mark #bannedbooksweek in Ireland, I made some resources. I might even do an online book club, watch this space #Speirgorm #SpéirGhorm #censorship bannedbooksweekireland.censored.ie

bannedbooksweekireland.censored.ie

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This will another cost and barrier for those who need to travel for healthcare. Those who time out, or those who are dealing with complex health issues or fatal fetal conditions which our law & services still fail 8 years after #repeal www.bbc.com/news/article... #spéirgorm #abortionishealthcare

bbc.com

Passports needed for ferry passengers travelling between UK and Ireland

Previously, passengers were able to use other forms of ID, such as driving licences and national identity cards.

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George Marshall Medical Museum @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our superb collection of anatomical volumes has recently come back from Worcestershire Archives and Archaeology after being conserved and digitized by the team. They'll soon be stored, and made available to researchers in the future. Come along to our talk to find out more.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great news. Ireland’s libraries are one of the best parts of our society. (And I’m not just saying that because I’m married to a librarian) #SpeirGorm

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Actual contempt for pedestrians, bus users, cyclists in this city is its worst feature

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After E2 I am confused as to #Scandal relates to Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The Valmont who repulses and fascinates me is not in this version. How will I both love & loathe his later suffering if I feel sorry for him already?

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek

The cover of Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and early-twentieth-century British literature. At the top, the title is in white on dark blue, with the subtitle below in dark yellow. The image is a hand taking a blank-spined book from a shelf; the other spines have the names of classic novels crossed out.

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FalconWizard @falconwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ed Sheeran having his show at Robert Kraft’s stadium canceled due to weather is not just funny, but cosmically hilarious.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The more I look at it, the more this graph at the end of my most recent Gist explains the behaviour of so many of Ireland's political parties. SF, for example, simply can't deal with 50% of its supporters looking to strengthen institutions while the other 50% want to blow them up.

Stacked bar chart from More in Common, June 2026. Question: "Which comes closest to your view? Please use a scale of 1–4 where 1 means you agree with the first statement and 4 means you agree with the second." Statement 1: "Our political and social institutions are worth preserving and improving, not destroying." Statement 4: "When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking 'just let them all burn.'" Results in percent, listed as 1 (preserve), 2, 3, 4 (burn):

All respondents: 28, 30, 22, 20.
Fianna Fáil: 46, 29, 13, 11.
Sinn Féin: 25, 25, 25, 25.
Fine Gael: 47, 31, 13, 9.
Green Party: 46, 22, 21, 12.
Labour: 36, 36, 20, 8.
Social Democrats: 23, 49, 22, 7.
Independent Ireland / Aontú: 15, 28, 27, 29.
Other: 28, 26, 21, 26.
Non-voters: 20, 32, 25, 23.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wearing number 19, Natalie smiled for photos with a scarf reading An Phalaistín, designed by Dublin artist Spicebag, over her shoulders. Two years later she is sitting in an Israeli jail. She faced her sixth court hearing yesterday evening. www.ontheditch.com/we-are-livin...

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Palestinian footballer who played Bohs stuck in Israeli jail

“We are living a nightmare,” her father told The Ditch.

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very funny but true #speirgorm

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Fully restored in 4K and cut to Ken Russell’s specific direction, Ken Russell’s The Devils is the first publicly released version of the film as intended by the filmmaker." Can it really be true? they found the missing bits? sign me up! www.bfi.org.uk/news/ken-rus...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils definitive 4K restoration to launch ahead of major BFI retrospective

BFI Distribution and Warner Bros. Clockwork unveil a 30 October 2026 cinema release and a major BFI Southbank retrospective celebrating Ken Russell’s work in summer 2027.

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope that someday I write a book worthy of the praise provided by the AI-written spam emails that offer to advertise them for a fee.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Irish people live in fields.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the most enduring characters of the last 40 years in cinema is a guy called Hannibal who is a cannibal.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was at a wedding with a bunch of industry folk (mostly editors) a few weeks ago. People I hadn’t seen since I left the industry, and with well established careers cutting tv & features. I had 5? 6? Conversations with people who wanted to know how I transitioned out of the industry.

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Row' over monuments to Irish Travellers in a Sheffield graveyard ('haunted crazy golf' aside, comments on FB about them are actually quite positive). metro.co.uk/2026/09/21/b...

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Row erupts after 30-tonne memorial appears next to headstone of 'traveller king'

The gaudy memorial for Michael Collins stands just metres from a similar shrine to his brother.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drawing created by Paul Davidson c.1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where he was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of his surviving works & no biographical information is currently known to us

A crayon drawing of a white boy’s head with short brown hair and purple and orange rays emitting from his eyes, he is inside a square structure reminiscent of a window of theatre set with prance curtains, above a rectangle full of blue and green stars with red legs, and on either side are hands with their index fingers pointed

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think this is worse than plagiarism. At least plagiarism involves some human effort and probably some guilt.

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's mildly hilarious to me that when I google DORA looking for Defence of the Realm Act, I get DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act instead.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have to say there's something a bit ironic about writing a while piece about how the new cartographie representation reminds us how small Ireland is and how it is not tve centre of the world but then only talking about the maps implications for Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Fintan O'Toole: The new map of Earth is a wake-up call for Ireland

On the Equal Earth map, Ireland suddenly looks a lot more northernly and a lot less central - no longer the much-vaunted ‘island at the centre of the world’

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 1954 British production THE PURPLE PLAIN cast a Burmese actress (from Burma!) to play the Burmese lead role. Okay, so Gregory Peck plays a Canadian but still… 🤪

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Historically, automation tech has commonly made more work for people: the issue is WHICH people. Whether as an excuse for owners to increase the requirements for expectations in a given day, lessen the labor expected of men while raising the expectations for women, etc. "AI" isn't exceptional.

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Kev ó Mhaigh Eo @kevfrommayo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"In a wide ranging statement, Mayo LGFA concluded by asking for everyone involved in Gaelic games around the country to, "ask your county board when its Integration Committee is holding its first meeting, and ask to see the minutes". #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/sport/womens...

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Mayo LGFA calls for firm timetable on integration

Mayo LGFA has called on the integration of all three Gaelic games organisations to happen quickly as the fallout from the resignation of Mary McAleese continues.

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hmm. It doesn't feel like much has changed.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beoga records, merch and tickets: www.beogamusic.com/store Aaron Rowe records, merch and tickets: www.aaron-rowe.com#merch

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Time for another feature doc on 'aren't we great all the same, us little Irish people with our big jobs abroad' that ignores any of the political/moral stuff

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If this was my writing mantra, I'd never do a thing

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A king can't tell a lie - the holy oil will burn a hole in his forehead if he does. (honestly would prefer if Brits said this out loud instead of their unspoken weird demi-god monarchism)

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