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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🕯️🦇👹 If you happen to find yourself in belfast on halloween Samhain Flash Day at Skullduggery Tatú. October 31st 75 Dublin Road Belfast 🕯️Find us on Instagram.🕯️

A poster for a tattoo flash event that consists of a carved Halloween or Samhain turnip sitting on an old wooden table with text that reads

"Skullduggery Tatú
Samhain Flash Day
Oct 31st
Helen Skullduggery
TKD Tattoo
BOTC
75 Dublin Road
10am-6pm"

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Another long shift deep down in the drinking a little bit of cider and drawing a whole lot of flash mines.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There he is. Relaxing after a hard day of sleeping or protecting the gaff from evil spirits or wandering between various sources of food and water while hooting and hollering. The magic man.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"There he is now, look, alone in his polytunnel with his pitiful competition onions, neglected for two weeks in Cuba. A no-rosette situation for Mr Galbraith."

A black and white photograph of competition winning leeks taken at the Belfast autumn fair

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I realised today that I've not posted on here in an age so here's a new thing I'm currently working on. A cheap and cheerful mini zine concerning Belfast, portals and psychogeography 🌀🌀🌀📍📍📍 #tattoozine #belfasttattoo #irelandtattoo #scabwitch #folktattoo #folkart #psychogeography

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

‘Thugamar fein an samhradh linn’ Summertime, summertime, milk of the calves We brought the summer with us Golden summertime of the bright dsies We brought the summer with us.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thugamar fein an samhradh linn Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna Thugamar féin an samhradh linn Samhradh buí na neoinín glégheal Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A visit to Cailleach Bhéaras House, Slieve Gullion, Co.Armagh 8/6/25 The highest surviving Burial Cairn in Ireland. The music is "Whirling, Swirling and Demented" by Ziggurath #neolithic #bronzeage #megalithic #ireland

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Even if you never show it to anyone, at least you'll have engaged in an intensely human act for your own personal amusement, which is time well spent if you ask me. 🖤

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If you have an urge to create something, be it music, art, writing, poetry or drawing a cock in the steam on the bus window then please do not hesitate...

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

You could see this painting as a tiny act of joyful wine-fueled resistance to the approaching tsunami of AI art. A child's crayon scribbles proudly pinned to a fridge door are better than anything AI will ever produce because they contain, to my mind, the essence of what it means to be human...

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Not a good painting by any stretch of the imagination, but shared here to proselytise on behalf of the sheer joy of making marks for the sake of making marks. The process is the point...

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Minninglow Hill Painted from memory on a brick wall with a mixture of acrylic and masonry paint I found in the shed when I moved into my house, with a brush that I found on the floor... (A thread)

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tattoos and japery at Skullduggery Tatú

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And with that, the places we came from are linked and blanketed by ancient memory of oak trees. One of the many wonderful aspects of this line of work ✌️

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Derwent is derived from Brittonic river name *Deruentiū, Latinised as Deruentiō, meaning "(belonging/pertaining to the) forest of oak trees"; the old river name survived in medieval Welsh poetry, such as Peis Dinogat ("Dinogad's Smock") attached to the larger poem Y Gododdin, as Derwennydd."

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Dair is the Irish name of the seventh letter of the Ogham alphabet, "oak". The Old Irish: dair (Early Old Irish: daur) is related to Welsh derw(en) and to Breton derv(enn). Its Proto-Indo-European root was dóru ("tree"), possibly a deadjectival noun of deru-, drew- ("hard, firm, strong, solid")."

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Derry, is an anglicisation of the Irish Daire or Doire, which translates as 'oak-grove/oak-wood'. The name derives from the settlement's earliest references, Daire Calgaich ('oak-grove of Calgach')"

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fun conversations and enlightening linguistic links between homelands the other day with Lauren-

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Church came to the Tree. Tattoo design inspired by Sacred Trees and Holy Wells. Available to be tattooed #tattoo #belfasttattoo #tattoobelfast #folklore #folktattoo

Black and white photo of a tattoo design. A stylised hawthorn tree in the shape of a crucifix with a shroud hung over the branches

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Some new designs based on the work of Albrecht Dürer, ready to be tattooed. #tattoo #belfasttattoo #tattoobelfast #dürer

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

just checked the news. there's a bunch of really bad stuff in there

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"the little bird that whistled shrill from the nib of its yellow bill a note let go o’er Belfast Lough— a blackbird from a yellow whin" Ciaran Carson

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Maybe she's wearing a homemade bomb vest

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

And for the laugh, the most stunning paragraph to ever mention Irish snow. James Joyce, The Dead

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

i see Baby New Year has already violently shit its diaper several times

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Slieve Croob, County Down. A new years day walk with friends to visit the source of the River Lagan and the remnants of the Neolithic cairn at the summit #ireland #irishlandscape #neolithic #riverlagan

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I love how each comment gets more laughably ridiculous until we reach, at almost blistering speed, "woke IRA".

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Béal Feirste- OPENING NIGHT 12TH OF DECEMBER @ BOUNDARY TAPROOM 6-9PM NEST:NEAD A group exhibition and silent auction to raise money for organisations working with unhoused folks in NI. This is shaping up to be a really great exhibition and a chance to raise money for a very worthy cause. 🙏🙏🙏

NEST:NEAD is a group exhibition of over 30 individuals from artists to community groups that have painted and decorated birdhouses. All birdhouses have kindly been made by NI Conservation Volunteers. The exhibition will be held at Boundary Taproom 12-15 of December.
Opening night is on 12 December 6-9pm.
A silent auction will be held with all proceeds going to The Simon Community and Anaka Women's Collective.

(My piece is called PROTECTION, inspired by apotropaic marks and spells.)

Picture of the front of a bird box, covered in carved "pinwheel" protective marks and rusted nails.

(My piece is called PROTECTION, inspired by apotropaic marks and spells.)

Picture of a bird box, covered in carved "pinwheel" protective marks and rusted nails.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

There is a certain type of older British male mind that firmly believes, with an almost unshakable conviction, that it valiantly fought and died in both the first and second world war.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Spooky Advent day 9: Binoculars behaving badly - A View from a Hill by M R James, adapted for television by Peter Harness, and directed by Luke Watson, broadcast first on 23rd December 2005.

A black and white illustration - two men are silhouetted looking out over the countryside from a hill. One looks through a pair of binoculars, and the other points ahead with a walking stick. Above them we can see what the man sees through his binoculars - on the left in the background, an abbey surrounded by trees, and on the right, nearer to us, a corpse swinging from a gibbet surrounded by crows

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Gurranes, or The Three Fingers, Three Ladies, Five Fingers. County Cork, Ireland. #standingstonesunday

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So good luck to the ploughboys, wherever they may be That takes the sweet maidens to sit all on their knee Of all love acknowledge as one rules the day There′s no life like the ploughboys' in the merry month of May

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

As he was coming home from the rakes of the town With the meadows being green and the grass just cut down As she should chance to stumble all in the new-mown hay "It's love me now or never" this bonnie lass did say #tattoos #woodcuttattoo #folktattoo #folk

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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/12/2024

this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared

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Novara Media @novaramedia.com · 05/12/2024

Amnesty International has published a landmark report concluding that Israel’s assault on Gaza constitutes genocide, in a move that may normalise the term within political and media arenas, writes @rivkahbrown.bsky.social.

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