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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 19h

Add honey and chia seeds if you like it sweet and pudding-like instead of runny gruel.

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 20h

liberté. égalité. dragonballe zeé.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 21h

It’s so difficult. I’m sorry you’re going through it.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Her: "OK I'll go out but I'm not drinking" Also her, two hours later:

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 23h

Why are men like this? The locking. The fiddling about. This is an honest question. Most women I know would have employed a screwdriver and a rubber mallet within minutes, then settled in for a cup of tea and a laughing text about the ordeal to their friends. Oh god, I hear a drill. brb

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 23h

I'm all for just bashing the lock in and being done with it. We're not using the chest for anything fancy — I emptied it of my things this past week. It'll store blankets or something benign. I'd rather not have a death trap hanging around the house.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 23h

Now he and his father are using lockpicks, WD40, and a lot of prayer to try to jimmy it open again. They looked up the make and model online and found out that this chest had been recalled decades ago because kids were climbing inside and getting locked in. Oh. Huh. Wow. Guess we got lucky.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 23h

I was given a hope chest when I was 16, nearly 40 years ago. Not once in all those years, all these moves, did I lock it. I couldn't even tell you where the keys are. Probably inside of it. When left alone with the now-emptied chest for fewer than 5 minutes, my 20-year-old son managed to lock it.

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

me, sweating and surrounded by scraps of onion skin: finally... it's done. time to chop up the corpse... *second boss health bar appears - Onion, Hateful Harvester of Tears* me: ah, beans

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

the onion: i'm one of the most delicious and flavourful vegetables and will serve as the base of 90% of your meals me: cool - so you're easy to peel and painless to prepare, right? *boss health bar appears at the bottom of the screen - Onion, Nine Layered Abomination of the Abyss* me: ah, beans

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Well, *I* would watch it. I like how you presented the calendar while describing your window of available work-hours. I'm kind of invested now.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The first of two new poems in the fall issue of @eventmags.bsky.social, this one an elegy for a childhood friend. Thanks to @raoulfernandes.bsky.social and all involved for welcoming my work.

Phillip Crymble

LTD

The Brougham with metallic paint. Champagne.
Or so your old man claimed. Each year in spring

and early fall he'd wash away the road tar—dry
the finish with a chamois—smooth the wax on

in the shade. For 40 years and more he drove
a forklift―ate bologna from a black Aladdin lunch

pail—stuck his timecard in a wall rack—did his job
without complaint. On weekends—clad in vinyl

slides—he'd fix what needed mending in the tool
room—clean the bedknife on his push reel—mow

the lawn in guileless solitude. Come evening—
with a can of ale—he'd cool off on the stoop

and smoke a Player's—sit and think a while.
The LTD beside him like the child he couldn't save.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Three hours. It was for some B2B, door-to-door sales for potted plants for waiting rooms. I was shadowing on that first day with a total creep, the work was weird and not what I wanted to be doing anyway (obviously), so I left at lunch and just. Yeah. Didn't return or call or anything.

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Sean Northridge @seannorthridge.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Mood:

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

This happened to me a few days ago, then I realised I'd somehow tapped the "Discover" tab while fumbling with my phone. It was stressful!

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blaire erskine @blaireerskine.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

happy Katie Zacharia Day Two to all who observe… enjoy it, savor it, don’t let it pass u by

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

One of the best exchanges I’ve ever seen on social media was when Lt. Cmndr Data and Bert the Chimney Sweep got into a rumble over Angela Lansbury.

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Untitled νοῦς game @pneumismatist.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The year is 2032. The Irish Defence Forces are air dropping copies of Conversations with Friends over Britain. US Vice President Mario Lopez leads the hunt for Ms. Rachel's ragtag team of well-read resistance fighters in the Appalachian mountains. Work on the Dublin Metro Link has yet to begin.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

25-year old daughter, watching this: "I'd call the cops on that thing. There's a grown man trapped in there."

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I sprained my face eyerolling at a request like that and left soon after. I was posting about local (Irish, agricultural history and land use), and someone in New Jersey, US, said I should flag traumatic historical events. Greenhouse funding schemes are traumatic there, I guess.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If you missed yesterday’s broadcast of my Agatha Christie drama on BBC Radio 4 you can listen back now on BBc Sounds via this link www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Celtic Christie - Hidden Treasures - BBC Sounds

By Jan Carson. An original drama inspired by Agatha Christie's time on the Isle of Man.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I appreciate your time on this. I'm sure you have higher priorities, but this is something affecting people in the Rush/Lusk/Skerries area (2022 census combined population is 30,424). If 58% of population is using it (2023 figures, see link), that's 17k local users. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

With so many millions of dollars being spent on this system, I think we're all interested to know what we've bought and how that's coming along. Especially in light of the recent fare hike and other budgetary news.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

We're still within their promised window, but the year is ending soon. We haven't seen improvements out here along the 33 (in Rush) so far. If anything, it's worse. It's causing disruption, cancelled medical appointments, and issues with college students missing their classes and exams.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

@samtranum.bsky.social I'm curious if there will be a followup article to this, from 2024. Has the system been implemented? With what result? If it has not been implemented yet, why not? And when will implementation be completed? www.dublininquirer.com/new-bus-trac...

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Dublin friends! Free event in the lovely @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social's beautiful Parnell St shop Booking essential. Tickets going fast according to an email I received this morning 🎉🫖 I'm massively looking forward to it. Hope to see you there. #spéirgorm #booksky 💙📚 #tae tinyurl.com/4mwd7ynp

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Afternoon Tea with a Beloved Author An intimate afternoon with Felicity

Afternoon Tea with a Beloved Author An intimate afternoon with bestselling Irish writer Felicity Hayes-McCoy

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Ariel in Seattle @lakedesire.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm teaching a new class on videogames as literature this winter. What games tell a story that can't meaningfully be told in another medium?

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hey, authors, illustrators, poets, etc in the UK and Ireland! I’ve put together a statement in support of Sally Rooney with the help of others. Message me if you’d like to sign?

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

You can survive anything for 15 minutes. Gather together what you need to do the Terrible Awful Horrible Thing you've been avoiding, set a timer, and get to work. You'll be 15 minutes closer to completing the TAHTyba, and there's a chance you'll hit some kind of flow and see it all the way through.

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Kate Halena @katehalena.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Keep writing. You didn’t create all these fictional people and ruin their lives just to abandon them halfway through.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This new Monsters Inc movie looks cool:

It's not "Monsters Inc"! Of course not! It's a b+w image from a 1950s US science fiction magazine, in which a globular one-eyed creature stands next to various humanoids. The image has been humorously repurposed with the Disney/Pixar reference. I mean, I say "humorously" ...

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Christ. Imagine the scene in the delivery room. Midwife standing 500 yards away with a catcher's mitt.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Showers, while also running the dishwasher. Filling the pasta pot with water and not chopping onions while I wait. ON-DEMAND REFILLS FOR THE BRITA FILTER JUG. I'm feeling giddy with possibilities.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

The house's water pump, which has been dying a slow death for a year now, is due to be replaced. In about five minutes, our handy plumber fella will be here and I might give him a full kiss on the face when the job's done. We have been STRUGGLING.

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

How to pay for parking.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not usually one for romance books, but in the wee hours of this morning I cracked open a book that has been in my Kindle library for maybe a year — the rom-com IF I NEVER MET YOU by Mhairi McFarlane. The opening chapter was quite fun and I'm eager to see where this goes.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The perfect Halloween costume doesn't exi...

a photo of a little kid wearing a costume of what wuold be a boiling pork carnitas casserole

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 18/08/2025

AUGUST - 2025 SALLY ROONEY IS MASTER OF LITERATURE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HER WATERSTONES ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I finished reading it last week and enjoyed it immensely. I'll be watching the show soon. Cannot wait for that scene!

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If you're a digital artist who's Irish or based in Ireland and loves game UI, send me your portfolio link. Wanna keep track of all the good folks for future funding opps. ✌️ Shares welcome!

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

People I've told about it think it's just dropping the number, then you're in the clear. It's not always that simple, and it takes a lot of time to get there in many cases. Stories like yours help keep longer-term folks like me motivated. So thank you.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

It's been three very long years of trying to figure out which things were working and which weren't. I'm hoping to lose that last digit, or more. I'll be T2 for life now; managing it well is my only goal.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Excellent! Mine is at 43, after a complicated dosage regime (T2 came on the back of a thyroid shutdown, which came on the back of a Covid infection). We think the thyroid dosage is finally right, so expect the HbA1c to behave. I was on Metformin for 1+ years but recently was switched to Ozempic.

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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Soon after we moved to Ireland, I took my art kid to one of OisÍn's workshops at the library in Blessington. Kids rolled out of there wide-eyed, fired up and clutching the things they'd worked on, which all looked brilliant. I highly recommend taking your budding artists and doodlers both to this!

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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Choccy Scoffy

The Platty Joobs dog (some sort of dachshund with a severe underbite wearily a union flag hat and bow tie, looking horrified)

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