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Mary C

@maryocarolan.bsky.social
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The Chief Brody of wasps. Cat herder. Buzzkill.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h
Disability can happen to anyone at any time. It’s not due to deconditioning or a moral failing. Many chronic illnesses are the result of a viral infection from which the body never recovers. We need more awareness, treatments & clean air to reduce viral spread. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...
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Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis
Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.
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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 15/10/2026
Can't believe the product "Pervert Spy Glasses" from company "Collect every piece of information it can about you to sell to the highest bidder" was somehow not trustworthy
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Local news today reminding me exactly why the performatively religious give me the dry boak. Instant suspicion like. Automatic assumption of a closet stuffed to the brim with skeletons.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
- Perhaps you’d like to try again? “Aaaahhh…uhhhmmmm”. -I’ll expect the refund in my account as quickly as you removed the money from my account, shall I? 👿
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
-So, to clarify, it’s at my house right now? “Yes, we are looking at the map right now”. So am I pet, and the map shows a warehouse in Birmingham, a mere *467* miles or so away (actually more, I live nowhere near Newry)
Map of the distance from the British border in Ireland to the location of my parcel.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Chasing a delivery for an item I ordered 4/52 ago and paid for 48hr tracked delivery on. “It’s just been delivered” -To my house? “Yes, to the address you gave us <quotes my address>”. -Can I see proof? The email a photo (of my parcel in a warehouse), and a map of the location.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have laughed harder than I thought possible at this. It’s a hollow laugh, admittedly.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Here she is, Her Demonic Majesty. I informed my da, her enabler, and she got fed treats for being “so smart”. At least she’s tiny I suppose. It minimises the damage.
Small, dark brown miniature Shetland, glaring at the photographer.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I ordered her out and she jumped up on some hay bales, eyeballed me and then *jumped at me*. Like Brett “The Hitman” Hart. I was not prepared for this evolution, using terrain to enhance her attack.
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Wwe Wwe Meme
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So I have a rescued Shetland pony, and like all Shetlands she is a) bonkers, b)full of attitude and c) a teensy bit evil. Tonight I was sorting her dinner out and she burst in to where I keep hay, to steal extra food whilst waiting for her food (also d) greedy). …
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
May he get everything he deserves.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Imagine having the resources he has, the ability to do pretty much whatever you want, and still being so entirely pathetic. If it was anyone else I could almost feel sorry for them.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Of. I’m clearly in no position to question anyone’s standards of literacy. And yet.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The West Wing really taught me to expect a lot off a press secretary. But then there’s this:
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just had to pluck a coarse grey hair from my chin and worst of all, I had to put my varifocals on to do it. #spry
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Fabulous Man with Mustache and Glitter
Alt: Fabulous Man with Mustache and Glitter
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ah yes, the eternal quest of the lunatic fringe of unionism. To put manners back on them taigs. 🙄
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Do you think we could have a week or two without hearing from Binlid or Carla. Also an embargo on the phrase “rule of law”? For our health, you know?
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Moira Rose's Iconic Shush
Alt: Moira Rose's Iconic Shush
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wee puce Jim is literally going to burst, isn’t he? We happened to be in Ballymoney last week and husband actually rolled down the car window to give his constituency office the finger. It’s on a bad bend, so if you feel the need, do get a friend or spouse to drive you. Safety first and all.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Using a firing squad to execute a man who has to be put in a chair due to an inability to stand *nearly always* ends well doesn’t it? It practically never causes such horror and revulsion that the populace rise up to overthrow the government. Almost never.
James Connolly. 

Those that overthrow the government definitely don’t name hospitals and train stations after the executed person either.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not now COVID, NOT NOW! 🙄
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Jean Milburn's Frustration: For F*ck's Sake!
Alt: Jean Milburn's Frustration: For F*ck's Sake!
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry to hear that, she was a gorgeous girl. A shitty thing to happen.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The child is at a birthday party, so I am at the Port, eating ice cream with my bad self.
Portstewart, wee beach at the prom.Portstewart Strand. Sky.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
God. Imagine getting stuck beside that roaring dose on public transport? Or in a pub.
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Man with Spray Bottle Meme
Alt: Man with Spray Bottle Meme
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week on Apocalypse Carousel:
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, a pro ICE movie? Fuck off. Fuck off right now.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He would have willingly given ET to the government.
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Crying Boy
Alt: Crying Boy. “I’m fine”.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TIL that Ellliott from ET likes to lick fascist boots. I’m going to need to take some time to reassess.
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Ferret Every Hour @ferretperhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My god, can we normalise not treating people in public facing roles as if we are entitled to their time and politeness? No, they don’t want to go and get coffee with you. No, they don’t want to discuss their personal life. No. You are inches from death, desist. 😡
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brendan Behan: "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse”.
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s what we do here, and we do it well 😈
Secretary Reginald Maudling was reported to have remarked: "My God, give me a Scotch, what a bloody awful place."
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey you guys! We broke another Secretary of State! He’s posting positive affirmations and dissociating. Good job everyone!
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Ice Poseidon: Everybody Give Themselves A Round Of Applause
Alt: Ice Poseidon: Everybody Give Themselves A Round Of Applause
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For those following at home, this is the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, day 5 of the stand off
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any time there is a 29th February.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teenage son has just passed me and he’s carrying an industrial endoscope (attached to a phone). Has “some things to investigate”. 🧐 As long as it’s nothing organic I suppose.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 28/09/2026
If you have never seen a man drowning on dry land before
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great now I've had to witness an English person try to pronounce Armagh
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But Alternative Parade Route Wouldn't Allow Us To Pointlessly Create Tensions" Orange Order Confirm waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So many butterflies and dragonflies this year, even some unusual ones.
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look at this lovely thing in my apple trees; a Red Admiral.
Red admiral butterfly in an apple tree.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bryant is basically in the same mold as Barry Gardiner or before him Prescott, a big pugnacious presence who you deploy to run an aggressive news cycle against someone/something and that just isn't really compatible with "every side regards you as an agent of an enemy state."
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Mary C @maryocarolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The moon is fat and, as always, resistant to camera photography. I am not up to telescoping this evening due to existential malaise, so this will have to do.
Blurry picture of the Harvest Moon.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Political Unionism rarely thinks long-term. It thinks it's won a victory with the court decision on the Drumcree parade but it's actually shot itself in the foot. Its leaders are entirely to blame for allowing themselves to be brought back into a settled dispute.
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