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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 19h

Nearly 40 years ago, my sister and I raised some money to send our parents on a trip to Venice to celebrate their anniversary. Since our parents have now passed, I brought their photos from that trip with me on my own trip to Venice, determined to try and find the hazy locations they took photos of.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Am really wondering what part of “some children don’t like to be hugged and the adults around them should respect that” does not reflect the views of the Irish government. #speirghorm

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

Need to stop assuming leftist views mean someone is an ally to women. Many men, including darlings of the left in Irish entertainment and beyond, have used the cover of progressive causes and legal threats to silence credible accusations of sexual violence from women. It's not a reliable indicator.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

The thing with leftist men that'll trip you up is that they will say "all people deserve dignity and equality" and they do genuinely mean it so you think you're in the clear. Then you realise they don't think of women as people and you're like "of course"

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/10/2026

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 30/09/2026

Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/10/2026

‘If it wasn't for the Irish, the Americans and the Jamaicans, English literature wouldn't exist anymore’ We sat down for a quick chat with Marlon James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026 with The Disappearers.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

You'd get awful weary of performative feminist allyship from men all the same. The lack of real care feels ingrained at times.

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Eoin Smith @eoinsmith.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Still in a dream (2026) - Simon Reynolds Shoegave, slackers and the reinvention of rock, 1984-1994

Front cover of Still in a dream by Simon Reynolds

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Love when the sky in the morning gets a bit "upside-down desert" 🏜️

The clouds looking all golden and dune-y.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

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Mim @mimmcloughlin.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

walking my dog along a wooded trail in the pitch dark this morning, came across a pure white cat, totally unfazed and unmoved by my presence. just calmly stared me down. never encountered this cat before on my morning walks… I was spooked but maybe I am the witch?

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 20/10/2026

“Only cats and witches walk in the dark.” — Agatha Christie

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

i.m. Douglas Dunn 23/10/42 - 16/10/26

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

#OTD in 1985, a-ha reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Take On Me," becoming the first Norwegian group to achieve a U.S. number-one hit. Directed by Steve Barron, the music video used a pencil-sketch animation technique called rotoscoping combined with live action.

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A-ha: Take On Me Music Video Mirror Scene

Alt: A-ha: Take On Me Music Video Mirror Scene

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Mim @mimmcloughlin.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

first crush … Morten Harket … sigh 🥰

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Terrible experience this morning when a totally unknown dog got into my house, chased the cat and got muddy paws on the sofa, then disappeared. I was out of the room but Rory told me all about it.

A beige sofa daubed with black paw prints, like something from a comic.

A dog of unparalleled innocence wishes he could only explain how much he wasn’t the dog that made the cat bolt out of the cat flap a minute ago and also those paws don’t even look like his, fam.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19/10/2026

Grand Canal and the church of Santa Maria del Salute. Venice. Italy. Inge Morath, 1955

large domed building with silhouetted gondolas floating by

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

Someone holding a piece of muslin fabric.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

“Through colour, I have sought to concentrate on beauty & happiness, rather than on man's inhumanity to man.” - Alma Thomas (1891-1978) US painter #womensart #Monday

Abstract painting with multicoloured circles within a circle created with small dashes

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Susan G @susangriff.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Good Morning all. A misty morning sunrise earlier this sunny Sunday Morning #speirgorm

Field, trees, part of a house and hills in the distance with some lifting mist and "first light", (a reddish/orange tint in the sky), taken from an upstairs window around sunrise.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 17/10/2026

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers

Woman in bed with smoking pipe, husband standing at foot of the bed.
Woman: “Darling, it’s not what it looks like!”

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The Blisters of Percy @theblistersofpercy.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. Virginia Woolf The Waves

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Someone just told me that The Princess Bride is "overrated" and long story short it's perfectly acceptable to remove toxic people from your life,

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Oscar Wilde, born on this day in 1854: “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” -Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

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