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Ruth Ní E

@rowfas.bsky.social
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Work in kids books. Craft to excess. Badly in need of a sarcasm font. she/her/sí/í

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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How to make Ed look even worse with minimal effort
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sorry now, who let Miriam Lord retire? Can we not.. sue somebody to stop this
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Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An important thing we’ve been practicing for YEARS already with our 3 year old twin boys. “Can I give you a kiss?” And if they say “no” we don’t give them a damn kiss. They now ask us, too, and we practice that it’s okay to be disappointed and also FINE if we ever say no. This is about Cornell.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is… several strong expletives.
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Gavin Cooney @gcooney93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0 Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really don't talk enough about the utter contempt certain quarters of the southern political and media establishment have for northern nationalists. not in a subtle way, not in an "if you think about it" way, just open disgust and disdain for people they would rather didn't exist
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s not a conflict, it’s a genocide. Stick that on your armbands.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Massive credit to Bazunu and the exact proportionate absolute shade that the FAI deserve for this shambles. What a way to treat your own players.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Somehow the news I needed today
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hope with all my heart that somewhere you are keeping a record of his wisdom. Kids are just so entirely themselves, we’re lucky when we get to see it
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sign you’re doing something right 😂
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fully gave Ed Sheeran credit for knowing exactly who Macklemore is and what he was going to say and do. So that’ll be me eating my words and shaking my damn head at the state of him.
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Obstrepero @bockdr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you're neutral on genocide, you're pro-genocide.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rupert Grint eh… uh
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you’re celebrating the death of a child in any context you are the problem. I know comment sections exist only to expose the evils of the world but the way some people are openly spewing hate about children these week - no matter the context - would really make you wonder.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If a technology comes with devastating and ongoing environmental and social costs that we can't afford as a species, I don't think you should use it. This should not evem be a debate no matter how handy that technology is. Learn the skill or pay someone.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I know advice columns are nonsense but it’s actively harmful to have the paper of record publish advice that a misogynist with rage issues should be approach with acceptance and understanding. Sorry now. Straight into the sea with him.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m going to put money on, wife who married you saw it coming!
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Kate O’Connor. Just unreal.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres.
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Suzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Mediocre white men with gaps in their CVs, investigations and findings proven of DV, SA, harassment and bullying survive in their academic ivory towers.
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today an English woman who just moved to Ireland told me she couldn’t get a GP because the government is “letting too many people in”.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well this is embarrassing
Photograph of two identical copies of a blue book. The title in black script reads “Where are the Kings” and underneath in print the authors name is given - Donal Ryan. A sketch of a boy with a cloud in the background appears above the title
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The combination vaccines all started out as individual vaccines and were combined over time as the *science* showed that it was safe and effective to do so, that the immune load was fine, that it resulted in children being protected earlier and more consistently, etc.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I cannot believe we as a species are still letting single use cups be a thing. We copped on re plastic bags decades ago and then designed new ways to trash the place.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A timeline cleansing thread if ever there was one
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The great Jess Kav on the soul-searching (or lack thereof) in the Irish music scene over the last week or so
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The thicket of un-grooming and the Irish music industry
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The word ‘now’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I was a very mature human and checked to confirm that I have already ordered the new Dónal Ryan from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social before accidentally ordering a second copy as I have done more than once in the past. Call it personal growth.
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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 05/08/2026
We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen
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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:
Sinead o'connor tearing up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Monstrous nonsense
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Quite
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What did I just read. Heartbroken for this girl. Would love some/any evidence that official Ireland genuinely abhors sexual violence. More than “basic” sex ed and proper information around consent being mandatory from senior primary school classes would be a good start.
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Teen ‘misinterpreted’ girl’s request for help and had sex with her, court heard
Boy is to serve a year’s detention for defilement of 16-year-old girl
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just 6 or 7 years ago, this was a clear-felled Sitka plantation. NONE of these native trees were planted, they all self-seeded. And, in contrast to Sitka, this is a natural ecosystem that WON'T burn, and WILL be fantastic habitat for 1,000s of native species. Nature knows what to do, if we let it.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Between the Leto story and everything else it's as abundantly clear as ever that way too many people still don't care about or acknowledge the harm many men in the public eye do to women and girls, even when it's an open secret.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/07/2026
what the fuck do you mean "everyone is using AI and nobody admits it." what the fuck do you mean. who are you talking to. you have allowed a demon to devour your soul. begone
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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
If you don't want to be spoken ill of when you are dead, don't be a caution, don't be a person other's have to warn about. #Spéirgorm
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Bless Richie Sadlier. That is all.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Because nobody shouted stop
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
How is “Samantha Morton is the best thing in this film” a headline anywhere let alone everywhere. Google exists, she is spectacular, this cannot be considered news.
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very fair. We should discuss them. Over gin.
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