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Swamp Ting. Writing (weird/prehistoric) Irish. No DMs. #Jimny #Horror #PostRock

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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Altar Dolmen/Dunlough. West Cork, Ireland #Ireland #megalithic #medieval
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky
Screenshot of Tumblr post by user sunshinemoonrx, reading:

‘Old Welsh lit: Dave punched Steve. This incurred a fine of twelve cattle and a nine-inch rod of silver and is known as one of the Three Mildly Annoying Blows of the Isle of Britain

Old Irish lit: Dave punched Steve so that the top of his skull came out of his chin, and gore flooded the house, and he drove his fists down the street performing his battle-feats so that the corpses were so numerous there was no room for them to fall down. It was like “the fox among the hens” and “the oncoming tide” and “that time Emily had eight drinks when we all know she should stop at six”

Old English lit: Dave, the hard man, the fierce man, the fist-man, gave Steve such a blow the like has not been seen since the feud between the Hylfings and the Wends. Thus it is rightly said that violence only begets more violence, unless of course it is particularly sicknasty. Amen.’
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is absolutely amazing but it's a bootleg without the whole song unfortunately. Still worth hearing. I think Séamus Flaherty has Jeff Buckley level talent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5TV... #music #irishmusic #tradmusic #folkmusic #seannos #ireland
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Séamus Flaherty sean-nós singing.
YouTube video by Ann Nachman
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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The same Duke who strictly enforces his pesciary rights, so that any local fishing in the Blackwater (even with a licence) is sued, because they're HIS salmon (even though he visits and fishes once a year.)
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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
pod of humpbacks in silver bay right now. lots of spouts and tail action 🐋 📍 sheet’ka, lingit aani
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/09/2025
Prehistoric tattoos found on an Iron Age ice mummy of the Pazyryk culture of Siberia #TattooTuesday High-resolution imaging found the tattoos were made with sophisticated methods, highlighting the skill of Pazyryk tattooers. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Illustration of a tattoo depicting a deer being attacked by a griffin.Illustration of a tattoo depicting two deer being attacked by three big cats.Illustration of tattoos depicting a chicken-like bird, a cross, a fish-like ornament and a floral ornament.
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 23/09/2025
Ogham Stone • Dingle Peninsula • Kerry In the graveyard of Kilmalkedar Church on the Dingle Peninsula, you can find this holed ogham stone. It bears an inscription: ANM MAILE INBIR MACI BROCANN, translated to ‘the soul of Mael-Inbir, son of Brocán’ (Ogham in 3D Project). #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺
A slender pillar of stone with a number of notches or scores carved along the edge, stands in a historic graveyard on the Dingle Peninsula, West Kerry, Ireland.
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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day
screenshot of a twitter exchange, dated Sept 23 2024: 

@MaliceDaFirenze: We're making a game where you play a courier rier in 13th century Mongolia. No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this? (10k replies, 11k reposts, 131k likes)

@doodlewhale: I would love to, as long as it can avoid woke DEI nonsense which appears unlikely as you have pronouns in your bio (shrug emoji) (337 replies, 124 reposts, 10k likes)

@MaliceDaFirenze: For every comment like this, I will add one extra pronoun to the game. (2k replies, 700 reposts, 19k likes)
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 30/07/2025
Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England indicated they were massacred and partly consumed by enemies, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was relatively peaceful. An @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology #AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
Map showing the location of Charterhouse Warren, Mendip, Somerset.
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Tamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The Sandie Peggie stuff is such a great moment for nuking the gap between GCs' media presentation and reality. We had all the propaganda about her being a professional driven out of her wits by the awful trans woman and it turns out she spends her workday just yelling vicious racism at everyone
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Dove 🚬🥃 @dovegraveyard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ancient critters
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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Pinned post for BlueSky✨ Hi! I'm Julio, a brazilian illustrator and paleoartist, focused on extinct vertebrates and recently doing a series on realistic Pokémon posters. 🔗Check all my links, including my shop: linktr.ee/julio.lacerda 📩Contact me at lacerda.julio@outlook.com Thanks!
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Great song. Not sure if this influenced Nights in White Satin or if it was the other way around. #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxEH...
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Shirley Bassey - I Who Have Nothing (Music Video 1964) HD
YouTube video by Aeza
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 19/02/2025
Marie Rottrová - Slunce Vstává (Nights In White Satin) [Czechoslovakia, Pop Rock] (1969) redd.it/12ycb9y youtu.be/s5P6_WjIGJk
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Marie Rottrová - Slunce Vstává (Nights In White Satin) [Czechoslovakia, Pop Rock] (1969)
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 18/02/2025
The Tapes - The Trap [Italy / SynthWave - Experimental] (1983) redd.it/ina3h0 youtu.be/NEyYyuHtE4I
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The Tapes - The Trap [Italy / SynthWave - Experimental] (1983)
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
WOW!!!!! Imagine living in a country where trans people are not prohibited from writing articles in mainstream media!
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Quotes from this pile of piss article from The Telegraph: "The film includes a joke that compares the Brighton bombing to a sex act.” "This is an insult of the worst kind to all the good people of the RUC and British Army who were murdered by the IRA.” - Nigel Farage 😂😂😂😂😂 archive.today/lbtHk
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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Believing he'd spotted two Arabs, maybe Palestinian, in a car this man got out of his car and shot 17 rounds at them with a semi-automatic weapon. The victims, believing that their assailant was a Palestinian, posted "death to arabs" on social media from hospital www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami
Victims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges
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That other guy @internalbleeding.crap.town · 18/02/2025
The #80s were a crazy time. Jimmy Page composed and played the music on Death Wish II #cinema
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Importing the feral ghoul skeleton and animations into Starfield would really open it up for making missions. It's sorely lacking monsters.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What? Truly and profoundly unsmart.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members. The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said; “trans women are women and trans men are men” with no-one speaking against it. Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
✨Ah-Weh-Eyu, Pretty Flower, Seneca Nation, New York, 1908✨🌻🪶🦬
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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Absolute cringe
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 09/02/2025
Freda Payne - Lonely Woman [US, Jazz] (1964) -- Beautiful, haunting vocal rendition of Ornette Coleman's famous Free-Jazz composition. Freda recorded this incredibly difficult performance on her 21st birthday. redd.it/5wphy9 youtu.be/337Aumt3bkg
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Freda Payne - Lonely Woman [US, Jazz] (1964) -- Beautiful, haunting vocal rendition of Ornette Coleman's famous Free-Jazz composition. Freda recorded this incredibly difficult performance on her 21st birthday.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The appreciation game has gotten toxic, and I think it's because people don't treat appreciation of music or writing or whatever as something you can develop and learn. Something that can be taught. They treat it as a personality trait. #art #music #books
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Scarleh.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A one-off Fender Custom Shop Strat by Andy Hicks with art by Turk for Bizarre Guitar in Reno. "Old Growth American Chestnut reclaimed from a haunted building in Philadelphia." Amazing. Greg at Bizarre Guitar has the best taste. #Guitars #Metal #EvilGuitars
A heavy relic custom Stratocaster in black with a spooky vintage style paint job, again heavily relic, which is Fender jargon for being weathered in the factory, so the paintjob is purposely aged and damaged. It's of a skeleton and bones in purple and blue with yellow teeth. The rear of the guitar with an addilitonal skull with the Fender F on its forehead.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Primus's new drummer! #music #rockmusic #funk #metal #drums #bass #guitar
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Primus Officially Introduce Their New Drummer John Hoffman
Good for that guy!
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I don't care what anyone says, Kidd is clearly devastated. Dead man walking. That Luka seems to have cut contact with him now must make it worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwxk... #NBASky
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Jason Kidd learned about Luka Doncic trade at 'eleventh hour' + Integrating AD & more! | NBA on ESPN
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
5 months old. I'm fine with Luka being with the Lakers, I didn't like the way it went down, but it's fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RXA... #NBASky
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The Lakers Plan To Steal Luka Is Insane
YouTube video by GOAT
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
✨Fascist Lapdog ✨⛓️
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I was just telling a friend on here about this. The Icelandic version of Dracula was mostly fan fic and they didn't realise it until 2014. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_... #Horror #Books #Vampires #Nordic #Irish #IrishWriters
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Powers of Darkness (Iceland) - Wikipedia
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Nobody remembers this, but America's issues were sparked by the satire boom on social media about a decade ago. The Onion and all those, many smaller outlets, made a point of doing stuff that was believable in order to trick people, and it made reality subjective in the minds of idiots.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Never forget, the banjo is an African American technology.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
:D KD with a serious zinger. #NBA #NBASky
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
✨ Brilliant tribute by Jim 🎨 Fitzpatrick ✨🇮🇪
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 06/02/2025
Mom? Can you come pick me up, the Brits are at it again
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Complimenting yourself is psychotic behaviour imo.
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Barry Burns @barry.mogwai.scot · 06/02/2025
Come and see us in Hamburg tonight! Only a few tickets left for the very last show we’ll ever play with clothes on.
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Athlete Hustle @athletehustle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is the guy (Mark Williams) the Lakers just traded for seems like an AMAZING pick up for the Lakers #Lakers #NBA #NBAsky
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