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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Spenser was one of those who liked to steal liberally from our culture while advocating for its destruction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_...
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A View of the Present State of Irelande - Wikipedia
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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
A picture of Ron Burgundy, the character from the movie Anchorman who is ridiculously self-conscious and silly about his masculinity.
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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You're trying to target the minority foreign guy in one of the only areas of American life where black men genuinely have the upper hand. You're just a hypocrite.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
lol that doesn't even make sense. This kind of petty, stupid wolf-crying just undermines the real issues of racism in America. It's crap like this that racists point to to ridicule the equal rights campaign. Grow up, son.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If you look at the Bronze Age assemblages in the National Museum in Dublin, they'd remind you of South America. Body modification, all that.
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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
That guy's in serious danger of getting a burst eardrum if lil bro gets excited.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Always good craic spotting the old audio hardware in their ship interfaces.
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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 · 20/02/2025
Just is what it is. The idea is to rise above our instincts, in my opinion. We'd be monsters if we obeyed them all. I think it's a waste of time looking for a time when there wasn't sexism, though, because I think that arose out of our apeness.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Nothing back there anyway, to be honest.
A silverback gorilla with his harem.
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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Watching with caps for a while makes you realise how much info bypasses your brain without them. Well worth turning on. Worth paying attention to at the production end, too.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Should make it Europe vs USA every year, with Euroleague guys eligible. That be worth watching.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Shogun of the Rings. Surprised someone hasn't done it already. Plenty of fan art, I'm sure.
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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Like, people are using manners as a bludgeon.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Howard said “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split” - there's truth in that. Dickheads abuse other people's civility to get away with their own incivility. This is that at an extreme.
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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Which is the same as them using "British" and "English" interchangeably. Scots and Welsh don't do that. The Americans do, though.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I respect Morrison but this is simply untrue. Only Anglo-Americans don't hyphenate.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Protesting IS going quietly. It's just looking busy.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
She must be an intellectual. Cat shaped objects or nothing here.
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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 · 18/02/2025
Seal is the image of him.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Should play Europe vs. US. It's not fair for the US, a union of states, to play individual states. The US decided it was a country, fair enough whatever, but not in sport. Europe vs US. That'd be interesting. Joker, Luka, Giannis...
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Obviously you could hook up any model that fit onto the skeleton for a new look/creature.
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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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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Saxons are still outsiders 1,500 years later so you'd think he'd have gotten over it by now.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What? Truly and profoundly unsmart.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
lol way ahead of you there.
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Rua @ruamann.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
For me it's the whole superhero thing.
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