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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Even though I’ve been with @vodafonegroup.bsky.social Ireland since 1996 when I first got a mobile phone. Due to coverage issues and high pricing, as my 24 mth contract nears its end, I’m going to switch to better coverage & pricing for my needs. SIM card only. Vodafone gone too expensive, byebyebye

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mintra says hi from the catio this evening and hopes everyone is having a great #Caturday #kitten #siberianforestkitten #cat #catsky

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good morning… a bit of light in the morning sky and first cup of coffee 😻

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good morning … it’s been awhile since I saw Dawn WITHOUT rain and grey 🙈 - beautiful as always! #ThisIsCavan #Dawn #Ireland

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These two cuties, brother and sister from a different time, say hi to everyone today! Mintra, the kitten, is thriving and well settled now. #Caturday #SiberianForestcats #SiberianCats #SiberianNevaMasquerade #kitten #cat

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@bsky.app why am I locked out of my messages ? I’m an adult in Ireland.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google maps search (based in Ireland) for Lake Ontario …. #LakeOntario

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pooka is wrecked ….. but there is a special reason why. All will be revealed tomorrow 😅 #cat #siberiancat #catsky

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Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nice write up in the New York Times on Jo Buckberry and my research on the first archaeological case of death by trebuchet, as presented at the Palaeopathology meetings in Berlin. A 14th-Century Skeleton Had Injuries That Looked Like a Car Crash. What Killed Him? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/s...

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This Skeleton is the First Confirmed Death by Trebuchet

Researchers believe a young man buried inside a Scottish castle was a victim of the long-feared siege weapon, more powerful than a typical catapult.

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Wild West🦬 @jb360.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Unbelievable scientists do it again…. mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer shows remarkable potential in clinical trials. Let’s hope this is a big win.. one of my best friends died of pancreatic cancer… science & vaccines save lives and expand human life expectancy #VoteBlue and get vaccinated

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Irish news reporting on the ‘last’ partial solar eclipse in 1999, but what about the one on 20 March 2015? I got a fluke photograph from my bedroom window in Wicklow, Ireland. The cloud cover was heavy but just at the right time a bit of a gap & small plane flying over! #ecilpse #solareclipse

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Red pepper (sweet) and likely green and yellow too, off my food list and onto allergic food list. Ugh. Had a very bad late afternoon after I added the red pepper to my dinner at 1.30pm along with celery & carrots. I wanted to expand my veggie selection. My body said a very firm NOPE!

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Victorian Child Painting

ALT: Victorian Child Painting

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Prince most interested in one of the local cats casually walking past … she ran upstairs to track him from all windows! #caturday #cats

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 06/08/2026

Preserved iron helmets from the underwater site of Benicarló, Spain #IronworkThursday 🏺 #Archaeology Unique in form and dating to the late 14th or early 15th centuries AD, they shed light on a transitional period of regional armour production before standardisation. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Left: two masses of iron helmets, corroded and held together by marine sediment. Right: two examples of individual helmets, one rounded with a ridge down its centre and the other slightly conical.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Got up to get my brewed coffee this morning, Pooka immediately takes my seat. He’s like royalty and his eyes match perfectly! Look at his ‘delicate’ little paws…. #cats #siberianforestcat

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We all know that one old lad in the pub, with a full belly of pints in him…. 🤣🤣🤣 #cats

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

He’s growing … still, and lots more to do. But he wasn’t always this big, months ago he could entirely fit on top of these bone boxes with space on the edges 🥹 now he has to spill over the sides a bit … #cats #Siberiancats

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michellecomber.bsky.social @michellecomber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Well this is worth sharing... The Irish Neolithic has just gotten a new star find... an amethyst pendant bead. Well done to Hugh and Caoimhe at our Maree excavation!

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Post-ex for the Castlepook Cave Project, funded by @ria.ie has started in my new workspace…. Have all equipment now for smooth processing after doing a few bones and a bulk sediment sample. It’s a green light for GO! 🦴 #castlepookcaveproject #postex #research #animalbones #cavearchaeology

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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Jimbob Blinkhorn @jblinkhorn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New paper klaxon! Neanderthals in the Desert? Our new paper suggests that Neanderthals may have been responsible for producing MIS 3 Middle Palaeolithic Levallois blanks in northern Arabia! Have a look at this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neanderthals in the desert? Population history best explains Middle Palaeolithic technological heterogeneity in Arabia

Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

She’s “quieten down there, I’m trying to sleep!” #cats

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two for one tonight … goign to bed soon, reorganising boxes in small office (though in 2 weeks I’ll be in a much large workspace yay!) #cats #siberianforestcats

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/2 It’s that time again… Our 2026 #CastlepookCaveProject excavation was gratefully funded by @ria.ie with funds from @nationalmons.bsky.social I wasn’t on site this year for many reasons. But next best thing will be post-ex pics, which deserves credit. #zooarchaeology 🏺🦣 #IrishArchaeology

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’m giving serious thought of going vegetarian. Now, I have only eaten chicken, turkey & fish for the last 10 years or so. The odd bit of ham, very odd bit. I’m just sick of all meat. I’m allergic to many foods including some veggies (onions, tomatoes etc) & fruits (citrus, kiwi etc) Help!

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Listening to Lisa O’Neill, darkness descends.days are getting shorter. The nights are getting longer. The year is turning, again. Unwinding for the evening, going to bed soon. 5am rising calls once again. The time of the long daylight days is coming to an end. open.spotify.com/artist/3fZ2I...

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Lisa O'Neill

Artist · 103.6K monthly listeners.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I saw the new exhibition on Quilts made by the Erin Quilters group, in Cavan County Museum, which had 10 of the photos I took of their hands sewing and crafting parts of the quilts last December. The quilts are fabulous & people praising the photos as they connect the women crafters. I’m chuffed ☺️

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A fluffy black kitten with large round eyes sits on a soft purple ground, gently releasing a pink balloon into a pastel sky that fades from lavender to turquoise. White handwritten text reads: “May the things that hurt you grow a little lighter until they no longer weigh you down.” The peaceful scene conveys hope, healing, and letting go.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#Caturday tale of the battle for the new footstool …. Prince was first to claim it, then Pooka came along & harmony for a few minutes. Pooka tired to take over but his reign was short lived when Prince came back in full force and claimed the footstool entirely! #cats #SiberianCats

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🏺🦣 1/2 Sedimentary ancient mtDNA successfully obtained from first use of #sedaDNA from #Castlepook Cave sediment in Ireland. First ancient pre-LGM sequences for woolly #mammoth (Clade III & B2) & cave #hyena (haplotype A1) from Ireland. Also Clade 1b brown #bear & Clade 2 which replaced 1b c.32ka.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These long golden evenings are to be treasured - 22:40hrs and still very bright. Thankful for the cooler light breeze cutting thought the high humidity levels. #ThisIsCavan #Ireland #Ulster

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Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This will be wonderful and you should buy it.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Nice evening to relax a little bit … listen to all the sounds of the country #caturday #cats #siberianforestcat

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 11/07/2026

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Last evening after it cooled a bit, had to tackle this patch as all grass and out of control. The other side is covered in yellow rattle which the bees & butterflies going mad for. It can wait till later in autumn for a cut. But glad to finally get this side cut. Have wildflower seed when it’s ready

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The two types of dogs: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/humor/s/b1...

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