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Louise

@selkies.bsky.social
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Illustrator & melt of Dublin, now in Brussels. Please assume I am not talking about the US. selkiesstudio.com

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 7h
Everyone was also right maybe
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 8h
On this day 26 years ago I was a child watching another Palestinian child on tv, about my age, hide behind his dad & then get killed, because the soldiers shooting didnt value his life at all. His name was Mohammad al-Durra. 26 years later, the lives of Palestinian children matter even less.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 8h
American actors really do need to understand that you can't be doing a Donegal accent with flat Dublin vowels and Cork inflections, all the while the character is meant to from the midlands
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 8h
The British Empire must be made pay for their crimes
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 10h
Liam Neeson is actually great casting for Michael Collins
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 12h
Jessel is flying SO close to the sun with this face situation youse weren't lying #RHONY
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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fun fact; I've been behind-the-scenes at the filming of #GBBO. Here's something won't believe. The dramatic music that plays when everyone is baking is added later in the production. Baking day is quiet except for the mixers. I asked Paul, 'where's the music?' and that's when the security rushed me
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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it’s not me who is wrong, it’s flip canvas horizontally who is wrong
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had a great time in Vietnam and then in South Korea, but after all is said and done my primary takeaway is jesus christ you cannot let the Americans win
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They've kidnapped and abused Irish civilians and politicians. They've fired on peacekeeping forces working with Irish soldiers. And yet our response is not to call for violence. We called for peace. We called for accountability and to cut ties with them until that accountability had been realised.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't gey where Taylor Swift is getting this idea that everyone is so against her and Travis as a couple and everyone is plotting against them But if I say she's just still in that Matty Healy situationship state of mind and subs in Travis then they'll stone me in the town square
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The mask-mandatory lesbian bar shutting down was a funny story when it was lesbians talking about it but now that I'm after seeing gay men talking about it calling themselves liberals and claiming "this is literally why we lost the election" the fun's over wrap it up maybe it is a psy-op actually
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great now I've had to witness an English person try to pronounce Armagh
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that Gavin Bazunu had to say "just me, personally, not big into huge death tolls"
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
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Kate @katemck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you looking to be outraged, are you? www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/...
So last weekend in Portadown, when Orangemen were receiving plaudits for restraint, an American woman observer on Garvaghy Road was pulled over a wall and hospitalised by marchers. Saturday evening mass at St John's was disturbed by bandsmen who decided that the roundabout was a traditional and, of course, endless route. One of their newer traditions was to shout the name of Rosemary Nelson, along with those of Robert Hamill, who was kicked to death two years ago and Gavin Tennyson, one of several young Catholics who have committed suicide on the estate in recent months. A year under siege has taken its toll on people's spirits.
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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame
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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it is striking, once again, that a united Ireland is contingent on the 'good' behaviour of nationalists in the face of sectarian triumphalism - in this specific case a community that has been terrorised by the Orange Order and its defenders
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s important to remember that Unionism is making Dumcree an issue again to try to distract people from the fact that they systematically tried to hide the fact that Jeffrey Donaldson was a rapist pedophile for decades.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry but this is the same crowd they want to give a say in a new flag and national anthem, and this is the carry on of them over a bullshit parade where it's not wanted by locals
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry the way Americans talk about "grad school" I thought it was some high flying academic Guantanamo Bay and it's just doing a masters???
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please can all my favourite podcasters who are on average 7 years older than me please stop having panickers over being old I thought we were cooler than this
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Right I'm out of the shower did they cancel it yet
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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's pure shite that it has come down the players though. The FAI should have backed them, and got them out of the game.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why am I stressing about this fucking football match
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Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are you at tomorrow afternoon? Come and join us at the Department of Health because our government thinks we are all satisfied with our current abortion access and sure aren't they great for giving it to us. We want FREE, SAFE, LEGAL, LOCAL and ACCESSIBLE ABORTION in Ireland!
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Losty @aaronlosty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Might flirt with some artist for hire gigs if anyone will have me. I'm fast, reliable, good™️, can bend style. Here's some vampires doing vampire things. Will work for money.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THE FLAG ALREADY REPRESENTS UNIONISTS AND IT HASN'T STOPPED THEM BURNING IT
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s going to be a wedge of unionists who will never be cool with a single island state. Some of them will leave if it happens. We need to ask what the maybes want, not what the nevers want.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry who does she think she's appeasing with this
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Speaking of Éamon De Valera, did you know that he married someone who unlike him actually made a positive and important contribution to Irish culture and national identity? That's right, Sinéad De Valera, playright, author, teacher, most important member of her household
a sepia toned comic strip showing a woman standing in the shadow of a man (Éamon De Valera), then reading at home, teaching a circle of adults, directing actors on stage, writing at a bureau
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland, like most countries, punishes women financially for having children, does not value care work or pay for it appropriately, and has an economy that depends on the unpaid care work of women. We are fundamentally unprepared for an aging population with fewer young folks around.
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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate that I get this joke 
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no dad, owning a successful lesbian covid conscious bar in western mass was YOUR dream. I'M going to clown school
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God I miss the really cheap Chinese ice cream shop I went to every day in Hanoi it felt like living Fidel's dream
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trad music in one ear and American accents in the other truly is the soundtrack of Galway.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
8 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday!
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Placebo aren't American???
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another single??? Can we not have peace
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I'm in charge I'll ban spelling the nane Seán as Shaun
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is Extrêmement French but I did enjoy it and feel it was the exact right length for what she set out to do
Offenses by Constance Debré
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry I'm so sorry but actually the worst women I have known have nothing but a load of brothers
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hung out with a one year old who was wearing €100 dungarees and I'm still fuming because that should be me
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dean @deanr.co.uk · 21/09/2026
freelancers more like chargelancers am i rite
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me on the wine versus me on the beer
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Was added to a "I know it's early but lets nail down our Christmas gathering plans" groupchat the other week btw
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is maybe too niche for this platform but WHAT were Mandi and Anna thinking slagging off breastfeeding women on the podcast??
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I would pay good money for a version of Sister Wives in which the little "last time on" flash backs and pre-ad-breal flashes forward and back were cut
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No sorry this is Silke she manages the local allotment in Esseghem, works behind the bar at a place that serves pickled eggs
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saw this poster IRL and it not only put me off going to that restaurant but off eating in general
A postering that is AI generated featuring a sweaty looking strangely textured chicken legA close up of the same poster showing hairy potatoes
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm real airplane hungover and my fella is just after saying if I go down to buy the beef he'll make me a lasagna
Abby Miller in a crowd looking elated
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