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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

earlier i was trying to work out if my wet beast was a cormorant or a shag so i tried googling "shag uk" and. well. that didn't go well so then i tried "shag birds uk" this was not an improvement.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

i really wish i didn't have the kind of brain that requires me to come up with extensive contingency plans in case i miss a bus ... in nearly three months' time NOT TODAY'S PROBLEM!!!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

asking for me but also for a friend. does anyone know any novels set in early modern ireland? (or late medieval ireland?) realised the only ones i've read in this period are the An Litir trilogy but i'm sure there must be some out there in english as well if i could only find them!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

in hindsight it was a very savvy decision to go on a fixed term energy thing for the next year but. i have a horrible feeling this means that due to life changes due early next year i'm gonna suddenly have a 75% lower income, drastically higher energy bills, and higher council tax all at once.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

the bad news is that my washing machine broke and the good news is that i fixed it and now i feel very grown-up and competent and accomplished even though there's water all over the floor the culprit: the drawstring of my swimming trunks tore off and got stuck in the filter :|

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

no no you see i have a great work-life balance. i don't do any work but i also don't have a life

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

it makes me so mad when books about early modern irish history don't quote or cite a single irish-language source at any point or even mention that irish-language analogues for some of the english things they're talking about exist. especially when they're pretending to care about the irish

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i wish tumblr's crab rave was something my publishing group chats knew about cos it would crab rave in there today

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The mind behind Little Britain and Roald Dahl Redux turns out to be an utter turd of a human being? You do surprise me* *You do not. We've known for years.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 14/12/2025

This does make it sound like tech firms moved to Ireland and immediately fell foul of a Co. Kildare demon-summoning circle. Or possibly joined one.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

for some reason my desktop computer's older version of office has a bunch of weird gaps in its spell check. words it doesn't know, which are accepted in later iterations of Word, include: goosebumps, sigil, Maynooth but at some point after 2010 they learned about goosebumps, sigils, and Maynooth

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

recently feeling constantly out of the loop in all of my friend groups like i only ever have half the information on anything. "is X doing Y these days?" "they're mostly doing Z ever since they took over A's job!" i did not know they took over A's job 👍 maybe it's cos i stopped checking facebook?

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

bike broke down next to this car earlier which was an extremely specific vibe although not one i can readily identify

a bumper sticker reading 'born to swim, trying to kayak' with a line drawing of a person trying to get back onto a capsized kayak

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

bruiden da choca refers to cormac con loinges as the "dalta ochta d'fergus" or the bosom fosterling of fergus but this word for breasts or bosoms seems to overlap with meanings to do with nursing so. fergus mac roich big naturals, maybe

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

one of my favourite things was when i was on holiday in wales with friends and one of them asked another what the four branches of the mabinogi were. they went "why don't you ask néide?" and first friend replied "okay but. i only want to know a *little* bit about it" FAIR TBH

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

i don't even call my actual aunts and uncles "aunt" or "uncle" to their face lmao we're a first names only kind of family, and i do distinguish from more distant relations cos i barely know my parents' cousins, but... i am able to grasp the concept that other people do it differently! wild, that!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

i like getting paid to play music but i don't like the part where random people climb onto the stage to sit next to me and talk to me all evening and then try to add me on social media. i am literally working. would you do this to a waiter

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

people on bluesky LOVE to reply to your posts with apparent non-sequiturs and you're left frowning at it trying to work out what they misinterpreted that led them to think that was a relevant anecdote to provide

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

messing around in the Scriptorium playtest instead of working on my Bisclavret chapter. surely this counts as scholarship somehow

a screenshot from the game Scriptorium showing a cropped view of a manuscript folio with a blue and white wavy border. There's a large red initial Q over a blue background, decorated with the same white wavy design as the border. it starts the text "Quant de lais faire m'entremet, ne voil ublier Bisclaveret." under the text is an illustration of a king in a blue tunic holding hands with a wolf in front of a curtain, flanked on either side by vines.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

generally in most life situations i am not a huge fan of hierarchies but frankly i think the class i am currently in could do with a stronger teacher-student hierarchy so the other students stop completely derailing the class and i can actually learn what i'm here to learn

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

i feel like the difference between historians on the internet and history enthusiasts on the internet is the latter will present you with Facts They've Learned, As Facts, and the former will give you a lengthy explanation of what people for the last however many years have thought might be the case.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

what if. the terrible headache that keeps tipping into migraine territory that i've had for at least two weeks and probably longer. went away wouldn't that be nice

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

if you were considering trains through london today... do not trains

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

trans healthcare is often lifesaving for more reasons than suicidality. for example, my disordered eating basically disappeared overnight after i got top surgery, because it was dysphoria the whole time (lose weight = smaller boobs = pursue indefinitely until it becomes unsafe). this is important!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

i was not designed to be normal about medieval literature, i was designed to write unhinged fanfic about it and when i'm not doing that i am not Fulfilling My Destiny

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

a mildly irritating internet phenomenon is people who have a fairly thorough understanding of particular aspects of history but seemingly no grasp of historiography or the process through which that history has reached current understandings

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

i do not know how i made it through so many years of my life without an air purifier. like i know where i live now is more of a pollen hotspot than some of my past addresses and also that climate change is affecting hayfever but truly how did my immune system not just kill me

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

trying to tidy my house enough that i could feasibly get a cleaner in to do a deep clean for allergy purposes but of course i've done like. two surfaces and then run out of energy and also have a terrible headache and feel super dizzy. i am never getting this flat clean am i

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

these days i've come to the conclusion that neither gender nor sex (insofar as they are understood to be separate at all) should be regulated by law and there is no actual reason for the government to be involved in either that doesn't represent some form of discrimination or inequality

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/06/2025

yeah I guess what I’m saying it, I wouldn’t judge a person based on their art, but I’ll absolutely judge art based on who created it

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

My daughter and her friend go to a Gaelic immersion primary school

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

one (1) local friend expressed enough interest for me to take this as encouragement so i have texted the one person i know who both plays ttrpgs and is better at irish than me (from what i can tell from brief conversations)

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

how dead is twitter? well, these are the default options on tumblr's "share post" button that's right. bluesky and mastodon made it on there and twitter didn't

"share post" showing "copy link" and "embed" and icons for pinterest, reddit, bluesky, mastodon, threads, and facebook.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

i have zero interest in roleplaying in english but i think this would actually be a banger way to learn languages and i'm legit contemplating whether i can set up an irish-language ttrpg group in my local pub

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

i miss when memrise was good and i could just go learn three hundred words of vocab from my own lists and it was a fun and practical way to fidget on my phone and learn stuff at the same time. it was compelling! i learned so much!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

i think pride book lists might have a better chance of not just being the same authors over and over again if people making them set themselves a quota for white american trad-pub cis authors cos like. what about everyone else. the ones without the marketing budget

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

i was at a session recently where someone had put their car keys on the table (to get them out of their pocket/out of the way, i guess) and this accordion player joined us, looked at the keys, and went "wow, what kind of a session is this??" AND NOBODY ELSE GOT THE JOKE

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

every year as a child we used to go to spring harvest (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_...) and later i went on a lot of scripture union camps (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptu...). i also attended soul survivor when i was 15 (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Su... ). these are my protestant credentials

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

sometimes i see people talking about what protestants do/believe and despite growing up in extremely protestant (inc. evangelical) environments i don't really recognise it at all and idk if they're misunderstanding/misrepresenting things or if american protestants are just really weird. maybe both

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

FINALLY TRACKED DOWN SOME LYRICS TO A FOLK SONG I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR MONTHS in a chapbook from the 1840s which definitely isn't where I learned them the first time so that mystery remains but they're real! they exist! I didn't imagine it!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

wrote like 1/3 of a chapter for a fic i have been procrastinating in for a year only to realise it was the wrong chapter and i still gotta write the one before it. whoops

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

drives me nuts when people start talking about misogyny in history or whatever using debunked or inaccurate examples. there's plenty of actual misogyny out there, you don't have to go on about how that gender-neutral word was actually all about women and that's why it became derogatory

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

the thing about posting about morris dancing on tumblr is you immediately discover how many of your followers and mutuals in law are Morris dancers which is a hop skip and jump from discovering how many mutual friends you have with these complete strangers which is a great way to dox yourself

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The fact that you're more likely to hear Kneecap on the news than on the pop radio stations underlines their significance. If I was a softbaby songwriter and I heard a radio exec say "Kneecap are huge but we can't play them, too controversial, play Darach’s single instead" I'd be radicalised.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The apology is dignified in the context of the entire statement. Everything is directed back to their anti-genocide position and its popularity with audiences.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

one of my friends started with greenwing & dart so i've been getting their reactions to stargazy pie trickle in this evening, which is delightful. also enjoying explaining the worldbuilding, which i also did NOT grasp when i first read it

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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