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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

From website of RAWmakase (“a free RAW photo editor for macOS, Linux and Windows”): an infobox saying:

> Let your agent install it
>
> Point your AI agent to github.com/pch/rawmakase/releases and tell it to install the latest version for your operating system. Or copy this prompt: (…)

silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

And… one more nitpick to those materials 😅 ‘Éirennach’ is used throughout for substantivized ‘an Irishman’ – but this usage only starts in the 13th c., earlier ‘di ḟeraib Érenn’ is the norm, also referring to women (“Di ḟeraib Érenn ém mo máthair-se” TBF 341-3).

Cormac: Is di Éirennchaibh dúib…
Fergus: Tó! Is di Érennchaib dúnn!
Cormac: Is de Éirennchaib dúnn danó!

A reading lesson starting with:

Día do bethu! Is Fergus m’ainm. Is di Éirennchaib dom. (…)

and a glossary saying:

Éirennach (o, m./ā, f.) - Irishman, Irishwoman

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Cuid is mó tabhacht, dar liom, atá sa Chaighdeán Oifigiúil cé gur cosúil go ndeintear dearmhad go minic uirthi. Leagan Béarla ón suímh irishlanguage.ie.

Ón Réamhrá don Chaighdeán Oifigiúil 2017:

Feidhm an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil

Deirtear san Acht gurb é atá sa Chaighdeán Oifigiúil “caighdeán oifigiúil na Gaeilge (…) atá le húsáid sa reachtaíocht phríomha agus sa reachtaíocht thánaisteach agus mar an treoir le haghaidh scríbhneoireacht sa Ghaeilge” agus (…) [tá] gá le caighdeán oifigiúil le haghaidh na scríbhneoireachta má tá teanga chun feidhmiú go soiléir beacht i réimsí oifigiúla an Stáit nó na sochaí a úsáideann í chun críoch oifigiúil. Áis bhunriachtanach is ea é sin maidir le cruinneas brí a bhaint amach i ndoiciméid oifigiúla – sa reachtaíocht, i gcáipéisí stáit, i dtéacsleabhair, i bpáipéir scrúdaithe, etc. – agus comhthuiscint oifigiúil a bhunú ar mhaithe le cumarsáid bheacht idir aonaid oifigiúla stáit agus an pobal.
(…) Deirtear an méid seo a leanas i Réamhrá Chaighdeán Oifigiúil 1958: “Tugann an caighdeán seo aitheantas ar leith d’fhoirmeacha agus do rialacha áirithe ach ní chuireann sé ceartfhoirmeacha eile ó bhail ná teir ná toirmeasc ar a n-úsáid”. Ní hionann, mar sin, foirm nó leagan gan bheith san áireamh sa Chaighdeán Oifigiúil agus gan ceart na Gaeilge a bheith ag an bhfoirm nó ag an leagan sin.

From the Preface to An Caighdeán Oifigiúil 2017:

Function of the Official Standard

The Act states that the Official Standard is the “official standard of Irish (…) to be used in primary legislation and secondary legislation and as the guidance for writing in Irish” and (…) an official standard is required if a language is to function clearly and precisely in the official fields of the State or the communities that use it to an official end. It is a tool of prime necessity to extract exactness of meaning in official documents – in legislation, in state documents, in textbooks, in examination papers, etc. – and to establish mutual understanding for precise communication between official units of the state and the people. (…) The following is said in the Preface to the Official Standard 1958: “This standard acknowledges particularly certain forms and rules but it does not invalidate, make taboo nor prohibit the use of other correct forms”. Thus, just because a form or variant is not in the Official Standard does not mean that it is not correct Irish.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Is suimiúil liom an scéal gur cuireadh comharthaí bóthair úra in Éirinn a chuireann in iúl gur Gan Ghaeltacht na áiteanna a bhfuil siad.

Na comharthaí úra agus “GAn Ghaeltacht” orthu le “G” mór an tseanachló ar dtúis.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Cíorbhuí óg (nó, mar a bheirmíd sa Pholainnis air: mysikrólik ‘ríghín luch’, an t-éan is lú san Eoraip) sna sléibhte Sudety ní i bhfad ón Śnieżnik (‘an Sneachtach’) 2 sheachtain ó shin ⁊ spideog gar don áit chéanna – ní bhfeaca spideog sa Pholainn riamh roimis […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

cíorbhuí óg ag amhrán ar chraoibh chroinn

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Cúpla radharc ar #Poznań ón “Okrąglak” (“an Fáinneach”? “Circlach”?) mar a mbím san oifig lá gach dara seachtain nó mar sin. #Poznan #darktable #Olympus #em5mark3

Radhard i dtreo Chill an tSlánaitheora Naofa agus Amharclainne Móire.

Collegium Altum agus foirgneamh ard eile.

Radharc i dtreo Piątkowo agus Naramowice – tá tithe arda árasán le feiscit sa chúlra, páirceanna idir iad agus foirgnimh atá níos gaire, agus tá faoileán ina eitilt os cinn na cathrach.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

@aaron-griffith.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy I’m reading “The “Cowgill particle”, preverbal ceta ‘first’, and prepositional cleft sentences in the Old Irish glosses”… (pinging @davidstifter.bsky.social too as AG isn’t bridged to fedi, so I can’t ping directly)

Passage from the article, saying “The substantive verb is sometimes used where the copula would be expected (GOI §774; also Stifter 2006: 119).”

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Cúpla gabhlán gaoithe eile… Bíonn a lán díobh ina n-eitilt lasmuigh dem fhuinneogaibh is dem balcóin. #Swift #BirdsOfMastodon #darktable #Olympus #em5markiii

Gabhlán gaoithe ina eitilt, a aghaidh i dtreo an cheamara, agus gabhlán eile sa chúlra.

Gabhlán gaoithe ina eitilt agus díon tí sa chúlra.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

And for Irish, Gearóid Ó Nualláin really didn’t like mistakes regarding this. “Is é Séadna (…) a bhí air” is wrong because it suggests “Séadna” refers to a person, not to a name. ‘is é Séadna X’ means ‘X and Séadna are the same person’. The sentence must be ‘Is Séadna a bhí air’ to give a name.

From Gerald O’Nolan’s “Studies in Modern Irish”, vol. 1, page 10: Sentences like—Is é Séadna an ainm a bhí air (*they have appeared in print*) are just as bad Irish as—Is é ar an mbórd atá sé.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Ioraí ruadha i bpáirc dárb ainm #Cytadela i bPoznań. Bhuaileadar siad arú inné umam. #Squirrel #RedSquirrel #Poznań #Olympus #em5mark3 #darktable

Iora rua ar an dtalamh, tá curcaí cluaise le feiscint air.

Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III, an lionsa M.Zuiko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 @ 1/250 s, 300 mm, f/6.7, ISO 1600.

Iora rua ag ithe dearcáin.

Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III, an lionsa M.Zuiko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 @ 1/400 s, 300 mm, f/6.7, ISO 3200.

Iora rua ina sheasamh ar an dtalamh.

Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III, an lionsa M.Zuiko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 @ 1/400 s, f/6.2, 208 mm, ISO 3200.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Tá dhá theaghlach colm ina gcónaí in aice lem balcóin aríst, coilm choille in uachtar an chroinn is fearáin bhaicdhubha san íochtar. Tá na coilm choille fós ag tógaint a dtí ach is dócha gur leor leo chuige sin an píosa bata a thug colúr acu leis inniubh […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Ceann choilm choille agus píosa bata ina ghob, tá crann ar a bhfuil sé le feiscint sa chúlra.

Fearán baicdhubh ina shuí ina nead, feicithe ó airde.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

An Ghealach inniubh. Cruach de sheacht ngrianghraif. Déanta le lionsa scatháin, ZM-5A 500 mm f/8 + ×2 teleconverter. #Moon #Astrophotography #MirrorLens #MicroFourThirds #Em5mark3 #darktable

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Iúpatar inniu. Déanta le lionsa scatháin ZM-5A 500 mm f/8 agus teilithiontaire(?) 2×. 54 grianghraif arna gcruachadh le #AutoStakkert. #Jupiter today. Taken with #MirrorLens ZM-5A 500 mm f/8 + teleconverter 2×. 54 photos stacked with AutoStakkert. #AstroPhotography #Olympus #EM5mark3 #darktable

Iúpatar agus ceathair dá chuid gealaí: Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io.
Jupiter and four of its moons: Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Cúpla grianghraf óna #Bieszczady – sliabhraon i sléibhtibh Cairp idir an Pholainn ⁊ an Úcráin. Ainm eile ar an reigiúin: Bojkivščyna (‘an Bhoidhcacht’?) mar bhíodh cónaí ar na Boidhco sa tír seo go dtí 1950 nuair a dhíbir an Pholainn an lucht san le foréigean aisti. #darktable #olympus

Crann buaircíneach sa tsneachta, tá an sneachta atá air á tharraing síos agus tá sé ag claonadh ar deis. Tá sléibhte le feiscint sa chúlra.

Grianghraf déanta cois an tsléibhe Wielka Rawka.

Cosán ar Dział (Dił) – barr sléibhte taobh leis an sliabh Mała Rawka.

An bearnas “Przełęcz Goprowska”, an grianghraf déanta ós a chionn, tá iomarca sneachta le feiscint ar fud an bhearnais, tá cúpla cósán sa tsneachta, cúpla crann, bothán, is ceathrar ag siúl i bhfad.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

This is another good read about Anglosphere bias in humanities in general: dariuszgalasinski.com/2018/04/14/fo… Anything dealing with humanities in English-speaking societies is human universal. Anything outside is very specific to local community.

An excerpt from the post with this part highlighted: I hit a wall. A journal editor told me that if I wanted to write an article on boasting based on Polish data, first and foremost, I would have to explain what’s different about Polish boasting. In other words, if I had data in English, I could simply publish an article on boasting, because I had data in Polish, I could only write about Polish boasting. English data tell us about the human universal, Polish data tell us about Poland.

Another part of the text with this paragraph highlighted: Now, second, I don’t know how many times I was told by anonymous reviewers that my English was crap. But I quickly discovered a pattern. If I wrote an article which placed the data or research in Poland, my English was very bad. Whenever I wrote something that didn’t identify me as Polish, problems with my English disappeared.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Grianghraf suimiúil a dheineas de thaisme tá seachtain ó shin i meitreo na Bruiséile, nuair a bhíos ag FOSDEM. Níor thugas aire don luas comhla is ní raibh ar intinn agam na daoine sin a chur sa bhfráma mar sin, ach d‘éirigh liom an toradh. #StreetPhotography #Metro #Brussels #MicroFourThirds

Cúpla daoine, bean is fear, ina stad ar ardán meitro – táid siad le feiscint go soiléir trí fhuinneog an mheitreo, ach níl cruth na traenach soiléir in aon chor toisc gur bhog sí agus tá sí ina paiste doiléir timpeall na ndaoine.

Deineadh le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus an lionsa M.Zuiko 12–40 mm f/2.8 @ 1/10 s, f = 19 mm, ISO 200.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

I heard today French nuclear plants get shut down every summer and Germany saves France’s power grid. Doesn’t seem so. France limits the output of or turns of those reactors which use river water for cooling – when keeping high yield would risk environmental […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A chart of energy production and export/import in France in June 2025. Nuclear production doesn’t fall below 26 GW at any time. During that time France exports energy almost all the time (exported power reaching ~15 GW at times) with only occasional a few hour long periods of imports on the level of ~2–3 GW.

https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR&interval=month&year=2025&month=06&source=public&legendItems=2wew4

A chart of physical energy flow during June 2025 to and from France. Again it can be seen that France mostly exports energy (values below 0), at no point France only imports energy – even when they’re a net energy importer, they still export almost as much as they import (the net balance being up to 3 GW imported).

June is the month with most energy imports in France last month.

https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR&interval=month&year=2025&month=06&source=cbpf_saldo&legendItems=7z6&stacking=stacked_absolute

Chart of France’s nuclear power production by reactor during June 2025.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Just some screenshots with data and their sources (see alt text), for no particular reason today. #NuclearPower #Nuclear #GreenEnergy

Death rates per 1 TWh of electrical energy produced, measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity.

Brown Coal: 32.72
Coal: 24.62
Oil: 18.43
Biomass: 4.63
Gas: 2.82
Hydropower: 1.3
Wind: 0.04
Nuclear: 0.03
Solar: 0.02

Nuclear power is safer than wind turbines (people die eg. when falling from the turbine during maintenance) – that’s including casualties of the Čornobyľ disaster and Fukushima.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

In 2023, 23 percent of natural uranium used in EU final nuclear products originated from Russia (equivalent to 3,419 tonnes (tU), Figure 4). Replacing the Russian supply of uranium ore does not pose a significant challenge as natural uranium is available abundantly, with Russia providing approximately 5 percent of global primary supply.

However, Europe is fully dependent on imported uranium. The EU should renew investment in logistics, strengthen partnerships with stable uranium-producing countries including Canada, Australia and Namibia, and support the development of alternative supply routes from Kazakhstan and other central Asian producers.

Ie. Europe imports most of its uranium from other countries than Russia and does not need to import Russian uranium (although European nuclear plants do depend on imported fuel).

https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-imports-russian-uranium

Uranium contributed only about 6% (1403 mln eur out of 22964 mln eur total) of European import value of energy products from Russia in 2024. Before that the percentage was much smaller. Russia earns orders of magnitude more on gas and oil.

https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-imports-russian-uranium

“Combined death toll from Chernobyl

(…)

– 2 workers died in the blast.
– 28 workers and firemen died in the weeks that followed from acute radiation syndrome (ARS).
– 19 ARS survivors had died later, by 2006; most from causes not related to radiation, but it’s not possible to rule all of them out (…).
– 15 people died from thyroid cancer due to milk contamination. These deaths were among children who were exposed to 131I from milk and food in the days after the disaster. This could increase to between 96 and 384 deaths, (…)

There is currently no conclusive evidence of adverse health impacts in the general population across affected countries, or wider Europe.

Combined, the confirmed death toll from Chernobyl is less than 100. We still do not know the true death toll of the disaster. My best approximation is that the true death toll is in the range of 300 to 500 based on the available evidence, but this comes with significant uncertainty.”

https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima

See reports from UNSCEAR and WHO reporting thyroid cancer diagnoses in thousands. With ~99% survivability rate that’s dozens to low hundreds casualties, unclear how many attributed to iodine intake.

https://www.who.int/activities/mitigating-health-consequences-of-chernobyl/
https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/chernobyl.html

Wikipedia has a well-sourced overview too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Ana-shuimiúil ar fad. Tá 28 miliúin Polannach ag a bhfuil cearta vótála ann. Agus de réir dealraimh tá 23 miliúin úsáideóirí Xitter sa Pholainn (cé ná raibh ach ~5M díobh tá bliain ó shin), níos mó ná sa Ghearmáin nó san India. Níl aon chuma amhrasach air sin ar […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Twitter/X Users by Country 2026

Poland:
in 2023: 4M
in 2024: 5.4M
in 2025: 23.3M

India:
in 2023: 27.3M
in 2024: 27.3M
in 2025: 23.1M

UK:
2023: 23.1M
2024: 25.9M
2025: 19.3M

Germany:
in 2023: 14.1M
in 2024: 17M
in 2025: 17.4M

Finland:
in 2023: 1.5M
in 2024: 1.6M
in 2025: 7.7M

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

Bhuaileadar na cairde seo umam inné. Bhíodar ag dul i bhfolach taobh thiar de chraobhacha áfach is ní rabhas in inmhe dea-ghrianghraif a dhéanamh díobh. #Hare #FieldMouse #MicroFourThirds #Olympus

Giorria sa tsneachta, tá craobhacha croinn le feiscint roimis atá ag ceilt coda dá chruth.

Luch fhéir Pholannach (apodemus agrarius) sa tsneachta.

Luch fhéir Pholannach (apodemus agrarius) ina pholl agus craobhóga beaga ós comhair an phuill á ceilt.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

Effects of German Energiewende in 2025. Meanwhile France breaks records in electric energy export. Source: energy-charts.info/charts/import_ex…

A map of Europe showing import and export of electric energy by country in 2025. Germany (which shut down their nuclear power plants) imported 21.9 TWh, France (which keeps their nuclear plants) exported 9.3 TWh. Overall most of Europe seems to have stable power supply thanks to France, Sweden, and Norway. Spain exports some of its power to Portugal. Other energy importers are the UK (30.3 TWh), Italy (48.9 TWh), and Belgium (14.2 TWh).

Czechia and Slovakia export moderate amounts (7.6 TWh and 2.3 TWh respectively), Poland (mosly coal, water, and wind energy) imports small amounts (1 TWh).

Map from energy-charts.info.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Today I tried #ShineStacker (shinestacker.wordpress.com) – new open source focus stacker and it works! Stacked my hand-held fly shots on default settings with no problems, something I couldn’t achieve with Hugin tools (but my #Olympus #em5mark3 could […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A photo of a fly on a wooden table; eye details are visible, the image is a stack of 8 photos with different focus planes.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

I’ll also allow myself to leave this here. For no reason. (Can’t respond to the original thread as it’s not visible in the Fediverse though.) www.thejournal.ie/readme/the-irish-…

A 2018 column “The Irish For… How the Vikings influenced the Irish language” by one Darach Ó Séaghdha in The Journal.

A paragraph from that column saying:

Ispín: Certain Norse words entered the English and Irish languages at the same time (bád for a boat, from bát), and these could be mistaken by the untrained eye as borrowed from béarla. Others bear little relation to the English equivalent, such as the Irish for sausage – íspen in the old Norse. The humble ispín is a delight when fried or grilled, but some Norsemen preferred to boil it in a thin, pale broth that they called kadall.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Is cosúil gur ana-leithcheal ar lucht labhartha an Bhéarla a thosnaigh in Éirinn le déanaí. Is mór an trua iad, an slua bocht úd.

The Sunday Times, Allison O’Connor:

Spare a thought for those who don’t talk the (Irish) talk

The Kneecap factor is making Irish trendy but there is a danger of creating a ‘them and us’ situation between those who understand it and those who do not

The Irish Times, Letter of the Day:

Irish requirement in the Áras raises two obvious problems

The president-elect herself would not have met the standard she is setting until well into adulthood

Sir, - I see that president-elect Catherine Connolly “doesn’t like the phrase cùpla focail” and intends to “make proficiency in Irish a requirement” for the staff in Àras an Uachtaràin. (“Connolly wants to make Irish the working language of Áras”, Page 1, November 1st). There are two obvious problems with this rather sudden proscription.

Firstly, the change has practical real world impact and effects on long-standing employees and impairs the prospects of prospective employees. The president-elect herself would not have met the standard she is setting until well into adulthood.

Secondly, one wonders how immigrants or members of non-Gaelic speaking traditions on this island could go about obtaining employment at the Àras.

The Àras doesn’t strike me as a venue that revels in sudden and arbitrary change. - Yours, etc,

Michael Deasy,
Bandon,
Co Cork.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

Agus spideoga Éireannacha i nDúlainn, i gCarna, ⁊ i sleibhte Chonamara in aice le Leitir Fraic. #MicroFourThirds #Olympus #Robin

Spideog ar chraoibh chroinn ag léim ón gcrainn. Déanta i slebhte Chonamara in aice le Leitir Fraic.

Spideog ina shuí ar chaoibh chroinn, déanta i sleibhte Chonamara.

Spideog ag seinm ar chraoibh. I nDúlainn.

Spideog ar chorr balla chloiche ag féachaint síos agus ag ardú a sciathán.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

Gael-Mheiriceánach i bPáirc an Fhionnuisce i mBaile Átha Cliath (grianghraif a dheineas tá cúpla seachtain ó shin agus mé in Éirinn ar feadh seachtaine ⁊ corradh). #GraySquirrel #Squirrel #InvasiveSpecies #darktable #GreySquirrel #MicroFourThirds

Grianghraf d’iora glas (Meiriceánach) ’na shuí ar chraoibh chroinn. Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus lionsa M.Zuiko ED 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 mk. II.

Grianghraf eile ina bhfuil an t-iora céanna. Tá sé ag tochas an cluas lena chois anois. Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus lionsa M.Zuiko ED 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 mk. II.

Agus grianghraf amháin eile. Tá an t-iora ag féachaint díreach i dtreo an cheamara lena dhá shúil ón gcraoibh.

Olympus E-M5 mk. III ⁊ M.Zuiko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 mk. II.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

A comparison. Shot using Olympus E-M5 mk. III. The only change between the two screenshots is changing the “daylight” (“światło dzienne”) to “custom” (“niestandardowy”) illuminant type control. CCT supposedly stays at 4201 K but the preview is visibly different. #darktable #em5mark3 #olympus

A darktable screenshot with a photo of a Conamara coast landscape, a road and some water in the foreground, hazy coast and islands in the background, small patches of clear sky visible through clouds at the top. On the right hand the color callibration settings are open and the illuminant set to CCT: 4201 K (daylight) (“światło dzienne” in Polish).

A similar screenshot as previously with the same Conamara photo, but now the settings show “custom” (“niestandardowy” in Polish) illuminant with the same color temperature, and the image preview looks a bit cooler, with a bit less green tint.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

Maidir leis an bhfocal fad-aradha – tá athruithe ann mar fileadha (sean-áinsíoch iolra) > filí, agus tá an fhoirm scríte ‘fadaraighe’ le fáilt i bhfoclóir an Duinnínigh […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

sliocht ó fhoclóir an Duinnínigh: Fad-aradha, f., long-headedness, patience, deliberation; pron. and smt. written, fadaraighe.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

I added an entirely new section to the Scottish Gaelic guide today – about choosing between ’s e, ’s i, ’s iad, and made several improvement to some other parts. :) @gaidhlig #Gaidhlig #ScottishGaelic #Gaelic #Gàidhlig

Screenshot of the new section on choosing the correct pronoun with copula constructions in Scottish Gaelic.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

PS I’ve just realized Scottish Gaelic keeps the same distinction (but it’s only visible in feminine): ’s i Catrìona a mhàthair, ’s i Catrìona a rinn e (referring to person) but: ’s e Catrìona [an t-ainm] a th’ oirre, ’s e Catrìona a b’ ainm dhi (referring to name) #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Gàidhlig

Results from DASG corpus showing that the structure uses the default rather than feminine pronoun when stating names, among them:

’s e Georgìna a bha oirre ach ’s e ‘George’ thuirt e rithe
’s e Mrs MacAngus a bha oirre
’s e ‘Màiri’ a th’ oirre
gur e Alsaman an t-ainm a bha oirre
gur e Seònaid a bha oirre

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Agus tá a lán seana-shamplaí leis an nginideach i gCorpas RIA, le ‘siúl’ agus cúpla ceann le ‘dul’ fairis sin. Tá agus in DIL, mar shampla: in feth dobadhus ag siubul in domain, Maund. 177 Ach ní thig liom sampla leis an áinsíoch (nó le hainmneach) d’fháilt.

Samplaí ó chorpas RIA, ina measc ‘ag siobhol na sligheadh’ ó “Desiderius”, 1616, agus ‘ag dol na slighe’ ó “Seán na Raithíneach” ó 1719.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

De réir Chorpas DASG, ní bhíonn in Albainn ach “a’ gabhail an rathaid” leis an nginideach, ach bíonn an t-áinsíoch in “a’ dol an rathad”. Is cosúil go bhfuil dealú ann idir an dá bhriathar. Ach ní féidir liom sampla a dh’fháilt, ó údaraibh Éireann ná Alban, a bheadh níos sine ná 18ú haois.

Torthaí cuardaí ó chorpas DASG le frása “dol an rathad”. Tá fiche cinn ann.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

@davidstifter.bsky.social I’ve recently read Bičovský’s article arguing for Slavic initial *x- < *sk- and there’s this bit in there. Is this distinction between deuterotonic as·beir < *exs … beret(i) (with -s) vs protot. ·eper < eg·beret(i) (no -s) a broadly accepted thing?

(…) many PIE adverbs do exhibit an *–s alternating with Ø, notably *eǵʰ-s, *sub-s, *h₂ed-s, *ud-s etc. This *–s, apparently not a part of the root but some kind of desinence, might have played a distinct role in the PIE language, most likely signalling a free-standing adverb as opposed to a (future) preposition or preverb. In later stages, this role was mostly lost and the two forms merged, with either of the two becoming the default representation. If at some stage there existed both univerbisation such as *eǵʰ-bʰereti ‘brings out > pronounces etc.’, cf. OIr. epert ‘s/he said’ and juxtaposed *eǵʰs (...) bʰereti with probably the same meaning ‘brings out’, it is only a matter of time before loose particles cease to function as such (as it happened in Classical Greek, Latin, Classical Old Irish, Slavic and Baltic and most later Indo-Iranian languages) and common juxtapositions with *eǵʰs bereti would be treated as by-forms or equivalents of univerbised forms, with no clear role of the *–s- element. (…)

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

Do fuaireas beannacht ó dhéithe an uathfhócais inniu ar maidin! Déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus M.Zuiko 75–300 mm f/4.8–6.7 #BirdsOfMastodon #Olympus

Trí gabhláin ghaoithe ’na n-eitilt sa spéir.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

Thosnaigh séasúr an tonic espresso ’s na ngabhlán ngaoithe ar an mbalcóin. #EspressoTonic #Swifts #BirdsOfMastodon

Dhá ghloine ar bhord adhmaid agus tonic espresso iontu: tá brat caife le feiscint ar barr agus líomóid is ciúbanna oighir ann, tá tonic fén gcaife. Táid potaí le plandaí ar an mbord leis.

Gabhlán gaoithe ’na eitilt idir díon tí agus pota bláthanna.

Dhá ghabhlán ghaoithe ’na n-eitilt in aice le díon tí.

Gabhlán gaoithe ’na eitilt síos fé mar a bheadh tar éis léim a dhéanamh as an ndíon tí.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

And so exactly the same thing happens in those ‘(an) duine is mó ciall’ construction. It just directly continues the good old whose-relative clause, even though it’s not felt as such anymore. Historically it really just meant: ‘the person _whose_ sense is greatest’. 4/n

Another fragment of BST, page 274, showing ‘crann as mhaith toradh’ ‘the tree whose fruit is good’ and ‘fear as fhearr clú’ ‘the man whose fame is highest’.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

McKenna in an appendix to “Bardic Syntactical Tracts” notes more convoluted examples involving a prepositional pronoun, eg.: crann ar a raibhe an t-éan chraoibh ‘the tree on whose branch the bird was’ lit. ‘tree on which/whose was the bird branch’ craoibh ‘branch’ is in dative after ‘ar’ 3/n

fragment of page 275 of McKenna’s edition of “Bardic Syntactical Tracts”, it shows several examples of ‘whose’-relative clauses, including ‘crann do bhuail an fear chraoibh’ ‘the tree whose branch I struck’ or ‘crann ar a raibhe an t-éan chraoibh’ ‘the tree on whose branch the bird was’.

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silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025

Créatúr gránna a bhí ag leogaint a scíth inniu ar mo bhalcóin… déanta le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III + M.Zuiko 60 mm f/2.8 macro (focus-stacking a deineadh mar jpg sa cheamara) #microfourthirds #MacroPhotography

cuil mhór ina suí ar bhord adhmaid, tá a súile agus ribí gruaige uirthi le feiscint san íomhá

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