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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The last of the honeysuckle flowers on @wildacres.bsky.social nature reserve #wildflowerhour

Honeysuckle flowers and berries on the vine

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

How dramatic is too dramatic when it comes to marine litter?

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Happy Pride from Westport💚

Flowers in glass bottles decorate a window, creating a rainbow

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Okay I'm now leaning towards Western Marsh Orchids sinces its only May and we're about as far west on Achill as you can go without swimming #wildflowerhour

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I've always had a special place in my heart for thrift flowers #wildflowerhour

Thrift flowers growing from the crack in tidal pool rocks

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Its purple orchid season on Achill, they're absolutely everywhere. I think Northern Marsh Orchids(?) but I do not stand over that ID. I'll have to get a better look without the dog. #wildflowerhour

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This was all on one beach on one day and I barely made a dent

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My lovely assistant on my beach clean today

Finn the dog sitting and smiling on front of a terrifying pile of nets, rope and other fishing industry waste

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's all been about the violets and primroses for me since spring finally reached Achill. Saw my first swallow last week, chaffinches too and the first cuckoo of the year. Everything a bit late but getting there. #WildflowerHour

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

All the same here's a cleared part of the ditch path

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Making progress with a big outdoor project despite being slowed by the weather lately. I usually document more, helps motivate and its good to talk about invasive species but honestly being online lately has been more draining than energising.

Yeah of the evening sun on a garden and the sea from a window seat with legs and a mug of tea in the foreground

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Violet season at last Dog violets in an Achill dry stone wall

Purple dog violets in an Achill dry stone wall

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Aurora over Achill, 19th Janaury 2026

Red and green borealis with stars over a black hillside in silhouette

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This was some of the funnier litter picking I've done. When you see these videos of me talking and singing to myself, I need you to remember that my neighbours do pass me on the road 😅

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Finn kept me company on a beach clean the other day but always looks so betrayed that I won't throw the litter for him

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Daniel from Dublin, and 4 others have been imprisoned for allegedly disrupting an Elbit Systems facility in Ulm, Germany last month. Elbit is an Israeli weapons manufacturer whose weapons are central to Israel’s genocide. Daniel is held 23 hours daily in their cell, including meals, no phone calls

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New episode of From the Roots two since the launch, I revisit the figures of that first overview, a number of current headlines and whether anything can be learned from Budget 2026 Text below and podcast wherever podcasts are found orlanidhuill.com/2025/10/14/s...

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Great ecology walk in Brackloon Woods with the Mayo Queer Sheds on Sunday (before I got this wicked cold) for the start of fungi season

Honey coloured bracket fungi on an upright trunk among lush green undergrowth

Honey coloured toadstool fungi among autumn leaves, ferns and feathered moss

Comparison of a brown mushroom, the brown birch boletus, held up next to the botanical drawing of the same mushrooms entry in a field guide

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

After I was done getting soaked from the thigh down and cover head to toe in mud while making this video about removing gunnera, a neighbour I hadn't met before stopped me on the road to say their son had sent her my tiktoks, I can only assume the mud gave me away 😂

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

finally finished a system agnostic version of one of my games, interested to hear how other people who use a lot of different systems day to day borrow from them into something new

cover of the game The Valley showing an artwork of a village by a lake, the pier stretching out into the water that shows the reflection of the mountain above as blood stains the water

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I've noticed a really strange absence of frogs and frog spawn on Achill this spring. Thinking back I don't think I remember any last year either. Anyone know something I don't?

A deep ditch full of water and vegetation but no sign of frogs

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

As a teenager and into my twenties I spent a lot of time in town alone and Pat Ingoldsby was such a fixture of my Saturdays. Conversations with him were never dull and Dublin is all the poorer without him.

A copy of Pat Ingoldsbys collection of poems 'I thought you died years ago' held in front of some yellow tulips

Two open collections of Pat Ingoldsby poetry showing notes written by him on the title pages

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's very tenuously connected but this video of my frog residents is worth turning the audio on

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Beach clean day. It's always a pain to disentangle this kind of rope and netting from the seaweed. I met a member of a local clean coasts group on the way home and that made it feel worth it.

Bright teal plastic rope tangled in dark seaweed on a sandy beach.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Yep! That was a successful afternoon playing in muddy puddles *ahem* I mean engaging in restorative ecological praxis.

Orla taking yet another selfie covered I mud and only realising afterwards that there's a stick stuck in her hat.

Orla's post wooly hat hair plus mud on her glasses, honestly.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This #WorldWetlandsDay I'm celebrating by helping to encourage these seasonal pools where water drains from the field to the stream (translation: splashing around in the mud pulling gunnera roots out and deepening them) if I still have signal later expect pictures of the mess I make of myself.

Seasonal pond among rushes in a wet field

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Went out in the rain earlier determined to get rushes from my field for crosses. Celebrating lá féile Bríde slightly damp by the fire.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Lá féile Bríde shona daoibh go léir xx

A new st Bridget's Cross held in front of a burning wood stove with three other crosses on the floor below

A collage of four photos. Top left me with my hood up the rain holding some secateurs. Top right a bucket full of cut rushes, bottom left rushes spread out on a towel in front of a burning wood stove. Bottom right a new st Bridget's Cross held above the spread out rushes on the floor.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Before I go, please appreciate my mothers toasting fork for toasting bread through the stove glass, made from a wooden spoon, a fork and some painters tape

A poorly lit photograph of a toasting fork for toasting bread through the stove glass of a lit wood burning stove, made from a wooden spoon, a fork and some painters tape

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Cold enough in the house without power that my tea looks a lot more dramatic than usual. Hopefully the stove will take the edge off now I'm home.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Episode 10 on the budget and PfG is up now. I'm also starting in on research on the next episode on the national parks, and some of history of land management by the state in Ireland so any questions or thoughts welcome

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We might not have a government but we do have a podcast by me talking about the budget and programme for government with an eye to environmental policies. I suffer through many reports so you don't have to From the Roots Episode 10: found wherever podcasts are found.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Arguably money going missing in government is part of our heritage so...

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Pour one out for the 34th Dáil

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I have finally finished the script of episode 10 of From the Roots where I'm discussing the Programme for Government and the budget so here's a clip of me reading part of the section on emissions and the completely imaginary numbers it contained.

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Trying to get the next podcast script done today, looking at what can be learned about the government's priorities looking at budget 2025 and the PfG: "there is such a sense of status quo with this PfG that the word continue is the 6th most used word appearing 226 times in just 138 pages of text"

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The irony is trying to tweet this article because more the SF adjacent friends of mine haven't moved over yet and getting the "hateful conduct" label for using the word cis.

Screenshot of a tweet sharing a Belfast Live article about the NI Exec not releasing the evidence they based their puberty blocker ban decision on that's flagged as hateful conduct for using the word cis

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In case you were worried that the Programme for Government wasn't a love letter to the status quo then have no fear, the word "continue" is the sixth most used word in the document and appears 226 times in just 162 pages.

a word cloud generated from the text of the Programme for Government with the largest words being "support "government" "will" "ensure" and "continue"

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

in fairness yes, but its all a bit vague "we're going to make it better"ish in a document like this (page 97)

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I've made it to the environment section

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is a clever bit of math obfuscation that I'm too tired to break the calculator out for, but I'm checking in the morning if this from the PfG even lines up with our already legally binding climate targets. Surely they're not encouraging a second climate law suit?

A paragraph from the current Programme for Government reading "This government will deliver actions to achieve a 51% reduction in emissions from 2018 to 2030 and net-zero emissions no later than 2050."

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My train journey to Dublin yesterday was very atmospheric as the frost thawed into fog

A tree-lined rural Irish field with a layer of mist, clouds halfway across a blue sky

A tree-lined rural Irish field with a layer of mist with a stream to one side

A tree-lined rural Irish field with a layer of mist

A tree-lined rural Irish field with a thick layer of mist

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