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Marcus Keeley @marcuskeeley.bsky.social · 14h
Today I went to the SoundYard, so I did.
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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have added 30 more paintings to the new print shop I'm trying, including 12 that have never been available previously. That brings the total there now to 140, a touch unwieldy but there are 6 Categories to help you sift. I'll eventually stop, I promise. fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l... #SpéirGhorm
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Should be a fascinating afternoon - do join us
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
if you'd like to give some wee Irish devs a boost on a Friday night, we'd LOVE it if ya headed over here to interact with our ORGANIC MATTERS announcement vid (or at least light us a candle!) www.tiktok.com/@unaminh/vid... #gamedev #ireland #irish
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The craic is ninety! We can’t wait to tell you more 😊 #ireland #irish #indiegames #gamedev #irishtiktok
TikTok video by Úna-Minh 🇮🇪 | Indie Game Dev
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@juliethecranky.bsky.social save this and thought of you
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Alexandra lives on in Mikimoto.. @juliethecranky.bsky.social
A decorative collar and bib made of pearls with emeralds
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LaurenCDeutsch @laurencdeutsch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's another 1920s Sadie Nemser evening dress made of black velvet and lace embroidered with ribbon flowers. Nesmer's husband also worked on her fashion house with her. They went to Paris as delegates of the Congress of Garment Retailers of America and they were rewarded the
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See the lioness and hyenas @juliethecranky.bsky.social
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you'd like to pre-order my new novel A WINTER WEDDING, here's a link to a list of Irish bookshops, created by my lovely publisher It's out Sept 17 Oh, and if you nip in to your local bookseller, they can pre-order a copy for you to collect 📚💙 #booksky #spéirgorm linktr.ee/AWinterWeddi...
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A Winter Wedding by Felicity Hayes-McCoy coming September 2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A training facility for anti-fascism.
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@juliethecranky.bsky.social animals in jewels
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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South Dublin Volunteer Centre @volunteerdublin.ie · 02/08/2026
Drive for good. Deliver change. Join FoodCloud and help move surplus food from our Tallaght Hub to charities across Dublin. One small weekly shift = a big impact. Follow the link or scan the code to learn more and apply: buff.ly/avH4x2v #DublinDoesGood #SDVC #VolunteerRole
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 164001: If you want to beat AI, write using your human voice, from your human perspective. Write about feelings; sensations; dreams. Be you, in all your uniqueness. AI is generic; bland; acceptable. Dare to be different; subversive; real. That's how we stay human.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/07/2026
Nature research paper: The piezochiral effect go.nature.com/3S1NAvy
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The piezochiral effect - Nature
The piezochiral effect, a new member of the family of strain-responsive functionalities alongside piezoelectricity and piezomagnetism, is introduced, enabling control of chirality through mechanical strain, with future applications in photonics, spintronics, biosensing and quantum information.
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@juliethecranky.bsky.social this looks like a fascinating fashion archive www.irishtimes.com/life-style/f... I want to go see the Charles James taxi dress
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‘For me, this has been a fashion journey’: The clothing treasures of Birr Castle
The 400-piece archive tells captivating stories dating back to the 17th century
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Alison Denham @paddymaid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
@tickedoff.bsky.social
Eric Morecambe wearing 4 pairs of specs.
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Preorder the living shit out of this one please folks.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My new fiction serial is starting on Radio 4 right now! It’s in airwaves. I’m on train so cannae tune in. I hope you enjoying for me! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Operation Rex by Damian Barr, Saturday 26th August 1939: Official Advice to Animal Owners
A young boy goes to extraordinary lengths to save his dog as the Second World War looms.
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Six new eps of the Irishwoman's Diary miniseries with @clodaghfinn.bsky.social - we discussed philanthropist Arabella Denny; lesbian nun Bridget Coll; Olympian Maeve Kyle; actress Genevieve Lyons; war reporter Gertrude Gaffney & Countess Joan Fitzgerald www.irishexaminer.com/podcasts/podcast-dos
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The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast - Irish Examiner
The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast - Irish Examiner: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This was commissioned by a trad institution for their anniversary (very cool client tbh) but didn't get used in the end. I especially enjoy the uileann piping eagle, who's pose I had to get the experts to weigh in on
Three twisty Celtic animals playing the fiddle, squeezybox and uileann pipes respectively
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There's a great apocryphal story about Geoffrey Tandy, a cryptogamist (algae specialist) recruited by Bletchley Park during WW2 due to a typo: they thought they were getting a cryptogramist (code breaker) 1/3
Geoffrey Tandy (1900-1969)
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Impacts - expected and unexpected www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it funny at first. But novelty soon turned to concern
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
OMMM is Getty's first meditation podcast focused on creating mindful interactions with artwork from our collection. Watch, listen, and subscribe: www.getty.edu/podcasts/ommm/
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OMMM | Getty Podcasts
Breathe deep, relax…and learn about art.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I have managed to get a big picture of Crass into the Financial Times magazine which is probably a first? Here is my Experts in a Dying Field-adjacent essay on bands as "utopian projects" www.ft.com/content/c902...
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The beautiful Utopian madness of being in a band
‘An interest in music can be helpful if you’re in a band but it is, actually, beside the point’
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/06/2026
Which makes for a better life: a high minimum or the quest for excellence? Tap here for Janan Ganesh's column: ft.trib.al/cbk0KWE
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Artificial Intelligence and legal work - a crucial case to read There was a routine court application which would usually go through on nod, but the judge suspected something was not right and asked questions, and this then came out. If you must use AI, be careful. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
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Ken Foxe @kenfoxe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Over the years, I’ve tried to help people use FOI and AIE through my beginner's guide, advice and often direct help with tricky requests. If any of that free help has been of use to you, I hope you might consider buying a copy of my book Shining a Light. www.kenfoxe.com #ireland #journalism #foia
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Claire Iníon BouliSneachta @claireissimo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
my.uplift.ie/petitions/ma... @uplift.ie #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm
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SPF is an essential product not a luxury and should be VAT free
I've just signed this petition calling on Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to remove VAT on SPF products. Will you sign too?
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🔥Tonnteasa🔥
Cartún - woman in bikini and sunglasses and a wide brimmed hat holding a cocktail and smiling with "An Fhís" over her, versus to her side a woman melting into a puddle and shaking her fist at the sky with "An Fhírinne" 

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Gaeilge
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 15/05/2026
"OpenAlex operates on a shoestring, with institutional memberships at $5,000/year. Retraction Watch is a nonprofit that depends on donations. ORCID is sustained by member organizations. These are [the chronically underfunded] foundations on which the credibility of AI-generated science depends..."
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The Collaborative Exoskeleton of AI Science
There is a lot of hope that AI will advance the progress of science, but unfortunately, the collision between AI and scientific publishing has not gone well.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/05/2026
and yes, a respected colleague calculated the intensity of the on-stage storm because that’s what heroes do.
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What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@juliethecranky.bsky.social crochet not knitting but may interest your followers
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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Oh F*** OFF. The media are so complicit in making this woman a thing. She has had some very fluffy interviews recently too. I'm not saying dont interview her but hold her feet to the fire and dont 'joke' about the handbag. Which, was done
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
can @britishacademy.bsky.social explain why their mid-career fellowship is open for just… the school summer holidays? have they decided working mothers simply have things too easy in academia and need a little extra stress?
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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I have always been charmed by the Dorothy Sayers version of this: "at the time I was particularly hard up and it gave me pleasure to spend [Peter Wimsey's] fortune for him"
Lord Peter's large income... I deliberately gave him... After all it cost me nothing and at the time I was particularly hard up and it gave me pleasure to spend his fortune for him. When I was dissatisfied with my single unfurnished room I took a luxurious flat for him in Piccadilly. When my cheap rug got a hole in it, I ordered him an Aubusson carpet. When I had no money to pay my bus fare I presented him with a Daimler double-six, upholstered in a style of sober magnificence, and when I felt dull I let him drive it. I can heartily recommend this inexpensive way of furnishing to all who are discontented with their incomes. It relieves the mind and does no harm to anybody.
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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This week is #IrishAstronomyWeek - if you are in or around Waterford, the SE Astronomy Club is running two events to mark it. Tonight is a talk on the Moon, at Downes' pub in the city, and tomorrow is a public sidewalk astronomy observing session at 8pm. Both free! Details on the flyer. #astronomy
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socmot @socmot.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
For many in Ireland, this James Last number is a national song. This one is for Michael Lyster. Rest in Peace. youtube.com/watch?v=qG16...
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JAMES LAST - Jägerlatein (Ireland 1984)
YouTube video by New Last
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Janet Horner @janetphorner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The last thing the North Inner City needs is more casinos preying on our communities. A casino that is already in breach of their planning conditions should definitely not be allowed to expand further into a residential area.
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Spuds'n'Butter @spudsnbutter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
@juliethecranky.bsky.social spindle whorls
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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
@gatetheatredublin.bsky.social I work next door and I’m happy to help with any testing that is needed for sound system set up to help improve sound quality for deaf people #HelpUsHear. Something that I’ve written about here: noisysilence.ie/2026/01/05/g... #Accessibility
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Gigs & Accessibility
I’ve had amazing experiences at gigs over the past few years. This is the request that I send to promoters before gigs to ensure accessibility. These steps work for my current setup (Cochlear Nucle…
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If you’re a (new) writer and haven’t heard or taken the advice that you should read your work aloud to yourself, just go and listen to some well-written audiobooks and compare them to some not-so-well written ones.
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