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Kev ó Mhaigh Eo @kevfrommayo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"I had a campaign ready, I had groups throughout the country, we probably had 200 or 300 people dedicated to the campaign. We were ready to go."

Pop-country singer, political campaign slayer, CMAT.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Very possibly the most British road sign in Britain:

A road sign. The left turn at the roundabout leads to Monkey World and the Tank Museum.

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

"Realistically, this soundness detector business is about as worthwhile a use of time and resources as a Conor McGregor appeal at the High Court." This week's Surrealing in the Years on 'Be Sound' campaigns, Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, and the unique cravenness of Keir Starmer.

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Surrealing in the Years: We're getting better at rejecting bad ideas, now all we need are some good ones

Also this week: Keir Starmer’s not very likeable, is he?

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Wordle 1,481 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ha. My dad used this word a lot. To describe new things he wasn’t sure about ☺️

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The world's loosest shackles 🏠

Black and white cartoon showing three caricatures of government politicians with loose tape around their hands, being held by two background characters sitting on large sacks marked "Landlord Profits" and "Vulture Funds", with the figure on the right holding a vulture on his arm. On the ground is a long partially unfurled scroll headed "Dáil Landlords" with some of the most recently declared ones written down the scroll. The speech bubble above the three figures reads "Housing? Our hands are tied!!". It's signed @Ciaraioch

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Ireland #Cartoon #Art

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Fraud is one thing, but lying to Gillian Anderson???

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Strong message for Sir Rod from the crowd:

#Glastonbury crowd with a member of the audience holding up a sign reading ‘HERE FOR OLIVIA FUCK REFORM’

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Rod Stewart pleading with the Glastonbury crowd to be nice, that music is meant to bring people together. A bit rich after he endorsed a man determined to divide people.

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Sorcha Ní Nia @luiseach.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

absolute BOP

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I should have got one this in three @herring1967.bsky.social Wordle 1,467 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It’s quite the article. Tourist shocked to find other tourists at popular tourist spot 🙄 Great response from the parish council - Bourton is for all 👏🏻 www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Archive October 7, 2021 Wordle 110 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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laurel, a 12’ skeleton @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sometimes I close my laptop and pick up my phone to see what the little internet is up to, presumably.

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

41. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green A very insightful and informative book that is easy to absorb. Learnt so much about tuberculosis and the horrific things it does to people. Would recommend! 📚💙

A copy of Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

hot ones but it's me interviewing a succession of uncles from rural ireland while handing them increasingly outrageous receipts for pints of guinness i've bought in central dublin

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I caved and paid for the NYT games app in their sale. Now I’m doing all the Wordles I never got to do before I started playing it. Money well spent ⬜️🟨🟩🟨⬜️

A calendar view of all the available Wordles for me to play, from their archive.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I saw this tree today. You should see it too. It’s located on the shores of Lough Ramor, Co. Cavan, Ireland

A large beech tree, in full green leaf glory. The sunshine is streaming through the branches.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Wordle 1,416 4/6* ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 definitely one of the more frustrating Wordles 🙄

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A sunset timelapse of Derrynane / Caherdaniel in Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The holiday in Kerry is going well. The weather has been wonderful, for early April.

A view of the bay in Caherdaniel. You can see the Ship house. Amazing dwelling. You’d never get planning for this now.

Small coral from one of Ireland two coral beaches. This one is near Sneem, Co. Kerry.

A sheepdog called Milo is standing by my seaweed bath barrel. He’s mostly black, with brown and white detail around the face. The view in the background is of the sea and mountains.

A World War Two sign spelling out ÉIRE on a costal headline. It’s made up of stone painted with white wash. It was used to tell pilots for both the allied and axis forces that they were flying over neutral Ireland.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

There’s still remnants of the Minecraft civilisation out there, if you look close enough..

A cube shaped rock. It had a crack going through it. Photographed on the Iveragh Peninsula, Co. Kerry.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Kerry, it’s great to be back 💚💛

Skellig Michael on the left. Little Skellig on the right. Two rocky outcrop islands off the coast of County Kerry. Skellig Micheal was used as a location for a Star Wars movie. The force is strong here.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Wordle 1,386 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Complete throwaway word there on row three. Baffled.

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is such a lovely tribute to Val Kilmer from Hilarie Burton ❤️

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The sweetest man.

I played @valkilmerofficial 's girlfriend in a movie back in 2009. The script called for us to have a fairly rowdy love scene that got interrupted by a phone call. I'd just come off of OTH where I was always put in some kind of compromising position....so it was just work as usual.
But then I got to set the day we were going to be shooting that scene and there was a scramble happening. "Val wants to change the scene."
Huh?
"It's not interesting," he said. A gratuitous sex scene with a younger woman didn't service the story or the character. It said nothing about the relationship and why either of our characters were in it. Instead, Val sent someone out to a local restaurant to pick up a huge tub of ribs. And so, as the camera panned up from the floor, our moans were those of two people, comfortable and indulgent, tangled up in bed and unfettered by the mess, elbows deep in North Carolina's finest bbq

It was infinitely more interesting and I felt so safe and cared for by that man. It would have been easy to phone it in and just go with the stereotypical way women have been seen in film. Rather than the scene playing on my naked back, he turned me toward the camera. He made the scene about us instead of using me as a prop. That one day at work rewired my brain.
Val was kind to me. A thoughtful artist. I bought some of his paintings a few years back. I hope every young actor has a Val in their life. That movie was a magical experience.
#bloodworth

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Wordle 1,380 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lucky second word..

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

... nothing annoys me more than the backtick being used as a single quote or as an apostrophe. Just saw it being used by a journalist in an article like this `sheriff' I would like to scream into the void, with this petty little tantrum of mine.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@ntannucilli.bsky.social Back in Twitterland you inspired me to close my rings every day 🎉

Apple Fitness medal, for closing all my rings 1250 times.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Marvel back to getting things right with Daredevil: Born Again

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/03/2025

“I didn’t want a transgender child. I’m so ashamed of myself now” Nothing but love for @alicemydaughter.bsky.social for this interview with the Sunday Times magazine for her book, "Her name is Alice"

Double page Sunday Times magazine spread - “I didn’t want a transgender child. I’m so ashamed of myself now”
When Caroline Litman discovered that her 16-year-old wanted to become a girl, she was heartbroken. She explains how she learnt to accept Alice as her daughter — but couldn’t save her life
INTERVIEW BY LAURA PULLMAN, PORTRAIT BY ANNA BATCHELOR

The shock set in the moment they found the GP’s letter, left open in the kitchen beside the kettle. It was an autumn morning in 2018 when Caroline Litman’s husband, Peter, rushed upstairs to confess to his wife that he’d glimpsed the letter to their 16-year-old. It raised the possibility that the anxiety their child had been suffering might stem from “gender dysphoria”. The couple were blindsided.

“It wasn’t a boy child that I longed for. It was a happy child. If transitioning could bring that happy child back out, I was all for it”

Shortly afterwards, there were moments of light. Alice asked if the family could get a new dog — their old dog had recently died — and within a week they had found Pippin, a one-eyed Romanian rescue dog who became a dependable friend. That summer Alice came downstairs from her bedroom wearing a dress for the first time — a floral item that seemed to make her giddy with happiness. “I was trying so hard to be loving and accepting,” Litman says, “but inside I was, like, ‘What’s she doing? She looks ridiculous.’ Oh God, bless her!” she says, laughing fondly. “I felt really uncomfortable.”

In the UK, Litman argues, trans healthcare is not fit for purpose. In March 2020, after Alice had turned 18, she was discharged from CAMHS psychiatric services as she was now a legal adult. Aged 19 she moved out of home to live with a friend in Brighton. The hope was that she would find a job or complete a course that could lead to a university place, but by her mental health was too fragile. In April 2022, using an e-consult form, Alice told a new GP in Brighton of her fears that she wasn’t taking the right medication. “I often feel hopeless, and helpless and that life is not worth living,” she wrote. An appointment was made for July.

She didn’t make it. On May 26, 2022, around 8.30am, a policeman knocked on Litman’s front door. She assumed that something had happened to her 95-year-old mother, who’d spent the night in hospital after a gardening accident. “My brain was protecting me,” she says, quietly remembering that morning.

The offcer suggested that the couple sit down in their living room before breaking the news. A body had been found by a passer-by earlier that morning on the Undercliff Walk between Brighton and Rottingdean. The first devastating task was telling Kate, who was studying for a history master’s at Leeds University, and Harvey, who was travelling with his girlfriend in Guatemala, before they heard the news somehow elsewhere.

Litman doesn’t like gentle euphemisms for death. “I just find it so offensive because Alice’s death wasn’t peaceful and calm and a slipping away,” she says. “It was cruel and brutal, harsh and horrible.”

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I don't do the International Women's Day thing any more (well maybe a couple to keep my hand in) but we raised a lot of money for @RefugeCharity when I did and they always need more. So please donate every March 8th refuge.org.uk Or November 19th if you prefer.

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Refuge, the largest UK domestic abuse organisation for women

Empowering women to live without violence & fear. Refuge is the largest domestic abuse organisation in the UK. Supporting thousands of women & their children overcome the physical, emotional, financia...

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 03/03/2025

You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.

An dusty, industrial looking control panel in a wall. There are two big white square buttons on it. The one on the left has a red border and the letter 'i' touching the bottom, representing a person stuck to the ground (the dot of the i being their head). The 2nd button also has a red border, but inside the button is an upside down stickman figure, arms and legs spread out. To indicate this person is floating around helplessly in zero-gravity.

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Clive Brookes @cliveb.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I moved to Ireland in 2012. I'd visit London and to be fair a pint was about the same price. 5 pounds vs 6.50 euro. 2025 a pint in London 8 pounds. Pint in Dublin 7 Euro. I'm not saying it's Brexit that has caused this. Oh hang on I am saying that I just remembered. Brexit was Madness.

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Cristin Larkin @twistlarkin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In London for the weekend, for Clive’s birthday. It’s going great so far! Heading out shortly to meet his buddies for BBQ food. And tomorrow we are going to ABBA Voyage 🎉

The BT Tower to the left, the top of it shrouded in fog. A curvy oblong building to the right, with the words 101 Forged in the white heat of scientific revolution.

The iconic London clock tower known as Big Ben.

A peachy coloured gin cocktail in a gimlet glass, sitting on a dark barrel. In the background are four bar stools, a bar countertop and shelves of bottles.

A black and white photo of the ceiling to floor windows of the 58th floor in the Horizon 22 building. Silhouettes of people standing and looking out at the view over London. They are casting long shadows from the sun. You can see the Shard skyscraper in the distance.

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