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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 4h

We lost a phone handset into the Playmobil bin lorry for weeks. Tore the house apart looking for it. But the joy that lorry brought!

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

in case Irish people don't know the context, Stan Cullis played for and managed Wolverhampton Wanderers. in 1938 he objected to a proposed Nazi salute by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 players before a game vs 🇩🇪 and was dropped from the side. he's a club legend at Wolves, the Stan Cullis Stand was where I sat last weekend

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah, I'm so sorry. He was so obviously a very good boy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is a running joke in our house to hijack each other's Netflix photos, but my Dolly Parton avatar has gone unchanged for about 5 years. No one has ever been prepared to disrespect Dolly.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

‘I have just returned from my first visit to the West Bank since 2023. What I saw then was deeply disturbing, but today the situation is far worse. It is now an emboldened and aggressive process of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land unfolding in plain sight’. theelders.org/news/what-we...

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What we saw in the West Bank: Palestine is disappearing

Mary Robinson reflects on her recent trip to the Middle East and the realities she witnessed in the West Bank

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Caoimhe Deyn @empressofkashyr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do not stand at Dracula's grave and weep. He is not there. He does not sleep.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A friend of mine runs a yarn shop and it has become a regular thing for people to bring in garbled patterns, some of which they have generated themselves. Then people assume the shop owner is being difficult in refusing to 'fix' this nonsense

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No words to make things better, but mind yourself.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes! It took me a hot minute to figure that one out when I got the email...

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Trans people are roughly as common as someone who has the same birthday as you. Imagine if all people with your birthday are to be banned from toilets, sports, affirming your birthday at school etc etc. it's so fucked up and hardly anyone with a different birthday is doing anything to stop it.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You would think so, but no. I've used it occasionally to shed light on tricky second-language sentences, and it is just as confident about introducing some errors as it is about noticing others.

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The worst I’ve been “owned” since Hugo did a number on me back on Twitter. Second-guessed every post I made for months afterwords

Hugo tweet evaluating a trite nature observation of mine:

“It's a shame to waste on Twitter what could become 850 gorgeous words on that Sunday Miscellany, with a fat fee to follow.
A closed shop, of course.”

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There is still a very active connection between Ahakista, Bantry and the families. It might be an idea to contact the Memorial Committee?

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thank you! They do tend to run together after the first fifteen or so! 😄

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thank you, Eleanor. We have lovely plans to mark it. But don't the years absolutely fly by?!

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Me to himself: 'I'm so happy to have been married to you for 25 years.' Him: 'Don't be getting ahead of yourself. We're not there yet.' Our anniversary is on Tuesday. 🤷‍♀️🤣

Pink and grey clouds, with orange undertones, over the Shehy mountains.

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The West Cork Literary Festival starts tomorrow and it is jam packed with stunning events ✨️ There is so much to see (this year's programme is unreal!), but make sure to catch Mary Morrissy in conversation with Danielle McLaughlin and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on July 12-

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm sure data centres will be taking part in these efforts to save water. After all, there can be no question that the human need for water outweighs the needs of computer servers, right? Right? #SpeirGorm

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 01/07/2026

*prepares a hasty thread on the work of Roger Casement to justify why a victory for DR Congo is also a victory for Ireland*

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Over There @coreilly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Always a joy to watch Thanks for the memories #athletics #speirgorm www.athleticsireland.ie/two-time-oly...

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TWO-TIME OLYMPIAN PHIL HEALY ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM ATHLETICS - Athletics Ireland

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

All week, I’ve seen the best of Belfast at the Book Festival- welcoming, inclusive, creative, joyful- tonight we’re making sure all our lovely guest writers can get home safely through riots and burnt out vehicles and outpouring of hatred. It is such a shame. We are much better than this.

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Fred Logue @fplogue.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What's terrible about his view on carbon budgets is that these are derived from international law and concepts of equity and climate justice. He invokes SF's working class orientation but ignores the very basis of the international response to climate change and Ireland's role as a rich country

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

nuts that you get guys who are obsessed with the idea of "legacy" for some reason and selfishly build their whole lives around that goal when I'm going to remember Anthony Head with the utmost fondness for the rest of my life because he went out of his way to be kind to a fan

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 25/05/2026

This reminds me of once being on the aircoach from Cork to Dublin and a girl answered her phone and said without pause that she would be at the Workmans in ten minutes. We had just past Tipperary.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is where the absence of strategic oversight hits: in what way is it wise for the UK to lose expertise in China?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I hope they all go well for him. Once the first one is done, the tension breaks a bit!

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Become a legend. Buy an island pub. The Jolly Roger is for sale. Sherkin Island, County Cork. #Speirgorm #Ireland #Pub www.hodnettforde.com/properties/t...

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Come to Sherkin Island. Get a BA in Visual Art with TUDublin. See the world differently. Maybe stay a spell longer... 4 years. Part time. Contact Jesse Jones jesse.jones@tudublin.ie www.tudublin.ie/study/underg... #speirgorm #art #Ireland

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A great interview with the fabulous Eimear O'Herlihy - director of the always wonderful and imaginative West Cork Literary Festival.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Kings Speech 2, this time it's political

Watch: What next after the King's Speech?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It's an unbeatable way to find snags. Good luck with it!

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Much like Irish media playing up party's like Aontú. Reform gets a disproportionate amount of air-time from Brit media.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 06/05/2026

“Sudan is an atrocities lab right now.” UN Aid Chief @tomfletcherun.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the dire conditions he saw on the ground in Sudan, and how funding cuts have meant humanitarians must choose which lives to save there. Watch: zeteo.com/p/un-humanit...

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This drives me mad on the regular.

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

He used to work with the much-missed Steve Wing - Wildlife Officer at the Cape Clear Bird Observatory. birdwatchireland.ie/announcing-t...

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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The abandoned village on the West side of the Sheep's Head peninsula is called Crimea. Two old fellas there had a feud at the time the war was in the news, and the name stuck.

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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The local island pub has been colloquially renamed "The Strait of Hormuz". Because no one knows if it is open or closed. #speirgorm #localgossip

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

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