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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterdayNo cheating post your lock screen
Anna Walsh
@annaannawalsh.bsky.social
Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday
I really appreciate every share on this episode - I’ve known Cindi for over a decade and this is her first time ever speaking publicly about what happened to her in Bessborough.
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 2d agoIreland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
On Friday @4hundredblows.bsky.social begins his Edinburgh run at 9.45am. There will be nothing better to do on the planet at 9.45am that day and on the many subsequent days. Tickets are here: www.thespaceuk.com/shows/2026/t...
The Umbrella Man: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination (Martin Fitzgerald)
Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be on Main Street - crowds fifty deep, a blizzard of ticker tape. A few blocks away in Dealey Plaza, the scene is quieter: a handful ...
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"I've taught my pet owl to tell jokes." "Cool. Can he tell one now?" "No, he's knock-knockturnal."
Folks going to @edfringe.bsky.social looking for something to see alongside morning coffee should book into @4hundredblows.bsky.social’s brilliant spoken word show based on his book The Umbrella Man & Other Stories.The perfect way to start your day www.thespaceuk.com/shows/2026/t... #edinburghfringe
The Umbrella Man: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination (Martin Fitzgerald)
Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be on Main Street - crowds fifty deep, a blizzard of ticker tape. A few blocks away in Dealey Plaza, the scene is quieter: a handful ...
thespaceuk.com
I believe this as well and it has changed profoundly how I see various periods in history, too.
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
I had to ask someone to stop playing videos with loud comic noises and laugh tracks while waiting for blood tests in a hospital
Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · last wk.I was so proud of my confrontation with a man playing loud music on the train that I wrote about it - grumpy face included
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
"‘The Green and Red of Mayo’ rings out around Croke Park and if you don’t have chills you’d have to either be from Kerry or dead." www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
Mayo end 75-year All-Ireland drought with dramatic win over Kerry
Mayo look to overcome reigning champions to end 75-year Sam Maguire wait
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Now Mayo have won Sam and Liverpool have won the premier league I guess I’ve completed being a sports fan
I got referenced by a TD in a speech at the Galway Chamber of Commerce
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
If anyone ever wants to argue that local history and historians are not important, then this should put that to rest. But for Catherine Corless and her labour none of these would have been searched for.
Aedh MacTire / Haydyn Williams@tine119.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd there will probably be more. All who knew. All who did nothing. All who said nothing. All who participated…….deserve #Prison followed by their own special place in #Hell. And if they professed to serving their #Lord, then they are liars! www.thejournal.ie/tuam-mother-...
I would prefer him as chancellor but I’m happy that foreign secretary has gone to someone who takes the biggest international challenge of our lifetimes seriously
Very sad news. May the road rise up to meet him.
The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 2w agoEveryone at The Anfield Wrap are deeply saddened to hear of the news that Liverpool Legend Kevin Keegan has passed away at the age of 75. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time. You'll Never Walk Alone.
I think it’s just nice that all the players get to run around outside and have fun
I’ll tell you what would perk things up: replacing the referee with a pantomime horse.
(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoCould AI be conscious?
CMAT was predictably brilliant at the Piece Hall. Wuthering Heights a highlight. Excellent venue as well.
EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably. CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.
Screaming out of my window only for my neighbours to discover that I’m actually reacting to Michael Portillo’s recent series about taking the Shinkansen across Japan
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3w agoRemember to scream loudly out of the window at random moments to keep your iPlayer-watching neighbours on their toes.
[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs
w....wait.... you mean to tell me.... gulps..... putting money into the arts.......is profitable and..........produces............g-good outcomes for everyone?
paulseesequasis@pseesequasis.bsky.social · 3mo agoFrom ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
