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She/her, Irish, 2 kids, 3 cats, 1 dog; many books, unfinished knitting projects, dreams and good intentions; insufficient dopamine receptors. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez. NOT what I expected, misleadingly recommended as similar to Becky Chambers, but has absolutely grabbed me. #IrelandReads
Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoTomorrow is #IrelandReads day, what will you be reading? www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
No, I'm not throwing the ball in there. (Sound up for a lively burst of hydro energy). #speirgorm #spaniel
And, the sun is shining. It's a beautiful day.
Mark Thomas@markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe results: Greens win big. Farage/ Goodwin sorest losers in party sore losers. Starmer gone into hiding. Telegraph/Mail etc spin into "end of liberal democracy" wank fest. Tories lose their deposit. Party Elon Musk backed, Advance UK, beaten by Sir Oink A Lot.
The results: Greens win big. Farage/ Goodwin sorest losers in party sore losers. Starmer gone into hiding. Telegraph/Mail etc spin into "end of liberal democracy" wank fest. Tories lose their deposit. Party Elon Musk backed, Advance UK, beaten by Sir Oink A Lot.
Another day where we can say - well done to all the anti trans activists who have helped create a world where a convicted sexual abuser is the most powerful man in the world while this is what is going on in Kansas
Looking a lot like Labour and Reform split the rightwing vote.
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️@leftiestats.bsky.social · 7mo ago‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election
But wait.. what have we here??! #speirgorm
Roisin Markham@creativedynamix.bsky.social · 7mo agomorning we are at Pantone Cool Grey 3 this morning and have renamed Ireland to Greyland or #speirliath here there are many types of grey this is your daily checkin feel welcome to share your current sky grey #speirgorm
Last day to register for the Seanad, if you aren't on the list already. There's some feckers in there that desperately need voting out. www.seanadvoter.ie #Seanad #SpeirGhorm
Everybody's decided to join me in my shed today (I have the heater on!). #speirgorm #cats #dogs
Take TWO raptors into the shower? Not me. Not since I got myself a
Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · 7mo agoguys guys I’ve found the best bird name
The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people. First it made them non-people. Then it killed them.
Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 7mo agoAs of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
And today in the midst of a frantic election campaign I got a sincere and compassionate apology. This is so impressive from the Green party. Over the last few weeks I’ve been horribly gaslit by my Lib Dem constituency office who insist my meeting with Wes Streeting is at their behest…
If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7mo agoThey won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
I hope everyone involved makes life hell for the BBC and the BAFTAs until they cough up the people responsible.
Just heard the term “perma-gloom” on Morning Ireland and it sort of sums up the current vibe
Can everyone liking or sharing this pukey piece please remember that a lot of people have a very different experience with passport officers
Irish Independent@independent.ie · 7mo ago'It’s just something that is genuinely part of our culture': how the personalised welcome at Irish airports has survived in a world that feels increasingly tetchy and unwelcoming
Tremendous piece on a subject most Irish people never even give a thought to, but has huge impact on so many immigrants’ lives. Please read and share #speirghorm
Shamim Malekmian@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 7mo agoRuling sheds a small light on opaque intel-gathering on some citizenship seekers. An Garda Síochána “has developed strong links with other security services, particularly those with whom the State shares common threats to national security”, it says. Read more: www.dublininquirer.com/ruling-sheds...
My takeaway from the BAFTA incident is that those in charge of that broadcast at the BBC don't give a damn about any of us -- Black folks, disabled folks, folks who are both, the public. Now we're on a third day of racist and ableist discourse. Structural racism and ableism operating in tandem. 🤦🏾♀️🤬
This is a really good thread but THIS bit especially 👇
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 7mo agoThey start with chin-scratching pieces from centrists about whether this marginalized group is really all that good after all, if maybe a *little* discrimination is ok. They don't start with horrors. They start with small things around the edges.
#speirgorm if you want to see someone who has no complaints at all about all the rain, here's a happy spaniel enjoying the increased speed and volume of his usual river. #tinyjoys #dogs #spaniel
Child Of Prague Let Go By Met Éireann After Poor Performance Review #speirgorm waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/02/20/c...
Child Of Prague Let Go By Met Éireann After Poor Performance Review
MET ÉIREANN have announced a raft of job cuts citing poor employee performance in the wake of endless rain which is slowly driving its weather customers insane, WWN can confirm. "It's a tough time fo...
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Wanted #Speirgorm Looking for a house to rent in Ennis or surrounds for my family & I. I'm working for Clare County Council and have excellent rental references available. If you hear of anything available in the coming weeks or months please let me know. Shares very appreciated! ☺️
Never a truer word was spoke. Honestly can't recommend this series enough. Wouldn't have occurred to me this was the genre I needed in my life, but somehow it was. #booksky
So-called scientist@evan-tuality.bsky.social · 7mo agoGreatest Kaiju roman empire buddy-cop procedural series of all time.
This is royalty doing what it has done best for many centuries - protecting the institutional, by sacrificing the ephemeral; shifting to a defence of the ideal, when the real is beyond defence.