Rosie Duffield and co.

Pleased to report Wine Strand blessedly free of drones and influencers #speirghorm

This has been EXACTLY me since yesterday. The Athena thing is still winding me up. Yes I know why she’s depicted like that so SHHHH. The villager translation thing is so true. HE WAS SPEAKING GREEK TO GREEKS. And yes I am Greek and I have a relative named Athena

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d ago

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

You think you've got it bad? In 1903, Americans had to put up with Bulgarian and Italian domestic servants! Stupid Irish land reform! New York Evening World, April 11, 1903

Here’s to really good news!

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

the steps.

It is two years today since this dimwit gave us the most hilarious demonstration of karma in history.

i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same

There is currently a public consultation open until 18th August on #CarersAllowance. It's currently £86.45 per week. Many carers are forced to give up work when a family member gets ill. Caring can be 24/7. You can't live on £85 pw. For a full time carer, CA should be set at minimum wage.

Carer's Allowance: call for evidence

This call for evidence is being administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to gather information and views to build on the Department’s existing evidence. What we hear will help shape ...

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Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · last wk.

Didn’t learn about “compassion fatigue” til I was an adult. It’s not a moral failing but a perfectly normal response to the role of being a carer. You really do need to take care of yourself too. This goes out to all my friends who are finding themselves with new caring duties in middle age

I think that’s the review for ‘Battleship Potemkin’

Lucy Fishwife 🥐@lucyfishwife.bsky.social · last wk.

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible” I feel suitably pre-disappointed

GNU Bill Oddie. I was a huge fan of the Goodies and ‘I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again’ as a kid.

irish times politics podcast about a month ago talking about the major european heatwave (which subsequently killed thousands), where the lads were saying: - you can't attribute these events to climate change (wrong) - sure it'll be more nice summers, isn't that great (dead wrong)

Saoirse McHugh@saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2w ago

This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant

Close Aughinish

There won’t be a school gate blocked in Castlebar tonight! #Mayo

NEW INVESTIGATION: Despite escaping the 'mega fires' seen in countries such as Spain and Greece, Ireland actually has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites, we can reveal

Ireland has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites

Following a spate of devastating wildfires, analysis has found that more than half of the land burned here over the past decade overlapped with protected nature areas – significantly higher than the...

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It’s funny, you can’t spell ‘citizen journalist’ without a C and a U and an N and a T

Ireland in my living memory was fucking bonkers, and also very close to what the American Right wants to bring about now. 21-year-old brides banned from paid work, contraception, abortion, divorce, credit cards, or bank loans. Priests instructing parishioners how to vote. Abusers’ paradise.

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 2w ago

This Day in Labor History: July 25, 1973. The Irish Minister of Finance, Richie Ryan, introduced the Civil Service (Employment of Married Women) Act, which ended the nation’s long-standing ban on married women working for the government. Let's talk about this important moment!

Make Ireland spongy again.

Saoirse McHugh@saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2w ago

This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant

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Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

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Tim Bradford scores a bullseye in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Climate action versus the buts

Maybe it will happen today

This extremely early work of Ursula’s appeared in the anthology First Words: Earliest Writing from Contemporary Favorite Writers, edited by Paul Mandelbaum and published by Algonquin in 1993. (“Krakie” was a nickname for Ursula’s mother.)

Spiders are simply the final evolutionary form of a potato left too long in a drawer

This has happened every time after these riots and it has still not shifted the media discourse away from racism. Every time. The ‘save our women and children’ (from non-white men) crowd is full of men who believe women and children are their property.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

What people are beginning to realise, if they did not know already, is that Rowling is financing the whole UK "gender critical" network. It is a project she is willing to invest millions in. If there were any real journalism in this country, it would be investigated and exposed.

Interesting fact: if you removed all the veins from someone's body and attached them end to end, they'd basically be fine. You don't actually need blood. It's mostly decorative.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.