On St Brigid's Day Seamus Heaney

“Ní bhíonn in aon rud ach seal.”

In Leitrim they say that "only the storyteller carries it now". This is my favourite Leitrim expression.

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My body: sleep now My brain: Bob Sagart

Anyone else feel like there’s been a lot of Boudicca energy in the air?

Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment

Me: you known how you always say that I can’t solve everyone’s problems so I have to pick and choose? My therapist: … yes… Me: okay so I figured out a way to solve every problem at once My therapist: that’s not healthy—that’s not possible Me: okay but look at these notes My therapist: huh. well fuck

Isn’t it wild that we have all of these religions that are all basically saying the same thing and instead of people being like “oh cool that way we can each follow the one we like most and still follow basically the same rules” people decided to just fight over how much they agree in principle??

I prefer lawful chaotic good.

I literally squee'd when I saw what Heidi was working on for the embroidery retreat. 💛🤍💜🖤 #DHmakes

Me: everyone who plays D&D is autistic. My wife: what are you talking about? All sorts of different people play D&D—now more than ever! Me, searching on my phone: would you say it’s played by an estimated 3.2% of the population and increasing since the start of the pandemic?

Skeuomorph’s spring semester 2026 public hours are set! We’ll be open Sundays 1-5, & Tuesdays & Wednesdays 5-9. If you have a project in mind or just want to experiment with our equipment and collections, come by during community hours to chat with our student assistants & get your hands inky!

Did I mention my coworker crocheted Robin a couch? 😭😭😭😭😍😍😍😍

It’s unfortunate that so may metrics of success are based on really toxic metrics that see balance as an obstacle to success because I have to say that @puzzmo.com is an amazing puzzle app and the fact that it doesn’t nag me when I break streaks means I can enjoy it on my terms while recovering

The trick is to work in finance when doing those by-the-letter crimes. 👍

If you take the Irish word for cat and add the French word for cat after you get the title of an English cat podcast.

Waiter? Yes, thank you – I'll have your selection of fine powders. My beautiful wife will be having the liquid tasting menu. Thank you, yes. [aside to my beautiful wife] little do these stuffed shirts know we plan to mix them together into goops...

The autists yearn for the crimes.

Hi Americans: I live in Canada and am a Canadian and an Irish citizen and while I’m sympathetic to your current plight, your laws do not impact me and people from other countries are really tired of you telling us about how thing are in your country.

Isn’t it wildly ableist that autistic people can get in trouble for following the rule of laws as they’re written? Surely we should be allowed to do crimes so long as they’re by the letter of the law

A funny thing with autism is the stats are like “yeah 8% of people are autistic” and then you’re like “hmm weird because in my friend group it’s 70% and rising” and then you realise your friend group is like 12 autistic people and 3 neurotypicals holding all your lives together.

My guy friends group chat is just us all talking about how much we love clearing out the storm drains in our neighbourhoods so the snow melt drains and doesn’t make things too icy. Dudes rock.

*bong rip* The Lumineth Realm-Lords are a race of autistic aelves who use pretty rocks to keep their emotions masked lest they encounter issues with allistics who don’t understand how autists process emotions. Their special interest is landscaping.

Probably one of my more random green flags is people who cry to Hozier’s “Butchered Tongue”

I’m under doctor’s orders to not look at the news for my health and it’s so weird but if you’re a person I know to do work for good in your community but don’t post about politics and the news on your account, I’m looking at your account regularly and thankful it’s there to keep me connected

Personal growth is weird because I often notice it first when I’m embarrassed to realise I used to do something and no longer do (or vice versa), but there’s no way to assuage that embarrassment because I can’t unsee how I’ve improved, so growth winds up mostly learning to be okay being embarrassed

You slide into @mitchellab.bsky.social’s DMs at 2am to flirt, I slide into @mitchellab.bsky.social’s DMs at 2am to have an existential crisis about the fundamental neuro-cognitive nature of political disagreement: we are not the same

Me: oh my god! Wife: what? Me: I figured out the allistic way to answer the question! Wife: you mean on the autism assessment you had nearly five months ago? Me: yes but like I eventually bottom-up processed my way to the allistic answer. I’ll get there if you give me time.

I don’t think anything quite tells you what the world thinks about you as trying to find books about autism that assume you yourself are autistic and you’re not looking for a book for your kid :/

Roman Reply Guy named Gaius Responsus

Me at the mechanic: yeah my car door came off because of mental fatigue. Mechanic: buddy, I’ve never seen metal fatigue take off a car door. Me: oh no, I broke the door off with a baseball bat after reading the news. Mental fatigue. Mechanic: ooh yeah we’re seeing a lot of that lately I hear you

Somewhere in the library of my dream books that have never been written is an Umberto Eco novel where a key plot point hinges on an Irish-speaking character using the habitual mood and a bunch of English not understanding it and getting themselves killed.

*giant bong rip* The English had to destroy the Irish language because it more than any other fully empowers autistic speakers through the nuanced grammatical markers of gender agreement; repetition of verbs as answers to questions that removes ambiguity; a habitual mood that affirms repetitive beh

People say that money can’t buy happiness but I think they’re confused because they assume happiness will be expensive and don’t realised you can get a whole tub of polished scoria to stick your hands in at home depot for like five bucks

One of the things everyone needs to know but we don’t explicitly tell people is that romance novels and stories are some of the most validating and affirming things you’ll ever read. If you’re feeling confused about your identity, read some romance with characters who you think you might be like.

Keep using Libby if you want (I will), but PLEASE go to the library, or at least go to the website and check what else they are offering. This will help us all, I promise!

When we act like Libby is the ONLY way to distribute library ebooks, we give them *too much power*. The libraries don’t have much to bargain with if patrons are asking for Libby (instead of asking for ebooks). Check your library’s website to see what other services they offer.

Ok but yknow how I harp on not equating Libby with library ebooks? Libby an app by Overdrive, a corporation. Your library pays them boatloads of money (just like the library pays publishers for the physical books — it’s fine, thats how it works). But they aren’t the only solution.

The Grinch is the story of an autistic guy with debilitating sensory issues and instead of helping him when he identifies the pain it’s causing him, the Whos force him to mask his discomfort and praise him for hiding his autistic traits. In this essay I shall

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Please upload your resume. Please write out everything on your resume again into these other boxes. Please do more work for this job you have a 1 in 5000 chance of being interviewed for.

This is honestly the key point: it’s an ideology of aesthetics and not substance and trying to engage with it on the substance is thus doomed. This is why Dem leadership is just so fucking incompetent: they somehow have been unable to learn this fundamental lesson of fascism in the past century.

The moment demands a lot. The international order is being swept away, and replaced with a Mafioso mob-boss world, where everyone has to kiss the ring, where our children are mere assets, where crime of every sort is fine if done by the right person. But the dishes still have to be done.

Time is short. I have little hope the world will take action, but the longer we leave this stain unwashed the deeper it sinks in and becomes part of our reality.

Venezuela or other affected nations could also: file a case at the ICJ against the USA and Oil Execs/Cos for reparations for harms done, and a declaration that it's illegal. This would let the oil execs know the legal sights are on them as well, and put a placeholder for more lawful times.

Make motions at the UNSC and UNGA to declare these acts illegal.

Now, in the oil-backed Mafia World, what can we do? Fight. Fight for law, order, and justice. Impacted countries can band together under Art 51, and let trump know they will defend themselves and each other with extreme prejudice should be attack.

all to avoid the climate accountability and loss of wealth, status, and impunity. Which seemed to be coming, in the early 90s.