This whole Sunday Independent article is v interesting, but especially the part that talks about Hiberno English (and the way an LLM would have edited Ulysses to have British English sentence structures and no neologisms 👀)

Another aurora post for the timeline. Was a good one - and didn't involve being up at 4am this time 😅 (Dublin Ireland, 9pm-ish) #northernlights #aurora

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This being the first post on my feed when I opened the app feels... pointed. (also - never!! 🌕)

Named: 50 ‘experts’ and linked brands publishers should treat with extreme caution! pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...

Had ridiculously long laces on my shoes (inexplicable teenage fashion choice) and put one foot through the lace loop of my other shoe, tying my ankles together while I was running across several lanes of traffic on O'Connell Bridge.

New year, same old moon posts. First supermoon of 2026 on a freezing Dun Laoghaire walk last night 🌕

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

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Aaaaagh I had made it all the way to Christmas this year without being Christmas Shoed and I've just heard it now in the final hour of Christmas FM. An almost perfect run! (It's ok though as the friend I was playing against was Shoed on Dec 14th 😅)

I know I haven't been going out in town as much as I used to, but, uh, since when do we [checks notes] eat black pudding with our pints to warm us up on pub crawls? 😅

Didn't know today was World Linguistics Day when I posted that and now it looks like that was a choice to mark it. It wasn't... but I think I stand by it

Studying linguistics really made me reject prescriptivism and policing language etc. But, uh, can we make an exception to agree that we should never abbreviate the word 'shampoo'?!

If you're wondering how long it's been since Simple Plan played in Ireland, let me tell you that I missed their last show as I didn't know it was happening - because I *didn't have the internet* at home yet 😅 Just a 20 year wait to live my teenage emo dreams!

Woke up in the middle of the night and looked out my window... to see this! An incredible aurora display over Dublin around 3:30am (and a few Taurid meteors as well - not pictured) 😍 #NorthernLights #Aurora

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

I mean... I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a tiny part of me expecting to see the Louvre when they rolled the VT. Of all the weeks for this task to air! #Taskmaster

Finally got to see one of the comets after a run of cloudy nights in Dublin! (C/2025 A6 Lemmon) No telescope but the 200mm lens caught it ☄️ #comet #cometlemmon

As much as I'm enjoying Celebrity Traitors... I simply cannot get past the fact they gave *banshees* names like Sandra and Venus and Janet 💀

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Maybe the real eclipse was the clouds we met along the way... Stood on a hill for 45min, got stung by nettles, saw only clouds, gave up and went home... and then I turned around in my front garden and there was the effing moon. About three minutes after the main eclipse ended. Typical 😅

They weren't wrong about the high seas on the Atlantic! (Off Ballyheigue, Kerry yesterday)

I can hear The Sims loading music just looking at it...

Famine grips Gaza’s largest city and is likely to spread, crisis authority warns amid rapid increase in child malnutrition www.independent.ie/world-news/m...

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Just realised I've reached that paradoxical time of upheaval that comes in every Irish woman's life... simultaneously too old and haggard to be the Rose of Tralee, and too young and sprightly to run for president 😅

This thread is incredible and I can only imagine the chaos if they let Irish people do the same here

Took my post-evening-shift tea out into the garden to watch the #Perseids 🌠 I counted 7 in about 90min, despite the suburban light pollution and the big bright Sturgeon Moon. Only the second time I've ever seen them. Space is amazing (and a bit terrifying. But mostly amazing)

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

This episode gave me flashbacks to my hardest undergrad Spanish translation exam, which featured a text about why a 'bocata' is not a 'bocadillo' and not a 'sándwich' either. (All of those translate to 'sandwich' in an English dictionary) I still can't order sandwiches in Spain without shuddering 😆

I guess you could say this scammer never made it as a wise man...

I have found my people (standing in the corner of a party telling acquaintances 'No but really, look at his Wikipedia, like obviously he has the band and all, but he's worked on HIV cures, and somehow he's also a pilot, and then there's also the hot sauce thing...')

This is like something from the early 2000s Internet and I kinda love it 🐠

This is a really interesting read - even when they actively tried to be ethical and build an AI algorithm that was as fair as possible (to screen welfare applicants...), it still gave flawed results with biases

I swear I try to find other things to photograph, but I can't resist a moonrise. (Or should I say... can't fight the moonlight) #moon #buckmoon

I have so many questions for whoever set the Walkinstown Roundabout up as a tourist attraction on Google Maps - and the reviewers who made it a 4-star attraction...

Cuando tenía 16 años, descubrí un grupo de punk mexicano llamado Allison en el compilado de Warped Tour 08. Les escuchaba durante todos mis años de estudios de español, antes de cada examén universitaria. Nunca en la vida pensé que les viese tocar (mucho menos en Dublín). Pero 17 años más tarde...

Dare I say it has... passed S7? The wardrobe malfunction, the ongoing bit about Fatiha & Greg's wedding, Javie Martzoukas, the yoghurt task (worst thing I've ever seen 😅), Rosie misunderstanding so many tasks but still flying it, the TWIST task, the bingo card... It's been SO GOOD #Taskmaster

These lilies grew in my granny Maura's garden for 60+ years (a gift from her mother-in-law). Now, in a quirk of fate, they've started opening on her anniversary every year. We've been on lily-watch all week, and the first two appeared last night and this morning (her 3rd anniversary) 💜

Tag yourself - I'm on the line between Rëvoltive and Nausaged

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

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It does not remotely surprise me that Bluesky is full of #Taskmaster nerds (including me) but I love that it trends every Thurs & Fri 😁 This season ('series, Jason!') is up there with S7 and NZ2 for casts. The studio bits are so good!

It works! 📚

My main ask to UN Security Council Members: let us work. Food funded by your taxpayers is waiting at the borders to enter Gaza. We could be saving millions of lives. Let us do it.

One of my new year's resolutions this year was just 'See the sea more'... and honestly, it's the best one I ever made

Started swimming for the first time in a while and I'm sad to report that FitBit has fixed the glitch from last year and I'm no longer swimming 1,225 KILOMETRES at lunchtime

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

I had to laugh at the part of this @lingthusiasm.bsky.social episode where they shouted out to people listening while out for a walk, because I had indeed been walking down the road mumbling 'IMPossible... INedible... IMBalance... INDependent' along with it, probably not very subtly 😅