Zhōng Qiū Jié kuài lè!" 中秋节快乐! (One day late. 对不起 Duìbùqǐ). Got mooncakes for my Mandarin teacher as our class was on this big Chinese harvest festival. Bought them in the chaoshi (supermarket) in my hometown. He was surprised & delighted. #Cdrama fans know about mooncakes & rabbit lanterns.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... **Really worried about her & 16 Irish prisoners as Israel particularly hates them; Ireland is hated as our UN peacekeeping forces stood up to IDF in Lebanon & our President & government speaks out for Palestinians. #flotilla #gaza #genocide

Happy Friday. Admire the beauty but don't eat these lads.

Despite illegal Israeli attacks, we continue to challenge the illegal blockade of #Gaza.

There's no doubt Western media is controlled by pro Israel forces. Each morning I google "news" then must google "Gaza" to get news of #Gaza. Same for #Sumudflotilla. Despite the fact I do this daily, the algorithms have NOT-for the first time ever-picked up my preferences. Kept out of headlines.

This post with replies for your daily laugh. 😂

Let's talk apple. Here's a bunch I harvested greenish from a garden I work once a week for Common Ground's Edible Bray (oversees several waste ground gardens) & here's some of them pickling in brine made with water, apple cider vinegar, raw ginger, cardamom seeds, cinnamon & bit of salt. #autumn

💝 Rest In Paradise 🐥 Beautiful Great Soul 🪄🦋🌿🕊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOW... **LIVESTREAM OF SUMUD FLOTILLA** The more people watching the better, for the safety of courageous aid workers & activists trying to bring food & medical supplies to #Gaza. Shame Israel's #genocide & Western governments/EU for not protecting their citizens. #flotilla

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... **ISRAEL'S UNLAWFUL TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS** Western governments not protecting their citizens. #gaza #flotilla #genocide #blockade

Generally speaking I don't reskeet American material because that country is just one hot mess & we're all sick of it. But this lady is on fire! And deserves a reskeet. And yes, I agree with her totally. The Dems had FOUR YEARS to put that criminal Trump away & they didn't. They are also to blame.

Finally got to the "Composting Colonialism: Towards the Radical Garden" in Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Group exhibition of work in mixed media by Irish, Spanish & British artists. These are two favourites but you can see the wonderful rest up till Oct 4 this week. #Bray #Wicklow

Ooooh but I love this So many poets....musicians...searched for the ❤️ of sorrow only to have greater pain find them turning their ❤️ as dust in the wind

So one of my books is on this pirate site ... #PeopleoftheGreatJourney

Reading on Paper Versus Screens: What’s the Difference? www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience...

War criminal overseeing a genocide invited to speak at UN. The world we live in. I despair. #Gaza #Genocide

This book by Sato Hiroaki - poet, translator & writer on haiku - recommended on Japanese YouTube site I watched to help me hone #haiku in my book-length #haibun (currently completing). He's wry & even lethal about Western commentators on haiku. 🥰 Took me too long to realise 🔴's were also Os. D🔴h.

In other news, I'm going to pickle green apples I picked too early from one of the fruit trees at the community garden I work. Found great recipe online using maple syrup instead of sugar & apple cider vinegar instead of white. Also plan to try Indian apple recipe sent by friend from #Kerala.

Intellligent laugh for the day. 😂 🤣

Can I just say Asian dramas have no respect for genre. One is NOT supposed to be traumatised by a rom com. Yes, #BonAppetitYourMajesty I mean you. (Won't say more until most have watched.) Both K & C dramas do this. You're laughing away, enjoying the romance & suddenly the horror strikes.

This sign on the corner of a busy main street in Dublin always makes me grin. Firstly, I've never seen anyone smoking near this spot. Secondly, I've no idea what kind of length 7.5m might be. Finally, I can't imagine anyone lighting up & wondering if they're under the .5. #oddsigns

Horrific story of UK exported plastic waste directly responsible for criminality & the death of Afghan refugees. Disgrace to UK & Turkey. Yet another reason, no doubt, why UK government happy to be outside EU regulations. #Brexit www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Two of the best #Cdramas on Netflix star #ZhaoLusi my favourite Asian actress ( #KieraKnightly my fave Western): one is #wuxia fantasy #WhoRulestheWorld, t'other rom com #HiddenLove with added hilarious sibling relationship.

Bonjour, hola, tashi delek, dia dhuit, konnichi wa, ni hao et al. Hope you're having a great day. Sunshine here in Ireland. What's seldom is wonderful. 🌞

Trinity College Dublin is the first Western university to fully cut ties with Israel. This is attributed chiefly to student activism. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

🏴🔥 With the excuse of not intervening in other countries and their sovereignty, the elite maintains the #Genocide, because terror makes the rest of the world paralyze. We must continue the fight and end the genocides that remain active in Sudan, Myanmar, #Palestine, etc. ✊🏻 ~Bosnia 09/2025

youtu.be/9XbQJPF817I?... **Found this great video that mirrors my first #Mandarin class. I'll keep watching it for practice. Helps to see how she moves her mouth, as well as to hear how she pronounces the sounds.**

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/... Russia was banned from international sports within days of the invasion of Ukraine. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and their teams are still being fielded. The boycott against South Africa was effective. *Please sign.* Almost a million now. #gaza

Isn't it just 😞 Get rid of them and their backers and we might still have a chance of a decent world.

Had to stop watching #WhenDestinyBringstheDemon as I know well from #Cdrama when we're heading for serious pain. Will return when I regain some objectivity. Found I can watch #ShadowLove without being inflicted by ads on AsianTV/Kisskh. When I get too stressed there I'll return to t'other. 🥰

www.thejournal.ie/sally-rooney... *Irish author warned by Downing Street that her support of Palestine Action could be a terrorist offence.* #Gaza #genocide

We're 9 people. I was just about to ask you how it went. 😂🤣 3 of the tones sound practically identical to me, so the up-and-down one is my fave. Also sounds the most Chinese which made him laugh when I said it. We just have to train our ears! Have you watched #WhenDestinyBringstheDemon yet? 😍

So after 1st #Mandarin class at TCD can confirm that #DuoLingo is only good for basic intro & vocabulary & does NOT teach you how to speak a language lol. (I've used it for Spanish, Japanese & Mandarin to date.) OMG did I say it was easy? 4 tones to every sound that make 4 different words. 😭

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Terence McKenna's daughter Klea is continuing the work of her father & mother, ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison, at this site. The most articulate speaker you can ever hope to listen to (check him out on YouTube). Amazing writer & pyschedelic teacher/philsopher. www.terencemckenna.com

America's National Guard have always been their government's standing army; a militia used against its own populace whenever people got out of line. And Canadians have always watched (and sung) in horror. Plus ça change. #NationalGuard #KentState

live your life so that if people quote you after your death it is not viewed as a hate crime.

Rewatching #AlchemyofSouls with pal who's mourning her Mum. Knew she'd love a life-affirming fantasy for comfort watch (yes tragedy but SPOILER gets sorted). Noticed again the wine delivery lad in Season 2 Ep 1 whom I noted on 1st watch for his star presence. Jeonha! #BonAppetitYourMajesty

Thing I had to adjust to when moving back to Ireland (left as a child) a few decades ago. In Canada, there's a small plug at the end of the wire that you never need to go near. This took me almost an hour; replacing the plug head as the casing damaged. Don't get me started on the immersion. #Ireland

Absolutely adore this man 💚 👇

Lamp post on Bray promenade. #Ireland #Palestine #Gaza

My journey as a newbie gamer just crossed with my love of #Cdrama. Found the game featured in fave rewatch #FallingIntoYourSmile (the only decent Xu Kai series imo, don't shoot me). #Onmyoji is a Hong Kong game based on Japanese myth with Japanese audio & anime artwork.

A writer's life in a Venn diagram. #writingcommunity

Here's a willow basket made by a young man I've known since he was two yrs old, with fruit and veg he harvested from an organic garden he works (in Northern Ireland). #Ireland #organicgardening

Best pizza in Ireland Platform Pizza (with Kilruddery Pizza Shed close 2nd) both in Bray! Great bit of indoor decor, this old style wardrobe leads you - not to Narnia - but the loo area. The shelf cupboards on right & left of the door hold table items accessed by staff. Clever design! #Bray #Wicklow

**More journalists killed in Gaza than US Civil War, the two World Wars, Korean War & Vietnam War COMBINED. Israel/IDF "investigating". BBC News & all Western media still downplaying what's going on. Why do they think they are banned from enter to cover the story?** #genocide #Israelwarcrimes #Gaza

Laugh for the day. (Gotta love intelligent jokes.)

Built my first house in #Minecraft. Pics to follow. New assignment: build a rollercoaster. So firestone glows in the dark & powers the minecart uphill. Need to chuck out animals & villagers who climb into cart (not to mention sleeping on my bed!) Get it now why people love this game. 🥰 #gaming