He's BACK

I'm gonna keep looking for him (bsky.app/profile/patt...) until he's back.

Connections and Wordle results...... Wordle 1,612 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #890 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟪🟦 🟦🟪🟪🟦 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

The dog just woke me up for apparently no reason.

@kithrup.bsky.social Just checking you are above the water.....

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Any #fungus experts out there to tell me what these are just for curiosity #mushrooms

Reminder: youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o?...

I am actually increasingly pissed off at a panel I'm watching for a panel about Smart Tech at work. 4 people on the panel. Global audience. 4 white guys. Right.....

"They said you were dead" "I know" HT to @mharvey816.bsky.social

This is an amazing photo.

Ah Family tree discoveries - who is it you say - my mother's Grandmother's cousin's husband's aunt ... right.... ok....

This is a harrowing piece, but what I loved was that the journalist who 'used' this child as a focus for the original piece stayed a major part of his life and never gave up on him. They could have walked away. They never did. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

What's on my mind today? The deafening silence With flags unfurled 2 minutes to remember The wars of the world

I score, at most, 1. (Number 9....though I suspect I tried it at least once in my room)

World: “This fellow is deathly pale!” Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”

Does anyone here know what an irish celtic anvil would have looked like - one Bridget might have used?

dag nab it - not only did I get no lunch today I got back to this email "after we recently spoke, I passed on the information to executive management and what can I say - you are practically being showered with praise" -> "Well done! The message "Positive Feedback" was part of a training simulation"

9a. Realising there is a difference between " If you can write a thousand words a day" and " If you can write a thousand words in a day". Being able to repeat it daily for 60 days is a whole other skill.

Success is Preparation+Opportunity+Luck. And the greatest of these is Luck. Without luck you can have all the other two in the world and go nowhere. You can even gain success with "just" opportunity+luck. Opportunity is often based on privilege of some shape and can be replaced by 'Luck'

So those most likely to be held at fault for the perception of a dangerous city center are actually most likely to be victims of what crime there is...

Entirely apart* from the various bigotries or other, I find her descriptions of school kids to be creepy.... I don't think she meant them to be creepy... but they are.... *others better qualified comment on those

I hate it how everyone wants you to use their app! And then claim whatever you are trying to do will be easier on the app. Fuck off! Let me use a web page!!

It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...

I cannot recommend this series highly enough. Heart of Stone is the first novel, but there is so much more in this wonderful world, and I'm so glad they are being released again. Buy this book, and the one after it, and the one after that...

Someone bring me chocolate plz...

A child bride faces execution in Iran for the killing of her abusive husband unless she can raise 10bn tomans (about £80,000) to pay off the victim’s family by a December www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It was just over 20 years ago now that I did the tour of my house and decided to put in a bid. Between a slow process and an upcoming holiday it took til after the new year before it was all finalised. Kids from the area I first met are ALL GROWN UP. They are 26-40 now. They have kids. It's so weird

Can you imagine when they were first introduced to each other? Like, instantly they had something similar in common...

I never watched Endeavour til recently - I'm not done with the seasons yet but I have to say, I started out not particularly impressed by Chief superintendent Bright - usual character, put there to be officious and humourless. But he's not. He's wonderful. I think I may be falling for the man.

Another of those background names from my childhood has died. I never really knew him but he had an unusual enough name that it stuck in my head. He also left a more indelible mark on the area (for the good). So here's to him.

Genuinely delighted to say I'll be guest of honor, along with the fantastic Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social), at Octocon (@octocon.bsky.social), the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, in Cork, Ireland over October 3-4, 2026! I hope to see some (many!) of you there!

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Speaking of second cousins once removed - I just got photos of my newest one.. that would be my mother's mother's brother's daughter's daughter's son, to be precise....He's only gorgeous. I saw his mam this summer for the first time in AGES.

If true this is very cool www.facebook.com/share/r/17Wc...

So my brother was watching YT history and a claim that the English civil war had a greater death toll than the combination of WW1 and WW2 (for the brits) combined (by % of the population) So I looked it up. And I am currently horrified. Not by their death toll (which was horrible) but Ireland's 1/

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found - the killings were unjustified - none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns - no warnings were given - no soldiers were under threat - the troops were the first to open fire

NYC defense lawyer Margrit Knight thinks maybe she's found the perfect man - until he's revealed as a gargoyle, wanted for murder! HEART OF STONE will be re-released in just a few days! Preorder now! <3 #booksky #romantasy #urbanfantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...

"Catherine Connolly did what no one since Pádraig Pearse has managed by getting more than one member of the Irish left to sign the same piece of paper"

This is terrific from @benfraser.bsky.social medium.com/@ben_fraser/...

After 18+ years, A GIRL AND HER FED is done, at least for now. Everyone welcome our new god of joy to the Weirdness Pantheon. www.agirlandherfed.com #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics

Bobby has now whined until he remembered his food bowl was full. He has thus eaten and is more content.

Declutterers tell me if I turn out to actually NEED the object I can buy a new one. If I have the money, that's all well and good but this trend towards 100% subscription based stuff means I'd need an ongoing supply of money to replace stuff I physically own. I feel my hoarding growing stronger.

I sorry- I just discovered the concept of a 100% subscription based bed

I had a fabulous time over the weekend with friends at #idwcon except for a few minutes on Monday when the fact that it was my father's anniversary, discussions of the (literal) death of the author and the recently revisited death of another author/friend and a total lack of sleep combined to tears

Do you know anyone interested in becoming the Irish Language Officer for Wikimedia Community Ireland? #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Ireland #IrishLanguage #Irish #Gaeilge

Do you want to shape the future of the Irish language?☘️ Wikimedia Community Ireland is seeking an Irish Language Officer to lead our efforts in developing the Irish language across Wikimedia projects, with a special focus on #Vicipéid! For more: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...

Meanwhile some one of the upgrades on the work PC has borked it... I mean it's possible it's an upgrade on my phone or even the local mobile network but......

So, like, there's this reel on fb with the long skirt turned short, etc.... but I'm Gen X, and I was doing this in the 90s...80s even.... like, it was a staple....

RAVEN CALLS is out!!! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raven-call... @cemurphy.bsky.social