So I'm obsessed with how the history of billy-roll is also a history of the evolution of the Irish food sector. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

more generations need to discover M*A*S*H

The fact that the prompt even begins with ‘Everybody play along 🤣😬!!’ like how is that alone not the most offputting thing in the world

Month 2, 32/365 of an edit a day on @wikipedia.org Very lazy day, stretching out the break for my birthday and the long weekend for St Brigid's Day tomorrow. I was able to add a photo from a friend uploaded to an article - simple! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John...

Crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale 1 of 1st women elected Fellow of RoyalSociety 1945. 1st woman tenured professor @ucl.ac.uk 1st woman president IUCr & BritSciAssoc. Elected Womens Eng Soc member 1946 in recognition of “brilliant & important work" b #OTD 28 Jan 1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...

i never want to hear people say o'connell street is dangerous again when a lamborghini has been sitting there untouched for a week

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Giving He-Man pronouns

His name is Liam and he has been kidnapped.

Years ago when the Motherfoclóir podcast was in full swing we did an episode about wine and which wines would go with a coddle or a crisp sandwich...

@mnemonic.bsky.social I'm guessing you're not enjoying your principle being this relevant.

Anne Burns aeronautical #engineer & glider pilot worked @ RAE Farnborough, world expert in Clear Air Turbulence & its effects on aircraft safety. 2nd woman to read #Engineering Sciences @ Uni of Oxford. Age 62 became oldest Caterpillar Club member d. #OTD 22 Jan 2001 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bu...

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

What's your #Wikipedia goal for 2026? An edit a day seems like a manageable challenge! Best of luck @rebeccanineill.bsky.social

Elon in 2016: In 2026 we will be on Mars! Elon in 2026: Here have this nazi-pedo-porn-generator.

When editing Wikipedia, sometimes it's funnier to add the tag than to fix the sentence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police

You know how bananas are radioactive but only a tiny bit so it's fine to have a bunch of them lying around. But keeping, like, one billion bananas could fatally irradiate you. I propose we do this to money.

On and off, I've been an active Wikipedian since about 2013. In 2015, I did #100wikidays, and again in 2018, which is a challenge to write a new article every day for 100 days. In 2020, I wrote a new article every day for 366 days.

#speirgorm Long shot ⏬️

Only a few days left to enter #WikiScience 2025! ⭐️💫🌟 “I used a Canon 600D on Kilfarrasy beach in Waterford on a freezing night. My friend jumped on the rock so I could get him the background stars of Orion and nebula using a star tracker.” Anthony’s astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes we talk about how a certain 2020s talking point would baffle a normal person in the 1980s, like "all my apes gone" or "AOC Donkey Kong Livestream for Trans Rights". But I think THIS book would baffle a normal under 40 person today.

Ireland has a different rail gauge from the rest of Europe a strategy which has successfully prevented the invasion of Ireland via Rail for almost 200 years.

More on Maureen Sweeney (1923-2023) here: share.google/5qqloCS782C5...

@rebeccanineill.bsky.social you agree, surely?

Delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Colmcille Small Grant for the WikiMuir project, which will focus on preserving maritime heritage through Irish and Scottish Gaelic🐙 wikimedia.ie/2025/03/07/w...

🌷March was filled with folklore and feminism for Wikimedia Community Ireland. Find out about how we celebrated International Women’s Day at the Trinity Library and three new collaborations, including one with Rising Voices! 💜+ Last call for #WikiLovesFolklore 🌷Read: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...

WikiMuir, MeithealWiki, + tionscadal nua i gcomhar @globalvoices.org darbh ainm 'Rising Voices'. Go leor déanta & idir lámha againn ag @wikimediaireland.bsky.social faoi láthair, mar is gnáth! Léigh ár nuachtlitir nua anois le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...

That fake Met Éireann account has now been suspended

Official confirmation that this is an impersonated account: twitter.com/MetEireann/s...

I have confirmation from a friend who works in Met Éireann that they have no official Bluesky account yet.

Met Éireann are away of this and have contacted Bluesky.

The Met Eireann account on Blue-sky is not an official account, and has posted something racist. Perhaps you should consider unfollowimg them

As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).

Most importantly he tweeted a screenshot of one of my jokes with my name cropped out.

I'm very fond of wikipedia.. my good friend @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and I had a whole podcast about it before life derailed our plans to rule Headstuff Towers with iron fists! headstuffpodcasts.com/show/the-wor...

This is one of my favourite bits from a news article in 2024.

Once again, Rolling Stone proves it’s better at delivering solid, truthful information than most mainstream outlets stuck pushing their bought and paid for narratives.

After many years, I have finally made some of my more precious stickers into magnets using promotional and advertising magnets we had collected. And added some magnet tape to my Pacman ghost tin 🙂 @wikimedia.bsky.social #wikimedia #thebeatles #pacman #libraries #ukraine

This. I am disgusted. If nothing else, I hope someone sets up a decent alternative, too. But this is crawly behaviour.

A bunch of car park owners have been granted a High Court review to try and get rid of the Dublin City Transport Plan. So far the plan has delivered faster buses and reduced traffic - while footfall keeps growing. Backwards stuff that must be resisted. www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl...

There is NO public healthcare for trans kids in the South anyway- we are extremely lucky we can afford private care, it takes a large lump of our budget but the alternative was to risk losing our child. This ban will cost lives. Shame on Sinn Féin #speirgorm #Irishpol #transrights

This is a straightforward explanation of Amnesty’s investigation of Israel’s attack on Gaza that labels it clearly a genocide - given by the (Irish) executive director of Amnesty USA

Awful. Pointless. Cruel. Nothing else to add.

Wild to think this whole Erasmus project happened because of my interview on @europeanspod.bsky.social about Women in Red on various language Wikipedias! wikimedia.ie/2024/12/07/w...

They couldn't even give the people of Syria a day..

Anyone out there who still makes Goody? Wikipedia could really use a photo of this "dish" (which sounds revolting to me...) @darach.bsky.social you might give this a signal boost? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody_(...

Endorse

They aren't even trying to make cryptocurrency sound like "The Future" anymore! Bitcoin has reached $100,000 because the tech barons are fully in charge now and they think unregulated securities are cool so now their favorite unregulated security is more valuable. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

The amount of confidently incorrect cis people is staggering. My own mother in-law said to me "I just don't think they should be doing the surgeries to children." And I had to sit there for an hour helping to educate her about trans existence. Media literacy is effectively dead and it's insane.