#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.

What drives me nuts about the trans youth "debate" is how much of it consists of people who don't know anything demanding compromises that already exist. Hormones and surgeries for minors receive ABSURD amounts of regulation and scrutiny! Either engage with the facts on this issue or shut up.

Don't be this person. 👇 Support independent bookshops.

The @artscouncilireland.bsky.social is here at @dublincomicarts.bsky.social ! Artists take advantage! Ask them about funding for comics! We don’t see nearly enough “Funded by the Arts Council” stamps on Irish comics and the Arts Council agrees, which is why they’re here!

Hi @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social ! I've been listening to a podcast series on the Robert Caro boo, The Power Broker, and I find myself thinking about The Destruction of Dublin a lot while I listen. Has anyone ever compared the two before? 99percentinvisible.org/episode/604-...

Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...

Can't vote for them because *gestures all-encompassingly* Can't vote for a fascist Or the other fascist Can't vote for an ignorant racist Can't vote for a theocrat because it's not 1024 Can't vote for her because she is actually mad

Barbra Banda, for the record, has used her football wealth to build a charity in her home country (the first Zambian footballer ever to do so) which funds girls' football teams which also provide their players with education and contraception. She's done more for women's sport than Rowling ever will

the use of the word "fall" instead of autumn is revealing of where a lot of the anti-immigrant sentiment in Ireland is really coming from same as Youth Defence's donation form listing amounts in dollars was revealing of who was behind the anti-choice campaigns on abortion rights...

kinda shocked at how blasé (even positive) people have been about the US giving landmines to Ukraine, and now the EU parliament voting hugely to shrug its shoulders at it these are horrific, indiscriminate weapons and all EU members and Ukraine have signed up to the ban on them. doesn't matter?!

Thank you for sharing! It reminds me of my favorite historical Queen - Tomyris of the Massagetæ. Cyrus the Great had eyes in her land & after her husband passed, he proposed marriage. She saw through it & refused him. They went to war and she & her troops took him out. They even made a movie!

Billionaires should not exist.

I'm still grieving the loss of my most prized celebrity followers on the hell site X - @phlaimeaux.bsky.social, Zig and Zag, Don Conroy, and Bosco.

Movie. Now. Is there one?

Do you know what drives me up the wall? When politicians describe decisions which will harm people as ‘sensible’ or ‘pragmatic’ and journalists who enable them describe these policies as ‘grown up’. It’s grotesque. What’s grown-up about creating more suffering?

This! #GE2024 #GE24 #speirgorm

Absolutely necessary to support this boycott - no more profit to a proven rapist. Rape Crisis Network Ireland is urging retailers to stop selling Conor McGregor's stout and whiskey products after a civil court jury found him liable for the assault of Nikita Hand.