@elvacarri.bsky.social
📍 Bray, Ireland 🌊 Loved wild swimming and hiking and gardening and biodiversity and the outdoors but now dealing with long covid instead 👎 Write a gardening newsletter, do a little hobby pottery. Work in marketing. https://elvasgarden.substack.com/
COVID cases and hospitalisations continue to rise
This was a lovely read.
Wish when you submitted your votes you could see the results so far. Like online polls. Feel like that would get the voter turnout up. #GE24
Our polling centre in Bray was hopping 👏 Overheard a chat between two younger people, “I want to see change, that’s the only reason I’m here.” #GE24
Hope it’s the same kind of change I want 🙃
My caption is incorrect - but the important thing is still to vote all the way down, or really as far as possible. I think this is more important than ever if we want change. #ge24
Yes - you’re right! I’m terrible at explaining it hence the video!
Well I worded that horribly
The best approach for if you want to ensure someone DOESN’T get your transfers today - ensure you give literally everyone else *some* preference. Explained well here by @gavreilly.com #ge24
[after leaving willy wonka’s factory]
me:
wife:
me:
wife:
me:
wife: lot of deaths for a to—
me: a LOT of deaths for a tour!
No. If you hate more than one, you should still rank them. If you think eg "I'd rather neither, but Peadar Toibin is slightly preferable to Justin Barrett" then you should rank them. Not ranking them won't stop them getting elected, it'll just mean you have no say in who is elected
Can everyone teach their friends and parents and everyone how important this is for tomorrow? Punish the ones you don’t! Vote all the way down to show HOW MUCH you don’t want bad candidates.
Reminder: Ireland’s PR-STV electoral system not only allows you to support the candidates you like - but also to punish the ones you don’t.
If there’s a candidate(s) you despise, you can promote *literally everyone else* ahead of them by giving those rivals all the preferences on your ballot paper.
Thank you :) I saw these 3D printed ones and basically copied them if anyone is looking for similar ones to buy! www.etsy.com/ie/listing/1...
My ridiculous toothbrush head holders.
Pistachio bowl out of the kiln this week and working perfectly. I love it almost as much as my toothbrush head holders.
I think my top tips for gardening are 1. Use one colour lots to make an impact, not lots of colours a little. 2. Stop planting fugly shrubs. This country is obsessed with fugly shrubs and multicolour bedding plants.
Going OTT with the pinks to combat the grey days. Cordyline, cyclamen and heather.
Thinking of all the women that Conor McGregor has tried to intimidate
Why no option for 'I would defend the After Eight brand to the death'
It is appalling that the State, the department of Public Prosecution refused to take a criminal case.
I am glad she had the support & resources to take a civil case.
Jury finds Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a Dublin hotel in 2018 jrnl.ie/6550030
Every company right now: no, no, we’ve optimised that process using ChatGPT. We’re very happy with the results
That process:
I didn’t believe it could happen. Does anyone know does this give any leeway to challenge the DPP’s previous decision that it couldn’t proceed with a criminal case?
“we silence the song of the Earth. We live in a much quieter world than even 50 years ago, there is 60% less buzzing, croaking, roaring, scuttling, blooming, singing and erupting life. Planet Earth is increasingly threadbare; it seems E. O. Wilson was right.” [We live in the Age of Loneliness.]
