Samantha Rose

Map of Scotland showing location of road gritter. Most names are puns.Bear Chills, sled Zeppelin, credence clear road survival, thistle gritter through

It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️
#Scotland #Christmas

And the Copenhagen Metro from 2002, which I very much doubt was the first.

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I have cleaned the hamster's cage today, and I can confirm that he has specific disgruntled squeaks that mean "ugh, you've messed up my BEDDING."

Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
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🧵 A story about my own online paranoia, the way some very few people play online, and payoffs.

Back in the BBS days I bought a PO Box because it seemed ridiculously cool AND my parents told little teenage me I was absolutely not to hand out personal info online, but a PO box was acceptable.

Autistic woman’s enamel pin badges unionise An autistic woman’s ever-growing collection of enamel pin badges has reportedly formed a union to protest against poor working conditions and overcrowding. Abeer Zaki, 24, claims she is "obsessed"…

An autistic woman’s ever-growing collection of enamel pin badges has reportedly formed a union to protest against poor working conditions and overcrowding.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

I would really have liked to see a major social media site without people from the US like we were promised...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you press and hold the space bar on your phone keyboard, sliding your finger will control the position of the cursor when you're editing text

There is absolutely no excuse or reason why this line of questioning should be allowed to continue in a free and open society in Ireland #SpéirGorm trans people should no longer be subject to this tortuous human rights violation they call healthcare! Fuck the NGS!

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Another plug for this. We really want to ensure that every child in St John's House has a gift to unwrap this Christmas. I'm sourcing things online in bulk to make the absolute most of all your generous donations so far, but every euro will go to these kids and with more we can do more.

Yes... started off well (based on my still limited ability of being able to catch bad language), and then went more and more downhill as it goes along.

Thanks! 💜

Labours motion on trans healthcare will be happening in the Dáil now at 10am

www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...

For whatever it’s worth I remember following her on Twitter and she seemed pretty reasonable then.

As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government

Streamins service UI is increasingly bad deliberately. It's dark UX patterning as access to show catalogues narrows.

If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had).

The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.

Increasingly realising that I can’t talk to people who don’t read the news because my frantic attempts to warn them about everything that’s happening just make me sound insane to them

Solar flare vulnerability in A320 software forces emergency action by airlines Three-hour fix may cause widespread disruption during Thanksgiving travel period

What’s going on: Solar flare vulnerability in A320 software forces emergency action by airlines theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc... (via ⁦‪@theaircurrent.com‬⁩) #staycurrent

Hi! I'm someone who has the audacity to be brown and autistic on the Internet, and I wrote this piece because I'm also too audacious to care about whether I make certain people uncomfortable. It's not about you! But if you THINK it's about you, then it most definitely is. Hope this helps!

The US-centric nature of BlueSky is one of its most frustrating qualities

People vastly underestimate how important trans* rights are in the contemporary fight for freedom.

If you cannot make your own choices for your body, the name you go by, or even the very clothes that you wear, then you are not, in any sense, meaningfully free.

I feel I've an article or two for a newspaper or magazine bursting to come out of me about the current landscape for trans people but don't know how to go about pitching it with publications. Anyone know how?

This morning, President Catherine Connolly received Mr. John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland on a courtesy call. Mr. Swinney is the first foreign head of government received by President Connolly at Áras an Uachtaráin.

Lemass wasn’t the absolute worst (as FF Taoisigh go) but he did introduce the 1935 Conditions of Employment Act which restricted women’s access to the workplace. His biographer says he was sexist & regarded women’s employment as ‘contrary to the Irish way of life’, so that’s a no from me. #speirgorm

One woman or girl killed every ten minutes by intimate partners or family members, UN says Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but according to the UN the number of women and girls killed intentionally remains unchanged.

Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469

a girl wearing headphones gives a thumbs up

Mary Walker, 9, who has always displayed autistic traits, was miraculously fixed by her parents insisting that she stop it at once. 

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