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@selkies.bsky.social

Illustrator & melt of Dublin, now in Brussels. Please assume I am not talking about the US. selkiesstudio.com

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I don't think they do, I think they feel they are such authorities that they should be able to tell women what to value rather than listen to them

03.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On a slightly less flippant note I find it interesting and strange that this type of man goes on and on about self improvement and maximum efficiency and only reads self help books, and yet the idea that they would work on themselves to become attractive as partners is so alien to them

03.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh yeah it's all optimising and grindset and resultsmaxxing and bootstraps until women don't want to ride you, I see

03.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 37    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Would love to get this to 100 pre saves on Kickstarter :)

03.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Is mar seo a thosnaíonn sé

03.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I should be allowed use “don’t piss me off” in email signatures

02.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

How are they always carrying on as if a) problems in Ireland are completely unique and unprecedented, certainly no other country has a solution we could copy and b) they never asked for the job of running the country

03.02.2026 05:22 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I all had to do a was go up to their car window going "what?? Are you lost?? What are you saying?? She's beautiful? Yes and what??" the men doing the street harassment really have no grit these days

02.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had the "over thirty and mean" privilege of tearing into a pair of grown men curb crawling a very young woman just now and once again you couldn't pay me to be a twenty something again I love you this

02.02.2026 23:39 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

It's literally pronounced exactly as it's spelled why are they pretending to be stupid

02.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 48    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Hold on actually I might have previously claimed The Brontes as our own

02.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hmm now this doesn't immediately scream "Jacob Elordi" to me

02.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They do love a metaphor about us don't they I wouldn't put it past them

02.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

HALF BROTHER oh now

02.02.2026 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aha I must have seen something about that and made the leap to Irish Traveller instead

02.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

BAGSY

02.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this the Mandela effect because I am now hearing that he should be played by a person of colour for it to be accurate

02.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Now I haven't read Wuthering Heights and I don't know exactly where I osmosised this notion from, but before this new film was even announced I would have said off the top of my head that Heathcliff in it was supposed to be a Traveller

02.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
The Glutton by AK Blakemore

The Glutton by AK Blakemore

I really like Blakemore's prose, she makes some very interesting and unexpected choices that keep you on your toes, but to be honest I can't say I enjoyed a narrative that leapt at every opportunity to include animal abuse, it put me off picking the thing up after a certain point

02.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me? Ahead of the trend? No no a chara, so far behind I'm being lapped by the grandchildren of the trend, and happy to be out the house

01.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Someone in the pub asked me was I wearing a big jumbo Claddagh and I got to say no!! The jeweller thinks it was the ring of a huge man cut down at least three sizes for his widow! And then bought by me! Yup Smithfield!

01.02.2026 23:21 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

GRMA a chara, same back!

01.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A drawing of shadowy people dancing around a bonfire surrounded by daffodils and snowdrops

A drawing of shadowy people dancing around a bonfire surrounded by daffodils and snowdrops

Beannachtaí na féile Bríde! Happy Spring! Big Imbolc!

01.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
A pair of St. Brigid's crosses on a countertop, next to a mug.



#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

A pair of St. Brigid's crosses on a countertop, next to a mug. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

01.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 996    🔁 236    💬 35    📌 29
A drawing of shadowy people dancing around a bonfire surrounded by daffodils and snowdrops

A drawing of shadowy people dancing around a bonfire surrounded by daffodils and snowdrops

Beannachtaí na féile Bríde! Happy Spring! Big Imbolc!

01.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
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Tá súil agam gur 'páistín' a bhí i gceist. Mo thrua an té a bheadh ag foghlaim na Gaeilge ar líne...

31.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 45    🔁 7    💬 10    📌 2

Sprayed edges on the pedo emails

01.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How are there still new files being released what are these ones a special collector's edition or something

01.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The small cat is in the process of destroying my yoga mat and I'm just letting her because what other outlet does she have for her feelings towards hippies

01.02.2026 10:47 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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