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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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This B roll of owls they're using is a real treat

02.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jim saying it was fireworks this morning before it was definite what started the fire (flammable substance deliberately put on stairs & set alight) is illustrative of so much. Rush to minimise without facts. In the absence of them, wait. It’s as bad as it looked. So much worse than fireworks

01.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 81    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 0

Sure it could have been anyone that set the fire let's not jump to the conclusion that it was the person threatening to set a fire

01.11.2025 23:21 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Petrol on the stairs so that people wouldn't be able to escape, if there's a hell it's not hot enough for that animal

01.11.2025 22:24 — 👍 86    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

01.11.2025 21:45 — 👍 251    🔁 81    💬 9    📌 2

Also my friend puts a big heavy pot on her head and it helps she says

01.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Careful of melancholy, it's doing the rounds I heard

01.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh no hun, are your humours at ye x

01.11.2025 21:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Them duplicitous polder fiends I wouldn't trust a word!!

01.11.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

B'fhéidir gurb é sin é, táim imithe rófhada amach ó m'eiceachóras nádúrtha

01.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A chara I couldn't do it it must be like living in a handbag

01.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We can share the eventual accolades

01.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is time dysphoria a thing? Darkness at half five is fucking me up tbh

01.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

My point exactly!!!! He's just posh!! They gave him the answers on the little QI cards!!!

01.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ew did he do that

01.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's really endearing him to me I was neutral on him and now I appreciate a bit of textile courage

01.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have another thought: based on Babowitz (twitch streamer energy), maybe this is a remedy for the male loneliness thing? Not necessarily shooting them but a hillwalking holiday where they have to talk to other men

01.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do youse think Jonathan Ross got a stylist for this, I didn't expect this calibre of knitwear from him

01.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I can't believe they'd murder the hottest person there, RIP Charlotte Church it's a dangerous place for babes

01.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She is very gas

01.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And they do! They're so in awe of him and he's just posh!
I'm sorry we can all hum and haw and name characters in Romeo and Juliet who die, he's not special!!

01.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm sorry he's just so used to people giving way and listening to him when he interrupts it's so annoying to witness

01.11.2025 16:39 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I just love that original "torment nexus" tweet tbh I'm happy to see it referenced

01.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great minds wha

bsky.app/profile/selk...

01.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Mayra: A Novel by Nicky Gonzalez

Mayra: A Novel by Nicky Gonzalez

This is grand but tbh comparing it to Shirley Jackson in the blurb was setting it up to fail.
I think the author should have realised she was far more interested in writing about the friendship than a horror/gothic novel and just cut the half-realised spooky bits/bad guy

01.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just don’t think you can disconnect the government taking an increasingly hostile rhetorical line to migrants this week with that horrific attack on the IPAS centre in Drogheda. If you tell these people they have a point, they will escalate their violence.

01.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 71    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 0

Right wing dickheads want you afraid of foreign criminals coming in, putting "our women and children" at risk, meanwhile this is what they're doing to women and children

01.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 89    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 0

Setting fire to a building when people, children, are inside should be investigated like it's an attempted murder because that's what it fucking is.

01.11.2025 12:44 — 👍 167    🔁 59    💬 3    📌 0

Deis ar bith libhse I stg

01.11.2025 12:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But now BUT NOW SEE is this people IRL or pics online

01.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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