Laura Ní S

Utterly insane that the fate of millions, even billions of living people is forever handcuffed to the whims of a handful of belligerent idiots with a God complex playing Jenga with humanity for personal gain during the blink of an eye that they're on this planet. The sheer pointlessness of it all.

@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

once again I must tap my own sign

Lots of people who haven't had word one to say about constant public displays of proscribed flags used to intimidate whole communities, even primary schools, for years on end are suddenly going to be frothing about one flag at a gig.

That being said, a massive thank you to anyone able to support artists by buying their work or hiring them - ye are literally keeping us going. The benefit of working as small artists is that we get to see and appreciate everyone who buys a print or supports the work. It's a lovely little community.

There won't be a cow milked for two weeks with all the celebration!

From your neighbour to the west, congratulations, fantastic result!

This is disturbing… a single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than using a search engine. One 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.

sort of maybe want to write about it at some point but also ohhhhh my god as a woman and a feminist I actually just really don't want to be so defined by my gender, it's so BORING and reductive, there's so much more to being alive than your gender identity, who cares, WHO CARES

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

What Ireland needs is a housing tyrant, a ruthless builder of housing, prepared to sacrifice any number of ministers to build houses

I honestly think that people who want to get these should have to go through another driving test, they should be another separate category on the licence. The amount of these on the road with people unable to drive them is scary. I'm not a great driver by any stretch, but I stick to a Yaris.

Aiming to be more like these tariffs (fought over by wealthy, powerful men while inspiring widespread panic)

I'm looking forward to my library hold on this coming through.

Happy April Fool's Day to all my fellow fools, óinseachs, amadáns, and eejits, we are the confused daughters of the witches that wouldn't learn 🩷

A tale of two Taytos: How an anthropomorphic crisp became a symbol for Irish identity How a half-man half-crisp in a suit became a symbol of the Irish diaspora—and an important part of the Brexit deliberations

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.

First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...

A light green painted bedroom with white wardrobes in the background with a curtain covered window to the right. The book Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune is open and resting on knees covered in a flowery duvet with a cup of coffee held in front of it.

Top tier bank holiday Sunday. Duvet day with a book that's only interrupted by runs to the kitchen for coffee, with a crackling fire on the TV. #booksky #spéirghorm #irishbluesky

...I'm going to petition my book club to change our WhatsApp name to that...

Can we all just agree to ignore the Burkes by pretending they don't exist, like a stain on a sofa, or the later seasons of the Simpsons

Absolutely well-deserved, it's one of my favourite books of all time!

It's me with books. Ended up with three copies of Bad Blood by Colm Toibín. Worst of all, still haven't read any of them yet.

I'm doing well, hope all is well with you too! It feels like a lifetime ago, doesn't it?

I'm in a similar situation, grew up mostly with Lyons in the house, but I took a bit against tea after my Granny's 3 day wake near 8 years ago. Mostly drink coffee or sparkling water these days.

Though Michael Collins > Eamon DeValera.

That's why I reckon Pro-Treaty. West Brits.

I'm going to be controversial and say that there's not much difference in the taste of the two, rather like FF/FG. They're both much better than muck like Tetleys and PG Tips (learnt that the hard way from the mother shopping up North).

Two blue posters on a grey background. Left image has photos of Barry's teabags and Lyons teabags, with "Barry's vs Lyons" written above and "Civil War in Ireland" written below the photos. Right image has photos of Freestayto and Nordie Tayto with "Tayto & Tayto" written above and "Partition in Ireland A Tale of Two Taytos" written below the photos.

Monaghan County Museum has the best and simplest summation of the Civil War and Partition of Ireland. Just cuts to the heart of the matter. Though what teabag do you reckon is Pro/Anti-Treaty? I reckon Barry's is Anti-Treaty. #irishhistory #speirgorm #spéirghorm #irishbluesky

Whataboutery, Deflection and a Strawman Argument walk into a bar.
“Good evening, Taoiseach,” says the barman.

It took me a while too to make sense of the names and places, I also keep flicking back to the maps at the beginning, but sure that's part of the fun of reading high fantasy! I'm 60ish percent in and I'm enthralled, resent every time I have to put it down!

It's basically what I thought Game of Thrones promised, but didn't deliver to me.