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Love teenagers - cannot get them up for school all week, nothing works but on Sunday, on fucking Sunday, 6:45 ar maidin & the newly 17yo is in the shower & getting ready for the day

#speirgorm

Does it have to be the bog tho? So few seats, it's damp, it's screechy
Crossroads? Walls for our arses, or to lean on, less damp, only screechy when the boys in their cars go by, we can dance??

I've just added to my head cannon that it's just their way of saying '42', the original inscrutable meme, so I'm cool with all the new nerdlings & their towels

Massively important thread!
The people who fundraise for local initiatives, like a hospice, are energetic, engaged, motivated, if they weren't busy with a local campaign imagine what else they could accomplish? I believe it's a SOP for politicians to keep 'keep them busy', to keep community-minded

But what is never a part of the conversation around the #LateLateToyShow Appeal is how the process strongly contributes at a societal level to people who need services too frequently having to rely on charity, not rights, to get their needs met.

This is fundamentally wrong.

🧵 As we look towards the #LateLateToyShow next week, it's time to remember that everyone - including the State - will expect us all to donate generously to the very worthy causes supported financially by the Toy Show Appeal. Let's think about this.

Only have the OH by default because we have the kids, don't use it but with 3 teens it's definitely saved a few grey hairs 'will u pick me up?" "Sure where are you?" "Ahhh.. I think, ... ???"
Or the bus is late

I'm always grateful for the location finder for my 3 teens, I know they are safe, if they're on their way home, I can pick them up from the train/bus or party, as a parent I don't see it as spying, I am entitled to know where they are until they are 16/17
When they're adults it's difficult

This isnt bad - considering

@profanity.accountant

He is only 48? Wtf? Thought he was in his 60s

As a small family, we never have too big a turkey as there is never more than 7 here but when our kids were small we started to have Christmas dinner on 24th so on 25th it was just leftovers & Lego & reading & movies
Platter it up after dinner, re-heat or not, but usually only sandwiches on 26th

A glass with golden liquid & a clove studded lemon slice in it, in front of a silly Christmas movie

When you've a nasty head cold & your oh looks after you with an Irish cure #speirgorm #hotwhiskey

Not just speakers: companies, artists, anyone... Use ai images & I immediately distrust you

#ProudBlue #Resist #DCShooter

I read about the DC Shooter - he is 29 now, he was recruited by the CIA when he was 14. Reports say he worked for the USA through the 8/30/21 withdrawal. He was recruited in 2010. I think he learned a lot from the soldiers in those 11 years. Did his family survive?

Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies

Activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy dies aged 91 Anti-war protester from Greenham Common to Shannon Airport had ‘life fully and purposefully lived’

Margaretta was an incredible activist, imprisoned by the state on numerous occasions for her Shannon Airport protests, they imprisoned her even when she was in her 80's. I spent a hilarious night with her in derry a few years back. She will be missed ❤️
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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Public Service Announcement:

"Transgenderism" is Burke's term designed to cause offence. Please don't do his work by propagating it.

Meeja folk, take note .

End.

some people need to get a life. It is a hashtag, slang in the vernacular, hiberno-english not the recolonialisation of Ireland

Look those of us who were here early on bluesky weren't gealgorie. We did what we could with our broken Irish to create a tag to bring Irish people together.

Having those who are fluent decry those best efforts, when they came a lot later, is disheartening. #Speirgorm

They're so beautiful

"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else

To everyone else they are just "homes"

Library books on my phone has gotten me back to reading, plus I'm never without a book & audiobooks! Sinead O'Connor reading her autobiography was such a joy

Like being asked to name a fav child

I had the same thought as I browsed a bookshop today, I miss the joy of a new Christmas pratchett, sharing the joy with friends, tandem reading sometimes so we could talk about it

It's monstrous regiment in reverse #terrypratchett would have loved this story

Lookit - if Enoch never goes to jail and we don’t have to pay for his incarceration & he never turns up at the school again for fear of incarceration.

Is this not the perfect stalemate that law actually intends?

He doesn’t need to be punished, he just needs to be motivated to stop being a dick.

#Spéirghorm

Small businesses!
Cut through the #BlackFriday & #BlackWeek noise.
Reply to this post & I'll amplify what you're doing to the VERY fine people who follow me.
Gonna start by recommending artists @ciaraioch.bsky.social & @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social & bookshop @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm