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Delighted for her! Yeah, 4 hours is what my kids in 5th and 6th year are being told they should be doing, at a minimum. Very hard on kids, especially neurodivergent or with other challenges. Not a big fan of the Leaving Cert system myself but it's what we have to work with.
Great! Enjoy the lighter workload for now, unfortunately that's just TY and it will get crazy next year. But a great year to find her feet.
How is school going?
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The reason FF want Gavin as their President as he will studiously avoid the limelight and as sure as apples grow on trees, he will not embarrass them on Gaza etc, unlike MDH. That's it, that's the tweet #aras25
Enjoy! -it's beautifully done. (And I know Carrie Crowley slightly from years ago and she's just the loveliest person, so it made me happy to see her shine.)
You might really like "Smothermoss" by Alisa Alering. Appalachia, horror-adjacent rather than horror I would say. (I don't read horror either).
If you liked "Foster", be sure to see thr gorgeous film adapted from it, if you haven't already. m.imdb.com/title/tt1510...
#GingerCatAppreciationDay #speirgorm Please appreciate the mighty Apollo
Had to go and find this, never fails to make me feel like my dad's in the room. m.youtube.com/watch?v=33-f...
Nice to be younger than someone,it's happening less often 😂
1992-1996.
That's a lovely connection with your dad. For my dad it was P.G. Wodehouse and The Goon Show that made him cry laughing.
Very smart lady, passionate and knowledgeable about her subject.
Jennings! My brother had Jennings as well.
No! She wasn't the warmest fluffiest lecturer but I never had any issue with her! I don't think I was in any of her tutorials so I didn't have a chance to get on the wrong side of her.
She lectured me in college!
Used to sneak into my older brother's room when he was out and read his books, Biggles amongst them. Early 80s.
I get you now. "They don't know the difference between Britain and Ireland" would have helped!
Maybe that was what you were saying? If so sorry, it read to me as though you were also ignoring the existence of Ireland.
Neither of those are British at all. Father Ted is set in (a version of) the Republic of Ireland and the Derry Girls are Derry Girls, not Londonderry girls- I highly doubt they'd opt for UK passports.
Three hand-drawn pieces for the @dublinmaker.bsky.social event this weekend, celebrating traditional crafts and Irish makers, and the process of creating. They're also available as prints here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
And Sean Quinn! A fort not a tree in that case but same principle.
My 17 year old counts it as study time . (Actually it is really helping his Irish- not all vocab he can use ib the exam, but still).
Thank you! That's right.
Another great reason to get yerselves to Dublin Maker this weekend
2 great books of essays from Skein Press, "Unsettled" by Rosaleen McDonough and "All this happened, more or less" by Jayne A. Quan. The latter especially good on writing and memory, can't remember the name of the particular essay offhand.
I'm sorry I can't remember the name exactly! And I can't check because I blocked them..
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It's a horrible situation to be in, hope you have good support around you and you find a solution soon.
You could try here for initial advice, it's a voluntary organisation and employment is one of their areas. As said above, write everything down and if you can possibly manage it DON'T resign- constructive dismissal is much harder to argue than most people realise. www.lawcentreni.org/contact-us/
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🧵: I'm not posting this to dunk, but because I'm seeing it often enough it looks like a coordinated campaign, and I want to give folks a heads up on some of this, if they're not familiar the dynamics. It's about the broader pattern, but comes back to the idea of dividing the Democratic Party. 1/x
Don't know if this might be of any help, someone might have ideas: ireland.cityofsanctuary.org/universities...
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Please please @lizgloyn.bsky.social can we get rid of this person/bot/AI slop who is clogging up #tinyjoys feed? I will block but it must be annoying others?
Those lads (the country version) were out on my road yesterday.
We don't have much choice in Ireland, most state schools have uniforms and are religious-run (though religious influence is much less than it was).
Thanks Richard, this was really informative and useful.
Well, definitely your voice was really soothing- NOT soporific though!- and didn't set my auditory sensitivities off. Fantastic job.
I am the same, but I must tell you, A Spell in the Wild, coincidentally, is the only audio book I a)really enjoyed b) finished c) return to. No idea why, but it seems to combine well with knitting in a way that works for my ADHD brain.
Not for the first time, a client has instructed me to withdraw a Join Spouse visa application because the DOJ's excessive delay in processing it has led to the marriage's breakdown. The supposed special protection of marriage in the Irish Constitution is a sick joke sometimes.
Really interesting piece about different paths to language development.
Happy birthday!
‘[T]he facts speak for themselves. And Israel continues to be armed and supported by Western countries.’ - Sally Hayden. @sallyhayd.bsky.social
Ná h-abair é. Son will be very happy with orca hoodie.
I'm really sorry, I'm not in Luxembourg, but you've reminded me I meant to order and I'll do that now.
The commitment to dehumanizing Black women remains an enigma to me. I have no idea what we did to y'all, but I hope that in my lifetime, you leave us alone for good.
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There's no escape, I'm afraid, most schools do it at some point.
A whole meditation about this nation in the fact that this was so easy to miss in the mainstream reporting and that folks who’ve been fighting fascism for 500 years haven’t given up
Yeah, that's the worrying bit. I saw a right winger on X claiming her as a supporter of "women-only" sport in relation to the LGFA regs, but in fairness I haven't heard anything from her directly. Fingers crossed.
Bit of a TERF-ish hum off her? Hoping very much I'm wrong.
All the best to her!!
It is that. It's fab.
Yep. Watch me.
Love it. Bet you'd get additional interest if you incorporated a "Vote Zohran" strip above or underneath in his campaign typeface?
Bless him, and his swimming lessons 😂
Curse of Chalion certainly elicited some side eye from me but Cazaril is so damn honourable and likeable they just about get away with it. Not terribly keen on the Vorokosigan men shagging military subordinates either. But overall they're just so good.
Jaysus, they look like someone's hacked the feet off a bog body.
I don't know why you're angry and suspicious of me, I'm genuinely totally supportive of your idea of compassionate inclusive Britishness. But when what I thought was a genuine conversation ends up with you snapping at an Irish woman who asked polite questions, you may have more thinking to do.
I'm not British, not my job. I must have misunderstood your entire post then, I thought it was about "reclaiming" the Union Jack/ George which surely implied you think it's redeemable. We must be at cross purposes, I'll leave it there.
Hmm, I'm not sure anything internal to the UK can be really solved without a true reckoning with the legacy of imperialism. Immigration is a direct product of Empire after all. But again, good luck.
I'd love to see you rewrite that, but from outside the UK, in the majority of the world that flag's not redeemable as a symbol of anything good,and the consequences of Empire are still not in the past. Personally I think you'll need new symbols. But I do wish you luck.
I usually really like your posts but it's an utter erasure of history to claim that the Butcher's Apron could stand for being "leaders in making a caring collaborative world". I appreciate that's what you'd LIKE it to stand for but you can't ever expect the rest of the world to see that.
Agreed.
It's not real fight (for anything worthwhile) if it involves throwing innocent people under the bus.
Huge fan as well-discovered them only lately and now they're my reliable distraction-from-apocalypse reading- but have stayed away from Spirit Knife for this reason. So so much good stuff, but then suddenly there's an icky age gap.
The restorative powers of a Bank Holiday by the sea (1958) Father in particular seems to have … blossomed John Bull Magazine Artist: G Critchlow
I know I’m not a professional pundit, I don’t even have a podcast, but it sure seems like letting it get to a point where our only options are Hitlers is a problem you begin aggressively solving for several years in advance like hey what if we just. made that our goal right now. how about that
I just feel sorry for Emmanuel the cashier.
The 2002 indemnity to the religious institutions. Financially stupid and morally shocking. Any presidential run should fail on that alone
Oodles of shiny twisty fun here if you ever get the chance: www.museum.ie/en-ie/museum...
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Another reply troll for you, please and thank you professorbluesky3.bsky.social
#Speirgorm presumably via Shannon? What can we do?
Is there any way this person? bot? can be barred from the #TinyJoys hashtag? AI images, no credits on photos, no alt text. Not joyful at all.
Yep. Local DP provider had budget for interpreters for medical etc but asked our Zimbabwean friend to "interpret" for the Georgians he shared the house with for a tenner an hour, despite not speaking Georgian. (He refused).
The death of democracy begins with the erasure of minority rights. Congratulations on being a cheerleader for it. @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
And she voted to not help drowning refugees in the Mediterranean
And in fairness on reading the article she also criticised Russia, which the headline omitted.
Movie pitch: a man wakes up with no memory of his previous life. The only way he can put the pieces back together is to run for President and get the media to dig up everyone he’s ever known and everything he’s ever said. #aras25
elite athletes could have on "fairness in sport". Your replies are full of trans people telling you they feel unsafe with Newsom. Why are you not listening to them? 4/4
up soccer for lack of an inclusive team where we live (not the US fortunately) at a time when his mental heath needed all the support it could get, I've seen some of the impact of this kind of cruelty, an impact which is far greater and more widespread than any impact the tiny number of trans 3/
have an advantage in sports; see @kirstimiller30.bsky.social for actual solid information on this. It is usually blown out of all proportion. He banned trans kids from engaging in sport at school to appease the fascists. As the parent of a kid who loved sport and was devastated when he had to give2/
Gavin Newsom has an extremely mixed record on trans rights. While he has supported some positive measures, he completely sold out the community by accepting the "fairness in sports" language used by the right as the thin end of the wedge. There is no good scientific evidence that trans women 1/
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How is willingness to actively sacrifice the basic human rights of a group of people not "a grievous moral lapse"?
"to me, the real celebration of LGBTQ+ literature has come not from the [Polari] prize, but from the community that has rallied behind the withdrawn authors."
Out, out, damned Spot
Me too, and we turned out all right 😉
Well you were proved right, she gets to be a kid, make up her own mind, and you're not contributing to the coffers.
Our R was a massive obsessive HP fan as a kid, I never liked them much but we had fun as a family with them. He copped on about the same time as he came out and wasn't too sad for too long but it still makes me burn with the wrath of 10,000 suns how she betrayed those kids.
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The incumbents are Bernese.
3 failed attempts to repost with the simple tag #Áras25, I'm off to bed.
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THIS is more like it. Great work @jaseokundaye.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yeah, I think she'll be ok with the upbringing she's getting. And she'll probably figure it out herself before too long- maybe she'll spot the Irish stereotype and work it out from there.