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As I'm trying to use Mastodon a bit more again, taking recommendations for people to follow. My interests:
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As I'm trying to use Mastodon a bit more again, taking recommendations for people to follow. My interests:
* tech (Linux, open source, public policy)
* music (jazz, afrobeat, fuji, hip hop, techno, house, footwork/juke... really a bit of anything)
* politics (left)
A púca for the season that's in it 👻
All prints of this one are hand-finished with gold paint, and it's also on sale (along with many other spooky prints) until the end of the month.
https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/pca-a4-and-a3-fine-art-prints-hand-finished
A púca for the season that's in it 👻
All prints of this one are hand-finished with gold paint, and it's also on sale (along with many other spooky prints) until the end of the month.
https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/pca-a4-and-a3-fine-art-prints-hand-finished
Oh. Oh I see. That explains it: it's because #Monsterdon is a Yank thing, so it only gets started at 1am. Pfft, as if!
Well.
I CALL UPON OUR GALLANT ALLIES IN EUROPE:
Let us have CET and hygge!!
Let us have metric units of measurement!!
Let us have the REAL Hallowe'en.
Let us have reasonably-timed watch parties!! 💪🏼
Who's with me??
We've just fought #ChatControl - now Ireland 🇮🇪 wants its own backdoor law. 🔓
But we, together with ~40 orgs, are saying no.
Read our open letter to Ireland: 👉 https://www.globalencryption.org/2025/10/open-letter-irish-communications-interception-and-lawful-access-bill/
@Tutanota I guess Irish people should now contact their representatives again https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
If you're interested in archaeology or architectural heritage in Ireland, I've made KML files from the government's CC-BY data you can download.
Importing them into both @CoMaps and OsmAnd works, although they both struggle with the number of points, so there are smaller county-by-county files as well.
Get them at https://andrewmccarthy.ie/heritage-pois-in-ireland.html and let me know of any suggestions.
There's a sale over on http://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints on the spookier prints - the perfect opportunity to pick up something a little creepier for the cherished undead in your life 🧟
There's a sale over on http://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints on the spookier prints - the perfect opportunity to pick up something a little creepier for the cherished undead in your life 🧟
This month's free newsletter is out now, featuring a Wicklow woman who changed nautical history, the Fenian connection to Dickens, and why it's a good idea to be drunk if you're going to be swallowed by an Irish worm-monster. Sign up for the next edition here: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
#Art #MastoArt #MastoDaoine #Ireland #Irish #Folklore #Humour
The kid’s new EP arrived this morning 😍 Adore: Biter. Listen/buy here: https://orcd.co/biterep #mastodaoine #music #newmusic #irishmusic #newirishmusic #vinyl
The Irish NCT should only be testing emissions. The rest of it is just to punish people for owning older cars.
Show us the studies that demonstrate that all of this theater is preventing injury and accidents.
The only study I can find is a meta-study showing that there are no studies internationally demonstrating that there is any non-compromised evidence of effectiveness: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8296297/ #Mastodaoine #RoadSafety
Having done extensive genealogy research in the northeast US in this time frame, none of the evidence presented here means much. Lots of people didn’t have birth certs, marriage records, or church records in many communities in the 1870s and 80s. Lack of evidence means little. His mother may very well have made all of this up. But there is just as much reason to believe her. Self signed birth certificate weird. But not evidence about existence of his father. #mastodaoine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/did-eamon-de-valera-spanish-father-ever-exist
post an-suimiúil do Gaeilgeoir
https://www.itma.ie/news/job-posting-clare-digital-access-and-development-officer/
Come with me now, as we see all the "Ireland is Full" racists not shitting the bed over this:
"96% jump in number of people coming from US to live in Ireland - CSO"
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0826/1530216-cso-population-figures/
Post-script: the current population on the entire island of Ireland (>7m) still hasn't recovered to levels which existed before the Great Famine of the mid-19th century (>8m).
A question for BlueSky users in Ireland:
Have you found a pop-up appearing on screen, requiring you to accept new terms and conditions (due to be implemented in September), before you can proceed?
Does anyone know of any tl:dr about what these changes are? It's putting me in a very "i ain't reading all that" state of mind.
(Note: this question does not relate to whatever BlueSky is doing in relation Mississippi.)
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