dóchas is grá
@dochasisgra.bsky.social
She/her, Irish, 2 kids, 3 cats, 1 dog; many books, unfinished knitting projects, dreams and good intentions; insufficient dopamine receptors. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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Gave blood this morning. 50 minutes from walking into the hall to sitting back in the car. If you can give blood do, its straightforward and there is always a demand for it. #speirgorm
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Gave blood this morning. 50 minutes from walking into the hall to sitting back in the car. If you can give blood do, its straightforward and there is always a demand for it. #speirgorm
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion Book 1). This is a duology, although there's a sequel book called Outlaw Planet right now. Because this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one.
December 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just discovered Martha Crawford thanks to @rothaiocht.bsky.social
Wonderful stuff.
Wonderful stuff.
I wrote a bit about some essential challenging truths I learned from Anna here
Our Temptations — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
The virulent demons that are inhabiting you are not grotesque little monsters with thrashing tales. They are illusions, stories you are telling yourself that are utterly fallacious; bizarre and fantas...
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Just discovered Martha Crawford thanks to @rothaiocht.bsky.social
Wonderful stuff.
Wonderful stuff.
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We do NOT have four colly birds, but we DO have a special gothic four book bundle from @mkhardywrites.com & @isabelcanas.bsky.social for Day 4 our giveaways!
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a flame 🔥 in the comments to enter! Ends 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT #booksky 🩸📚💙
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a flame 🔥 in the comments to enter! Ends 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT #booksky 🩸📚💙
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We do NOT have four colly birds, but we DO have a special gothic four book bundle from @mkhardywrites.com & @isabelcanas.bsky.social for Day 4 our giveaways!
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a flame 🔥 in the comments to enter! Ends 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT #booksky 🩸📚💙
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a flame 🔥 in the comments to enter! Ends 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT #booksky 🩸📚💙
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In today's Irish Independent (by Ali Bracken) Jonatan is talking about his life after the official trial has come to an and.
He is now on 'off label use' of this medication.
If there is any of you who can support and/or repost 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/happy-life...
He is now on 'off label use' of this medication.
If there is any of you who can support and/or repost 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/happy-life...
December 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In today's Irish Independent (by Ali Bracken) Jonatan is talking about his life after the official trial has come to an and.
He is now on 'off label use' of this medication.
If there is any of you who can support and/or repost 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/happy-life...
He is now on 'off label use' of this medication.
If there is any of you who can support and/or repost 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/happy-life...
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I'm so grateful to everyone I spent time with for this report - they were so gracious to talk to me & welcome me to their homes, despite their relentless workload.
My latest, after spending time with garment workers in Bangladesh: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm so grateful to everyone I spent time with for this report - they were so gracious to talk to me & welcome me to their homes, despite their relentless workload.
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Time again to share the incredible and poingant "Christmas Tree" by James Merrill. Written during what he knew would be his last illness as he was looked after by friends and family.
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Time again to share the incredible and poingant "Christmas Tree" by James Merrill. Written during what he knew would be his last illness as he was looked after by friends and family.
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We may not have a Partridge in a pear tree, but we DO have a whole forest in @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's THE GODS MUST BURN and a VERY rude raven in THE DOOR ON THE SEA.
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a tree🌳& a raven🐦⬛ in the comments to enter! End 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a tree🌳& a raven🐦⬛ in the comments to enter! End 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT
December 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We may not have a Partridge in a pear tree, but we DO have a whole forest in @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's THE GODS MUST BURN and a VERY rude raven in THE DOOR ON THE SEA.
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a tree🌳& a raven🐦⬛ in the comments to enter! End 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT
Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a tree🌳& a raven🐦⬛ in the comments to enter! End 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT
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Big thank you to all the people working through Christmas looking after everyone
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Big thank you to all the people working through Christmas looking after everyone
My clever son stalked me on Bluesky and this was part of my Christmas present #speirgorm
Happy Christmas all.
Happy Christmas all.
#speirgorm I know a lot of us donated to the Navajo people during Covid- this looks like a lovely organisation.
Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My clever son stalked me on Bluesky and this was part of my Christmas present #speirgorm
Happy Christmas all.
Happy Christmas all.
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Youngest had a bit of a failure with the gingerbread house construction (gable end cracked), but pulled victory from the jaws of defeat by pivoting to making a gingerbread wedge tomb. #speirgorm #Poulnabrone
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Youngest had a bit of a failure with the gingerbread house construction (gable end cracked), but pulled victory from the jaws of defeat by pivoting to making a gingerbread wedge tomb. #speirgorm #Poulnabrone
They would welcome an Irish import/distribution partner by the way. #spéirghorm #beer
December 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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10 years of self-ID for adults:
Still a non-issue for cis people, still a life-changer for trans people.
Still a non-issue for cis people, still a life-changer for trans people.
December 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
10 years of self-ID for adults:
Still a non-issue for cis people, still a life-changer for trans people.
Still a non-issue for cis people, still a life-changer for trans people.
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Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
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Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off
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It’s Christmas 2025. There are hunger strikers in the UK being ignored by the government. There’s the threat of war. Everything is shit and everyone is depressed. It’s so like Christmas 1981 that I’m expecting to get The Specials album and a digital watch from Santa.
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s Christmas 2025. There are hunger strikers in the UK being ignored by the government. There’s the threat of war. Everything is shit and everyone is depressed. It’s so like Christmas 1981 that I’m expecting to get The Specials album and a digital watch from Santa.
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This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families
filtonactionists.com
filtonactionists.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families
filtonactionists.com
filtonactionists.com
#speirgorm free book!
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Rivers of London, book 1 in the series, by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social; I have this book and love it.
Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm
Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#speirgorm free book!
He does NOT appreciate his head rub being interrupted by my coughing fit.
December 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
He does NOT appreciate his head rub being interrupted by my coughing fit.
This is a shitty cold but on the upside I've had time and peace to read and have finally got round to Olga Tocarczuk and oh my, she is amazing. Finished The Empusium yesterday, now halfway through Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead. A writer of heart and brains and courage #speirgorm 📚💙📚
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is a shitty cold but on the upside I've had time and peace to read and have finally got round to Olga Tocarczuk and oh my, she is amazing. Finished The Empusium yesterday, now halfway through Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead. A writer of heart and brains and courage #speirgorm 📚💙📚
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The ambulance that we had to call last night arrived within 11 minutes, and they stayed for an hour. We paid nothing for this and won't receive a bill.
Below is what Wes Streeting wants to turn the NHS into:
Below is what Wes Streeting wants to turn the NHS into:
I fell off a ladder in August. The bill for the 1.7 mile ambulance ride is $4387.31.
Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network.
There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.
Our $4500 per MONTH Cigna insurance won’t pay more than $600, because the ambulance is out of network.
There are no in-network ambulances in our county, and I was unconscious when it was called.
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The ambulance that we had to call last night arrived within 11 minutes, and they stayed for an hour. We paid nothing for this and won't receive a bill.
Below is what Wes Streeting wants to turn the NHS into:
Below is what Wes Streeting wants to turn the NHS into:
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In bed with a bad head cold and really enjoyed the livestream from #Newgrange, despite the sun not quite making it to the chamber. #BrúNaBoinne itself isn't the only national treasure in evidence- Clare Tuffy and Frank Prendergast are a joy. #speirgorm
December 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In bed with a bad head cold and really enjoyed the livestream from #Newgrange, despite the sun not quite making it to the chamber. #BrúNaBoinne itself isn't the only national treasure in evidence- Clare Tuffy and Frank Prendergast are a joy. #speirgorm
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December 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The dog's little cat friend died earlier this year and having slept happily in the shed with her for years, he set his sights on moving indoors. He had to retrain my farm-raised husband who didn't approve of inside dogs, but here he is now, all cosy beside our bed #tinyjoys
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The dog's little cat friend died earlier this year and having slept happily in the shed with her for years, he set his sights on moving indoors. He had to retrain my farm-raised husband who didn't approve of inside dogs, but here he is now, all cosy beside our bed #tinyjoys