Edel Kirley
@edelkirley.bsky.social
Stroppy feminist | mother | recovering lawyer | sustainability and responsible business | cake baker | angry knitter | book reader | sharp tongue with a soft heart
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It’s worth a try …
February 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It’s worth a try …
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In Ireland, support your local bookshops! Our local one has a second-hand corner too.
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social is consistently better, faster (and frequently cheaper) than Amazon.
@libro.fm is a great alternative to Audible or Spotify.
#BookSky #WeCanDoBetter
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social is consistently better, faster (and frequently cheaper) than Amazon.
@libro.fm is a great alternative to Audible or Spotify.
#BookSky #WeCanDoBetter
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
February 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In Ireland, support your local bookshops! Our local one has a second-hand corner too.
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social is consistently better, faster (and frequently cheaper) than Amazon.
@libro.fm is a great alternative to Audible or Spotify.
#BookSky #WeCanDoBetter
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social is consistently better, faster (and frequently cheaper) than Amazon.
@libro.fm is a great alternative to Audible or Spotify.
#BookSky #WeCanDoBetter
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Today, 1 February is Imbloc an early Irish, pagan/pre Christian festival celebrating the start of Spring. It is now celebrated as St. Brigid’s Day (image: ccferrie) www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
February 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today, 1 February is Imbloc an early Irish, pagan/pre Christian festival celebrating the start of Spring. It is now celebrated as St. Brigid’s Day (image: ccferrie) www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How did young people in 1980s Ireland navigate a lack of sex education and repressive climate around sexual health?
Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) explores the activist history of the Irish Family Planning Association Youth Group 🗃️
Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) explores the activist history of the Irish Family Planning Association Youth Group 🗃️
Youth Sexuality and Activism in 1980s Ireland
How did young people in 1980s Ireland navigate a lack of sex education and repressive climate around sexual health?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Love this!
Happy Pride & Prejudice Day, may your grudges be lifelong 🩷
January 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Love this!
Absolutely. WTF are they doing?
After taking way more time than needed to form a government, the Daíl won't sit again until Feb 5th.
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity or water, something I would call a state of emergency.
Call me crazy but surely the Daíl should have an emergency sitting immediately
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity or water, something I would call a state of emergency.
Call me crazy but surely the Daíl should have an emergency sitting immediately
January 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Absolutely. WTF are they doing?
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For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.
January 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.
FFS 🤦🏻♀️
There are as many men called James as there are women in the new Cabinet! 🤔 #SpeirGorm #IrishPolitics
January 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
FFS 🤦🏻♀️
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If she can do it, we can all do it.
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If she can do it, we can all do it.
@heawood.bsky.social you need to see this
This 25million dollar house makes you click through 21 stunning exterior shots because you're not prepared in any way for what the inside looks like. A maniac designed this place. It's worse than Michael Jordans bizaarely personalised 50 million mansion that they couldn't sell
January 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@heawood.bsky.social you need to see this
The voice from yesterday that should be amplified. Brave woman
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The voice from yesterday that should be amplified. Brave woman
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Some recommended reading via @birdlady.bsky.social
Opinion | Why Sex Is Not Binary (Gift Article)
The complexity is more than cultural. It’s biological, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Some recommended reading via @birdlady.bsky.social
In today’s episode of WTAF?
This is quite something. Op-ed from the Business Post today.
January 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In today’s episode of WTAF?
Fantastic thread!
my favourite game to play in the supermarket is called "big night in?" and involves trying to find the person in the supermarket it would be funniest to say "big night in?" to given the contents of their basket
most recent winner: a woman with two kiwis and some surgical gloves
most recent winner: a woman with two kiwis and some surgical gloves
January 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Fantastic thread!
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It is hard for public institutions to change gear and communication policies. But consider this: UK and German public institutions that post information on twitter but not on bluesky are providing free benefits and competitive advantages to a platform that aims to put the far right in power.
January 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It is hard for public institutions to change gear and communication policies. But consider this: UK and German public institutions that post information on twitter but not on bluesky are providing free benefits and competitive advantages to a platform that aims to put the far right in power.
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this is like the single greatest marker for terrorism or mass murder but for some reason we're supposed to act shocked every time
Cybertruck guy appears to have been a big Trumper and chronic rage case who was abusive to multiple partners. Wife appears to have left him immediately after birth of child just recently and that seems like a possible trigger. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Vegas bomber Matthew Livelsberger's vile marriage secrets
A friend of Matthew Livelberger's first wife has made shocking allegations against the Vegas Cybertruck bomber.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
this is like the single greatest marker for terrorism or mass murder but for some reason we're supposed to act shocked every time
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Incredible photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walks towards an Israeli tank.
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Incredible photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walks towards an Israeli tank.
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Today is 2024-12-27, the sun sets at 16:12:00 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 06 mins and 17 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 27, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Today is 2024-12-27, the sun sets at 16:12:00 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 06 mins and 17 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
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Don't like sharing photos with no alt text in them, @president.ie should do better, BUT this photo is too wonderful not to share.
Our Miggeldy accepting credentials from the new Palestinian ambassador, H.E. Jilan Abdaljamid 🇵🇸❤️
(the day after the Israelis said they are closing their Irish embassy)
Our Miggeldy accepting credentials from the new Palestinian ambassador, H.E. Jilan Abdaljamid 🇵🇸❤️
(the day after the Israelis said they are closing their Irish embassy)
December 17, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Well, this is a fairly unsettling conicidence.
OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji blew the whistle on his company’s mass theft of copyrighted work. In late November he was found dead in his home
mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
Death of an AI Whistleblower
Thank you Suchir Balaji
mollycrabapple.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Well, this is a fairly unsettling conicidence.
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Today would be a good day to donate to the Capuchin Day Centre or similar in your area. Capuchindaycentre.ie/donate.
December 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Today would be a good day to donate to the Capuchin Day Centre or similar in your area. Capuchindaycentre.ie/donate.
So relieved! #ge24 #dublincentral
Marie Sherlock (Labour) elected in Dublin Central | Live updates: rte.ie/b/1484023
December 1, 2024 at 3:40 PM
So relieved! #ge24 #dublincentral
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It’s 250% the voters of Dublin Central who laundered Gerry Hutch’s past and it had nothing to do with the paragons of virtue in the media who definitely didn’t make him into a lovable rogue.
November 30, 2024 at 10:33 PM
It’s 250% the voters of Dublin Central who laundered Gerry Hutch’s past and it had nothing to do with the paragons of virtue in the media who definitely didn’t make him into a lovable rogue.